Patient Information Advisory Group (PIAG)

The membership of the Advisory Group is as follows:

• (Chair) Professor Joan Higgins, Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Manchester Centre for Healthcare Management at the University of Manchester
  
• Michael Catchpole, Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Deputy Director of the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre of the Public Health Laboratory Service
  
• Professor Sir Cyril Chantler, Chairman of the General Medical Council's Standards Committee
  
• Dr Tricia Cresswell, Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Associate Director of the Northern and Yorkshire Public Health Observatory
  
• Mrs Helen Darracott, Head of Professional Ethics at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  
• Professor Andrew Haines, Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  
• Mr Michael Hake, Director of Social Services, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
  
• Ms Barbara Meredith, Policy and Communications Manager for Age Concern London
  
• Ms Helen Miller, National Officer for Wales Eczema Society,a member of National Assembly of Wales Working Groups considering Public and Patient Involvement and Patient Advocacy and Complaints, and a lay member of the Welsh Multi Research Ethics Committee
  
• Ms Julia Palca, a solicitor specialising in privacy, confidentiality and data protection issues
  
• Professor Sir Denis Pereira Gray, Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
  
• Mrs Shahwar Sadeque, an educational and IT consultant
  
• Ms Karen Thomson, Senior Policy Officer at Diabetes UK
  
• Dr Michael Wilks, Principal Forensic Medical Examiner for the Metropolitan Police.

Terms of Reference
The Terms of reference for the PIAG are to:

• Advise the Secretary of State on use of powers provided by section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001, and in particular on:
  
  • Applications and proposals for use of these powers;
    
  • Draft regulations made under s60(1) of the Act;
    
  • Proposals to vary or revoke such regulations following the Secretary of State's required annual review of existing provisions.
    
  • Advise the Secretary of State on key issues, particularly those of national significance, relating to the processing of patient information
    

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