Julia Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege
Julia Frances Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege, CBE, DL is a British Conservative Party politician and businesswoman.
Life peerage
She was created a life peer in 1990 as Baroness Cumberlege, of Newick in the County of East Sussex.
Partial career background
Coming from a medical family, in 1992 she was appointed a Junior Health Minister and for five years covered all healthand social services matters in the House of Lords. She was also the Sponsor Minister for the city of Plymouth responsible for regeneration and a budget of £45 million per year. In 1997 she was Opposition Spokesperson for Health.
Business venture
In 2001 she launched her own company, Cumberlege Connections Ltd.
Affiliations
- Trustee, Cancer Research UK
- Senior Associate, The King's Fund.
- Co-chair, Associate Parliamentary Health Group and the All Party Parliamentary Osteoporosis Group
- Secretary, Dying Well Parliamentary Group
- Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians
- Vice President of the Royal Colleges of Nursing and Midwives
Religious views
A Roman Catholic, she spoke at the Catholic Medical Association (formerly the Guild of Catholic Doctors)'s conference in April 2009, officiated by Archbishop Peter Smith. [1]