David Haslam (physician)

This article is about the chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. For other people with the same name, see David Haslam (disambiguation).

Sir David Anthony Haslam CBE FRCP FRCGP FAcadMEd (born 4 July 1949) is a British medical doctor, writer and administrator.

Education

Haslam was educated at the University of Birmingham (MB ChB, DObstRCOG, DFFP).

Medical career

Haslam worked for 36 years as a general practitioner in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire.

He was president of the British Medical Association (2011–12), President (2006-9) and chair (2001-4) of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and vice chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Haslam was chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence from 2013 to 2019.

In 2020 he became Chair of the Trustee Board of the Charity CLIC Sargent, subsequently known as Young Lives vs Cancer.

He was said by the Health Service Journal to be the 30th most powerful person in the British National Health Service in December 2013. He was ranked (informally, as he was one of the judges) in the Health Service Journal's list of Clinical Leaders in 2015, and later reckoned to be the 15th most influential person in the English NHS in 2015. In 2014 he was listed in the Sunday Times and Debrett's list of the 500 most influential and inspirational people in the UK.

In 2014 he was appointed Professor of General Practice at the University of Nicosia, and from 2018- 2022 he was a Director of the State Health Services Organisation in Cyprus.

He has written 14 books, primarily on health and parenting related matters and aimed at the general public, published in 13 languages internationally. His most recent book, "Side Effects. How our healthcare lost its way, and how we fix it" was published in 2022, and was chosen as book of the week in The Observer.

Honours

In 1989 he was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners, in 2003 he was awarded Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health, and in 2004 he was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians. In 2010 he was conferred as an honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators.

In 2014 he received an honorary doctorate from University of Birmingham In 2016 he received a Doctorate of Science (Hon Causa) from the University of East Anglia.

He was awarded CBE in 2004 for "Services to Health Care", and he was Knighted in June 2018 for "Services to NHS Leadership".