Reports

Report of the Council on the implementation of electronic voting in ballots of the Regent House

The Council begs leave to report to the University as follows:

1. In 2011–12, the Council established a working group to consider whether an electronic voting system might be introduced for ballots of the Regent House. The conclusions of the working group were reported to the Council on 21 January 2013 and a Report proposing the introduction of electronic ballots with effect from 6 November 2013 was approved by Grace 1 of 6 March 2013.

2. The proposal was to provide a voting system in-house, based on a system already used in student elections and ballots within the Collegiate University. Work started on the adaptation of the voting interface and counting mechanism for use in ballots of the Regent House. However, in February 2014, shortly before the first ballot in which votes would be cast online, it became apparent that the system was not ready for use (Reporter, 6336, 2013–14, p. 355). The Council, at its meeting on 17 February 2014, reaffirmed its support for electronic voting in ballots of the Regent House, and agreed to reconstitute the working group to re-open the question of the provider of the online voting system; in the meantime, the method of voting would be by postal ballot.

3. The Council, at its meeting on 16 June 2014, endorsed the recommendation of the working group that Electoral Reform Services (ERS) should be asked to provide online voting services in ballots of the Regent House. ERS has provided printed materials for ballots of the Regent House since 2011 and also provided services to support the Chancellorship election in the same year. It was now clear that only a small number of members of the Regent House were planning to vote on paper, and therefore the proposal from ERS had been refined and the cost lowered since the working group had first considered ERS as an alternative provider. As a specialist, respected, and long-established supplier of voting services, ERS would be able to provide expertise and services not available within the University.

4. ERS has confirmed that it is able to implement the arrangements for voting as set out in the Council’s Report dated 21 January 2013 (Reporter, 6295, 2012–13, p. 339). On the occasion of a ballot, the names and CRSids of voters (but not passwords), together with the names and postal addresses for those who had opted to continue to receive hard-copy ballot papers, would be provided to ERS. ERS would then provide credentials for each voter which could be linked by the University to Raven credentials, thereby giving access to the ERS voting site. Although the support for voting services would be provided by ERS on a ballot by ballot basis, it is proposed that this arrangement would be in place for three years and reviewed by the Council after two years.

5. The Council’s Report dated 21 January 2013 recommended that an electronic voting system should be implemented for all ballots of the Regent House. However, the Council considers that there ought to be residual authority vested in the Vice-Chancellor to be able to opt to conduct a ballot by post in exceptional circumstances, such as during a suspension of the use of online voting to investigate a possible security breach. The Council also proposes that the choice of supplier of voting services should be a matter for decision by the Council.

6. If the recommendations of this Report are approved, members of the Regent House will receive a letter with their voting papers for the Council and Board of Scrutiny elections in November confirming their CRSid and the email address to which notification of the opening of online voting will be sent (or confirmation that they will continue to receive voting papers and supporting materials in the post).

7. The Council recommends:

I. That, with effect from 1 January 2015, approval be given to the implementation of electronic voting in ballots of the Regent House as set out in this Report.

15 July 2014	L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor	Andy Hopper	Rachael Padman
	N. Bampos	Richard Jones	John Shakeshaft
	Jeremy Caddick	Fiona Karet	Jean Thomas
	Stephen J. Cowley	F. P. Kelly	Evianne Van Gijn
	Athene Donald	Mark Lewisohn	I. H. White
	I. M. Le M. Du Quesnay	Rebecca Lingwood	A. D. Yates
	David Good	Mavis McDonald
	Helen Hoogewerf-McComb	Susan Oosthuizen

Report of the General Board on the establishment of the University offices of Lecturer (teaching) and Senior Lecturer (teaching)

The General Board beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. The academic career structure in the University is based on University offices with duties including both teaching and research, and the longstanding principle that the delivery of outstanding teaching is dependent on academic staff who are active in research or scholarship. This is encapsulated in the description, in Statute C I 4, of the duties of the holders of University offices listed in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (i) (which defines the entitlement to sabbatical leave). Promotion to a personal Professorship or Readership requires evidence of international leadership in research, while promotion to University Senior Lectureship requires evidence of research achievement as well as sustained contribution in teaching and general contribution.

2. The arrangements summarized in Paragraph 1 have served the University well and are expected to continue to provide the main career structure for permanent academic posts in the University. Nevertheless, there are currently some 180 unestablished appointments in the University, with an expected tenure of over one year, whose primary duties are the delivery of teaching, or other instruction, and the organization of teaching programmes, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

3. Many such appointments are part-time, renewable, and are concerned with specialist teaching provision in e.g. the Department of Education, the Department of Architecture, and the Language Centre where the requirements, both for the amount and type of teaching, may change and there is a need for flexibility from year to year, or are specialist roles in the School of Clinical Medicine. There are also a small, but growing, number of appointments at Grade 9 held on open-ended contracts, mainly in scientific departments, whose substantive duties are primarily concerned with teaching. These appointments are funded from a variety of sources and have been made in a piecemeal fashion, by informal appointments processes, and the holders are subject to some variation in terms and conditions. The General Board consider that the absence of a formal structure for these important posts, which are integral to the delivery and organization of the teaching programmes of the Departments concerned, is unsatisfactory and poses risks for the University. For the University, the lack of a uniform appointments and promotions process clearly represents an issue of quality control for the delivery and continuity of teaching. For the individual, the insecure and anomalous status, by comparison with holders of University offices, and the lack of opportunity for recognition and progression is clearly unsatisfactory.

4. The General Board have consulted the Councils of the Schools about, and received broad support for, the institution of new University offices at Grade 9 and Grade 10, to provide a career structure for holders of ‘teaching only’ appointments. The choice of a suitable title for the new offices attracted some critical responses in the consultation. After further consideration the Board now proposes that the new offices should have the titles Lecturer (teaching) and Senior Lecturer (teaching). As stated in paragraph 2, the great majority of academic appointments would continue to be to University officerships with duties including both teaching and research; given the close linkage between teaching and research and the University’s critical dependence on maintaining high quality research and the associated HEFCE QR income and external grant funding, the Board would expect Councils of the Schools to be sparing in recommending the establishment of these new offices only in order to meet substantive long-term teaching needs. However, the institution of the new offices, to enable the recognition of a limited number of dedicated professional teachers and educators as permanent and valued colleagues who concentrate upon teaching, pastoral, and administrative duties would:

•contribute to the delivery of excellence in teaching by developing a cohort of leaders of educational provision;

•make a major contribution to sustaining the excellence of the delivery of teaching;

•meet the evolving needs of disciplines that need to educate in core subjects, in languages, or in other academic activities where there are no, or limited, research active staff to fulfil these needs;

•enable departments to achieve research goals;

•accommodate more easily the covering of teaching duties of staff who obtain research grants and are ‘lost’ to the delivery of the teaching at short notice.

5. More specifically, the duties of a Lecturer (teaching) should include some or all of the following :

•design, quality control, and teaching courses at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level;

•supervision of student projects, practical classes, field trips, placements, etc.;

•development of innovative approaches to teaching and learning;

•initiating or co-ordinating roles in the department e.g. relating to assessment or admissions;

•outreach and access related activities;

•examining and other forms of assessment.

In addition to the duties above, a Senior Lecturer (teaching) would also be expected to:

• have substantial experience of senior responsibility for the management and development of teaching programmes;

• have responsibility for enhancing the quality of teaching or other provision in the institution concerned;

• act as mentor to new staff and advise/train less experienced staff on learning, teaching, etc.;

• contribute more widely to the development of policy on learning and teaching within the University.

Holders of offices in both grades would be encouraged, but not required, to undertake research related to their academic discipline or pedagogy.

6. By analogy with the grades (and pay increments) of University Lectureships and University Senior Lectureships the proposed grades of these roles would be:

Lecturer (teaching):	Grade 9
Senior Lecturer (teaching):	Grade 101

7. Appointments to the offices would be made by the Appointments Committee for the Faculty, Department, or institution concerned. Tenure, subject to the satisfactory completion of a probationary period of five years, would be to the retiring age.

8. There would not be a statutory entitlement to sabbatical leave, since research is not a duty but individuals would be able to request leave, through the Faculty Board, under the provisions of Special Ordinance C(i) 2(b) to undertake a specific project relevant to their duties.

9. The General Board have considered the position in respect of specialist language teachers where there is already a structure of University offices: Lector, Language Teaching Officer, Senior Language Teaching Officer. Although the Board see no reason to disturb that structure the new offices may provide a more appropriate framework for the future. As vacancies arise it would be open to the School concerned to propose the substitution of one of the new offices if the needs of the institution justified it. Similarly, other offices including those concerned with medical or veterinary teaching e.g. University Physiologist might over time be converted to one of the new offices.

10. Subject to the approval of the recommendation of this Report, the HR Division, in consultation with the Councils of the Schools and institutions concerned, will review posts at Grade 9 (or above) with substantive duties concerned with teaching which might be converted to one of the new offices. Where this is considered appropriate and agreed by the School, the relevant Appointment Committees will consider appointing the individual(s) concerned. Where this is not considered appropriate the individual will remain in the unestablished appointment until the expiry of their tenure. In future the General Board will expect the use of unestablished appointments, at the appropriate grade, for posts with significant continuing teaching duties to be limited to the following cases:

(a)to cover the duties of a UTO who has been granted leave for a period of up to three years e.g. maternity leave or to enable the individual to take up an externally funded research appointment;

(b)to meet specific teaching needs on a part-time basis where a degree of flexibility, from year to year, is required;

(c)where funding is time-limited and an unestablished appointment can be objectively justified.

Appointments at Grade 9 or above for more than three years should be to one of the new offices. The General Board would expect any initial appointments normally to be made to a Lectureship (teaching). Promotion to a Senior Lectureship (teaching) would be possible through the Senior Academic Promotions Procedure (the criteria for which will be adapted to accommodate the new office.) A holder of a Lectureship (teaching) or Senior Lectureship (teaching) would not be eligible, since the duties do not include research, for promotion to Reader or Professor through the Senior Academic Promotions Procedure.

11. The General Board recommend:

I. That the University offices of Lecturer (teaching) and Senior Lecturer (teaching) be established with effect from 1 October 2014 and governed by the regulations set out in Annex I.

2 July 2014	L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor	David Good	Rachael Padman
	Philip Allmendinger	Robert Kennicutt	Richard Prager
	N. Bampos	Duncan Maskell	John Rallison
	Sarah Coakley	Patrick Maxwell	Rob Richardson
	M. J. Daunton	Martin Millett	Evianne van Gijn

Annex I

Lecturer (teaching) and Senior Lecturer (teaching)

1. There shall be such number of University offices of Lecturer (teaching) or Senior Lecturer (teaching) as the General Board may determine on the recommendation of the Council of the School, or other authority, concerned.

2. Appointments and reappointments shall be made by the Appointments Committee or other appointing body for the Faculty, Department, or institution concerned. The provisions of Special Ordinance C (x) 5 as they concern University Lecturers shall apply to a Lecturer (teaching) or a Senior Lecturer (teaching).

3. The duties of a Lecturer (teaching) or Senior Lecturer (teaching) shall include the delivery or organization of teaching, or other forms of instruction, and associated responsibilities, as determined by the Head of Department or Faculty Board concerned, subject to the approval of the General Board. A Lecturer (teaching) or Senior Lecturer (teaching) shall conform to such conditions of residence as may be determined by the General Board on the recommendation of the Head of Department or Faculty Board concerned.

4. A Lecturer (teaching) or Senior Lecturer (teaching) shall not engage in teaching other than teaching on behalf of the University or a College or Colleges or the delivery of occasional lectures. The amount of teaching on behalf of a College or Colleges shall not, except with the consent of the General Board, exceed twelve hours a week, or, if the Lecturer is a Tutor or Bursar, eight hours a week. The General Board may on account of the nature of the subject or the circumstances of the particular case extend the maximum number of hours a week to fifteen, or if the Lecturer is a Tutor or Bursar to ten. For the purposes of this section the terms Tutor and Bursar shall include Assistant Tutors and Assistant Bursars unless in a particular case the General Board shall decide otherwise.

Report of the General Board on the establishment or re-establishment of two Professorships in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences

The General Board beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. Neurology is a crucial area of clinical medicine. A very wide range of diseases of the brain cause both morbidity and mortality. In many instances there is currently no effective treatment.

2. The University has an impressive critical mass of researchers in fundamental and clinical neuroscience, together with extensive expertise in related disciplines including psychology and psychiatry. In view of this, and the enormous unmet medical need caused by neurological disease, academic leadership in neurology is of very high strategic importance for the School of Clinical Medicine. In addition, neurology is a key discipline for the education of clinical students.

3. A single tenure Professorship of Neurology was established by Grace 3 of 27 January 1988. The Professorship will lapse with the retirement of Professor D. A. S. Compston on 30 September 2015, and the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine has proposed that it should be re-established for a further tenure. The full cost of the Professorship will be met by the School of Clinical Medicine from within its recurrent Chest allocation. Cambridge University Hospitals would award an Honorary Consultant contract to the Professor and provide full access to appropriate clinical facilities; appropriate research facilities will be provided within the School through its Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

4. The General Board have accepted the Faculty Board’s proposal and have agreed that election to the Professorship should be made by an ad hoc Board of Electors and that candidature should be open without limitation or preference to all persons whose work falls within the field of clinical neurology.

5. Where there has been success in the development of effective treatments for neurological conditions, this has been based on applying mechanism-based therapeutics. It is now recognized that immunological processes drive, or amplify, tissue damage in a variety of disease contexts. The University has been prominent in these developments and has already taken at least one concept of immune-pathogenesis through to a drug licence.

6. The School of Clinical Medicine has prioritized immunology with investments at professorial level in several Departments. The further strengthening of clinical neuroimmunology has been identified as a strategic aim of the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Resource Centre. Since immunological mechanisms are relevant to the pathogenesis of so many neurological disorders, teaching in clinical neuroimmunology is important for a modern education in clinical medicine.

7. The Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine has accordingly agreed to recommend the establishment of a Professorship to provide leadership in research and teaching in the discipline, and ensure that the University remains at the forefront of therapy and drug development for diseases of the nervous system. The full cost of the Professorship will be met by the Genzyme Fund for Clinical Neurosciences (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 826). Cambridge University Hospitals would award an Honorary Consultant contract to the Professor and provide full access to appropriate clinical facilities; appropriate research facilities will be provided within the School through its Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

8. The General Board have accepted the Faculty Board’s proposal and have agreed that election to the Professorship should be made by an ad hoc Board of Electors and that candidature should be open without limitation or preference to all persons whose work falls within the general field of the title of the Professorship.

9. The General Board recommend:

I. That the Professorship of Neurology be re-established for a further tenure from 1 October 2015, placed in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (vii) 1, and assigned to the Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

II. That a Genzyme Professorship of Neuroimmunology be established for a single tenure from 1 November 2014, placed in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (vii) 1, and assigned to the Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

2 July 2014	L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor	Duncan Maskell	Richard Prager
	N. Bampos	Patrick Maxwell	John Rallison
	Sarah Coakley	Martin Millett	Rob Richardson
	M. J. Daunton	Rachael Padman	Evianne van Gijn
	Robert Kennicutt

Report of the General Board on the re-establishment of a Professorship of Surgical Oncology

The General Board beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. Cancer is a major health issue in the UK; one in three people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, and one in four will die of cancer. Treatment for cancer patients is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams in which surgical oncologists play a key role. Surgical oncologists specialize in the surgical management of cancer and undertake surgical procedures to remove tumours and also palliative procedures where surgical cure is not possible. Surgery remains the most effective treatment for cancer, and yet surgical oncology as an academic discipline is poorly represented in the UK.

2. Cambridge is a major UK centre for both cancer research and the treatment of patients with cancer. The Cambridge Cancer Centre is a virtual organization that brings together over 170 Principal Investigators in different scientific disciplines across the University, and over 90 hospital consultants, to focus on the practical problems of cancer detection, treatment, and prevention. Research within the Centre is funded by Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, and the National Institute of Health Research. All clinical medical students have clinical attachments in surgery, where surgical oncology is a major feature. Surgical oncology is an established area for postgraduate study and Cambridge has been particularly successful in securing Academic Clinical Fellowships and Clinical Lectureships to allow surgeons with an interest in oncology to pursue academic clinical training.

3. A single tenure Professorship of Cancer Research (Surgical Oncology) was established by Grace 11 of 13 December 2000. The Professorship, which has placed the University at the forefront of academic surgical oncology in the UK, lapsed with the retirement of Professor D. E. Neal, and the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine has proposed that it should be re-established for a further tenure. The full cost of the Professorship will be met by the School of Clinical Medicine from within its recurrent Chest allocation. Cambridge University Hospitals would award an Honorary Consultant contract to the Professor and provide full access to appropriate clinical facilities; appropriate research facilities will be provided within the School of Clinical Medicine.

4. The General Board have accepted the Faculty Board’s proposal and have agreed that election to the Professorship should be made by an ad hoc Board of Electors and that candidature should be open without limitation or preference to all persons whose work falls within the general field of the title of the Professorship.

5. The General Board recommend:

I. That the Professorship of Surgical Oncology be re-established for a further tenure from 1 November 2014, placed in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (vii) 1, and assigned to a Department within the School of Clinical Medicine once the research interests of the person elected to the Professorship are known.

2 July 2014	L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor	Duncan Maskell	Richard Prager
	N. Bampos	Patrick Maxwell	John Rallison
	Sarah Coakley	Martin Millett	Rob Richardson
	M. J. Daunton	Rachael Padman	Evianne van Gijn
	Robert Kennicutt

Report of the General Board on certain University offices in the School of Clinical Medicine

The General Board beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. A major component of the training of clinical medical students takes place in partner NHS Trusts in the Cambridge University Health Partners network and also in a number of regional hospitals throughout the East of England region. This exposure to medicine in practice across the region provides those students with direct experience that is vital to their education and relies on the participation of NHS consultants who currently receive little recognition by the University of their important role in the provision of that training.

2. The Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine consider that it is necessary to acknowledge the additional duties that such NHS consultants accept when they contribute to the training of Cambridge clinical medical students. Accordingly, the Board have proposed that grants of title should be introduced to recognize the participation of those NHS consultants who, in addition to making a substantial contribution to the teaching of students, also take on an educational leadership role. There would be stringent criteria for the award of these titles (see paragraph 4 below) and it is expected that the number of grants of title would be fairly small.

3. The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board, propose that the current office of ‘Associate Dean’ (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 609) be retitled ‘Clinical Sub-Dean’, to distinguish that office from those holding the two proposed new titles described below. The opportunity has also been taken to make some further minor amendments to the regulations for that office, to bring them in line with current practice; see Annex A. It is also proposed that provision be made for two new titles to recognize the different contributions of those involved in the education of clinical medical students: the title of ‘Regional Clinical Sub-Dean’ for those who assume a leadership role with regards to the organization and delivery of teaching within regional hospitals; and the title of ‘Associate Clinical Sub-Dean’ for those who undertake a leadership role with respect to all aspects of medical education.

4. The criteria for the award of the title of ‘Regional Clinical Sub-Dean’ would include a substantial contribution to the teaching, supervision, and mentoring of clinical medical students while on placement in a regional hospital, as well as involvement in the recruitment and appraisal of University of Cambridge Senior Clinical Tutors, and oversight of all aspects of medical student placements, from curriculum delivery to the provision of appropriate facilities and resources. The criteria for the award of the title of ‘Associate Clinical Sub-Dean’ would include responsibility for organizing teaching and for development and implementation of the curriculum (including responsibility for quality assurance in specific areas), as well as involvement in the development and practice of medical student assessment. Associate Clinical Sub-Deans would be expected to be involved in student and staff mentorship, and would demonstrate evidence of sustained personal development in the field of medical education.

5. The Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine and the Faculty Board of Biology have also reviewed the procedures for the appointment of Clinical Lecturers. The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Boards, propose that there should be a separate procedure for the appointment of Clinical Lecturers, distinct from the general procedure for University Lecturers, to enable the composition of Appointments Committees for Clinical Lecturers to meet the requirements of the General Medical Council for lay membership, and accommodate members as appropriate from the Medical Research Council units that have recently transferred into the School of Clinical Medicine.

6. The General Board accordingly recommend:

I. That the University office of Associate Dean be retitled Clinical Sub-Dean, and that amendments to the regulations as set out in Annex A be approved;

II. That the introduction of the titles of Associate Clinical Sub-Dean and Regional Clinical Sub-Dean in the School of Clinical Medicine be approved, governed by the regulations as set out in Annex B;

III. That a separate procedure for the appointment of Clinical Lecturers be approved, with the changes to Special Ordinance and Ordinances as set out in Annexes C and D.

2 July 2014	L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor	Duncan Maskell	Richard Prager
	N. Bampos	Patrick Maxwell	John Rallison
	Sarah Coakley	Martin Millett	Rob Richardson
	M. J. Daunton	Rachael Padman	Evianne van Gijn
	Robert Kennicutt

ANNEX A

By amending the regulations for Associate Deans (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 609) so as to read:

1. There shall be such number of University offices of Clinical Sub-Dean in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine as the General Board may from time to time determine on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine.

2. Appointments and reappointments to a University office of Clinical Sub-Dean shall be made by an Appointments Committee consisting of the following persons:

(a)the Vice-Chancellor (or a duly appointed deputy) as Chairman;

(b)the Regius Professor of Physic;

(c)the Director of Medical Education;

(d)the Regional Postgraduate Dean;

(e)two persons appointed by the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine;

(f)three persons appointed by the General Board.

3. The duties of a Clinical Sub-Dean shall be determined by the General Board after consultation with the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine.

4. Appointments and reappointments to a University office of Clinical Sub-Dean shall be for periods not exceeding five years at a time.

ANNEX B

By inserting the following after Regulation 5 of the special regulations for the Faculty of Clinical Medicine (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 607):

6. The General Board shall be authorized to grant, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, the title of Regional Clinical Sub-Dean to any person who in such University Hospital, Associate Teaching Hospital, or Associate Teaching General Practice, or other institution associated with the University as the Faculty Board may have approved for the purposes of the regulations for the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, takes a leadership role with respect to the organization and teaching of candidates for those degrees. The recognition shall be for not more than five years at a time and may be renewable for periods of up to five years, subject to the Regional Clinical Sub-Dean remaining in employment with one of the aforementioned NHS institutions.

7. The General Board shall be authorized to grant, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, the title of Associate Clinical Sub-Dean to any person who in the University, or in such University Hospital, Associate Teaching Hospital, or Associate Teaching General Practice, or other institution associated with the University as the Faculty Board may have approved for the purposes of the regulations for the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, take a leadership role across all aspects of medical education, with respect to candidates for those degrees. The recognition shall be for not more than five years at a time and may be renewable for periods of up to five years.

ANNEX C

By amending the last paragraph of Special Ordinance C (x) 2 so as to read:

provided that the General Board shall have power to prescribe by Ordinance an alternative constitution for the Appointments Committee for a Department independent of any Faculty or for an institution independent of any Department or Faculty, or for the office of Clinical Lecturer, such office as prescribed by Ordinance.

ANNEX D

By inserting the following in Chapter XI:

APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEES FOR THE OFFICE OF CLINICAL LECTURER

1. Unless Regulation 2 below applies, appointments and reappointments to an office of Clinical Lecturer shall be made by an Appointments Committee which shall consist of the following members:

(a)	the Regius Professor of Physic as Chair (or deputy nominated in accordance with Regulation 5 below);
(b)	either	(i) when the Lectureship is established in a Department, the Head of that Department (or nominated deputy);
	or	(ii) when the Lectureship is established in a Faculty, the Chair of the Faculty Board;
(c)	either	(i) when the Lectureship is established within the School of Clinical Medicine, three persons appointed by the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine;
	or	(ii) when the Lectureship is established within a School other than the School of Clinical Medicine, the members in class (c) of the Appointments Committee of the Faculty concerned;
(d)	the Regional Postgraduate Dean (or nominated representative);
(e)	two persons appointed by the General Board, who shall not have a healthcare qualification;
(f)	if the Lectureship is established in a Department but funded and accommodated within an institute recognized by the relevant Council of the School, the Head of that institute (or a nominated deputy);
(g)	two (or where the funding so requires, up to four) persons appointed by the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine on the nomination of the appropriate NHS Trust as additional members of the Committee for the purpose of the particular appointment. These persons would normally include the relevant training programme director and the clinical academic lead for the specialty concerned.

2. If the General Board decides that the duties of a particular Clinical Lectureship concern more than one Faculty or Department and specifies the institutions concerned, the appointment to such an office shall be made by a special Appointments Committee constituted as follows:

(a)	the Regius Professor of Physic as Chair (or deputy nominated in accordance with Regulation 5 below);
(b)	the Head (or nominated deputy) of each Department specified as concerned;
(c)	for each Faculty or Department specified as concerned, a number of persons appointed by the appropriate Faculty Board or Boards, or by the comparable authority or authorities, to be determined as follows:
	either	(i) for each of two Faculties or Departments, two persons;
	or	(ii) for each of more than two Faculties or Departments, one person;
(d)	the Regional Postgraduate Dean (or nominated representative);
(e)	two persons appointed by the General Board, who shall not have a healthcare qualification;
(f)	if the Lectureship is funded and accommodated within one or more institutes recognized by the relevant Councils of the School, the Heads of those institutes (or nominated deputies);
(g)	where the duties concern more than one Faculty, the Chair of the Board of each Faculty (or nominated representative) which is specified by the General Board as concerned;
(h)	two (or where the funding so requires, up to four) persons appointed by the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine on the nomination of the appropriate NHS Trust as additional members of the Committee for the purpose of the particular appointment. These persons would normally include the relevant training programme director and the clinical academic lead for the specialty concerned.

3. The quorum for any Appointments Committee constituted in accordance with Regulation 1 or 2 above, will be as agreed by the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine from time to time.

4. Appointments by any Appointments Committee constituted in accordance with Regulation 1 or 2 above, shall be made with the concurrence of a number of votes as agreed by the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine from time to time.

5. The Chair of any Appointments Committee constituted in accordance with Regulation 1 or 2 above, may appoint a deputy to act in her or his place for the purpose of the particular appointment. The person so appointed shall be either the Deputy Head of the School of Clinical Medicine, or a member in class (e) of the Appointments Committee concerned.

6. The following provisions shall apply to appointed members of any Appointments Committee constituted in accordance with Regulation 1 or 2 above:

(a)members shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term of each calendar year of which the number is even, to serve during the two calendar years next ensuing; provided that when an Appointments Committee is newly constituted in accordance with Regulation 1 or 2 above, or is reconstituted in accordance with Regulation 2 in view of a change in the institutions specified by the General Board as concerned in the duties of the office, the appointed members of the new Appointments Committee shall be appointed forthwith and shall serve until the end of the next calendar year of which the number is even;

(b)no person shall be appointed or reappointed a member under classes (c), (e), (g), or (h) of an Appointments Committee constituted under Regulation 1 or 2 above, who at the commencement of her or his period of service is not employed by the University or a regional Trust.

7. Appointments to a Clinical Lectureship shall be for four years excluding any period of leave approved by the General Board under Special Ordinance C (i) 2 (a), (b), or (c).

8. A Clinical Lecturer shall hold qualifications entitling her or him to be registered with the General Medical Council as a Medical Practitioner and shall be eligible to be appointed to an honorary appointment in the National Health Service.

9. The duties of a Clinical Lecturer, which shall include clinical responsibility in addition to teaching and research, shall be determined by the Faculty Board or other body concerned, subject to the approval of the General Board, and those duties shall apply throughout the year save for such period or periods not exceeding six weeks in all in any one academical year as may be agreed, if the Lecturer holds an office assigned to a Department, by the Head of the Department concerned or, if the Lecturer holds an office assigned to the Faculty of Clinical Medicine, by the Regius Professor of Physic.

10. A Clinical Lecturer shall conform to such conditions of residence as may be determined by the Faculty Board or other body concerned, with the approval of the General Board.

11. A Clinical Lecturer shall not be a Tutor, Assistant Tutor, Director of Studies, Steward, Bursar, or Assistant Bursar of College. A Clinical Lecturer shall undertake teaching on behalf of the University or a College or Colleges, or on behalf of the University Hospital, an Associate Teaching Hospital, an Associate Teaching General Practice or other institution associated with the University as the Faculty Board may have approved for the purposes of the regulations for the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor or Surgery. A Clinical Lecturer shall not undertake additional teaching other than the delivery of occasional lectures. The amount of teaching given by a Clinical Lecturer on behalf of a College or Colleges shall not normally exceed four hours a week, and should be agreed with the relevant Head of Department.