oxford value & stewardship programme (ovsp)
Oxford
Muir Gray is the Founding Director of OAP Ltd, with the following business
streams: OVSP, CASP, & Living Longer Better. He has advised Public Health
England and the Chair of the NHS Health and Social Care Digital service. Muir’s
work focuses on providing training to healthcare professionals on value based
healthcare. Sir Muir has worked for the National Health Service in England since
1972, occupying a variety of senior positions during that time, including
serving as the Director of Research and Development for Anglia and Oxford
Regional Health Authority, and first establishing and then being the Director of
the UK National Screening Committee. He founded the National Library for Health,
and was the Director of Clinical Knowledge, Process, and Safety for the NHS
(England) National Programme for IT, serving as the Director of the National
Knowledge Service. He was the first person to hold the post of Chief Knowledge
Officer of the NHS (England), also serving as the co-Director of the Department
of Health’s Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) Right Care
Programme. Together with Sir Iain Chalmers, Muir was instrumental in
establishing the Cochrane Collaboration. Sir Muir is an internationally renowned
authority on healthcare systems and has advised governments of several countries
outside the UK including Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain and Germany and
regularly delivers plenary sessions at international events, the most recent
being the 2014 World Health Summit in Berlin, the Big Data in Pharma conference
in London in 2015 and the 2015 Transplantation meeting at the Karolinska
Institute in Stockholm. Sir Muir is also a Professor in the Nuffield Department
of Surgery at the University of Oxford. He received the CBE in 2000 and was
knighted in 2005 for services to the National Health Service.