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Stephen John Field (born 22 June 1959) is a general practitioner and Chief Inspector of General Practice at England's Care Quality Commission. He chairs the Department of Health's National Inclusion Health Board. He is Honorary Professor of Medical Education at the University of Warwick and Honorary Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Birmingham.
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Education
He studied at the University of Birmingham, obtaining a medical degree in 1982.
Career
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 & Education", in Boston, USA. He was Regional Postgraduate Dean for the NHS West Midlands Workforce Deanery. He was a judge for the 2011 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
From 2007-2010 he was Chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). In 2011 he was appointed to lead the NHS Future Forum, an advisory group that David Cameron convened when Andrew Lansley's NHS shakeup became a political liability. He worked as Deputy Medical Director for NHS England from 2012-2013.
CQC role
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 NHS 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.
Honours
He has also received honorary degrees from English universities. In 2011 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science at Keele University.
Personal life
Field is married to Lynn (née Kennedy), formerly the nurse director of the Birmingham Cancer Network and the couple have twin daughters.