be the fourteenth most powerful person in the English NHS in December 2014. In February 2019 he was appointed Chair of The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust – an integrated provider of acute, community and primary care services for the people of Wolverhampton and the wider Black Country. Honours He has also received honorary degrees from Staffordshire University, University of Worcester, Keele University, Birmingham City University and University of Exeter. He was appointed CBE for 'Services to Medicine and to Healthcare' in 2010. References External links Warwick Medical School Living people 1959 births Administrators in the National Health Service 21st-century English medical doctors British general practitioners Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal College of General Practitioners Alumni of the University of Birmingham Alumni of the University of Dundee