Carrie MacEwen

Dame Caroline Jan MacEwen DBE FRCS FRCPE FRCGP, known as Carrie MacEwen, is a British ophthalmology consultant who has served as the chair of the General Medical Council (GMC) since May 2022. She was previously acting chair of the GMC between August 2021 and May 2022, the chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges between 2017 and 2020 and the president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) between 2014 and 2017.[2]

Dame Carrie MacEwen

DBE FRCS FRCPE FRCGP
Born
Caroline Jan MacEwen

December 1958 (age 64)[1]
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Dundee

Career

MacEwen studied medicine at the University of Dundee, graduating in 1981. She specialised in ophthalmology and has been a consultant since 1996.[3] She works as a consultant at the Ninewells Hospital, NHS Tayside in Dundee and is an Honorary Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Dundee School of Medicine.[4][5] Her research is focused on paediatric ophthalmology, ocular trauma, sports ophthalmology and disorders of eye movement.[5] MacEwen is also the chair of the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership, ophthalmology specialty adviser to the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, co-clinical lead for the ophthalmology workstream of the Getting It Right First Time programme in England, and Associate Dean for less than full time training for East Scotland.[6]

While president of the RCOphth, she helped to develop the Ophthalmic Common Clinical Competency Framework and commissioned The Way Forward, an initiative to help develop service redesign.[2][7]

MacEwen served as acting chair of the GMC between August 2021 and May 2022 before being appointed as the chair by the Privy Council. She is the second woman to hold the position since its founding in 1858.[8] In a speech at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in October 2021, she set out the GMC's vision on how they would help to improve doctors' wellbeing with a shift from "stepping in when things go wrong to fostering supportive environments that stop harm from happening in the first place". MacEwen said that the GMC would do this by conducting more research and data collection and further development of their equality, diversity, and inclusion programme. She would also aim to reduce disproportionality between BME and white doctors in fitness-to-practice referrals by employers and attainment in undergraduate and postgraduate education.[9] MacEwen oversaw the consultation on the review of Good Medical Practice, the main guidance document for UK doctors' standards, in 2022.[10]

Honours

Fellow of:[11]

She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to ophthalmology and healthcare leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic.[2][12]

References
  1. "Carrie MacEwen". Companies House. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
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  3. "Caroline Jan MacEwen". General Medical Council. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  4. "Carrie MacEwen appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire". Royal College of Ophthalmology. 15 June 2021. Archived from the original on 3 December 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  5. "Dundee academics elected Fellows of the RSE". University of Dundee. 22 March 2022. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  6. "Four new College Honorary Fellowships". Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. 4 September 2020. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  7. "The Way Forward" (PDF). Royal College of Ophthalmology. January 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  8. "HQIP's Chair Dame Carrie MacEwen appointed Chair of General Medical Council". Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership. 16 May 2022. Archived from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  9. Rimmer, Abi (8 October 2021). "Carrie MacEwen: What is the GMC's role in doctors' wellbeing?". British Medical Journal. 375: n2464. doi:10.1136/bmj.n2464. PMID 34625467. S2CID 238423702. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  10. "A message from our Acting Chair Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen". General Medical Council. 11 February 2022. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  11. "Register of Interests" (PDF). General Medical Council. pp. 2–3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  12. "No. 63377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2021. p. B8.
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