Professor Martin Marshall

Professor Martin Marshall is the Chair of the Nuffield Trust, Chair of the National Centre for Creative Health, Emeritus Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, and a non-executive director of the Royal Devon University Healthcare Trust.

Until November 2022 he was Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a GP in East London.

Previously he was Programme Director for Primary Care at UCLP Partners, a health innovation partnership focusing on health challenges that have the biggest impact on people most in need. He has also previously been Director of R&D at the Health Foundation, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England and Director General in the Department of Health, a clinical academic at the University of Manchester, and a Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy based at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California.

He has over 250 publications in the field of quality of care and health service redesign, and the interface between primary care and other services. In 2005 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for Services to Health Care.