About Rethinking Health

A national campaign to reshape health and care professional education, so that it reflects what the NHS needs now and in the future.

Our home page sets out what we do. Why it matters makes the case, with the key figures.

A smiling woman holds up her embroidery hoop at a workshop table

Our mark

Our mark starts as a pharmacy cross, standing for health care as it is today. Its right arm, drawn lighter, moves down to become the first step of a staircase. Health is where the climb begins, not only where it ends.

That is how we work. We do not start from nothing. Across the UK, people already teach prevention, build health creation into practice and work with patients as partners. Rethinking Health brings that work together and gives the people doing it a shared voice.

Our people

Rethinking Health is a movement of health care professionals in training. A Strategic Advisory Board of senior leaders from across health and care guides it.

The Strategic Advisory Board

The Board mentors and guides the campaign. Its co-chairs are Lord Nigel Crisp and Dame Donna Kinnair.

  • Lord Nigel Crisp KCB

    Co-chair

    Chief Executive of the NHS in England and Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health from 2000 to 2006, and a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2006. He is a patron of NHS Charities Together.

  • Professor Dame Donna Kinnair DBE

    Co-chair

    Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing until 2021, and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Runnymede Trust. She was made a Dame in 2008 for services to nursing.

  • Professor Alf Collins

    NHS England's Clinical Director for personalised care from 2016 to 2023, covering shared decision-making, self-management support and social prescribing, and before that a community consultant in pain management.

  • Professor Sir David Haslam CBE

    A past Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), and a past President of the Royal College of GPs and of the British Medical Association. He was a GP in Cambridgeshire for 36 years.

  • Professor Dame Robina Shah DBE

    Director of the Doubleday Centre for Patient Experience and Professor of Psycho-social Medicine and Medical Education at the University of Manchester. She was made a Dame in 2023 for services to patient care.

  • Professor Sir Keith Willett CBE

    Chair of South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust. He was NHS England's National Director for Acute Care, then its National Director for Emergency Planning and Incident Response.

  • The Rt Hon Sir Norman Lamb

    Minister of State for Care and Support at the Department of Health from 2012 to 2015, and Member of Parliament for North Norfolk from 2001 to 2019. He chaired South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust for six years, until 2025.

  • Dr Katie Petty-Saphon MBE

    Chief Executive of the Medical Schools Council since 2003, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators. She was made an MBE in 2011 for services to medicine.

  • Professor Kamran Abbasi

    Editor in chief of The BMJ since January 2022, and a visiting professor in primary care and public health at Imperial College London. He was earlier deputy editor and acting editor of The BMJ.

The Core Committee

  • Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca

    Co-founder and Core Committee lead

  • Rosalyn Cheng

    Champions programme lead

  • Katie Choi

    Education and evidence lead

  • Gerald Kang

    Secretary

  • Ryan Li

    Special adviser, strategy and programme management

  • Eden Nabiyou

    Allied health professions postgraduate lead

  • Emma Tonner

    Strategic partnerships

  • Tugce Tugcu

    Communications

The National Committee

For 2026 to 2027 the campaign is forming a National Committee: a small team of people in their early years of training who will take on its projects, partnerships, communications and research.

Ways in for health care professionals in training

Champions

Champions bring the campaign to universities across the UK and Ireland, with places for one or two at each. They are training in the health professions, at university or in their first posts. Each gives a talk or workshop on campus, works with local societies, educators and community health projects, and writes a short report on their year.

Read about our Champions

Partners and others working in this area

Our host, NHS Charities Together

Rethinking Health is a programme hosted by NHS Charities Together.

Partners

We are seeking partners across the system: educators, universities, training bodies, regulators, policy makers, professional organisations and people in training who share the ambition to modernise health professional education for a healthier, more equitable future.

Make a partnership enquiry

Others working in this area

These organisations work on related questions. They are listed so that you can find them: a listing here is not a partnership or an endorsement.

"A future-proof health system must train professionals to prevent disease, empower patients and build resilient communities."

Lord Nigel Crisp

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