From clinician to academic, from public service to leadership, forever shaping change.Martin Marshall is the Chair of the Nuffield Trust, Emeritus Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL and a non-executive director of the Royal Devon University Healthcare Trust. Martin was a GP for over 30 years, initially as a GP partner in Devon and more recently in Newham in East London and was Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners from 2019 until 2022. He was appointed as a deputy Chief Medical Officer for England and Director General in the Department of Health in March 2006, and in 2007 became director of clinical quality of the Health Foundation. He was previously Programme Director for Primary Care at UCL Partners, a clinical academic at the University of Manchester and a Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy based at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. He received both the John Fry Award (2005) and the James MacKenzie Award (2008), from the Royal College of General Practitioners, and in 2005 was awarded a CBE for Services to Health Care.
