Julia Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege

Julia Frances Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege , CBE , DL (born January 27, 1943 ) is a British politician ( Conservative Party ) and entrepreneur .

life and career

Coming from a medical family, she was appointed Junior Health Minister in 1992 and worked for five years in the House of Lords in all matters relating to health and social services. She was also Sponsor Minister for the City of Plymouth , responsible for regeneration and a budget of £ 45 million a year. In 1997 she was the opposition spokeswoman for health.

In 1990 she was raised as Baroness Cumberlege , of Newick in the County of East Sussex, to a Life Peeress and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since . In 2001 she started her own company called Cumberlege Connections Ltd.

Affiliations

• Trustee, Cancer Research UK
• Senior Partner, The King's Fund.
• Co-Chair, Associate Parliamentary Health Group and the All Party Parliamentary Osteoporosis Group
• Secretary, Dying Well Parliamentary Group
• Honorary Member, Royal College of Physicians
• Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing and Midwives

Religious views

The Roman Catholic politician spoke at the Conference of the Catholic Medical Association (formerly the Guild of Catholic Doctors ) in April 2009, opened by Archbishop Peter Smith .

Web links

• biography
• Background (PDF file; 164 kB)
• interview
• "Education for Health" (PDF file; 646 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Independent Catholic News report , April 2009 Catholic Medical Association conference ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.