Call for Reviewers for the UK Forum for Haemoglobin Disorders
Peer Review Programme 2023 -2025
As you may be aware our peer review programme is starting soon, and we are keen to find all of you who reviewed before and to recruit new reviewers.
The UKFHD peer review programme works on a collaborative approach; many of you will be expecting peer reviewers to attend your quality peer review visit and therefore we need in return, teams to nominate suitable staff to undertake visits to other areas. As with previous programmes the willing cooperation of teams is essential to the success of the review programme.
If you reviewed previously and you haven’t registered your interest already/heard from the Nursing and Urgent Care Team at Midlands and Lancashire CSU (who are facilitating the programme for us), please could you email mlcsu.nuct@nhs.net and let them know as they may not have you on their list as we lost some people during the transfer of organisation. If you haven’t reviewed before and would be interested, then please see the attached flyer for more information and register for a training session by clicking the links at the bottom of the flyer page .
Who can be a reviewer?
- Patients and carers with experience of/caring for those with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia.
- Professionals who are working in the care of people with haemoglobin disorders (adults, children and young people).
- Consultant Haematologists
- Consultant Paediatricians
- Nurses
- Allied Health Professionals
- Service / Operational Managers
- Commissioners of Haemoglobinopathy Services
For professional reviewers, this counts as CPD and you will need to have 2 years’ experience working at the role you will be undertaking and your line manager‘s approval to take part.
Further information: 2023-25 HD Call for Reviewers flyer
Emma trained at St Barts and the Royal London School of Medicine, University of London and qualified in 2001 and is currently working as a Haematology Consultant between UCLH and the Whittington Hospital. She was Clinical Lecturer in Sickle Cell Disease at King’s College Hospital from 2009 to 2013 and during that time was awarded her PhD based on research into markers of severity and predictors of organ dysfunction in sickle cell disease. In 2013 she was awarded the Early Stage Investigator prize from the British Society of Haematology. She is the Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centre lead for North Central and West London, East Anglia and the South West and Central England.
John James OBE has 33 years of experience within the NHS including 4 CEO roles. He was Chair of the West London Cancer network (2002-2005) and Chair of the North West London Diabetes Network (2003-2004). 
Dr Subarna Chakravorty is a Paediatric Haematologist with a special interest in non-malignant haematology and stem cell transplant for haemoglobinopathy and non-malignant diseases. She joined King’s College Hospital as consultant in July 2015. Prior to that, Subarna led the Paediatric Haemoglobinopathy service at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Imperial Paediatric Red Cell Disorders Network for 5 years, where she was also involved in the bone marrow transplant programme for paediatric haemoglobinopathy. Since 2021, Subarna has been involved in the adult sickle cell bone marrow transplant service at King’s College Hospital.
Dr Rachel Kesse-Adu is a consultant haematologist who qualified in medicine from Imperial College School of Medicine in 2002 and completed her specialist training in haematology at Kings College Hospital in London in 2012.