Sir Muir Gray
Chief Knowledge Officer
NHS
Muir Gray entered the Public Health Service from a career in academic surgery in 1974 as a local authority employee in the County Borough of Oxford.
During the years that have passed he has had over twenty structural reorganisations of the health service and the Public Health Service, and has been involved with every type of health service from smoking cessation to environmental protection, from antenatal counselling to end-of-life care.
His proud claim is that he has made very mistake possible, most of them only once (it was, however, pointed out to him that there may be completely new types of mistake that we are making that we don’t even recognise as yet).
Among the jobs he has held have been a Consultant in Public Health for the Oxfordshire Health Authority, the Regional Director of Public Health for the Oxford Region, the founding Programme Director of the National Screening Committee, the Director of the National Library for Health, and the Chief Knowledge Officer for the NHS.
He currently has three part-time jobs.
- He is a Consultant in Public Health in the NHS, seconded to act as Director of the Public Health commissioning Network whose aim is to use commissioning to create healthcare systems, for example a National Epilepsy Service, to complement the set of institutions which currently dominate thinking within the NHS.
- He is the founding Director of the charity called Knowledge Into Action which is leading the National Campaign for Walking and the Campaign for Greener Healthcare.
- He is the Director of Better Value Healthcare Ltd., a company which uses podcasting and other Web 2.0 technology to help those who pay for and manage healthcare create systems and change the culture of the organisations in which they work.
