Personal Profile
In his Medical Director role for NHS England, he led a range of work portfolios and partnerships across Health and social care which strive to deliver the challenges facing the NHS today, across organisations, professions and arms length bodies. In 2014 he was listed in the HSJ Top 100 Clinical Leaders.
He started consultant life at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust and having spent only 3 years as a Consultant, was appointed as a Clinical Lead for the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority, where he developed strong partnerships between Public Health, primary care and acute care. At Sandwell he developed a prevention programme for CVD which helped to address health inequality in vulnerable groups and meet the aspirations of the NSF. He was regional Clinical Director for the QIPP (Quality, innovation, productivity and prevention) programme for the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority. He was then seconded to oversee the NHS transition as Medical Director for Primary care in West Mercia whilst and then became Associate Medical Director at Heart of England NHS Trust. He was also regional representative for the International Health Group of the Department of Health in England and is currently Chair of the West Midlands Clinical Commissioning Executive forum for specialised commissioning.