Our Members Advisory Board

Made up of professionals from the medical, dental and education sectors

Creating brighter financial futures for our customers and members

In 2023, we relaunched our Members Advisory Board (MAB), recruiting a diverse range of professionals from within each of our core sectors.

The board represents different career stages, areas of specialism and working contexts.

In doing so, we've built a MAB that can help us approach problems and opportunities from a variety of angles, leading to healthy, robust debate and discussion.

We actively encourage all employees to engage with our advisory team as a way to help embed customer-centric thinking across the business.

Our purpose

As part of bi-annual board sessions and direct engagement with different areas of Wesleyan Group, our MAB:

  • Shares valuable insight into our key professions
  • Influences how we tailor our propositions, advice and services to customer needs
  • Informs our future strategic planning
  • Helps to shape our mutuality proposition
  • Refines how we communicate with our members

Meet our members

  • Medical profession
  • Dental profession
  • Education profession

    • Meet our members from the medical profession

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    Harpreet Sood (Co-chair)

    Harpreet is a practising NHS GP and an adviser to early-stage digital health companies. He co-founded the NHS Digital Academy, a programme to build leadership, digital health and informatics workforce capability in England.

    He was formerly Senior Adviser to Health Technology at Reckitt and a Non-Executive Director at Digital Health London, a network that supports more than 30 digital health companies.

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    Sir Pali Hungin

    Knighted in the 2024 New Year Honours List, Sir Pali is an Emeritus Professor of General Practice at Newcastle University, and leads the Changing Face of Medicine commission for the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. His focus is on envisioning the evolving role of doctors in healthcare. Previously, he served as the founding Dean of Medicine at Durham University and as President of the BMA.
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    James Kingsland

    James is a primary care physician with diverse roles as a clinician, government advisor, educator, broadcaster, writer, and speaker. Awarded an OBE for services to medicine and healthcare, he holds the position of Clinical Professor at UClan’s School of Medicine. James serves as Clinical Director at Saving Lives International CIO and is the Chair of the UK Digital Clinical Excellence Forum.
    Dilsher Singh

    Dilsher Singh

    As a GP partner in Modality, a National GP Super-partnership, and the Training Programme Director in the Black Country with NHS England, Dilsher is also a GPwER in Cardiology, credited with initiating and developing an integrated community cardiology service in Birmingham. Dilsher’s contributions have been acknowledged through awards, including the RCGP Midland faculty award for ‘Quality in educational training’ and the Clare Boothroyd award for 'Outstanding contribution to General Practice' from RCGP.
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    Thuva Amuthalingam

    Thuva is a locum GP with a special interest in dermatology, minor surgery and aesthetics. He is an associate NED at the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, a Black Country Training Hub First5 Network Facilitator and a board member of the RCGP Midland Faculty.
    Sabena Jameel

    Sabena Jameel

    Sabena is Professor of Medical Professionalism (Education) and Academic Quality Lead at the University of Birmingham College of Medicine and Health. She also serves as EDI Lead. Previously, she was the Associate Dean for Health Education England, overseeing GP education across Birmingham and Solihull.

    Alongside her academic leadership, Sabena works as a GP, with two decades of clinical experience. She is also a GP appraiser.

    Her portfolio includes advisory roles with Wesleyan, the West Midlands Police Professional Standards Group, and the National RCGP Ethics Committee. She also contributes to governance as a founding trustee of the Della Fish Foundation, and is co-founder of the Practical Wisdom Network, reflecting her commitment to ethical decision-making and values-driven leadership.

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    James Glasbey

    James is a Specialist Registrar in General Surgery, an NIHR Assistant Professor and Hunterian Professor of Global Surgery and Clinical Trials at the University of Birmingham. Notably, he co-led the Guinness World Record-winning CovidSurg collaborative, has over 200 peer-reviewed publications, has secured £21 million in grants as a co-applicant, and received prestigious awards from RCS, The Lancet, and RSM. An advocate for trainees, he has sat as an executive member of the Association of Surgeons in Training and the UK’s Clinical Academic Training Forum.

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    Zarnigar Khan

    Zarnigar is an Academic Foundation Doctor working in the Yorkshire and Humber region. She has an undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences at King's College London and a masters in Global Health and Development at University College London. She is on the steering committee for the Changing Face of Medicine, commissioned by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
    Fawz Kazzazi

    Fawz Kazzazi

    Fawz is a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Registrar in a 6-year London training programme. He holds an MBA and LLM, focusing on medical issues like intellectual property, medical technology, human rights, and AI. Fawz is currently pursuing a part-time PhD in Medical Data and AI Law.

    Meet our members from the dental profession

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    Shalin Mehra (Co-Chair)

    Shalin is a Founder and Chair of Rodericks Dental, overseeing a group of 222 dental practices in England and Wales. He was a General Dental Practitioner specialising in orthodontics, and now serves as the Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean for Foundation Training in Thames Valley and Wessex. In addition, Shalin is a director on the Board of the Association of Dental Groups, representing dental groups in the UK.
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    Lauren Harrhy

    Lauran is the practice owner of Sparkle Dental Centre, a British Dental Association representative and former member of the Principle Executive Committee. She founded Mental Dental, a group for dentists in crisis, and is also the co-founder and trustee of the Confidental Helpline.

    Fahad Alawsi

    Fahad is a Speciality Registrar Dentist in orthodontics. He has an interest in innovative and novel clinical dentistry and is involved in the delivery of state-of-the-art dental education.
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    Sam Shah

    Sam Shah works in general dental practice and is a Consultant in Dental Public Health and Public Health. A senior medico-legal advisor for Medical Defence Shield, he also serves as a Non-executive Director at Doctor Care Anywhere and the Private Healthcare Information Network.

    Meet our members from the education profession

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    Richard Gill (Co-chair)

    Richard has been a teacher, headteacher, senior leader and government advisor. He was previously CEO of a Multi-Academy Trust.
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    Adrian McLean

    Adrian is an Executive Leader at a Multi-Academy Trust. He has been a teacher, senior leader and a headteacher throughout that journey. Alongside these roles, he undertakes a number of voluntary positions in the school governance and diversity, equity and inclusion spaces.
    Emily Biltcliffe

    Emily Biltcliffe

    Emily is currently Head of School at a one-form entry primary school in Buckinghamshire. Her career spans roles as a teacher, curriculum lead and senior leader, including responsibility for assessment across a Multi-Academy Trust.

    Alongside this, she has worked as a Local Authority writing moderator, supporting schools to ensure consistency and high standards in writing assessment.