New Year Honours 2008
Comfort Lyabo Amah MOMOH MBE
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
midwife
“Female Genital Mutilation/Public Health Specialist, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Women's Healthcare.”
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Female Genital Mutilation/Public Health Specialist, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Women's Healthcare.
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Member of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2008- Role at the time
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“Female Genital Mutilation/Public Health Specialist, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Women's Healthcare.”
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
“Female Genital Mutilation/Public Health Specialist, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Women's Healthcare.”
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The Member of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 599 times in the New Year Honours List 2008 — about 63% of the list.
In their area
1,592 Member of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from London.
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midwife.
How widely is this recognised?
4,271 people have been recognised for Health & Social Care.
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Others awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 2008
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Merseyside
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West Yorkshire
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“For services to the Independent Park Home Advisory Service.”
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Hampshire
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Alastair Thompson
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East Sussex
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Alexander Bulloch
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West Midlands
“For services to the Birmingham War Research Society.”
Alexander McKenzie Condie
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Fife
“For services to Social Housing in Fife.”
Alexander Naylor
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Lanarkshire
“For services to Athletics.”
Alison Roberts
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London
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Amajit Talwar
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West Midlands
“Chief Executive, Punch Records. For services to the Music Industry and to the community in the West Midlands.”
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London
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South Yorkshire
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Andrew Philip Garnett
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London
“Grade C1, Ministry of Defence.”
Andrew Robert Wilson
PersonMember Order Of The British Empire · 2008
South Yorkshire
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West Midlands
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Anita Margaret George
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Cornwall
“For services to the community in Penzance, Cornwall.”
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Merseyside
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Strabane, County Tyrone
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Belfast, County Borough of Belfast
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Wigan, Greater Manchester
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Wigan, Greater Manchester
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Edith Joyce Leask
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Lerwick, Shetland
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Helen Mack
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Barry, South Glamorgan
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Jason John Kinghorn
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Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
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Cwmbran, Gwent
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Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire
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Claire Elizabeth Griffiths
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Cardiff, South Glamorgan
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Paul John Gates
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Rayleigh, Essex
“Vice-Chair, British Association for Immediate Care. For services to Pre-Hospital Critical Care”
Susan Garner
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London, Greater London
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Tyrrell George John Robert Evans
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London, Greater London
“Vice-President, St Christopher's Hospice. For services to Palliative Care”
Warren Dunkley
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Gravesend, Kent
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Member of the Order of the British Empire · 2008
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2008). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2007.
Location (London) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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