BMJ  2004;328:127 (17 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7432.127

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Health tsars

Dr David Colin-Thome

Katherine Burke

Health tsars: spin or substance?: Eight health directors ("tsars") were appointed from 1999 to 2002. Katherine Burke asked them to summarise their achievements and other people to assess their work. A ninth "tsar", Dr Sue Roberts, was appointed in March 2003 to cover diabetes. The full text is accessible at www.bmj.com

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 Dr David Colin-Thome

National clinical director for primary care

Appointed: May 2001

 
My achievements: Any achievements are never solely due to the national clinical director but to working with so many others. One of the requisites of the job is to provide a clinical leadership within the broad remit of primary care. The progress of primary care trusts is of fundamental importance. In supporting primary care trusts, I work with the National Primary and Care Trusts Development Programme of the Modernisation Agency, most specifically on the role of the professional executive committees whose members are predominantly clinicians.

I work closely with the primary care collaborative. I also have a new Department of Health role in developing primary care medical leadership and the initiative on GPs with special clinical interests. There are currently 1250 such accredited GPs.

Mike Pringle, professor of general practice at University of Nottingham, former chairman of . . . [Full text of this article]


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