Pathway is pleased to announce the appointment of four new Trustees to its Board: Professor Yvonne Doyle, Professor Sultan Mahmud, Jo Land and Anthony Omo.

Professor Yvonne Doyle is Medical Director of Public Health at NHS England as well as a fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Science. Professor Sultan Mahmud is currently Director of Healthcare for BT Enterprise. Jo Land is the CEO of Avenues Group, a specialist provider of support services to people with learning disabilities, autism and acquired brain injury. Anthony Omo is General Counsel and Director of Fitness to Practise at the General Medical Council (GMC), the UK’s national regulator for doctors.

Each brings a wealth of experience and expertise, and we look forward to working with them to further our goals of improving health outcomes for people in inclusion health groups and reducing health inequalities.

The new Trustees will help the Board set Pathway’s strategic direction, as we continue to drive forward national action on inclusion health. We would like to offer our sincere thanks to our outgoing trustees, Sir Ian Kennedy, and Professors Steve Field and Andrew Hayward for their extensive contributions and dedication during their time as Trustees.

Pathway’s CEO Alex Bax said:

“We’re delighted to welcome Professor Yvonne Doyle, Professor Sultan Mahmud, Jo Land and Anthony Omo to the our Board. They each bring Pathway a wealth of knowledge and experience, and a wide range of different perspectives. I also know they are all dedicated to our cause: to improve health outcomes for the most excluded, and to change the system.”

“I’d also like to use this opportunity to pass on my sincere thanks to Sir Ian Kennedy, and Professors Steve Field and Andrew Hayward for all they’ve done to support Pathway over our first decade and more. They’ve each made huge contributions during their time on the Pathway Board. The whole organisation is grateful for their contribution to Pathway’s work and to inclusion health.”

 

Further information

Pathway

Pathway is the UK’s leading inclusion health charity. We work with the NHS and other partners to create improved models of care for people experiencing homelessness and other excluded groups and use insights from the frontline to bring about system change. So far, the Pathway Partnership Programme has helped 10 hospitals in England create specialist teams of doctors, nurses, housing, social care professionals and peer supporters who support some 3,500 patients experiencing homelessness every year.

Faculty of Homeless and Inclusion Health

The Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health is a growing network of health professionals and people with lived experience working with inclusion health populations, including people experiencing homelessness, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, vulnerable migrants and sex workers. The Faculty has published national standards for health services (endorsed by the Royal College of Physicians), offers multi-disciplinary CPD, runs an annual international symposium, and supports a network of regional Primary Care Inclusion Health and national special interest groups. It is hosted by Pathway.

 

Trustee Biographies

Prof Yvonne Doyle CB

Professor Doyle qualified as a doctor and has worked in senior roles in the NHS and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and in the academic and independent sectors. Between 2013 and 2019 she provided leadership for health and reduction of inequalities at city-wide level to the population of London and was Statutory Adviser to the Mayor of London.

In 2019 Professor Doyle was appointed Medical Director and Director of Health Protection for Public Health England where part of her job was medical leadership for the national inputs to the COVID-19 pandemic. She was designated the first Medical Director for Public Health at NHSE in October 2021 to develop and rebuild the public health service in that organisation.

Prof. Sultan Mahmud

Professor Mahmud is Director of Healthcare for BT Enterprise and is the leader of the company’s healthcare business. Prior to this he has had a distinguished career in the NHS spanning two decades, including the position of Chief of Innovation, Integration and Research at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT). An experienced executive with a passion for innovation, he is a respected figure in health technology circles in the UK and internationally.

Anthony Omo

Anthony Omo is General Counsel and Director of Fitness to Practise at the General Medical Council (GMC), the UK’s national regulator for doctors. He leads the GMC’s work delivering the statutory function of ensuring doctors are fit to practise. This includes an extensive reform programme, in-house legal services and acting as senior adviser to the Chief Executive, Chair and Council. Anthony is also the Scottish Government senior sponsor and Senior Management Team champion for the GMC’s BME Network.

Jo Land

Jo Land is the CEO of Avenues Group, a specialist provider of support services to people with learning disabilities, autism and acquired brain injury, as well as being a Non-Legal Member of the Employment Tribunal service. An experienced senior leader in social care, she has over twenty years of experience in the not-for-profit sector following a career as a HR professional in the private and commercial world.