Dr John Chisholm will be made a CBE

Also honoured is Dr John Chisholm, the chairman of the GP's Committee at the British Medical Association. He is to be made a CBE.

Dr Chisholm said : "I am honoured and delighted to receive this award. I feel that it recognises not just my work but the work of the GPC and the support I have received from the staff and members of the Committee and the BMA."

Dr Chisholm has been chairman of the GPC since 1997 and is a GP in Twyford, Berkshire.

Here are the rest of the honours:

Knighthood:

• Dr Iain Geoffrey Chalmers, director, UK Cochrane Centre (Oxford)
• Graham Morgan, executive director of nursing and quality, North West London Hospitals NHS Trust
• Professor George Karoly Radda CBE, chief executive, Medical Research Council -
• Nicholas Young, chief executive, Macmillan Cancer Relief

CBE

• John David Barnard, Dean, Faculty of Dental Surgery, the Royal College of Surgeons of England
• Professor Colin Bird, Provost and Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh
• Dr Gautam Bodiwala, consultant in accident and emergency medicine, Royal Leicester Infirmary
• Gill Denise Brook, clinical nurse specialist, Birmingham Children's Hospital
• David Campbell, chairman, Health Education Board for Scotland
• Leonard Fenwick, chief executive, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust
• Professor Roderic Keith Griffiths, regional director of public health, NHS Executive
• Dr Peter Homa, director, Commission for Health Improvement
• Kim Manley, Royal College of Nursing
• Dr Ann McPherson, GP
• Professor Robert George Will, director, Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease Surveillance Unit

OBE

• Mary Josephine Brydon (Norwich) - for services to allergy nursing
• Professor Yvonne Helen Carter, professor of general practice and primary care, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
• Dr Jagdish Chander Chawla, consultant ophthalmologist, Royal Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Paisley
• Wendy Colley (Cumbria) - for services to continence nursing
• Hermione Mary Crosfield (London) - for services to the British Red Cross
• Mr Aires Angelo Barnabe Barros D'Sa, consultant vascular surgeon, Royal Victoria Hospital, Antrim
• Jill Evans, founder, Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinic, Royal Gwent Hospital
• Margaret Garbett, former ward manager, Spinal Injuries Unit, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt District Orthapaedic Hospital, Oswestry
• Elisabeth Cargill Hill, former vice-chairman, Scottish Association for Mental Health
• Professor Amritpal Singh Hungin, GP (Stockton on Tees)
• Mrs Leila Lessof. Chairman, Moorfields NHS Hospital Trust.
• Rafeek Hosni Mahmood. Medical director, Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust
• Professor Barry McCormick (Notts) - for services to paediatric audiology
• Miss Linda Joyce Patterson. Medical director, Burnley Health Care NHS Trust
• Marianne Rigge. Director, College of Health
• Joan Rule (south Wales) - for services to psychiatry in the elderly
• Marjorie Small. Manager, Clinical Haematology Unit, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham
• Anne Judith Weyman. Chief executive, Family Planning Association
• Paul Michael Williams. Chief executive, Bro Morgannwg Trust, Wales