Brian retired from being a GP in South East London in July 23, after 47 years’ service. Brian has been interested in user involvement in the NHS for a long time. Brian was awarded an MBE for community development in 2007.

Brian has campaigned for the NHS and social care for many years. He is on the steering group of End Social Care Disgrace, a broad-based campaign to transform social care www.nacsils.co.uk He is a member of Doctors in Unite.

Brian is a Trustee of The Coalition for Personalised Care. His main activity there is campaigning for the adoption of policy recommendations that would create the conditions whereby community strengthening could thrive across the UK.

Brian is Honorary Researcher at both Kings and Guys Primary Care Dept in the Medical School and at Imperial Medical School in the Primary Care and Public Health Depts. He has published many peer- reviewed papers on community development and on people having online access to their GP records.

Brian champions patient record access and is now a director of a company called Evergreen Life

www.evergreen-life.co.uk It enables people in England to access their GP records, book GP appointments and order repeat prescriptions – and do a lot more, including keeping people as fit and healthy as possible.

Brian is founder and director of a small IT company called Optimise Health www.optbp.com. We automate the management and screening of high blood pressure, aiming to save time and improve care.

Sian has spent her working life as a passionate advocate for small-scale relational community-led solutions that help other local people. As CEO of the representative body for family-based support Shared Lives Plus, she lobbied successfully for a regulatory approach which placed the burden of regulation on an agency rather than the families.

After founding Community Catalysts in September 2009, Sian continued the struggle for a policy, legislative, regulatory and bureaucratic environment that enables people to use their gifts, talents and imagination to create enterprising services and ventures that help other people in their neighbourhood. Sian retired from her role as CEO of Community Catalysts at the end of July 2021.

Sian has continued in retirement to fight for personalised community-based support and services for people who need that help to live their lives. She is a Trustee of the charity The Coalition for Personalised Care, a movement of health professionals and people drawing on health services. She is co-founder, with her friend and colleague Angela Catley, of the movement When I Get Old, which aims to bring the direct voice of older people to bear on social care and health policy and provision.

Sian was awarded an OBE for services to social care in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and of the Salzburg Global Forum.

Hello, I am Beth. I qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 2002, and worked for many years in the NHS, predominantly in stroke services. In 2019, I started working for WASP (the Wessex Academy for skills in Personalised Care). We are a small project team, hosted by the University of Southampton. Our core business is to support health and social care teams to deliver care that is more personalised through service evaluation, training and quality improvement support. Personalised care requires a system-driven approach, so I am thrilled to join the board of Trustees for the C4PC, to support change and development. When I’m not working, I love spending time with my family, and visiting the beach near my home.