People Involved

Secure Environments Group

  • Dr Mark Williamson - Chairman
    After spending 10 years in general practice on Teesside, during which I was a GP trainer, an LMC vice chair and a Health Authority non-executive, I left to become a medical adviser at the East Riding and Hull Health Authority. During that time I became interested in and have since dedicated much of my time and energy to improving health services for offenders firstly at a local then regional and now national adviser. In addition to supporting the establishment of the Hull York Medical School, I have also worked over the last five years as a PCT medical director. I continue to practise in the homeless practice, the Quays, in Hull and in HMP Hull. I am increasingly becoming involved in supporting research in to offender health.

  • Dr Marcus Bicknell is a Nottingham GP and vice-chair of the secure environments group. He is a gpswi in and Nottinghamshire lead for substance misuse. He is the medical lead for HMP Lowdham Grange. He graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1989 and completed the Nottingham VTS in 1993 passing the MRCGP the same year. He has collaborated in Hepatitis C research in Trent.

  • Iain Brew has been a GP since 1995. After 5 challenging years in Shetland, he returned to urban General Practice and started working part-time in Prison Medicine at HMP Lincoln in 2001. In 2006, Dr Brew moved to HMP Leeds to become full-time Medical Officer. He maintains an interest in unscheduled care to maintain GP skills.

  • Carl Finch

  • Dr Sanjeev Gaya has been a full time forensic medical examiner since 2000. He qualified from St George's Hospital Medical School in 1994 and after a few years spent in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, joined the Metropolitan Police  as a Sexual Offence Examiner. He currently works in South London for the Metropolitan Police. His special interests include injury and sexual assault examination. He is the representative of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine on the Doctors Working in Secure Environments Group. He is also the honorary editor of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.

  • Dr Jake Hard Trained at UCL Medical school and initially followed a basic surgical training program around London. After moving to Wales, I completed Vocational Training and MRCGP in 2006 and currently work as a portfolio GP with special interests in Prison Medicine and Substance Misuse. Presently working in HMP Parc in Bridgend, South Wales and also a member of the Clinical Governance Committee for Primecare FMS.

  • Mr Rob Jayne  trained as a Registered Mental Nurse in the early 1970s. He entered into the arena of forensic mental health in the early 1990s with Essex Forensic Services. This led to his taking up a position as a Community Psychiatric Nurse with the Mid Essex Criminal Justice Mental Health Team. He progressed to a Clinical Manager position in 2002, the responsibilities of which included the management and development of mental health in-reach services within HMP Chelmsford, the Mid Essex Criminal Justice Mental Health Team, and the Christopher Unit Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit. Between May 2003 and October 2005 he was Regional Fellow for Prison Mental Health In-reach with NIMHE Eastern. He is now a Programme Manager and Clinical Lead for the Health and Social Care in Criminal Justice Programme team responsible for the East of England. He is also currently undertaking a Doctorate in Nursing.

  • Gordon King

  • Justine Lawson

  • Dr Dave Marteau began work in substance misuse services in 1985. He is the author of a number of articles and one book on the subject of chemical addiction. His current job is section head, substance misuse for Prison Health.

  • Angela O'Rourke

  • Dr Ruth Shakespeare

  • Diane Smith

  • Professor Nigel Sparrow Chair of the Professional Development Board of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Associate Postgraduate Dean - General Practice at the East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery and visiting professor of general practice at the University of Lincoln. He has been a principal in General Practice since 1984 and has been the senior partner at the Newthorpe Medical Centre in Eastwood, Nottingham since 1997. He is a GP trainer, and appraiser. He qualified from Bristol University in 1979. He has interests in quality and education in general practice.

  • Dr Nat Wright is currently the clinical director for substance misuse at HMP Leeds and a GP advisor to the Department of Health Prison Policy Unit. This entails developing drug services within the prison and working across the national prison estate to improve the quality of care offered to drug users. From 2003-2005 he was the GP advisor to the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse which entailed working nationally with key stakeholders to develop the primary care drugs agenda. At that time he was also the clinical director for the Leeds Integrated Community Drug Treatment Services. This involved providing clinical leadership, direction, training, mentoring, research and development support to over 50 practices in Leeds which are part of the shared care scheme for drug users. From 1996-2003 he was the lead partner at the NFA health centre for homeless people Leeds, during which time the practice became a first wave beacon practice and an NHS executive approved research practice. He is the chair of the RCGP Health Inequalities Standing Group and has published extensively on the topics of substance use, homelessness, health inequalities and primary care.


 

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