Welsh council

A list of members of the BMA Welsh council, including voting and non-voting members. 

Chair 
Dr David Bailey 

Deputy chair 
Dr Sara Hunt 

Members 
Dr Philip Banfield 
Dr Josie Cheetham 
Mr Daniel Crook 
Dr Dwijendra Baruah 
Dr Peter Horvath-Howard 
Dr Farookh Jishi 
Dr Charlotte Jones 
Dr Julie Jones 
Dr Ram Kumar 
Dr Stephen Monaghan 
Miss Rhiannon Murphy Jones 
Mr Rajnesh Nirula 
Dr Simon Poulter 
Dr Iain Robbe 
Dr Anders Skarsten 
Dr Mark Temple 
Dr Michael Thomas 
Dr Eric Varughese 
Dr Philip White 

Observers
Dr Trevor Pickersgill 
Dr Andy Burgen 
Dr Chaand Nagpaul 
Professor Michael Rees 

Co-optee 
Dr Sally Davies 

With voting rights: the chairmen of the Welsh consultants committee, general practitioner committee Wales, Welsh staff grades and associate specialists committee, Welsh committee for public health medicine and community health, Welsh junior doctors committee, Welsh medical academic staff committee, forum of Welsh local negotiating committees, and Welsh medical students committee.

Without voting rights: the president of the BMA, chairman of UK council, chairman of the representative body, the treasurer and members of UK council whose electoral zone is Wales, limited to the duration of their UK office and while having a registered address in Wales.

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With voting rights: 15 directly-elected members who shall, by the application of electoral constraints, broadly reflect the distribution of the profession in Wales between:

• those engaged or employed wholly or mainly in the following nine professional groupings: general practice, hospital consultants, staff grade doctors and associate specialists, doctors in training grades, academic medicine and/or research, medical students, public and community health medicine, retired members, and armed forces members plus those members in practice but not covered by the other specified professional groupings; and
• the three principal geographical regions of Wales, namely North Wales, Mid and West Wales, and South East Wales; together with up to three co-opted members who shall offer Welsh council such ongoing expertise that cannot otherwise be met by the ex-officio and directly elected membership.

Without voting rights: a number, to be determined by Welsh council, of observer members.