Keith Willett
Keith Malcolm Willett CBE is Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the University of Oxford.
He trained in medicine at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. He is very critical of the training he received: “I vowed never to let my trainees learn trauma surgery the way I had and that injured patients should receive far better care than I had witnessed”. He has pointed out that “Senior people primarily work normal office hours. But a large number of severely injured people arrive when most of the senior people are not in the hospital".[1]
In 2009 he was appointed by the Department of Health as the National Clinical Director for Trauma Care and in 2012 he was appointed as National Director for Acute Episodes of Care to NHS England.
He undertook a review of England’s accident and emergency departments in 2013 and said he would be unhappy if one of his own relatives was admitted to hospital over the weekend – because of a shortage of consultants. He said patients at weekends were essentially treading water with no progressive treatment or diagnostics and few options to be discharged.[2]
He was said to be the 14th most prominent clinical leader in England by the Health Service Journal in October 2014.[3]
Willett was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours.[4]
References
- ↑ "The nation's new Trauma Tsar". Oxford Times. 5 February 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ↑ "'I would worry if my family was taken to hospital at weekends': NHS boss admits he is concerned about staffing levels". Dail Mail. 20 October 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ↑ "Clinical leaders 2014". Health Service Journal. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 61450. p. N10. 30 December 2015.