The committee and their interests
The Committee
Judge Fiona Monk, Chair of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service
Judge Fiona Monk joined the MPTS as Chair on 5 January 2026.
Fiona has a long career background in adjudication, having been appointed as a fee paid Employment Judge in 2000 and as an Adjudicator for the (then) Law Society in 2005. She was appointed as a salaried Employment Judge in 2007, the Regional Employment Judge for Midlands (West) in 2011 and in October 2018, she was appointed the Senior President of Tribunal's Principal Judge for Strategy and Implementation. From September 2017 to 2019, she was a Commissioner of the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC).
She spent 15 years in judicial leadership roles, including nine years as the Regional Employment Judge for the West Midlands and then as President of the War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber of the First Tier Tribunal.
In December 2020, Fiona was appointed as the Chamber President for the War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal, having spent two years previously on secondment to the Chamber, latterly as its Acting Chamber President. From 2023 she has sat in the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) hearing appeals against the Disclosure and Barring Service. She continues to sit in retirement in both the Upper Tribunal and First Tier Tribunal.
Prior to taking up full-time judicial roles, Fiona worked as a solicitor, spending the whole of her post-qualification career working for Coventry Law Centre, specialising in employment and discrimination law. For the latter part of her employment at the Law Centre, Fiona was their Senior Solicitor and part of the senior management team.
Fiona was a Diversity and Community Regulations Judge from 2013 to 2025 and was a mentor and role model judge. She sat on the Tribunals Diversity Task Force and was the Tribunals' Lead for Appraisals. She was a tutor on the Judicial Leadership Programme. During her judicial career she mentored for the Law Society, CILEX, the Migrant Leaders' Charity, the Girls' Network and the MOJ's social mobility scheme and was one of the lead judges on both the Judicial Reverse Mentoring Scheme and the Judicial Career Development Mentoring scheme. Fiona also facilitated on the pre-application judicial education programme for many years and has been a guide for the JAC’s targeted outreach scheme
Gill Edelman; Lay, Non-Tribunal Committee Member
Gill has been a Lay Non Tribunal Member of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service’s Committee for three years and sat as interim Chair from April to December 2025. She was formerly a Lay Panel Member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Fitness to Practice Committee and a Lay Member of the General Osteopathic Council.
She has held several non-executive roles in the NHS at local level and at national level and has a particular interest in quality and patient safety. She has served as Chair of Quality and Performance in Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Service, Chair of the Individual Funding Review Panel, and Lay Member for Patient and Public Engagement at Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group. She was also a Non-Executive Director of the National Patient Safety Agency and Barnet Primary Care Trust.
Gill has been CEO of several charities including Kings College Hospital Charity and I CAN, the children’s communication charity. As interim CEO, she helped establish the Centre for Ageing Better and managed the closure of the Macfarlane Trust which was set up to support people infected by contaminated blood products and their families. She has been a trustee of several charities and was Chair of the Governance Hub set up to improve standards of governance across the voluntary and community sector. She has also worked as a Consultant specialising in strategy and governance.
Gill originally qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. She progressed into senior management before leaving the NHS to join the voluntary sector.
Barbara Larkin; Lay, Tribunal Committee Member
Barbara has been an MPTS tribunal member since 2014.
Barbara began her banking career in Banbridge, Co Down in 1986. She graduated from University College, Dublin in 1993 with an honours degree in Financial Services and continued in banking, following a move to Northwest England in 1996. There she worked at a number of global banking groups across a variety of disciplines, including business banking; credit approval; project management; corporate lending and restructuring.
Moving in a new direction in 2013, Barbara went into education, bringing her experience and expertise in banking and financial services to her roles as a part-time lecturer and as a governing body member and committee chair, in two further education colleges.
Since 2014 she has also undertaken the office of chief invigilator of external exams for a grammar school in her area.
Barbara is a patron of a chamber music group and an amateur musical society of which she is a former member. A lifelong singer, she is a soprano in two choirs. When not engaged in singing and musical pursuits, she relishes cooking for family and friends. Always keen to gain new skills, she is committed to learning to swim this year. She enjoys walking the trails in the countryside and mountains that surround her locality, which is an area of outstanding natural beauty.
Richard Vautrey; Registrant, Tribunal Committee Member
Richard is a GP partner in a practice in Leeds and has been in this role since 1994. He graduated from Manchester University in 1988, completed GP training in Rochdale and spent 18 months working in Nigeria.
He is the clinical director of Central North Leeds Primary Care Network and the primary medical services member of West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board. He was previously secretary/ assistant secretary of Leeds Local Medical Committee for 25 years, stepping down from this role in 2024.
He is a former president of the Royal College of GPs and was a longstanding member of RCGP council. He is a nationally elected member of BMA Council and is the former chair of the BMA GP Committee in England and GPC UK.
Dr Stephen T Webb; Registrant, Non-Tribunal Committee Member
Dr Webb is a Consultant in Intensive Care at Royal Papworth Hospital Cambridge. His clinical, education and research interests lie in cardiothoracic intensive care, severe acute respiratory failure, advanced heart failure and cardiogenic shock, clinical adult and quality improvement. Dr Webb’s management roles at Royal Papworth Hospital include Responsible Officer and Deputy Medical Director. He is also Human Tissue Authority(HTA) Designated Individual and Partner Organisation Member of the Council of Governors for Cambridge University Hospitals.
Dr Webb’s current national roles include Special Advisor to the UK Intensive Care Society Council, Chair of the UK MEDUSA Injectable Medicines Guide Advisory Board, Chair of the UK Critical Care Leadership Forum and Regional Committee Member of the Advisory Committee for Clinical Impact Awards (ACCIA).
Dr Webb graduated in Medicine from Queen's University Belfast in 1999 and undertook postgraduate specialist medical training in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in Northern Ireland and Cambridge. He was appointed as Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine at Royal Papworth Hospital Cambridge in 2008.
In the past Dr Webb has worked with several healthcare organisations and held various roles. Previous positions include President of the UK Intensive Care Society (ICS),Clinical Lead of the Eastern Academic Health Science Network (EAHSN) Patient Safety Collaborative and Member of the East of England Clinical Senate Council. Dr Webb has also worked with the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Care Quality Commission(CQC), Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM), Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC), The Health Foundation, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcomes and Deaths (NCEPOD).