Dr Sarah Bromley (Secretary)

Dr Sarah Bromley is a GP currently working in the Isle of Wight. She has special interests in mental health, drug misuse and more recently prison health. She worked as a GPSI in drug misuse and clinical lead for mental health for a PCT in Bradford before moving to the Isle of Wight 2 years ago to join Medina Healthcare. She leads on their 'Over The Wall' project, which aims to improve the health of prisoners in the Isle of Wight prison cluster, including HMP Parkhurst, HMP Albany and HMP Camphill. She is particularly interested in using commissioning techniques and service redesign to improve care for the more vulnerable, disadvantaged and disaffected members of our society.

She is a trustee of a local charity, Youth Trust, which aims to provide community services to the Islands children and young people including counselling, sexual health services and advocacy for looked after children. They also provide welfare services for the Isle of Wight rock festivals!

She became a trustee of primhe in 2006 and was later appointed secretary, also in 2006.

Iain Caldwell BSc, PGCE and FHGI (Treasurer)

Iain Caldwell studied Applied Psychology at Liverpool's John Moores University, a PGCE at Sunderland University and Assertive Outreach Nursing at Teesside University. He has studied various forms of therapy including counselling, Hypnosis and Human Givens Therapy. He is a trainer for Mindfields College and a Fellow of the Human Givens Institute.

Iain Caldwell is a trustee for the Human Givens Foundation and a member of Human Givens Ethics and Philosophy group. Iain has worked as a Self Advocacy worker and developed Hartlepool Art Studio Limited (HASL) which is a service user led Art studio: The Artrium. Iain is currently the Director at Hartlepool Mind.

Dr Henk Parmentier, MD DFFP

Dr Henk Parmentier originates from the Netherlands and is a South London General Practitioner with a special interest in Mental Health. He is a lead GP with STaRNet, the South London Primary Care Research Network, facilitating and conducting Primary Care research. He is the UK representative of the WONCA (World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians) Working Party on Mental Health and is a visiting research fellow at the Primary Care section of the I.o.P (Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London).

He is also a member of the executive committee of primhe (Primary Care Mental Health & Education), a charity that helps Primary Care Professionals and staff to achieve and deliver the best standards of mental health care.

He has been appointed as the Primary Care Lead of the South London and South East Hub of the MHRN (Mental Health Research Network), a network managed on behaves of the Department of Health, designed to provide the infrastructure to support large scale, high quality research in mental health and social care.

Simon Long

Simon has worked within the mental health field for twenty years joining the NHS in 1989 where he worked in various settings within psychiatric nursing. During his career Simon trained and qualified in various models of counselling and psychotherapy and worked both within the NHS and other organisations providing individual and group therapy approaches for both common and enduring mental health problems as well as managing services. Over recent years he has been working within primary care trusts, both commissioning and developing primary care mental health services - particularly within primary care settings. These roles have focused on the strategic development and review of existing services and the consequent initiation of new, innovative services encompassing organisational management, policy development and business planning.

Currently Simon occupies the position of Head of Specialist Services for Bradford and Airedale teaching PCT which incorporates all primary care mental health, substance misuse and other services directed at the local population that are hard to reach.

David Clarke

David joined the NHS in 1972 and has worked in either senior management or Director positions in nearly all of the different NHS health organisations and their structures. This work has included acute, community and long-term care services, Health Authorities of all types at district and regional tiers, and has been on a number of national / Department of Health specialist and advisory groups.

Between 2003 and October 2006 David worked on a part-time basis as the advisor on mental health policy and drug misuse policy for one of the Strategic Health Authorities in England.

In terms of management issues, David's interests include organisational development, business planning methods and frameworks, and assessing the impact that current policy initiatives create for established business strategies - a general aim of trying to 'join up the business', and keep it in touch with its different 'clients and customers'.

The move to part-time working in 2000 followed the decision to develop independent work that would be conducted on a not-for-profit basis; David had established a Charity in 1998 (to assist in the relief of poverty in South India) which secured registration by the Charity Commission in 2000. All income from independent work is paid to that charity.

David left the NHS in October 2006 and now works only on a not-for-profit basis for the benefit of the charity (Kerala Partnership), securing commissions both independently and as an Associate of NewLight Consultancy.

David has recently been appointed as a Trustee for primhe.

OFFICERS

Dr Chris Manning MB,BS (Hons).,BSc., MRCGP.,DRCOG. (Chief Executive)

Dr Chris Manning graduated in Biochemistry from Sheffield University in 1973 and then attained a First Class Honours Degree in Medicine at the University of London in 1978, also obtaining the John Murray Gold Medal in Pharmacology and Therapeutics and the Broderip Scholarship Certificate of Merit. He then spent the next 21 years practising as a General Practitioner in Twickenham, Middlesex. Following personal experience of a major depressive illness, he became a Trustee of Depression Alliance and founded primhe in 2001.

Dr Manning has served on the National Mental Health Taskforce, The 'Changing Minds' Advisory Board of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych), The Department of Health (DH) Mental Health Promotion Advisory Board and The SHIFT Advisory Board.

He is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Mental Health Group, a member of the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) Mental Health Group and Bipolar Support Forum, a member of the Board of the Shared Care Forum and Journey of Recovery Sub-Group, a member the Mental Health Research Network, National Mental Health Advisor to the NHS Alliance and the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health.

He is also Co-editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Primary Care Mental Health and the primhe Journal.