John Knighton MBBS

John spent three years gaining general medicine experience before training in intensive care medicine and anesthesia in the South West and Wessex. He spent a year as a visiting instructor at the University of Michigan Hospital before taking a post in intensive care medicine and anesthesia at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust at the start of 2000.

He led the design of our state-of-the-art critical care facilities and was one of the clinical team leading on design for the whole hospital. He was Clinical Director for the Department of Critical Care from 2010-to 2016, during which it was rated as “Outstanding” by the CQC.

He has been a CQC Specialist Advisor for acute hospital inspections and has a long-held passion for improving patient safety and quality of services, championing an open and learning culture based on strong multi-disciplinary team working.