16/09/2025
Meet the 2025 Medical Women’s Federation team:
Dame Jane, President of the MWF, is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education at UCL, the President of the Medical Protection Society and the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, and a specialist advisor to parliament on the Health and Care Committee, where she chairs an Expert Panel, responsible for evaluation Government Pledges. She was the lead for the Department of Health and Social Care review of the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine, with Professor Carol Woodhams from Surrey University Business School. This review ‘Mend the Gap: The Independent Review into Gender Pay Gaps in Medicine in England’ was published in December 2020 and she now chairs the DHSC gender pay gap implementation advisory group. She was the co- chair of the Commission on Professional Leadership in Pharmacy, published in 2023 and led an independent review into the Prescribing Skills Assessment for the Medical Schools Council. This year, she completed an Independent review of the Healthcare Scientist and Genetics Education programmes for NHSE. She is a Commissioner for international medical schools for the Accreditation Council for Colleges of Medicine (ACCM).
Jane is the former Director of UCL Medical School and an honorary consultant physician and rheumatologist, at Whittington Health in London. She is past president of the Royal College of Physicians of London, only the third woman to hold that position in the College’s 500 year history and has also been vice chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, medical director of MRCPUK examination, academic vice president of the RCP and a GMC council member. Her research is in medical education, assessment, gender, gender pay gaps and equality in healthcare.
