# Muir Gray

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{{short description|British physician}}
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'''Sir John Armstrong Muir Gray''' {{post-nominals|CBE|}} {{post-nominals|list=[FRCPSGlas](/source/Royal_College_of_Physicians_and_Surgeons_of_Glasgow)}} {{post-nominals|list=[FCLIP](/source/Chartered_Institute_of_Library_and_Information_Professionals)}} is a British physician, who has held senior positions in [screening](/source/Screening_(medicine)), [public health](/source/public_health), [information management](/source/information_management). and value in healthcare. He was the [Chief Knowledge Officer](/source/Chief_knowledge_officer) for EXI, a digital health therapeutic company prescribing exercise to people with or at risk of up to 23 long-term health conditions, and is Chief Wellbeing Officer for Learning with Experts, a health related online learning company working with the NHS.

He was director of Research and Development for Anglia and Oxford [Regional Health Authority](/source/List_of_NHS_Regional_Health_Authorities_(before_1996)) and supported the United Kingdom Centre of the [Cochrane Collaboration](/source/Cochrane_Collaboration) in promoting [evidence-based medicine](/source/evidence-based_medicine). He held the positions of director at the [UK National Screening Committee](/source/UK_National_Screening_Committee), during which he helped pioneer Britain's breast and cervical cancer screening programmes,<ref name="nhschoices">{{cite web|url=http://www.nhs.uk/news/Pages/SirMuirGraysBiography.aspx|title=What is Behind the Headlines?|publisher=NHS Choices|accessdate=2009-11-07}}</ref> and [National Library for Health](/source/National_Library_for_Health), and director of Clinical Knowledge Process and Safety for the [NHS National Programme for IT](/source/NHS_National_Programme_for_IT).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://decisionaid.ohri.ca/isdm2005/bio-gray.html|title=J A Muir Gray|publisher=Ottawa Health Research Institute|accessdate=2009-11-07}}</ref>

He was [knighted](/source/Knight_Bachelor) in 2005 for the development of the foetal, maternal and child screening programme and the creation of the National Library for Health.<ref name="nhschoices"/>

He was the director of the National Knowledge Service and Chief Knowledge Officer to the [National Health Service](/source/National_Health_Service), a Director of the healthcare rating and review service [iWantGreatCare](/source/iWantGreatCare) and helped found the [http://www.Sustainablehealthcare.org.uk Centre for Sustainable Healthcare].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6355257.ece|title=Climate change is the cholera of our era|last=Gray|first=Muir|date=2009-05-25|work=The Times|accessdate=2009-11-07}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

In 2006 he developed the NHS's framework for value (triple value). He was then the founding Director of the NHS Rightcare<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.england.nhs.uk/rightcare/|title=NHS RightCare|website=www.england.nhs.uk|access-date=2019-01-14}}</ref> programme, trying to change the culture of the NHS to become a higher value organisation. He published many influential Atlases of Variation. He then left to found Better Value Healthcare, and then the Oxford Centre for Triple Value Healthcare, a mission driven social enterprise.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.3vh.org/|title=Oxford Centre for Triple Value Healthcare|last=3vh|website=3vh|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-01-14}}</ref>

He is also one of the original authors of the [IDEAL framework](/source/IDEAL_framework) for surgical innovation.<ref>McCulloch P, Altman DG et al. "No surgical innovation without evaluation: the IDEAL recommendations." Lancet. 2009 Sep 26;374(9695):1105-12. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61116-8.</ref>

==Selected books==

* {{cite book|last=Gray|first=Muir|title=Sod 70!|publisher=Bloomsbury Press|year=2015|isbn=978-1472918970}}
* {{cite book|last=Raffle|first=Angela E|author2=J.A. Muir Gray|title=Screening: Evidence and practice|publisher=OUP Oxford|year=2007|isbn=978-0-19-921449-5}}
* {{cite book|last=Gray|first=J.A. Muir|title=How to Get Better Value Healthcare|publisher=Offox Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1-904202-01-1}}
* {{cite book|last=Gray|first=Muir|title=The Resourceful Patient|publisher=eRosetta Press|year=2001|isbn=978-1-904202-00-4}}
* {{cite book|last=Pencheon|first=David|author2=Charles Guest |author3=David Melzer |author4=J. A. Muir Gray |title=The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2001|series=Oxford Handbooks|isbn=978-0-19-263221-0}}
* {{cite book|last=Gray|first=J.A. Muir|title=Evidence-based Healthcare|publisher=Churchill Livingstone|year=1996|isbn=978-0-443-05721-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/evidencebasedhea0000gray}}
* {{cite book|last=Gray|first=J.A. Muir|title=PM The PM System Preventive Medicine for Total Health Identify Your Symptoms and Prevent Illness|publisher=Arrow Books|year=1989}}
* {{cite book|last=Many|first=D.C.|author2=J. A. Muir Gray|title=Building Regulations and Health|publisher=IHS BRE|year=1987|isbn=978-0-85125-236-0}}
* Muir Gray (2016). mid life. Penguin Random House.

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