Michael Adrian Richards
Professor Sir Michael Adrian Richards, CBE, MD, DSc (Hon), FRCP (born 14 July 1951) is a leading British oncologist. From 1999 to 2013 he was the National Cancer Director in the UK Government's Department of Health.[1]
He was appointed to be the Chief Inspector of Hospitals in the Care Quality Commission on 31 May 2013.[2] and was said by the Health Service Journal to be the third most powerful person in the English NHS in December 2013.[3]
Richards attended the Dragon School in Oxford,[4] and Radley College.[5]
Richards is an expert on cancer.[6][7] He was an Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) research fellow in medical oncology at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London (1982–86), and then an oncology consultant at Guy's Hospital in London (1986–95), becoming a Reader in 1991.[8] He was clinical director of Cancer Services at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London (1991–99) and Sainsbury Professor of Palliative Medicine at St Thomas' Hospital from 1995. He was head of the Academic Division of Oncology at King's College London from 1998–99 and chair of the National Cancer Research Institute from 2006–08.[citation needed]
He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 1993, Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR) in 2000, and Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPHM, now FFPH) in 2002.[8] He received his CBE in 2001 and his knighthood in 2010. In 2014 he received a Cancer Research UK Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been a trustee of the Science Museum in London and Marie Curie Cancer Care.[citation needed]
When interviewed by The Independent in January 2014 he said "We have seen variation. There is variation between the best hospitals we’ve seen and the ones that are struggling… What is interesting is that within an individual hospital there is variation. The maternity service might be very good but the A&E service might require improvement."[9]
He was reckoned by the Health Service Journal to be the third most influential person in the English NHS in 2015.[10]
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