Dr Tony Jewell is the Chief Medical Officer for Wales, and Director of
the Department for Public Health and Health Professions.
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) provides independent professional advice
and guidance to the First Minister and other Welsh Government ministers,
and to officials in the National Assembly for Wales on health and healthcare
matters.
The CMO:
Leads public health policy and
programmes, working across all National Assembly policy departments and with
a wide range of external partners, with the aim of improving health and
reducing health inequalities;
Leads the clinical contribution
in Wales
to improving the quality of healthcare and patient outcomes;
Leads the medical profession in
Wales,
having key roles in medical regulation, education and training, standards
and performance;
Maintains appropriate UK and international links, working with
other UK
Chief Medical Officers, government departments and organisations.
Dr Tony Jewell took up his appointment as Chief Medical Officer for Wales
in April 2006.
Dr Jewell was
previously Clinical Director and Director of Public Health
in the Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health
Authority. He was a family doctor ('general practitioner' or GP) in
inner London for 10 years before training in public health in East
Anglia.
He has worked in the Department of Health and is past President of the
UK Association of Directors of Public Health.
The BOA President meets periodically with the CMO to discuss trauma and
orthopaedic issues.
National Specialist Advisory Group for
Trauma and Orthopaedics
The Welsh Assembly Government is advised on trauma and orthopaedic
issues by a National Specialist Advisory Group [obtain
objectives from Declan O’Doherty please – he provided it for a
recent Council meeting I seem to recall]
For detail on the organisation of NHS Wales visit:
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure