Lampard undertook a number of senior non-executive roles within the
National Health Service, including chairing SouthEast Coast Strategic Health Authority. From 2016 to July 2024 she served as chair of the trustees of the national charity GambleAware. She is also a former Deputy Chair of the
Financial Ombudsman Service. In 2012 Lampard was appointed by the
Department of Health to oversee the investigations into the activities of the late broadcaster
Jimmy Savile at
Stoke Mandeville Hospital,
Leeds General Infirmary,
Broadmoor Hospital, and elsewhere within the National Health Service after
allegations of sexual abuse by Savile. Her report, co-authored with Ed Marsden, was published in 2015. In 2015 Lampard was appointed by Serco Plc to undertake an
independent review of the circumstances surrounding allegations, made in a Channel 4 news report, of the mistreatment of detainees at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre. In 2017 she was appointed by G4S plc to undertake an independent review of the circumstances surrounding allegations, made in a BBC
Panorama television programme, of the mistreatment of detainees at the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre. In 2019 the Home Secretary,
Sajid Javid, appointed Lampard to lead a review of the Borders, Immigration and Citizenship service. Lampard served as interim chair of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (November 2015 June 2016). She also served as a trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation (1999–2023). She is a trustee of the Royal Horticultural Society. Lampard was appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the
2015 New Year Honours for services to the National Health Service and to the community in Kent. Lampard is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Kent.
House of Lords It was announced on 14 October 2022, that as part of the
2022 Special Honours, Lampard would receive a
life peerage. On 17 November 2022, she was created
Baroness Lampard, of
Frinsted in the
County of Kent. She initially sat in the House of Lords as a member of the
Conservative Party; in July 2024 she became a non-affiliated peer. In September, 2023, Lampard was appointed Chair of the Statutory Inquiry into mental health deaths in Essex, known as the
Lampard Inquiry, primarily the death of 2,000 mental health patients in
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ==References==