Dawn Milner
MB BS LRCP MRCS MRCGP

Dr Milner worked as a general practitioner in Bedfordshire for 21 years before joining the Department of Health (DH) in 1989. At DH she held a number of posts in policy areas including monitoring maternal deaths, vaccination and immunization, accident prevention and coronary heart disease prevention. From 1996 until the end of 2001 she was the senior medical officer advising the Tobacco Policy and Cancer Prevention Unit at DH. During that time she contributed to the Government White Paper "Smoking Kills". Subsequently she assisted with the development of smoking cessation services and the provision of nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) on National Health Service (NHS) prescriptions. Dr Milner was also the medical secretary to the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (SCOTH) and chair of the Technical Advisory Group of SCOTH. The first report of SCOTH was published in 1998 and looked in particular at the health effects of environmental tobacco smoke.

Since retiring from DH in December 2001 she has accepted the chair of the board of trustees for No Smoking Day (a UK charity) and continues to work in the tobacco control area as a freelance consultant. She is also a vice president of QUIT – a national free telephone helpline for smokers. In 2002 she returned to general practice and works part time as a locum in the county of Shropshire where she now lives.

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