Sir Jonathan Michael is a British nephrologist and medical executive. From 2000 to 2007, he was the chief executive of
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust where he received his medical training, qualifying in 1970, before his 20-year career as a clinical
nephrologist
Nephrology is a specialty for both adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (renal physiology) and kidney disease (renal pathophysiology), the preservation of kid ...
. He spent much of his medical career at
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is a major, 1,215 bed, tertiary NHS and military hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, situated very close to the University of Birmingham. The hospital, which cost £545 million to construc ...
, before becoming first medical director and chief executive of
University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust.
In 2007, he became the head of
British Telecom
BT Group plc (formerly British Telecom) is a British Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is the largest provider of fixed-li ...
's Health division. In 2010, it was announced that he would be moving back into the NHS as Chief Executive of
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust.
He announced in 2014 that he would be leaving the trust and is to become the chief medical officer of the 6PM Group, an IT software firm.
In January 2016, he was appointed to provide independent oversight of plans for a “single hospital service” in
Manchester
Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...
.
He was
knighted
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The concept of a knighthood ...
in the
2005 New Year Honours
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.
References
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People educated at Bristol Grammar School
British nephrologists
Living people
BT Group people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Knights Bachelor
Fellows of King's College London
English healthcare chief executives