Jonathan Mark Fielden (born 9 September 1963) was an

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and

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. He was a former medical director of

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and former Director of Specialised Commissioning NHS England. His first consultant post was at

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in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. He was chairman (2006–2009) of the Central Consultants and Specialists Committee of the

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, and the secondary care specialist on the governing body of Aylesbury Vale

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. Fielden chaired the CQC team which assessed

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ran by Circle Health Ltd (the first privately managed NHS hospital) as "inadequate" leading to the trust being put into special measures in 2014. He was appointed director of specialised commissioning at

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in October 2015. Subsequently, he was reckoned by the ''

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'' to be the 49th most influential person in the English NHS in 2015. Fielden was arrested in December 2016 on suspicion of voyeurism. He was suspended by the

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in January 2017. Fielden was convicted of this offence in June 2019 and given a suspended prison sentence. He was erased from the register - "struck off" - by the MPTS in January 2020.

Personal life

Fielden's early education was at the

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and completed his medical degree at the

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. He married Christine Mundin, head of media at the

in 2010 and divorced in 2019.
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