Professor David Oliver

Trustee

Professor David Oliver

Consultant in Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

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David Oliver has been an NHS doctor since 1989 and a Consultant Since 1998 specialising in geriatrics, general and acute internal medicine. He has been a trustee of the Nuffield Trust since 2019. 

Whilst he has remained in continuous patient-facing clinical practice throughout his career he has played a wide variety of other roles. These include Department of Health National Clinical Director for Older People's Services. Specialist Advisor for the NHS Emergency Care Improvement Team. Honorary Secretary and President of the British Geriatrics Society. Visiting Fellow at the King's Fund, Senior Lecturer at the University of Reading and Visiting Professor at City University. He has also been a clinical or care group director in two NHS trusts. In 2022, having looked after an acute Covid ward for 3 years and then becoming ill himself, he had to resign from the Presidency of the Royal College of Physicians which he had been about to take up. 

In addition to his academic and research publications on the care of older people and a key paper for The King's Fund on "Services fit for an Ageing Population", David has been a regular BMJ columnist since 2015, is a member of the Medical Journalists Association and has written for numerous other publications including the Byline Times, FT, Guardian, Independent, Telegraph, Manchester Evening News, Huffington Post and Health Service Journal and appears on broadcast media from time to time as a guest. 

As well as his medical degree and doctoral thesis, he has Masters  in Healthcare Leadership, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Ethics and Law.

He is a proud Mancunian and lifelong fan of Manchester City.

 

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