The CLH Commissioning Board

Find out more about the Central London Healthcare Board below.

Dr Ruth O'Hare

Dr O'Hare is the Chair of Central London Healthcare and the GP Partner of Connaught Square Practice near Marble Arch in London.

Ruth qualified in medicine from Cambridge University and has run a general practice in Westminster since 1986. Her family including a grown up son and daughter have lived in the area for 25 years.

Ruth thrives on Westminster's diversity and the opportunities to improve and develop public services.

Dr Neville Purssell

Dr Purssell is the vice-Chair of Central London Healthcare and GP Partner of Paddington Green Health Centre.

Neville Purssell has been a GP in Westminster since 1992, first at Lisson Grove Health Centre and subsequently at Paddington Green Health Centre. He was previously a board member for Westminster PCT until 2004 and has been vice chair of CLH since its inception. He has been involved in GP education since 1997 and is a GP trainer. A keen amateur musician, he is an Honorary Physician for the British Association of Performing arts Medicine and enjoys playing music with his family.

Alison Dalal

Alison Dalal is a Practice Manager representative on the Board and Practice Manager/Partner at Paddington Green Health Centre.

After completing a degree in English and American Studies, Alison started her management training in the public sector, in the Lord Chancellor’s Department. She ran the offices of the Law Commission and also spent a number of years as a computer programmer designing the IT system for the criminal court case booking system. more

Michael Morton

Michael is currently Deputy Chair of the CLH User Panel, of which he has been a member since its launch in June 2008. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1960 and has broad business experience, with both Public and Private companies, in general management, finance, purchasing, and sales & marketing.

He has lived and worked in several European countries and was resident in the Balkans from 1994 until he retired in July 2000. During that period he focused on consumer business development, both as a hands-on manager and. more

Dr Andy Goodstone

Dr. Andy Goodstone has been a CLH board member since its conception in 2006.

Andy has been a GP partner in the Marylebone area of Westminster since 2000 and has been involved in practice based education for the last decade. He is a keen sportsman and photographer.

Dr Philip Olufunwa

Dr. Philip Olufunwa is A GP Board member of CLH. He is the GP Clincal lead for Gynaecology for Westminster.

His initial training was in Obstetrics and Gynaecologist and he is a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists London, was a lecturer/ Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Newham University Hospital in East London in 1985 -- 1990. more

Joan Gordon-Brown

Joan is the Practice Nurse representative on the Board and is based at Lisson Grove Medical Centre where she specialise on family planning and sexual health. Joan’s nursing career started in 1979 at Edgware General Hospital and following training she worked mostly in neuro-intensive care. Following a break in 1988 to work in a camp in America for underprivileged children, Joan joined the IVF theatre/unit at the Wellington Hospital before joining Lisson Grove in 1991. In her spare time Joan runs a small youth group in her home for 13-16yrs old with their mums.

Zena Deayton

Zena is currently Operations Director for Adult Social Care employed by Westminster City Council, where she holds responsibility for the delivery of services including older people, disabilities and mental health. Prior to joining Westminster in 2007, Zena held a joint appointment as both Head of Social Care and Director of the PCT for Thurrock, where she headed a joint management team bringing together Health and Social Care Services across all care groups, specialist areas and professions. more

Jeanette Creaser

Jeanette is one of the Practice Manager representatives on the Management Board. She is a Practice Manager at the Marylebone Health Centre where she has worked for the last 3 years. Jeanette has worked in the NHS for 14 years, firstly in General Practice and then as a Contracts Manager for Westminster Primary Care Trust.

Bernard Collier

Bernard is the Chief Executive of Voluntary Action Westminster. He has a belief in voluntary and community action and the unique contribution it can make to peoples lives.Gained through 20 years in the voluntary community sector at local, sub-regional, regional and national levels, he has both experience of local delivery, as well as strategic positioning in the national policy context.more

Karen Broughton

Karen is the Westminster Borough Director & Deputy Chief Executive of INWL.

Karen joined the NHS in 1986 and has worked in Human Resources in a range of NHS settings during this time, including an Acute Trust, the NHS Executive and a Health Authority.

Dr. Mona Vaidya

She graduated from Kasturba Medical College in Manipal, India and later completed clinical and research internships at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and Salmaniya Medical Center in Bahrain- providing her with a well rounded experience of healthcare from a multicultural and international perspective.

She completed her GP training in Kent where she was the East Kent GP registrar representative for the KSS Deanery. more

Elizabeth Rantzen

Elizabeth is Director of the J Paul Getty Jr. Charitable Trust, which has a focus on social welfare issues. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and has a background in strategy consulting with KPMG and the Kingfisher group, subsequently working in the legal services sector, as Director of Business Development in a law firm and then running a set of barristers' chambers. Elizabeth also has around 20 years' experience in the not-for-profit sector, having been on the board of Shelter and a number of other charities. In addition she sits at the Employment Tribunal. Elizabeth joined Hammersmith and Fulham PCT Board in 2005 and was subsequently appointed to the NHS North West London inner sub-cluster board in 2011.

Nafsika Thalassis

Nafsika is currently the Chair of the CLH User Panel and has been a patient in Maida Vale since 1994 when she moved from Greece to London to study psychology, later completing a PhD in the history of military psychiatry.

Nafsika has been working for local charities both in a voluntary and paid capacity since 1997 and is currently the manager of the BME Health Forum, an organisation that aims to reduce health inequalities by researching issues that concern the community and raising these with providers and commissioners.

In 2010 Nafsika had her first baby at St Mary’s Hospital and is now a member of the Imperial Maternity Services Liaison Committee, a group of service users and maternity health professionals. Nafsika is currently managing a project that records the experiences of BME pregnant women as they access maternity services. This project will train and support women so that they can feed back their experiences to providers and commissioners.