Our Team

NABCOP Clinical Steering Group

The purpose of the Clinical Steering Group (CSG) is to provide guidance and support on the direction and deliverables of the NABCOP and to encourage support from professional members.

The CSG has members from patient associations, medical associations, multi-disciplinary experts in the area of breast cancer and medical care of the older person, and policy makers.

The CSG’s objectives are to:

• Advise on proposed audit analyses and presentation of results
• Review and prioritise identified audit questions
• Inform the Project Team about relevant national initiatives and evolving clinical evidence
• Advise on study design, and appropriate process and outcome measures
• Comment on the Audit dataset and methods of data collection
• Advise on proposed audit analyses and presentation of results
• Comment on the findings of the Audit and their interpretation
• Support Audit communication with professional colleagues on Audit aims and data collection
• Help publicise the results of the NABCOP among patients, the professions involved and other stakeholders
• Represent the views of the associated professional patient groups

The NABCOP CSG Terms of Reference and CSG meeting minutes, are available to download.

Clinical Steering Group Members as of March 2020

Name	Base	Role
Prof. Kieran Horgan (Chair)	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Consultant Breast Surgeon NABCOP Liaison for the Association of Breast Surgery reporting to the Clinical Standards and Audit Committee Chair Breast Cancer Expert Advisory Group of NCRAS
Dr. Nicolò Matteo Luca Battisti	The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust	Clinical Research Fellow in Medical Oncology Specialty Doctor
Ms Karen Clements	National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service, Public Health England	NABCOP / NCRAS Project Manager
Miss Marianne Dillon	Swansea Bay University Health Board Wales Cancer Network	Consultant Breast Surgeon Breast Cancer Site Group Lead
Prof. David Dodwell	University of Oxford	Consultant Clinical Oncologist Chair, Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy Executive Committee UK Breast Cancer Group
Prof. Deborah Fenlon	Swansea University	Professor of Nursing
Mr Ashu Gandhi	Association of Breast Surgery Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust NHS Breast Screening Programme & ABS Screening Audit Group	Chair of the Clinical Practice & Standards Committee Oncoplastic Breast and Endocrine Surgeon   Chair
Prof. Margot Gosney	Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	Professor of Elderly Care Medicine
Ms Lis Grimsey	East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	Macmillan Nurse Consultant
Prof. Chris Holcombe	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Association of Breast Surgery	Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon Vice President
Ms Jacquie Jenkin	Public Health England, Screen Quality Assurance Service	Deputy Director of Quality Assurance
Prof. Ian Kunkler	University of Edinburgh NHS Lothian	Professor of Clinical Oncology Clinical Oncologist
Miss Fiona MacNeill	Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust	Clinical Lead for Breast Surgery Consultant Breast Surgeon
Mr Andrew Murphy	National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service, Public Health England	Head of Cancer Datasets
Dr Emma Pennery	Breast Cancer Now	Clinical Director
Dr Stanley Ralph	Age Anaesthesia Association University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust	Honorary Secretary Anaesthetist
Dr Alistair Ring	The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust	Medical Oncologist
Prof. Tom Robinson	University of Leicester University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust NIHR Senior Investigator	Deputy Head of the College of Life Sciences and Professor of Stroke Medicine Honorary Consultant Stroke Physician
Ms Janice Rose	Independent Cancer Patients’ Voice	Patient Representative
Dr Nisha Sharma	Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust British Society of Breast Radiology	Director of Breast Screening (Leeds-Wakefield) and Clinical Lead for Breast Imaging Audit Lead
Dr Richard Simcock	Macmillan Cancer Support	Chair of the Expert Reference Group (ERG) for Cancer Care in Older People convened by Macmillan
Ms Sophia Turner	Independent Cancer Patients’ Voice	Patient Representative
Ms Carla Whitbread	Independent Cancer Patients’ Voice	Patient Representative
Prof. Lynda Wyld	University of Sheffield Jasmine Breast Cancer, Doncaster Bridging the Age Gap Study	Professor of Surgical Oncology Honorary Consultant Breast Surgeon Principal Investigator

NABCOP Project Board

The Project Board (PB) responsible for ensuring that NABCOP works within the contracts covering the delivery of the audit, and directing the strategic work of the audit. The PB has representation from patient associations, medical associations, and the commissioners; members are listed in the NABCOP Annual Reports .

If you have any questions about this information, please contact nabcop@rcseng.ac.uk