| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath | |
| Office1: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
| Term Start1: | 13 March 2024 Life peerage |
| Birth Name: | Jane Ramsey |
| Party: | Labour Party |
| Occupation: | Health adviser |
| Spouse: | Jonathan Slater |
Jane Ramsey, Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath is a British politician and health adviser. She chairs the board of trustees of the national charity Young Epilepsy, and was a senior adviser on standards and ethics to the Labour Party and a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. Ramsey has been a member of the House of Lords since 2024.
Originally training as a barrister, Ramsey was the chair of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from 2012 to 2016, and previously the vice chair of University College London Hospitals. She has also served on the council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Department of Health's Audit and Risk Committee, chaired a local housing association, and served as head of law for two London boroughs. She has chaired the board of trustees of the national epilepsy charity Young Epilepsy since October 2016.[1] [2]
From 2016 to 2020, Ramsey was an independent member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.[3] Following the publication in 2020 of a report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into antisemitism in the Labour Party, she was appointed to establish a new independent complaints process for the party.[4]
Ramsey was nominated for a life peerage by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer[5] [6] [7] and was created Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath, of Dulwich in the London Borough of Southwark, on 13 March 2024. She was introduced to the House of Lords on 19 March.[8]
Ramsey is married to Jonathan Slater, a British civil servant who was the permanent secretary of the Department for Education from 2016 to 2020.[9] [10]
She has written about health and education issues relating to autism and epilepsy, as well as in support of transgender rights and LGBT inclusivity in schools.[4]