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Senior management team
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Samantha Peters
Chief Executive and Registrar
Samantha is an experienced chief executive, with an MBA from Cass Business School. She has worked in the health sector for 11 years, leading the British Society of Rheumatology, and British Health Professionals in Rheumatology. In these roles and as Chief Executive of the British Youth Council, she has worked closely with an extended network of professionals and wider stakeholders, and has built robust policy, advisory and communications functions.
In addition to her full-time employed roles, Samantha has held a number of public interest posts focusing on delivering services and support for patients and the wider general public. In particular, she has been a trustee of Arthritis Care and of the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance. -
Jeff Cant
Director of Resources
Jeff is an experienced senior manager who has operated at Board level as CEO, Director of Resources and Director of Finance, as well as taking on project based roles.
His experience includes finance, consultancy, performance, efficiency improvement and change management, and line responsibility for finance, HR, IT, estates, legal services and procurement.
Jeff has worked across the central and local government, health and not for profit sectors, including roles with a number of London boroughs, the Department of Health, the Department for Education, the Home Office and Defra. He was also CEO of the Refugee Legal Centre.
He is a CIPFA qualified accountant and holds an MBA in Business Strategy from Henley Management College. Jeff is a Member of the Institute of Health Service Financial Management.
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Mandie Lavin
Director of Regulation
Mandie joined the GOC as interim director of regulation in October 2011
Mandie, a qualified barrister, has significant experience of working in regulation. She is a former director of the Bar Standards Board and was director of fitness to practise and legal affairs at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. She spent three years in financial regulation at the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and prior to that was the Director of Fitness to Practise at the UKCC, the predecessor body to the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Mandie was called to the Bar in October 1993 and a Member of Middle Temple. She qualified as a nurse at Guys Hospital in 1987.
She chairs the General Medical Council’s Investigating Committee and the Association of Accounting Technicians’ disciplinary tribunal. Mandie is also on the Doctors and Dentists Appeal Panel Chairs list for NHS Employers.
Mandie is a member of: Professional Negligence Bar Association, Bar Association for Commerce, Finance and Industry (Member of the Professional Standards and Issues Committee), Medico Legal Society, Association of Women Barristers, The Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.