Sir John Armstrong Muir Gray is a British physician, who has held senior positions in screening,

public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the det ...

, information management. and value in healthcare. He is currently the Chief Knowledge Officer for EXi, a digital health therapeutic prescribing exercise to people with or at risk of up to 23 long-term health conditions. He was director of Research and Development for Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority and supported the United Kingdom Centre of the

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in promoting

evidence-based medicine Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients". The aim of EBM is to integrate the experience of the clinician, the values of t ...

. 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, and

National Library for Health The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care in England that publishes guidelines in four areas: * the use of health technologies withi ...

, and director of Clinical Knowledge Process and Safety for the

NHS National Programme for IT The NHS Connecting for Health (CFH) agency was part of the UK Department of Health and was formed on 1 April 2005, having replaced the former NHS Information Authority. It was part of the Department of Health Informatics Directorate, with the ro ...

. 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. He was the director of the National Knowledge Service and Chief Knowledge Officer to the

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, a Director of the healthcare rating and review service

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and is Public Health Director of the Campaign for Greener Healthcare. In 2006 he developed the NHS's framework for value (triple value). He was then the founding Director of the NHS Rightcare 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. He is also one of the original authors of the IDEAL framework for surgical innovation.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.

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