Marden High School

Formerly a research biochemist and then a Board level Director in the NHS, Margaret now has a number of roles in retirement including: lay member of the NHS England Performance Advisory Group North East and North Cumbria; lay representative of Health Education North East; chair of Citizens Advice North Tyneside; trustee and vice chair of Northumbria Historic Churches Trust; and member/chair of schools admission appeals panels in Tyne & Wear.

Margaret lives locally, she is married to Laurie and she enjoys choral singing, travel and learning Irish. I have worked as a Chartered Physiotherapist in the NHS, and as a Senior Lecturer teaching on undergraduate and post-graduate Physiotherapy programmes at Northumbria University.

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) and currently have an ad hoc role with the Royal College of GPs as an accreditation assessor for the Personalised Care Institute. I am married to Martin, and I enjoy creative writing, paper crafting, playing several musical instruments, riding a tandem and walking.