Professor Ian Philp

Older People

Professor Ian Philp was appointed Professor and Honorary Consultant Physician in Sheffield in 1994 and his clinical team won the older people’s category of the UK Hospital Doctor of the Year Award in 1998. He established the Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing, which went on to win the Queen’s Award for Higher Education in 2002 for its research into the health and social care of older people. He has been an adviser to the World Health Organisation’s European Regional Office on quality evaluation in the care of older people and was co-chair of the External Reference Group of the National Service Framework for Elderly People Services for the NHS. He is currently National Director for Older People's Services with the Department of Health, with responsibility for implementing both the National Service Framework for Older People and Long Term Conditions. His current research centres on assessing the needs of older people and their family carers and he has published widely on this topic.

Professor John Young

Older People

John Young is Professor of Elderly Care Medicine at Leeds University and an honorary consultant geriatrician at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Since 2001 he has been a medical adviser to Professor Ian Philp at the Department of Health. He leads the Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation in Bradford. The unit is involved with a programme of multidisciplinary health services research with grant income from the Medical Research Council, the Department of Health and the Stroke Association. Research topics include evaluations of intermediate care and stroke services, and improving delirium management.

Raphael Wittenberg

Older People

Raphael Wittenberg is currently Economic Adviser at the Department of Health where he has worked on the economics of services for older people, community care services, health outcome measurements and the burdens of disease. He has also worked at the Department for Work and Pensions on the economics of pensions and long-term care. Raphael is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the London School of Economics where he leads a programme of research on the financing of long-term care for older people.