Chief Medical Officer - annual report: 2020 to 2021

Acknowledgements

Editorial Team 

Chief Editor
Dr Savita Brito-Mutunayagam
Specialist Registrar in Sexual and Reproductive Health
Scottish Clinical Leadership Fellow (2019/2020)

Chief Editor
Dr Julie Aitken
Specialist Registrar in Paediatrics
Scottish Clinical Leadership Fellow (2020/2021)

Craig Bell
Unit Head, Realistic Medicine Policy Team, Scottish Government

Dr Helen Mackie
National Clinical Lead for Realistic Medicine
Consultant Gastroenterologist

Authors

Dr Gerry McCartney
Consultant in Public Health
Head of Public Health Observatory, Public Health Scotland
Author of Health of the Nation & Reducing Health Inequalities

Dr Emma Watson
Consultant Microbiologist
Deputy Medical Director NHS Highland
Author of Green & Sustainable Healthcare 

Dr Cameron Herbert 
Specialist Registrar in Paediatrics
Scottish Clinical Leadership Fellow (2020/2021)
Author of Sustainability of our Workforce

Contributors 

Professor Alan Denison,
Dean of Postgraduate
Medicine,
NHS Education for Scotland

Dr Alan Mackenzie,
Scottish Clinical Leadership Fellow.
Specialty Registrar in Forensic Psychiatry,
NHS Lothian 

Alex Young,
Technical,
Corporate and Parliament Team Leader,
Social Security Policy Division,
Scottish Government 

Dr Alison White,
Emergency Medicine Consultant,
NHS Tayside

Alpana Mair,
Division Head,
Effective Prescribing and Therapeutics,
iSIMPATHY Coordinator,
Scottish Government

BBC News

Dr Ben Reynolds,
Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist,
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde,
Clinical Lead for Paediatric Transplantation 

Professor Brian McKinstry,
Professor of Primary Care eHealth,
University of Edinburgh 

Bridget Finton,
People & Places Activity Team,
NatureScot 

Dr Calvin J Lightbody,
Consultant in Emergency Medicine,
NHS Lanarkshire 

Christopher Doyle,
Senior Policy Manager,
Clinical Priorities Unit

Claire Austin,
Scottish Clinical Leadership Fellow Specialist Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
NHS Lothian 

Dr Clare Tucker,
Specialist Lead Grief & Bereavement,
NHS Education for Scotland

Dr Dave Caesar,
Interim DCMO,
DGHSC Scottish Government

Dr David A McDonald MBE,
National Improvement Advisor,
Modernising Patient Pathways Programme,
Scottish Government

Dr David N Blane,
Clinical Research Fellow in General Practice & Primary Care,
Institute of Health & Wellbeing,
University of Glasgow

Professor D. Robin Taylor,
Consultant Physician,
NHS Lanarkshire

Emma Walker,
Chief Executive Officer,
Fife Sports and Leisure Trust

Farzana Khan,
Mother of Zak Khan

Graeme MacLennan, Policy Executive, Access to Free Period Products,
Scottish Government

Professor Graham Ellis,
Senior Medical Officer,
Ageing and Health,
Honorary Professor,
Glasgow Caledonian University

Hazel Archer Head of Programme - Near Me,
Technology Enabled Care Programme,
Scottish Government

Helen Stevens, Team Leader,
Palliative and End of Life Care,
Directorate for Healthcare Quality and Improvement,
Scottish Government

Jamie Begbie,
Senior Policy Manager,
Person-Centred Care Team,
Scottish Government

John Burnside,
Environmental Officer,
NHS Highland 

Dr John Montgomery,
David Elder Medical Practice,
Lead Clinician Govan SHIP Project

Professor John Paul Leach,
Professor of Clinical Neurology,
Honorary Consultant Neurologist,
Head of Undergraduate Medicine,
University of Glasgow

Karen McNiven,
Health Improvement Manager,
South Sector,
Glasgow City Health & Social Care Partnership

Kate Burton,
Public Health Practitioner (Health Inequalities),
Scottish Public Health Network (ScotPHN)

Katie Cuthbertson,
Programme Director,
Modernising Patients Pathway Programme,
Scottish Government

Katie Morris,
Interim Programme Director,
Scottish Access Collaborative,
Scottish Government

Dr Kenneth Barker,
Consultant Anaesthetist,
NHS Highland 

Dr Kim Walker, Principal Investigator, COVID-19 Wellbeing Study 

Mr Lech Rymaszewski, Clinical Advisor ACRT/PIR, Modernising Patient Pathways Programme, Scottish Government

Louise Kay, Unit Head, Cancer,
Rare Diseases and National Planning,
Scottish Government

Professor Maggie Bartlett,
Head of Undergraduate Medicine,
University of Dundee 

Marc Beswick,
National Lead,
Near Me Network

Mark Lawson,
Senior Policy Manager,
Drug Policy Division,
Scottish Government

Margaret Nugent,
Clinical Advisor,
ACRT/PIR,
Modernising Patient Pathways Programme,
Scottish Government

Dr Margaret Whoriskey,
Director Technology Enabled Care Scottish Government

Margaret Wood,
National Improvement Advisor,
Modernising Patients Pathway Programme,
Scottish Government

Professor Sir Muir Gray,
Executive Director of the Oxford Centre for Triple Value Healthcare

Neil White,
Senior Statistician,
Health and Social Care Analysis Hub,
Scottish Government 

Dr Paul Baughan,
GP in Forth Valley and National Clinical Lead with Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Phil Eaglesham Organisational Lead (Inclusion Health), Public Health Scotland

Dr Rebecca Campbell
Specialty Registrar in Public Health
Scottish Managed Sustainable Health network (SMaSH)

Professor Rowan Parks,
Acting Medical Director,
NHS Education for Scotland 

Ruth Jays, Unit Head,
Person-Centred and Participation Team,
Scottish Government

Dr Ruth Yates,
Scottish Clinical Leadership Fellow.
Specialty Registrar in Palliative Medicine,
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Sam Waller,
Cycling UK

Sharon Pfleger,
Consultant in Pharmaceutical Public Health,
NHS Highland 

Dr Stephen Thomas,
Consultant Respiratory Physician,
NHS Highland 

Professor Stewart Mercer,
Professor of Primary Care and Multimorbidity,
University of Edinburgh,
Director of the Scottish School of Primary Care.

Tim Wilson, Director,
Oxford Centre for Triple Value Healthcare 

Zak Khan,
Kidney Transplant Patient

Realistic Medicine Team

Jennifer Graham
Team Leader, Realistic Medicine,
Scottish Government

Alice Carmichael
Policy Manager, Realistic Medicine,
Scottish Government

Aga Lysak
Policy Manager, Realistic Medicine,
Scottish Government

Robert Wyllie
Policy Manager, Realistic Medicine,
Scottish Government

Mary Hucker
Policy Manager, Realistic Medicine, Scottish Government