Dr Steve Laitner
Steve is a health consultant and practicing GP in Hertfordshire. He has held public health and clinical leadership roles at local, regional and national level. With a particular interest in Population Health Management (PHM) he led the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) work on PHM, supporting Primary Care Networks.
Ruth Rankine
Ruth Rankine is Director of Primary Care at NHS Confed, leading the PCN Network and Primary Care Federations Network.
Prior to joining the NHS Confederation, Ruth was deputy chief inspector of general practice at the Care Quality Commission. She also has extensive senior management experience in the civil service and the NHS, including at board level for providers and commissioners. Before she joined the CQC, Ruth was director of strategy at NHS Direct for more than six years. She worked in the Department of Health for more than ten years, latterly as principal private secretary to the NHS chief executive and the permanent secretary.
Brenda Donnelly
Brenda is a CD for South Southwark PCN, serving a 145K population. She qualified as an RGN in Belfast in 1983 and has practiced in the UK, The Netherlands and Australia. She landed in primary care in 1994 as a GPN and happily found her niche, completing a MSc in Primary Care development 2003 and a PGCE in Primary care in 2015.
An ex-Nurse partner in South East London ,she currently enjoys a portfolio career and is particularly interested in community and practice development, as well as working with families and children in deprived areas. She is passionate about growing and supporting multi-professional primary care teams, fit for providing future population health.
Dr Sachin Patel
Dr Sachin Patel is a GP Partner in Brent in NW London and PCN CD. He is Chair of Harness Brent GP Federation providing care across 2 PCNs to over 140,000 patients. His focus is to support Harness Practices to provide care of the highest standard by harnessing the potential from collaborative working.
Since his time as Chair he has overseen a refocusing of the company to PCN priorities, brought in digital innovation to support clinical delivery at scale and to support workforce delivery, and now focusing on the next steps of digital transformation in patient care.