Low Vision Committees (LVSIG)
Actual Committees
No
/ Local areaCommittee / Visit / Leading agency
(in ‘setting up’) / Contact Name
Barking & Havering / / PCT / Clive Palmer
Barnet / / H, LOC / Jenny Forbes
Bath / / VA / Richard Antcliffe
Bedfordshire / / VA, LOC / Ann Walker
Bexley & Greenwich / / LOC / David Parkins
Birmingham / / VA / Colin Fowler
Blackpool / / VA / Sandi Taylor
Bolton / / SS / Richard Bounds
Bradford & Airedale / / H / Alec Porter
Brighton & Hove / / SS / Kerry Leask
Bristol / / SS, VA / Ray Raine
Buckinghamshire / / PCT + (several) / Maureen Reeves
Burton on Trent / / H / Roy Bates
Bury / / H / Neil Worrall
Cambridge / / PCT (Optometric Advisor) / Chris Hely
Camden & Islington / / PCT+ (several) / Marek Karas
Cheshire West / / SS / Chris Copeman
Coventry / / H, SS VI Team / Helen Beddow
Croydon / / H / Shruti Malde
Cumbria / / VA / Karen Brown
Derbyshire / / PCT / Pat Taylor
Dorset / / VA / Liz Callister
Dudley / LOC, SS / Alan Marsh
Forest of Dean / / VA / Lisa Collins
Gateshead / / VA / Sue Taylor
Hambleton and Richmond / / PCT, SS / Ken Hoskins
Hampshire / / VA / Debi Webb
Haringey and Enfield / / VA / Vi Groves
Hillingdon / / VA / Gary Collier
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster / / PCT / Trish Welton
Kent / / VA / Les Ellis
Kingston & Richmond / / SS, PCT, NHS Trust / Bill Brittain
Lambeth / / PCT, SS / Julia Manning
Leeds / / SS, H, Vision 2020 / Mick Ward
Lincolnshire / / PCT, also SS / Jane Heaton
Merseyside (Liverpool) / / VA / Jim Moran
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth / / PCT (optometric advisor) / Elizabeth Frost
Morecambe Bay / / LS / Malcolm Fair
Newcastle & N Tyneside / / VA / Heather Niven
Newham / / PCT / Jacky Gruhn
Norfolk / / SS / Paul Bowerbank
North Devon / / H / Nicola Riddles
Northamptonshire / / VA / Lynne Griffiths
Northumberland / / PCT, H, Local Optom / Duncan Clark
Nottingham / / H, LOC, VA / Sue Polkey
Oldham / / SS / Barbara Christopher
Oxford / / PCT, VA, H, SS / Phillip Ambler
Plymouth / / H, / Grace Mole
Sandwell / / SS, H / Sharon Gittings (Temp)
Sheffield / / H, SS and VA / Chris Kersey
Solihull / / VA / Julia Saunders
Southend / / PCT, H / Lynn Peek
South Gloucester / / SS / Sue House
South Tyneside / VA / Sue Taylor
Staffordshire / / DO, SS / Beverley Ricketts
Stockport / / VA / Andrew Corrie
Stoke on Trent / / VA / Dianne Davis
Suffolk / / PCT (optometric advisor), LOC / Sally Williams
Surrey / / VA / Lance Clarke
Tameside / / SS, PCT / Paul Clarke
Torbay / / H / Mick Cole
Tower Hamlets / / PCT / Barbara Disney
Walsall / / SS, VI teacher, H / Anita Warrender
Wakefield / / SS (Rehab worker) / Peter Goodfellow
Warwickshire / / VA / John Davies
Weston Super Mare / / VA / Celia Henshall
West Sussex / / SS / Christine Wilkins
Wigan / / H / Kate O'Regan
Wirral / / H, SS / Gill Rudduck
Wolverhampton / / H / Bhogal Bhogal
Worcester / / VA / Sandy Bannister
York / / PCT / Jim Khambatta
Key to Abbreviations
HHospital
LOCLocal Optical Committee
SSSocial Services (not necessarily at Commissioning level)
VAVoluntary Agency
PCTPrimary Care Trust
Active Areas
No
/ Groups that arenot LVSC's / Visit / Contacts / Contact Name
Basildon / Jane Lutton or
Klaus Kopp
Berkshire / Stephen Abery
Brent / VA / Dave Samuels
Bromley (Kent) / Pat Lathy
Calderdale & Kirklees / PCT (Optometric Adviser)
Cleveland / HA (originally)
Cornwall / VS / Martin Pawley
Darlington / / RNIB / Andrew Nuttall
Dewsbury / Hilary Shriner
Doncaster / HA (originally) / Sandra Conway
East Devon
(Exeter) / / PCT / Barbara Jones
East Sussex / SS / Lorraine Keitch
Gloucester / / VA / Mary Russell
Grimsby / / SS / Tanya Guy
Hammersmith & Fulham / George Monaghan
Caroline Kelsall
Harrogate / Elizabeth Goulton
Harrow / / VO / David Pearce
Hereford / / RNIB, LOC
PCT / Nicholas J. Rumney
Hertfordshire / / LOC, National LVG, Optician / Chris Croft
Isle of Wight / / VA, Nalsvi
Leicester / / GP on National LVG / Tim Smith
Manchester / / H / Christine Dickinson
Middlesborough / AFBP ,VI Service
North Allerton, Thirks, Malton (N York) / VA / Jeanette Crookes
Preston and surrounding areas / SS, H / Peter Taylor
Rotherham / / RNIB Liaison Post / Carol Hiles
Runcorn (Halton) / / VA / Ms Linda Butt
Salford & Trafford / PCT (Optometric Adviser)
Scarborough & Ryedale / VA / Bob Thompson
Scunthorpe & Goole / / SS (Rehab) / Audrey Moore – Lindsey Association for the Blind
Naomi Piatt – SS Scunthorpe
Linda Clarke – SS Grimsby
Sue S – Scribe
Shropshire / SS
South Worcs / / PCT / Meryl Johnson-Mair
Sunderland / / H / Paul Stanier
Waltham Forest / VA
Wessex / H, VA
Hartlepool / PCT / Deborah Crew
Wiltshire / LV Provider / John Collins
Key to Abbreviations
DODispensing Optician
HHospital
HAHealth Authority
LOCLocal Optical Committee
LVGLow Vision Group
SSSocial Services (not necessarily at Commissioning level)
VAVoluntary Agency
PCT Primary care Trust
…..Working towards forming a Committee (usually indicates a provisional meeting is planned or has taken place)
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