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The Inquiry Panel

9 The Chairman, Professor Ian Kennedy, and the other members of the Panel (Professor Sir Brian Jarman OBE, Mavis Maclean and Rebecca Howard) were independent of government, the Department of Health (DoH), the National Health Service (NHS), and any other body or organisation, in the conduct of the Inquiry.

10 Professor Kennedy is Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy at the School of Public Policy, University College, London. [8] Professor Jarman is Emeritus Professor at Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary's Hospital, London, a member of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee to the Government, and was a GP Principal at Lisson Grove Health Centre in London NW8 until October 1998. [9] Rebecca Howard was the Executive Director of Nursing at the Manchester Children's Hospitals NHS Trust and a registered sick children's nurse. From September 2000 she has been the Director of Nursing at the Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust. [10] Mavis Maclean is Director of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, Oxford University. [11]

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[8] Professor Kennedy holds degrees in law from universities in the UK and USA and is a Barrister and Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple. Until December 1996, he had been Dean of the Law School at King's College London for ten years and was Director and then President of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics which he founded in 1978. He has been a member of the Medicines Commission, the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Department of Health's Expert Advisory Group on AIDS. He chaired the Secretary of State for Health's Advisory Group on Xenotransplantation and the Minister of Agriculture's Advisory Group on Quarantine. He is Chairman of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and serves on the Archbishop of Canterbury's Advisory Group on Medical Ethics and the International Forum on Transplant Ethics. The Reith Lecturer in 1980, Professor Kennedy has taught and lectured throughout the world. He is the author of texts on medical law and ethics, and was, until 1998, co-editor of the leading journal on medical law. He is a member of the editorial board of ten national and international journals

[9] Professor Jarman was previously Head of Division, Primary Care and Population Health Sciences, at Imperial College School of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine

[10] Rebecca Howard has contributed to the development of national policy in the area of children's services, and has a special interest in paediatric intensive care

[11] Mavis Maclean qualified in sociology and law. She has researched and written about compensation for accident victims, and now works in family law and family policy, with a particular interest in the children of separated parents. She is the academic advisor to the research secretariat of the Lord Chancellor's Department and a former member of the Lord Chancellor's Legal Aid Advisory Committee