It has been announced today that Professor Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard DBE has been appointed to the position of Chief Medical Officer for Health, New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, and will leave University of Birmingham to start her new role in October 2024.
Helen is currently a Non-Executive Director at NHS England, a Professor of Medical Education at the University and a frontline NHS GP. She also sits on the External Oversight Group to the National AI Security Institute.
She was the Chair of the UK Academy of Medical Colleges (2020-23), throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as remaining a frontline NHS General Practitioner and was awarded a DBE for services to General Practice in 2022.
Helen is also a trustee at Macmillan Cancer and founding Chair of the National Academy for Social Prescribing, where she is actively involved in shaping the direction of social prescribing — establishing an academic foundation for the movement and forming alliances to increase its impact globally.
Helen has worked at the University of Birmingham for many years and her expertise in general practice and in all aspects of the NHS have proved to be essential for shaping how and what we do as educators.
