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Associate Parliamentary Health Group

Department of Health, National Clinical Directors

National clinical directors and advisors are experts that each oversee the implementation of a national service framework (NSF) or major clinical or service strategy.

National Clinical Directors meet monthly along with other clinical colleagues from around the Department, to provide updates on progress of clinical workstreams and policy development, and broad clinical advice for the Department as a whole.

To learn more about individual National Clinical Directors, please click on their profiles below.

Professor Louis Appleby CBE

National Clinical Director for Health and Criminal Justice

Dr Ian Barnes

National Clinical Director for Pathology

Professor Alistair Burns

National Clinical Director for Dementia

Hugh Griffiths

National Director for Mental Health

Dr Charles Gutteridge

National Clinical Director for Informatics

Dr Rowan Hillson MBE

National Clinical Director for Diabetes

Dr Martin Lombard

National Clinical Director for Liver Disease

Dr Donal O'Donoghue

National Clinical Director for Kidney Services