Lord Patel

PATEL (Life Baron), Naren Babubhai Patel; cr. 1999
Lord Patel
Crossbench
  

Councils, public bodies

President, Royal College of Obstetricians 1995-98;
Chair, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges 1996-98;
Council, General Medical Council 1998-2003;
Chair:
Specialist Training Authority of Medicine 1998-2001,
NHS Quality Improvement, Scotland 1999-2006;
Member Armed Forces Pay Review Body 2000-06;
Chair:
National Patient Safety Agency 2006-,
Armed Forces Diversity and Equality Committee 2006-09,
UK National Stem Cell Network 2007-09,
UK Stem Cell Oversight Committee;
Member Council Medical Research Council 2008-
  

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baron Patel, of Dunkeld in Perth and Kinross 1999
  

Lords Select Committees

Member:
Science and Technology 1999-2003, 2005-09,
Science and Technology Sub-committees:
II (Aircraft Cabin Environment) 2000-02,
IIA (Human Genetic Databases) 2000-01,
I (Fighting Infection) 2002-,
II (Innovations in Computer Processors/Microprocessing) 2002;
Chair Science and Technology Sub-committee II (Science and the Regional Development Agencies) 2003;
Member Science and Technology Sub-committee II:
(Renewable Energy/Energy Efficiency) 2003-04,
(Water Management) 2006,
(Pandemic Influenza) 2006;
Chair Science and Technology Sub-committee II (Genomic Medicine) 2008-09
  

All-party groups (office-holding)

Vice-chair:
Maternity Group 2000-,
Infertility Group 2006-
  

Political interests

Women's health, higher education, regulation of medicine, ethnic minority issues, standards in medicine, care of obstetric fistulas worldwide
  

International bodies

European Board of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2000-03;
Vice-President International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2000-03;
President Elect, European Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 2005-07
  

House of Lords

The Lord Patel
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW

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