Chair Medical Ethics Committee

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Martin Marshall is Clinical Director at the Health Foundation, an independent charity which aims to improve the quality of healthcare across the UK. He joined the Foundation in November 2007 from his previous role in the Department of Health as Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director General with responsibility for clinical quality and safety and medical education. Prior to this he was Head of the Division of Primary Care and Professor of General Practice at the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester. He has worked as a general practitioner for nearly 20 years, currently in Lambeth, South London. Previously he worked in Moss Side, Manchester, and a semi-urban practice in Devon.

He has written over 130 publications in the field of policy-related quality of care, the majority focusing on the development, use and abuse of measures of quality, the public disclosure of performance information, the relationship between organisational culture and quality improvement and the use of incentives. He is a fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and chairs the College’s Ethics Committee. He is also a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Faculty of Public Health Medicine. He was a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy in 1998/99, based at the RAND Corporation, California and has advised governments in the UK and abroad, a range of government agencies, Royal Colleges, independent foundations in the UK, Europe and the USA, the OECD and the World Health Organisation. He is past-President of the European Society for Quality Improvement in Family Practice. In 2005 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, for Services to Health Care and in 2008 he was appointed as a commissioner for the new regulator, the Care Quality Commission.