Muir Gray
Sir John Armstrong Muir Gray CBE FRCPSGlas FCLIP is a British physician, who has held senior positions in screening, public health, information management. and value in healthcare. He is the Chief Knowledge Officer for EXI, a digital health therapeutic company prescribing exercise to people with or at risk of up to 23 long-term health conditions, and Chief Wellbeing Officer for Learning with Experts, a health related online learning company working with the NHS.
Sir J.A. Muir Gray | |
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Born | Scotland |
Known for | UK National Screening Programme, National Library for Health |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Oxford University, NHS |
He was director of Research and Development for Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority and supported the United Kingdom Centre of the Cochrane Collaboration in promoting evidence-based medicine. He held the positions of director at the UK National Screening Committee, during which he helped pioneer Britain's breast and cervical cancer screening programmes,[1] and National Library for Health, and director of Clinical Knowledge Process and Safety for the NHS National Programme for IT.[2]
He was knighted in 2005 for the development of the foetal, maternal and child screening programme and the creation of the National Library for Health.[1]
He was the director of the National Knowledge Service and Chief Knowledge Officer to the National Health Service, a Director of the healthcare rating and review service iWantGreatCare and is Public Health Director of the Campaign for Greener Healthcare.[3]
In 2006 he developed the NHS's framework for value (triple value). He was then the founding Director of the NHS Rightcare[4] programme, trying to change the culture of the NHS to become a higher value organisation. He published many influential Atlases of Variation. He then left to found Better Value Healthcare, and then the Oxford Centre for Triple Value Healthcare, a mission driven social enterprise.[5]
He is also one of the original authors of the IDEAL framework for surgical innovation.[6]
Selected books
- Gray, Muir (2015). Sod 70!. Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 978-1472918970.
- Raffle, Angela E; J.A. Muir Gray (2007). Screening: Evidence and practice. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-921449-5.
- Gray, J.A. Muir (2007). How to Get Better Value Healthcare. Offox Press. ISBN 978-1-904202-01-1.
- Gray, Muir (2001). The Resourceful Patient. eRosetta Press. ISBN 978-1-904202-00-4.
- Pencheon, David; Charles Guest; David Melzer; J. A. Muir Gray (2001). The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-263221-0.
- Gray, J.A. Muir (1996). Evidence-based Healthcare. Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 978-0-443-05721-2.
- Gray, J.A. Muir (1989). PM The PM System Preventive Medicine for Total Health Identify Your Symptoms and Prevent Illness. Arrow Books.
- Many, D.C.; J. A. Muir Gray (1987). Building Regulations and Health. IHS BRE. ISBN 978-0-85125-236-0.
References
- "What is Behind the Headlines?". NHS Choices. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
- "J A Muir Gray". Ottawa Health Research Institute. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
- Gray, Muir (25 May 2009). "Climate change is the cholera of our era". The Times. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
- "NHS RightCare". www.england.nhs.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- 3vh. "Oxford Centre for Triple Value Healthcare". 3vh. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- McCulloch P, Altman DG et al. "No surgical innovation without evaluation: the IDEAL recommendations." Lancet. 2009 Sep 26;374(9695):1105-12. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61116-8.