Medical Career
Prior to becoming full-time NHS Medical Director in November 2007, Keogh practised as a cardiac surgeon with a special interest in reconstructive mitral valve surgery.
He served as Senior Lecturer/Consultant at the Hammersmith Hospital and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School from 1991-1995. He then moved to Birmingham where from 1997 - 2003 he was Associate Medical Director of University Hospital Birmingham before being appointed Professor of cardiac surgery at University College London and Director of Surgery at The Heart Hospital in 2004.
Keogh has been active on many medical and professional committees. He has been secretary and president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland, Secretary General of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and president of the Cardiothoracic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and served on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Board of Directors of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons in the US.
Prior to becoming Medical Director of the National Health Service he served on the National Coronary Heart Disease Taskforce, the NHS Standing Medical Advisory Committee, and was chairman of the NHS Information Taskforce on Clinical Outcomes for the Department of Health. He has also served as Commissioner on the Commission for Health Improvement and the Healthcare Commission.
Keogh's role is in transition. He is currently NHS Medical Director in the Department of Health where he leads the Medical Directorate which has oversight for clinical policy and strategy in the NHS. This role has also included until recently oversight of the medicines supply chain in to the UK, policy relating to the pharmaceutical industry, drug pricing, prescriptions and the role of pharmacy in England and sponsorship of the work programmes of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA). Through Medical Education England he has oversight of postgraduate education of doctors, dentists, pharmacists and clinical scientists. The Medical Directorate in the Department of Health will close at the end of March 2013 and most functions will transfer to the new NHS Commissioning Board where Keogh is the National Medical Director. Responsibilities relating to the pharmaceutical industry and medical education will remain in the Department of Health.
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