Dr Jeremy Tuck

I am a doctor with 40 years’ experience and have developed a track record of excellence in clinical, leadership and management roles.  I am an exceptionally experienced leader, seasoned diplomat, expert planner, successful negotiator, accomplished influencer, powerful advocate and skilled communicator. I can lead and facilitate change as well as deliver existing models and targets.

I have led teams and groups ranging in size from a mobile GP surgery, through mobile casualty departments with surgical teams up to entire, end to end care pathways in complex, multinational settings. In particular, I led the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court, which managed the rehabilitation of exceptionally complex trauma cases.

I am committed to clinical governance and see it as the golden thread that runs through healthcare. It identifies good practice and also services that need to be brought up to standard. It identifies risk, can inform the investment process and highlights training priorities. I honestly do not know why people are so resistant to it.

Leadership Roles of Note:

From February 2022 to date, I have been then Director of Health and Wellbeing at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the home of the Chelsea pensioners where I am responsible for the delivery of all services that help the In Pensioners live their best lives from the moment they first apply to join our community to the end of their days.

In the latter part of 2018, I was the Medical Advisor and medical commander at the NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps.

From 2014 to 2015, I was Medical Advisor and medical commander to the UK Task Force leader of the UK deployed healthcare system during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and worked with numerous multinational players from Government Departments and NGO communities.

From 2012 to 2014, I was the leader of a complex group of Army Medical Units that provided a matrix of pre-hospital care, forward surgery and ambulance evacuation to deployed forces in combat.

From 2011 to 2012, I was the Medical Advisor and medical commander of the deployed medical system in Afghanistan which included the world renowned, multinational Bastion Trauma Hospital.

From 2008 to 2011, I led the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre through a period of expansion and service delivery remodeling at the same time turning around the organization that was deemed to be failing.

From 2000 to 2003, I led a Medical Regiment which provided primary care, pre-hospital emergency care and, retrieval and evacuation of casualties from the battlefield to field hospitals. During this time, I deployed with the Regiment on operations in Iraq.

Management Roles of Note:

From 2019 to January 2022, I was the Assistant Medical Director for the Powys Teaching Health Board. I led the model of care working group transforming health and social care delivery across Powys. I was the Senior Responsible Officer for a collaboration with MacMillan Cancer Support to improve the patient cancer journey. I introduced, at pace, a major enhancement enabling more effective professional to professional communication. I provided clinical advice to our commissioning, planning and operations teams. I was the Deputy Responsible Officer for appraisal and revalidation of all Doctors in the health board. I was the chair of the Powys Individual Patient Funding Request Group and sat on the same group at the all Wales level. I was also a member of several all Wales groups and regional service transformation committees; for example the South Wales Thoracic Surgery Transformation Program and the North Wales Radio Therapy Transformation Group.

From 2015 to 2018, I was the Chief of Staff to the Director of Medical Policy, Operations and Capability in the UK Ministry of Defence. I coordinated all Directorate outputs covering; medical policy; managing medical and healthcare issues related to the support of deployed UK forces; commissioning and procurement of services and equipment; delivering medical innovation, research and learning; ensuring risk and governance systems were aligned; keeping a highly complex and very high value medical information system program on track.

From 2005 to 2008, I led the Defence Medical Policy Team. This was a group of experts delivering all policy covering public health, occupational medicine, medical administration, pharmacy, therapeutics, equipment and research.

Qualifications:

• MBBS (University of London (The London Hospital))
• MRCGP
• MSc (Public Health) (University of London (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine))
• FFPHM(I)
• FFPH
• FIHM