Dr Ben Lobo FRCP

Ben is an active clinician involved in the treatment and rehabilitation of patients with complex needs and often coexisting high frailty. Ben has been up to recently the lead clinician for his local Trust for End of Life Care and Mortality, alongside other clinical management responsibilities. Ben has worked in community and hospital settings. Ben is a trained Medical Examiner and has extensive experience in medico-legal issues.

Ben took up his role as a Regional Medical Examiner in September 2019 and is committed especially to building on his work driving improvements in clinical outcomes for frail or vulnerable patients and promoting wider involvement in person and family centred care and care for the dying.

Ben has studied at Harvard, Quality Improvement at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, and Leadership at Harvard Business School. He is an experienced clinical leader and has also been a successful corporate executive medical director and has led or been involved with many local, regional and national guidance, public campaigns, professional, quality and regulatory standards in End of Life including the NHS End of Life Care Programme, General Medical Council, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, NHS Improving Quality. He has international experience and published articles, and texts including the recent 2^nd   edition of “Advance Care Planning in End of Life Care,” Oxford University Press. He has also published a peer-reviewed articles on the role of the Medical Examiner.

Ben is keen to share his family background of being Anglo-Indian and is proud to attend and support events of culture and faith.