Peter Dickson

Peter qualified at Manchester in 1974 and worked as a GP principal in both Doncaster and Ilkley where he developed a longstanding involvement in GP education. In 2000, he commenced work for Bradford Health Authority and set up an inner city GP recruitment and retention scheme to attract GPs to work in inner city Bradford from where he was seconded to the Department of Health (DH) as GP Recruitment Adviser in 2005-06.

Peter was Medical Director of NHS Bradford and Airedale from 2006-2010, a post which included responsibility for clinical quality and safety together with practitioner performance issues. He was closely involved with the DH/GMC Affiliate pilot scheme in West Yorkshire as part of revalidation and following partial retirement to South Wales in 2010 is working at NCAS as a Senior Policy Adviser.

His role there includes senior stakeholder engagement, input into NCAS’ educational activities and assessment reports. Peter is also the Responsible Officer for the NHS Litigation Authority and has responsibility for managing the Health Professional Alert Notice system across the UK.