Scottish Referral Guidelines for Suspected Cancer 2025

Appendix 3 – Membership of Peer Review Sessions 2024

Brain and Central Nervous System Cancers

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Hugh Brown - Vice Chair of the 2018 SRG Review; General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Janine Keating - Health Service Researcher, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Linda Gunn - Public Partner, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Marie Gallagher - Programme Manager National Networks, NHS National Services Scotland

Avinash Kanodia - Consultant Radiologist, NHS Tayside

Charlotte Williamson - Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Robin Grant - Retired Consultant Neurologist, NHS Lothian

Liam MacLua-Hodgson - Policy and Campaigns Officer, The Brain Tumour Charity

Sharon Peoples - Consultant Clinical Oncology, NHS Lothian

Julie Connolly - Consultant Ophthalmologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Paul Brennan - Clinical Director Neurosurgery, NHS Lothian

Breast Cancer

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Hugh Brown - Vice Chair of the 2018 SRG Review; General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Lesley Taylor - Macmillan Cancer Nurse Consultant, NHS Tayside

Theodora Zachari - Consultant Radiologist, NHS Lothian

Matthew Barber - Consultant Breast Surgeon, NHS Lothian

Aminah Khan - Consultant Breast Surgeon, NHS Fife

Charlotte Williamson - Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Lyndsy Ambler - Senior Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Kira McDiarmid - Policy and Public Affairs Lead for Scotland, Breast Cancer Now

Jennifer Royds - Consultant Radiologist, NHS Lothian

Deborah McCrone - Senior Advanced Nurse Practitioner, NHS Lanarkshire

Beatrix Elsberger - Consultant Breast Surgeon, NHS Grampian

Judith Reid - Consultant Breast Surgeon, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Sarah Savaridas - Consultant Breast Radiologist, NHS Tayside

Gauripriya Babu - Consultant Radiology, NHS Lothian

Ian Daltry - Consultant Breast Surgeon, NHS Highland

Sarah Peterson - GP Lead for Cancer and Palliative Care, NHS Tayside

Emma Childs - Interim Nurse Consultant, NHS Lothian

Lorna Thompson - Health Service Researcher, NHS Healthcare Improvement

Kenneth McLean - Public Partner, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Gynaecological Cancers

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Ajay Dhawle - Consultant, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, NHS Tayside

Kenneth McLean - Public Partner, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Hugh Brown - Vice Chair of the 2018 SRG Review; General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

James May - Consultant Gynaecologist Oncologist, NHS Lothian

Mahalakshmi Gurumurthy - Consultant Gynaecologist Oncologist, NHS Grampian

Ros Glasspool - Consultant Medical Oncologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Sarah Barr - Consultant Gynaecologist, NHS Forth Valley

Charlotte Williamson - Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Rachel Downing - Head of Policy and Campaigns, Target Ovarian Cancer

Donald Nicolson - Health Service Researcher, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Nidal Ghaoui - Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, NHS Lothian

Rhona Lindsay - Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Lucky Saraswat - Consultant Gynaecologist, NHS Grampian

Cameron Martin - Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist, NHS Lothian

Catriona Hardie - Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Sian Jones - GP Lead for Cancer and Palliative Care, NHS Highland

Aik Goh - Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, NHS Highland

Sineaid Bradshaw - General Practitioner, NHS Lothian

Haematological Cancers

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Katrina Farrell - Clinical Haematologist, NHS Forth Valley

Jacqueline Gray - GP Lead for Cancer and Palliative Care, NHS Shetland

Ian Devanney - Consultant Haematologist, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Gail Loudon - Consultant Haematologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Hugh Brown - Vice Chair of the 2018 SRG Review; General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Donald Nicolson - Health Service Researcher, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Alison McIntosh - Cancer Support Manager, NHS Tayside

Charlotte Williamson - Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Keith Gelly - Consultant Haematologist, NHS Tayside

Calum Goodfellow - Policy & Campaigns Officer, Leukaemia Care

Karen Boyd - Consultant Haematologist, NHS Fife

Alastair Lawrie - Consultant Haematologist, NHS Grampian

Head and Neck and Thyroid Cancers

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Kerry Haddow - ENT Consultant, NHS Tayside

Constantina Yiannakis - ENT Consultant, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Ian Smillie - ENT Consultant, NHS Lanarkshire

Jaiganesh Jai Manickavasagam - ENT Consultant, NHS Tayside

Oliver Mitchell - OMF Consultant, NHS Forth Valley

Kishore Shekar - Consultant OMF Surgeon, NHS Tayside

Rebecca McQueen - National Cancer Improvement Lead, CfSD

Hugh Brown - Vice Chair of the 2018 SRG Review; General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Esmond Carr - ENT Consultant, NHS Borders

Ashley Hay - ENT Consultant, NHS Lothian

Grant Creaney - Clinical Lecturer and Honorary StR in Dental Public Health, University of Glasgow

Charlotte Williamson - Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Jean Sargeant - Quality Partnership and Primary Care Lead, Macmillan Cancer Support

Anne Hitchings - Consultant Otolaryngologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Fiona O’Brien - GP Lead for Cancer and Palliative Care, NHS Dumfries & Galloway

Roger Currie - Consultant OMF Surgeon, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Catriona Douglas - Consultant Surgeon, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow

Craig Wales - Consultant in Neurosciences & OMFS, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Jenny Montgomery - Consultant Head and Neck ENT Surgeon, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Athena Togo - ENT Consultant, NHS Highland

Kenneth McLean - Public Partner, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Lower Gastrointestinal Cancers

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Jack Winter - Consultant Gastroenterologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Hugh Brown - Vice Chair of the 2018 SRG Review; General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Shafaque Shaikh - Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon, NHS Grampian

Colin Noble - Co-Clinical lead for Endoscopy, CfSD; Consultant Gastroenterologist, NHS Lothian

Neil Cruickshank - Co-Clinical lead for Endoscopy, CfSD; Consultant General Surgeon, NHS Fife

John Thomson - Associate Clinical Director, CfSD; Consultant Gastroenterologist, NHS Grampian

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Donald Nicolson - Health Service Researcher, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Kenneth McLean - Public Partner, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Gerard McMahon - Head of Policy and Influencing (Devolved Nations), Bowel Cancer UK

Charlotte Williamson - Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Rachel Green - GP Lead for Cancer and Palliative Care, NHS Forth Valley

Satheesh Yalamarthi - Consultant General Surgeon, NHS Fife

Robert Boulton-Jones - Consultant Gastroenterologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Jean Sargeant - Quality Partnership and Primary Care Lead, Macmillan Cancer Support Scotland

Fraser Maxwell - Consultant Surgeon, Surgical and Critical Care, NHS Lanarkshire

Paul Witherspoon - Consultant Surgeon, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Isobel Penman - National Endoscopy Lead, CfSD

Michael Walker - Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, NHS Highland

John Morris - Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Farhat Din - Bowel Cancer UK/Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh Colorectal Cancer Surgical Research Chair, NHS Lothian

Rebecca McQueen - National Cancer Improvement Lead, CfSD

Christopher Ray - Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Lung and Pleural Cancers

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Claribel Simmons - Consultant Respiratory Physician, NHS Forth Valley

Fiona O’Brien - GP Lead for Cancer and Palliative Care, NHS Dumfries & Galloway

Lorraine Dallas - Director of Prevention, Information & Support, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Rebecca Smith - Lung Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist, NHS Fife

Elizabeth Sage - Consultant Physician, NHS Highland

Philip Short - Consultant Respiratory Physician, NHS Tayside

Hugh Brown - Vice Chair of the 2018 SRG Review; General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Fiona Thomson - Respiratory Consultant, NHS Grampian

Lyndsy Ambler - Senior Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Jean Sargeant - Quality Partnership and Primary Care Lead, Macmillan Cancer Support Scotland

Joris van der Horst - Clinical Lead WoS Lung Cancer MCN

Phil Reid - Respiratory Consultant, NHS Lothian

Hannah Lord - Clinical Oncology Consultant, NHS Tayside

Sarcomas and Bone Cancers

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Hugh Brown - Vice Chair of the 2018 SRG Review; General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Charlotte Williamson - Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Chris Nicholas - Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Andy French - Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Sarcoma UK

Louise Mccullough - National Clinical Lead, Sarcoma Network; Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon, NHS Grampian

Mark McCleery - Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Remi Looi-Somoye - Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Kenneth McLean - Public Partner, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Jon Foley - Consultant Radiologist, NHS Lothian

Marie Gallagher - Programme Manager National Networks, NHS National Services Scotland

Ashish Mahendra - Clinical Lead for the Sarcoma Network; NHS Grampian

Ben Winter - Consultant Radiologist, NHS Grampian

Stuart Goudie - Orthopaedic Sarcoma Surgeon, NHS Lothian

Skin Cancers

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Daniel Jordan - Consultant Plastic Surgeon, NHS Tayside

Janine Keating - Health Service Researcher, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Hugh Brown - Vice Chair of the 2018 SRG Review; General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Shantini Rice - Consultant Dermatologist, NHS Lothian

Kenneth McLean - Public Partner, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Lorna Patterson - General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Kaz Rahman - Consultant Plastic Surgeon, NHS Grampian

Stephen Morley - Consultant Plastic Surgeon, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Fiona MacDonald - Consultant Dermatologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Fiona Meredith - Consultant Dermatologist, NHS Grampian

Lyndsy Ambler - Senior Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Megan Mowbray - Consultant Dermatologist, NHS Fife

Charlotte Proby - Consultant Dermatologist, NHS Tayside

Chandra Bertram - Consultant Dermatologist, NHS Lothian

Upper Gastrointestinal Cancers

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Jacqueline Gray - GP Lead for Cancer and Palliative Care, NHS Shetland

Jean Sargeant - Macmillan Quality Partnership and Primary Care Lead, Macmillan Cancer Support

Paul Glen - Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Pradeep Patil - Upper Gastrointestinal and Bariatric Surgeon, NHS Tayside

John Morris - Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Neil Cruickshank - Co-Clinical lead for Endoscopy, CfSD; Consultant General Surgeon, NHS Fife

Colin Noble - Co-Clinical lead for Endoscopy, CfSD; Consultant Gastroenterologist, NHS Lothian

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Isobel Penman - National Endoscopy Lead, CfSD

Peter de Rosa - Senior Policy and Health Improvement Manager, Pancreatic Cancer UK

Charlotte Williamson - Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Ian Penman - Consultant Gastroenterologist, NHS Lothian

Lorraine Sloan - Previously with Macmillan Cancer Support and part of the 2018 SRG Review

Alexandra Jones - Public Partner, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Robert Boulton-Jones - Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Georgios Gemenetzis - Consultant Hepatobiliary Surgeon, NHS Tayside

Douglas Moran - Consultant Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Urological Cancers – Bladder and Kidney

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Hugh Brown - Vice Chair of the 2018 SRG Review; General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Gordon McLean - Strategic Partnership Manager, Macmillan Cancer Support

Ross Clark - Clinical Director of the Urology Service, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Lyndsy Ambler - Senior Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Andrew Greaves - General Manager, Kidney Cancer UK

Hazel Jackson - Nurse, Kidney Cancer UK

Zeeshan Aslam - Consultant Urologist, NHS Grampian

Jane Hendry - Consultant Urologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Steve Leung - Consultant Urologist, NHS Lothian

Alex Laird - Consultant Urologist, NHS Lothian

Kenneth McLean - Public Partner, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Benedict Rajendran - Locum Consultant Urologist, NHS Tayside

Sarah Reid - Consultant Urological Surgeon, NHS Lanarkshire

Ghulam Nandwani - Consultant Urologist, NHS Tayside

Param Mariappan - Consultant Urological Surgeon, NHS Lothian

Tarik Amer - Consultant Urologist, NHS Lanarkshire

Urological Cancers – Prostate, Testicular and Penile

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Hugh Brown - Vice Chair of the 2018 SRG Review; General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Alexandra Jones - Public Partner, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Jenny Harbour - Health Service Researcher, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Graeme Bathie - Specialist Nurse, NHS Tayside

CJ Shukla - Consultant Urological Surgeon, NHS Lothian

Alan McNeill - Consultant Urological Surgeon, NHS Lothian

Jean Sargeant - Quality Partnership and Primary Care Lead, Macmillan Cancer Support Scotland

Andrew Martindale - Consultant Urological Surgeon, NHS Tayside

Lorraine Sloan - Previously with Macmillan Cancer Support and part of the 2018 SRG Review

Nick Haldane - GP Lead for Cancer and Palliative Care, NHS Fife

Joseph Woollcott - Head of Health Policy, Education & Awareness, Prostate Cancer UK

Grieg Stanners - Principal Information Analyst, NHS Public Health Scotland

Lyndsy Ambler - Senior Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Rachel Crawford - General Practitioner Trainee, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Abhishek Sharma - Consultant Urologist, NHS Lothian

Dermot Murphy - Consultant Oncologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Jaimin Bhatt - Consultant Urological Surgeon, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Nabeel Al-Shammary - Consultant Urology & Robotic Surgeon, NHS Fife

Sarah Reid - Consultant Urological Surgeon, NHS Lanarkshire

Dave Douglas - Consultant Urological Surgeon, NHS Grampian

Tarik Amer - Consultant Urologist, NHS Lanarkshire

Non-Specific Symptoms of Cancer

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Martin Keith - Improvement Manager for Cancer and Diagnostics, NHS Dumfries & Galloway

Karen Roberts - Programme Manager, Cancer Improvement & Earlier Diagnosis, CfSD

Hugh Brown - Vice Chair of the 2018 SRG Review; General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Emily Arthurs - General Practitioner, NHS Forth Valley

Murdina MacDonald - Lead Cancer Nurse, NHS Fife

Fiona O’Brien - GP Lead for Cancer and Palliative Care, NHS Dumfries & Galloway

Kenneth McLean - Public Partner, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Leanne McMurray - Nurse Specialist for the Rapid Cancer Diagnostic Service, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Martin Downey - Associate Medical Director for Access, NHS Lanarkshire

Jacqueline Gray - GP Lead for Cancer and Palliative Care, NHS Shetland

Neil Cruikshank - Co-Clinical lead for Endoscopy, CfSD; Consultant General Surgeon, NHS Fife

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Derick MacRae - Cancer Service Manager, NHS Highland

Sian Jones - GP Lead for Cancer and Palliative Care, NHS Highland

Charlotte Williamson - Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Jonathan Begley - General Practitioner, NHS Forth Valley

Caroline Donoghue - Senior Policy Officer, Myeloma UK

Nick Haldane - GP Lead for Cancer and Palliative Care, NHS Fife

Lucy Heycock - Rapid Cancer Diagnostic Service Nurse, NHS Dumfries & Galloway

Robin Kerr - General Practitioner and Clinical lead for the Rapid Cancer Diagnostic Service NHS Borders

Katie Wilkin - Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist, NHS Fife

Peter MacLean - Consultant haematologist and Clinical lead for Cancer, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Cancer in Children and Young People

SRG Project Team - Appendix 1

Hugh Brown - Vice Chair of the 2018 SRG Review; General Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Douglas Rigg - GP Cancer Lead, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Co-Clinical Lead of Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group

Dermot Murphy - Consultant Oncologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Hugh Bishop - Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, NHS Grampian

Nicholas Heaney - Consultant Haematologist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Emer Campbell - Consultant Neurosurgeon, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Graham Boniface - Health Service Researcher, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Charlotte Williamson - Strategic Evidence Manager, Cancer Research UK

Lauren Johnson-King - Head of Health Engagement, Teenage Cancer Trust

Courtney Willis - Consultant Paediatrician, NHS Grampian

Christopher Driver - Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, NHS Grampian

Mark Brougham - Consultant Oncologist, NHS Lothian

Lorraine Sloan - Previously with Macmillan Cancer Support and part of the 2018 SRG Review