The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals has appointed Sir Jonathan Michael as its new Chief Executive. Previously Managing Director of BT Health, Sir Jonathan has many years experience in healthcare, holding both clinical and managerial leadership roles in the NHS.
Sir Jonathan said: "I am delighted to have been appointed to the role of CEO of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, and look forward to working with all my future colleagues in the Trust, the wider NHS and local universities to ensure that the ORH provides the highest quality of care for patients, and plays its proper part in delivery of excellent education, training and research in the field of healthcare."
Welcoming Sir Jonathan's appointment, Dame Fiona Caldicott, Chairman of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust said: "I am thrilled to welcome Sir Jonathan's appointment as CEO to the ORH. His enormous range of skills and experience will be a huge asset to the Trust, not only as we meet immediate challenges, but also in progressing to become a clinically-led organisation, and develop our full potential as a centre of excellence for clinical care, teaching and research, delivering the very best treatment for patients."
Sir Jonathan will start at the Trust early in the new financial year.
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Sir Jonathan qualified as a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School. In 1980 he was appointed Consultant Physician and Nephrologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Birmingham University. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 1985.
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Sir Jonathan became increasingly involved in hospital management during the 1990s, being appointed Clinical Director, then Medical Director and finally Chief Executive of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust. In 2000 he was recruited to the position of Chief Executive of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust in London, an organisation that he led to become one of the first wave of Foundation Trusts in the NHS.
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He has held a number of regional and national roles including membership of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration Board, Chairmanship of the Board of NHS Innovations (London), Chairmanship of the Association of UK University Hospitals and Chairmanship of the Board of the NHS Foundation Trust Network. Sir Jonathan was knighted in the New Year's Honours in 2005 for services to the NHS.
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In the same year he was elected Fellow of King’s College London (FKC) in recognition of his contribution to the relationship between the health service and higher education. In 2007 Sir Jonathan was appointed by the Secretary of State for Health, to chair an Independent Inquiry into the access to healthcare for children and adults with learning disabilities. The report, 'Healthcare For All', was published in July 2008.
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