New Health Network

Board (1999)
Accessed October 2012:


 * Chair: Claire Perry, chief executive, Bromley HA
 * Hugh Blair, partner, KPMG
 * Ian Carruthers, chief executive, Dorset HA
 * Geoffrey Filkin, New Local Government Network
 * Brian Flood, chair, Northumbria Healthcare trust
 * Lord Harris, Labour peer and former community health councils chief
 * David Kerr, CRC Institute for Cancer Studies, Birmingham University
 * Tom Coffey, chair, Tooting and Graveney primary care group
 * Jo Lenaghan, research fellow, Institute for Public Policy Research
 * Sue Page, chief executive, Northumbria Healthcare trust
 * Greg Parston, Public Management Foundation
 * Chai Patel, Chai Patel Associates
 * Peter Reading, chief executive, University College London Hospitals trust
 * Linda Smith, chair, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham HA

...and who's paying

"Launch funding came from four sources: Access Health UK, which has been involved in NHS Direct; a charitable trust set up by private nursing home tycoon Dr Chai Patel; KPMG and Superdrug. They collectively put up£40,000."