| 2000-2004 Member, NHS Modernisation Board |
| 2000-2006 Member, NHS Mental Health Task Force |
| 2000-2006 Vice Chair, Long Term Conditions Alliance, Acting Chair during 2005 |
| 2004-2005 Medicines Commissioner - final appeal body for licensing of medicines |
| 2005-2006 Member, Disability Rights Commission Formal Inquiry |
| 2005-2006 Member, National Leadership Network for Health and Social Care |
| 2005-2006 Member, Secretary of State for Health's personal Sounding Board |
| 2006-2009 Commissioner, Healthcare Commission |
| 2008-2011 Member, Civil Society Advisory Body, Cabinet Office |
| 2008-2011 Chair, UnLtdWorld |
| 2008-2016 UK Grants Committee, Comic Relief |
| 2011-2016 Member, Advisory Board, Big Society Capital |
| 2012-2013 Member, Cabinet Office Skills and Leadership Review |
| 2013-2015 Member, Chair of mission alignment group, UK Advisory Board to G8 Impact Investment Taskforce |
| 2013-2017 Non Executive, UCL Partners |
| since 2016 Member, UK Practitioner's Council |
