Diana Whitworth
Consultant
Diana co-ordinates the older people’s strand of the Wellbeing programme for the Young Foundation. Until recently she was co-director of Grandparents Plus, a charity that aims to raise awareness of the role of grandparents and the extended family in the lives of children. She was chief executive of Carers UK for five years. She is a trustee of the Odyssey Trust, a charity which provides crisis and rehabilitation services for drug users in London. Diana is also a member of the Advertising Standards Authority and of the Big Lottery Fund Board.
Diana is committed to improving the experience of people using health and social services and chaired the External Reference Group that developed the National Service Framework for Long-term Conditions. She is a member of the NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R and D Programme Board where she chairs the health and social care commissioning group.
She was a governor of her daughter’s comprehensive school in Hackney for five years, has an allotment and cycles to her various workplaces across London.
