Martin Marshall is Clinical Director and Director of R&D at the Health Foundation, an independent charity which aims to improve the quality of healthcare across the UK. He joined the Foundation in November 2007 from his previous role in the Department of Health as Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director General with responsibility for clinical quality and safety and medical education.

Prior to this he was Head of the Division of Primary Care and Professor of General Practice at the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester. He has worked as general practitioner for over 20 years, currently in an inner city practice in South London. He has written over 140 publications in the field of quality of care.

He is a fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and chairs the College’s Ethics Committee. He is also a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Faculty of Public Health Medicine and is a visiting professor at King’s College London, the University of Manchester and Peninsula Medical School.

He was a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy in 1998/99, based at the RAND Corporation, California and has advised health and professional bodies, governments and international organizations around the world. He is past-President of the European Society for Quality Improvement in Family Practice. In 2005 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, for Services to Health Care and in 2008 he was appointed as a commissioner for the new health and social care regulator, the Care Quality Commission.