Clifford Mann MBBS, FRCP, FCEM

Dr. Mann joined NHS England and NHS Improvement in 2016 following several years as President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. During his time in senior national leadership roles at NHS England and NHS Improvement, he has passionately worked to improve the treatment of all patients who need urgent & emergency care. Dr. Mann played a key role in the development of new clinical standards for urgent and emergency care currently part of a consultation by NHS England.

He spearheaded the rollout of Same Day Emergency Care – a new model of urgent care which continues to enable many thousands of patients to get the right tests and treatments quickly, reducing the need for people to be admitted to the hospital. As clinical co-chair of the emergency medicine Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) program he also worked hard to improve standards of care in A&E across the country. Throughout his national work, he continued to practice as a consultant in emergency medicine at the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 New Year’s Honours list for services to emergency medicine.