Professional Standards Committee Members

Board Members: Maggy Wallace (Chair), Maggie Dunn, Anne Sultoon and other Board members as necessary

Andrew Gardner

Andrew has a range of experience gained from within regulatory and professional bodies, and local government. He joined the Pensions Management Institute in March 2008 as head of membership, where he is managing the roll out of an online CPD system for members and upgrading the institute's core IT systems.

As head of registration for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, he managed the statutory registers of pharmacists and pharmacies, and implemented a new register for technicians.  Following the announcement of the split of regulatory and professional functions, he became a member of the Department of Health's transition team.

Colin Lea 

Colin is a self employed business consultant and company director. He is a former Vice-President of the Health Professions Council, chairing the Finance and Resources Committee, Registration and Investigating Appeals Panels. He is a former Chairman of West Glamorgan Health and Family Health Services Authorities. 

Colin serves on a number of public bodies including The Tribunals Judiciary, Social Services Complaints and Investigating panels and other consumer related organisations. He is Chairman of a family travel business in London and is also involved in many business, sporting, charitable and community related organisations in Wales and the UK.

Patricia Murch

Patricia has 20 years experience working in education including having been a Director of Norfolk Adult Education Service and managing a training and consultancy company. She is a trustee of a community development charity and involved with an Asperger syndrome charity.  Her interest in complementary therapies increased during her MA in Education, when children with dyslexia showed significant improvements during her dissertation study on the effectiveness of educational kinesiology on reading abilities.   Her long term goal is to provide excellent, independently verified research to establish which complementary therapies achieve the most effective results and warrant public funding.

Diana Tofts

Diana has been a nurse and midwife for 36 years, training and working in the UK and Australia, and working as an academic for the past 20 years. Her clinical background is in paediatrics, neonatal intensive care and orthopaedics with current clinical links in both acute adult care and primary care trusts. Diana has an interest in professional regulation, particularly continuing professional development, in terms of how this can be made flexible and meaningful for practitioners and also in support for practitioners through coaching, mentorship and clinical supervision. She has a certificate in reflexology and therapeutic massage but no longer practices in these areas.