Ian Bullock PhD

Ian is currently chief Executive officer at the National Clinical Guideline Centre (NCGC) at the RCP. He is operationally responsible for the NCGC, and has expertise in evidence-based healthcare, research and development (including quality improvement), critical care clinical practice, and clinical and higher education.

Ian is involved in strategic and operational planning at national and international levels with the RCP, and is responsible for a large funded research programme on behalf of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), with a particular focus on the development of national clinical guidelines as source guidance for quality standards. The main focus of this work is evidence translation and utilisation, establishing standards for practice and the interpretation of these into quality markers.

Ians career focus is on making a difference, using education and research to improve the quality of patient care and experience. Ian is executive lead for education at the Resuscitation Council (UK), a fellow of the Health Foundation (Quality Improvement and Leadership), an associate fellow of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the School of Health and Social Studies at the University of Warwick, and has also fulfilled advisory roles at the Department of Health.