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Joyce Struthers was elected Chair of the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales (ACHCEW) in July 1998. She is ACHCEW's representative on the Management Board of the BMA's Doctor/Patient Partnership and on the Middlesex University Ethical Committee for the Practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Joyce Struthers served as a generalist member of North Bedfordshire Health Authority from 1985 to 1989. Shortly afterwards, she became a member of the North Bedfordshire Community Health Council, which she chaired from 1992 to 1996. She was a Marriage Guidance (now Relate) counsellor from 1971 to 1983, a voluntary worker in the Bedfordshire Divorce Conciliation Service from 1982 to 1994 and Vice President of Bedfordshire Care Support Network for People with Learning disabilities from 1989 to 1997.

Joyce Struthers has worked as an approved Lay Assessor with the Quality Control and Inspection Unit of Bedfordshire County Council's Social and Community Care Department. Currently she is the CHC observer on the Bedfordshire Joint Planning Team for Mental Health Services and the Bedfordshire County Council Quality Control Advisory Committee.