Gill Edelman

Gill Edelman is a GOsC Lay member of Council and a member of the Policy and Education Committee

Gill is also a Lay member of the General Medical Council’s Medical Practitioner Service Tribunal Committee and a Lay member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Fitness to Practice Committee. Gill works as an independent voluntary sector consultant specialising in strategy and governance.

Having held several non-executive roles in the NHS at local and national level, Gill has a particular interest in quality and patient safety. Originally qualifying as a Speech and Language Therapist, Gill 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.

Gill has been CEO of several charities including Kings College Hospital Charity and I CAN, the children’s communication charity. She has also 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.