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Chair, General Medical Council |
| Biography |
Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen is Chair of the GMC, appointed in May 2022.
Carrie has been a member of Council since January 2021 and served as Acting Chair from August 2021 to May 2022.
Carrie is a consultant ophthalmologist for NHS Tayside and Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee. She served as Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges between 2017 and 2020 and is Past-President of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.
Carrie has served on several committees in support of education, training and assessment of healthcare professionals and NHS committees regarding service re-design for medical services. She is a trustee of the Moorfields Eye Charity. She chaired the Trustee Board of the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership until the end of 2023, and she was a member of the council of the University of Exeter.
Carrie was specialty ophthalmology advisor to the Scottish Chief Medical Officer for over a decade and led the Scottish Eyecare Workstream, ceasing this role in June 2022. She was the clinical co-lead for the ophthalmology ‘Getting It Right First Time’ programme and the Eye Care Recovery and Transformation Programme for NHS England/Improvement. She was also chair of the multiprofessional subcommittee of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.
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