Professor Alastair Scotland

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Professor Alastair Scotland is Chief Executive and Medical Director of the National Clinical Assessment Authority. He graduated in medicine from Aberdeen University. Following this he trained in surgery with a particular emphasis on plastic surgery. He entered public health medicine in 1983, becoming consultant in public health medicine to North East Thames Regional Health Authority in 1988, and its Regional Medical Officer from 1991 to 1994, when he became Medical Director to the Trust Unit in the merged North Thames RHA. In 1996, he moved to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where he was its Director of Medical Education and Research until 2001. He has a special personal interest in medical education, training, staffing and professional performance and has been very much involved with a number of key national initiatives in this field, including the Ministerial Group on Junior Doctors’ Hours of Work, the Calman Committee on Specialist Medical Training and the Advisory Group to the GMC on implementing their Professional Performance Procedures in the NHS. He has also lectured and published widely in these fields of interest. He was nominated to the Forum to represent the British Association of Medical Managers.