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?
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- 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).
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- Consultant Haematologists
- Consultant Paediatricians
- Nurses
- Allied Health Professionals
- Service / Operational Managers
- Commissioners of Haemoglobinopathy Services
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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
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.
I have accumulated over 40 years of experience in the fields of transfusion science and clinical transfusion. Qualifying in 1984 as a registered Biomedical Scientist while working for NHS Blood and Transplant, I later took on the management of the Transfusion Laboratory at Oldchurch Hospital before finally moving to North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust in the early 1990s. It is here that I became interested in the transfusion needs of patients with inherited red cell disorders. Thanks to the support and encouragement of Dr Anne Yardumian, the Red Cell Consultant Lead, I had the opportunity to become more deeply involved in an expanded patient-facing role, supporting the wider clinical needs of transfusion-dependent patients beyond ensuring the delivery of the right blood to the right patient.
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. 
Dr Jo Howard is a Consultant Haematologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, and Honorary Professor in Haemoglobinopathies at King’s College London. She is lead for the adult haemoglobinopathy service with responsibility for more than 700 patients, the majority of whom have sickle cell disease. She is network lead for the South Thames Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia
Dr Paul Telfer is clinical lead for Haemoglobinopathy services at Bart’s Health NHS Trust and the East London and Essex Clinical
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 Farrukh Shah, Consultant haematologist, expert in management of thalassaemia syndromes, transfusion and non-transfusion dependent and has a specialist interest in management of iron overload. Dr Farrukh runs joint clinics with the diabetes team and has a good grasp of endocrine complications affecting patients with iron overload. She looks after patients with sickle cell disease and other rare inherited anaemias as part of his routine practice.
Baba Inusa graduated MBBS 1984, ABU Zaria, Nigeria. He is a Professor of Paediatric Haematology, King’s College London and Lead Consultant Paediatric Haemoglobinopathies, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a mentor, supervising PhD and Masters students at King’s College London, receiving students from Italy, China and the Middle East.
Living with a rare genetic condition herself, Roanna Maharaj is a seasoned patient advocate who believes the patient’s voice needs to be included throughout the continuum of care from preventative medicine to potentially curative therapies. She is passionate about addressing the health inequities facing her community and believes in supporting health care professionals to provide consistent and quality care throughout the United Kingdom.