Education
He studied at the, obtaining a medical degree in 1982.
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Career
He chairs the Department of Health"s National Inclusion Health Board. He is Honorary Professor of Medical at the University of Warwick and Honorary Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Birmingham. He was a general practitioner in Droitwich, Worcestershire from 1987 to 1997.
He moved to Bellevue Medical Centre in inner-city Birmingham in 1997 and continues to work there one day a week.
He has published academic papers, reports and books and he has presented papers at academic meetings around the world. He has been part of the invited faculty of the Harvard University’s Harvard Macy Institute programme "Leading Innovation in Healthcare & ", in Boston, United States of America. He was Regional Postgraduate Dean for the National Health Service West Midlands Workforce Deanery.
From 2007-2010 he was Chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). In 2011 he was appointed to lead the National Health Service Future Forum, an advisory group that David Cameron convened when Andrew Lansley"s National Health Service shakeup became a political liability.
He worked as Deputy Medical Director for National Health Service England from 2012-2013.
In August 2013 his appointment as the first Chief Inspector of General Practice was announced by the Care Quality Commission. These duties commenced in October 2014. Six weeks after taking up the role his views were described in an interview published by the Sunday Mercury.
He was said by the Health Service Journal to be the fourteenth most powerful person in the English National Health Service in December 2014.
As of 2015, Field was paid a salary of between £175,000 and £179,999 by the Care Quality Commission, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.
