Adjunct Professor; Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College, England

Sir John is a primary careclinician who applied QI in his award winning practice in the late 90s. He went on to create a mechanism for large scale change in primary care in England, successfully replicated in Scotland, Australia, Saskatchewan and elsewhere. In 2004 he also created the concept of the Healthy Communities Collaborative with residents of deprived areas as the improvement team members, adapted and spread by Swedish colleagues throughout many countries as Passion for Life. He was National Clinical Lead for Quality and productivity for the NHS and chairman of the Commission on Whole Person (Integrated) Care. More recently he was Senior Independent Director of the Care Quality Commission in England, the statutory regulator for health and care.