David Oliver

David has been an NHS doctor since 1989 and consultant Physician since 1998. He is the current elected clinical vice-president of the Royal College of Physicians, leading the Care Quality Improvement Directorate. David is a visiting fellow at The King's Fund and visiting Professor at City University, London, alongside his clinical job as an NHS consultant in geriatrics and general internal medicine at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust where he led and developed services for several years. He was formerly a consultant and clinical director in south London.

He was president of the British Geriatrics Society until 2016 and Department of Health National Clinical Director for Older People until 2013. David writes professionally for medical and general publications, including since 2015 his weekly “acute perspective” column in the BMJ and blogs regularly for the King’s Fund. Academically, he has published more than 120 research papers, reviews book chapters and editorials.