Virginia is a Mathematics graduate of Edinburgh University and a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute. She has over 30 years’ pensions experience, including administration, consultancy, in-house pensions management, working for a trade union, and a secondment to HM Treasury. 

Virginia brings a great deal of experience of working with and advising the main public service pension schemes, and understands the administrative challenges of multi- employer schemes with complex benefit structures. She is passionate about delivering a high quality service and engaging with members to help them get the most from their pension scheme. 

Virginia is a leading authority on the “McCloud” remedy, and advises public sector schemes on its implementation, as well as on wider administrative and governance issues. 

In her spare time, Virginia enjoys walking her two dogs and exploring the countryside with friends and family.

I have been an employee of NHS Lanarkshire for the past 33 years.

I have been a steward with the RCN in Lanarkshire for 15 years, which includes a period of 18 months as an officer.

I have also held a variety of Governance and Partnership roles both locally in NHS Lanarkshire, Nationally and within the RCN in Scotland.

These include 10 years on RCN Scottish Board, currently I am the Chair person. I am the National Staff Side lead for volunteering in NHS Scotland. Within Lanarkshire I am the NHSL Staff Side Chair for the South IJB, former chair of the HRF and a member of the Joint Policy Forum. I am also the staff side lead for Job Evaluation in Lanarkshire.

Elected representative of BMA at both Scottish and UK level for 20 years. Deputy to BMA pensions committee for 5 years.

Actively involved in lobbying on pensions at both Scottish and UK level for last 2 years, including meetings at Scottish and UK Parliaments around NHS Pension scheme, scheme financing and pensions taxation.

Raymond is a lead for Pensions in both his role as a Unison Representative and Partnership facilitator for NHS Tayside, sitting on a number of key strategic groups within Health i.e. Staff Governance, performance and recourses and Endowments advisory Group.

He is also an attendee on NHS Tayside Board, a Non-Voting Member of Dundee Integrated Joint Board and Co-Chair of the Health and Social Care Partnership Forum with the Chief Officer for Dundee.

David McColl is the Chair of the Scottish Dental Practice Committee, Chair of the Area Dental Committee of Greater Glasgow and Clyde LDC and Vice Chair of the GP sub-committee of Greater Glasgow and Clyde Local Dental Committee. He is also the Scottish representative on the BDA Pensions Committee. He is a practice owner and runs a busy NHS practice in Govanhill in Glasgow.

Yvonne is National Officer (Scotland) for the Society of Radiographers and maintains a strong and active interest in the Scottish NHS Pension Scheme, particularly as she leads on pensions for SoR members in Scotland. 

A former Solicitor and Assistant General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, Yvonne acted as secretary to the STUC Pension Board. It was in that capacity that she developed skills and knowledge in the operation and regulation of occupational pensions, undertaking pensions modules with the Pensions Regulator.