HealthWatch
HealthWatch is a UK charity that says it promotes evidence-based medicine.
Contents
People
Patrons and Presidents
The Baroness Greenfield OBE, Professor Tom Kirkwood, Lord Dick Taverne and Lord Walton of Detchant
Our chairman is Dr James May; past chairmen have included Professor David Bender, Professor John Garrow, Malcolm Brahams, and the late Dr Thurstan Brewin, the oncologist and medical writer.[1]
HealthWatch Committee
- President: Nick Ross is one of the UK's best known broadcasters. | Chairman: Dr James May graduated from Sheffield Medical School in 1997, and is now a GP principal in Kennington | Vice Chairman: Mr. Keith Isaacson is a Senior Consultant Orthodontist currently consulting at the North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke | Treasurer: Anne Raikes. Anne is an Oxford maths graduate who qualified as a Chartered Accountant | Newsletter Editor: Mandy Payne | Membership Secretary: Kenneth Bodman | Secretary Professor David A Bender BSc, PhD is Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at University College London | Dr Susan Bewley is a consultant obstetrician in maternal-fetal medicine at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. | Walli Bounds trained in midwifery but has been involved in contraceptive research for 34 years, first at the Family Planning Association, subsequently as research co-ordinator at the Margaret Pyke Centre (University College London) | Diana Brahams, Barrister, called to the bar in 1972. Has been a tenant in Old Square Chambers, Gray's Inn since January 1991 | Malcolm Brahams, Solicitor, partner in David Wineman. Honorary Treasurer of Concern for the Mentally Ill, Council member of the Medico-Legal Society | Dr John Illman is a former editor of General Practioner |Dr Gillian Robinson | Les Rose[2]
Others
Vincent Marks, founder member[3]
External links
- HealthWatch official website
- Campaign Against Health Fraud, Newsletter, No. 1
- Caroline Richmond The campaign against health fraud. Practitioner. 1989 Oct 8;233(1476):1329-30.
- Martin Walker HealthWatch (formerly Campaign Against Health Fraud).
- Martin Walker Chapters 26, 27, 31 DIRTY MEDICINE. 1993.
Notes
- ↑ HealthWatch HealthWatch, accessed 7 March 2011
- ↑ HealthWatch HealthWatch committee, accessed 7 March 2011
- ↑ From the back cover of Stanley Feldman and Vincent Marks, Global Warming and other Bollocks: the truth about all those science scare stories, London: John Blake, 2009.
