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Mark Britnell is Visiting Professor at the new Global Business School for Health at UCL and Senior Fellow and Executive-in-Residence at the Sandra Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He was vice chair of KPMG UK until the end of December 2022 and before that was Global Chairman and Senior Partner for Healthcare, Government and Infrastructure at KPMG International.
He is one of the foremost global experts on healthcare systems and has dedicated his entire professional life to healthcare, having led organisations at local, regional, national and global levels.
In 2000, Mark was appointed Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham, where he masterminded the largest new hospital build in NHS history, established the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and developed one of the highest performing healthcare organisations in the UK.
He went on to run the NHS South Central region before joining the NHS management board as Director General at the Department of Health, where he developed High Quality Care for All, the final report of the NHS Next Steps Review, with Lord Darzi.
Between 2014 and 2018, Mark sat as a member of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Health Sector for the World Economic Forum and sits on the Advisory Board of the China Center for Health Development at Peking University. Mark is the author of In search of the perfect health system and Human: solving the global workforce crisis in healthcare.