UNIVERSITY NEWS LAST UPDATED : 07 MARCH 2014
The Chair of the Health and Care Professions Council is to be honoured at a Birmingham City University graduation ceremony next week.
Dr Anna van der Gaag has been a member of the Health and Care Professions Council since it was set up in 2002. In 2006 she was elected President and became its first appointed Chair in 2009. From 2006 - 2008 she was a member of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence, the body that oversees health regulation in the UK.
In addition to her work in health regulation, Anna is a research speech and language therapist and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow. Prior to this she taught at the University of Strathclyde, was a senior researcher in the Rehabilitation Research Unit at the University of Oxford and has worked with the Centre for Integrated Healthcare Research at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh.
Anna has been involved in quality improvement initiatives with health professionals for over three decades. Her published work covers a wide range of areas including regulation, quality assurance, clinical audit, skill mix, user involvement, e-learning and service evaluation.
She said: ‘I am delighted to accept this honorary degree from the University. I have long held the University and its work in high regard and am looking forward to meeting with students and staff and hearing from them about their experience of studying at Birmingham City University.”
Anna will receive the award on Monday 10 March at the Awards Congregation ceremony which will celebrate the achievements of students graduating from the Faculty of Health.