Dr Gillian Leng CBE, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Health and Social Care
Gillian Leng is the Deputy Chief Executive at NICE, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Gillian trained in medicine at Leeds, and then spent several years researching the epidemiology of peripheral vascular disease at Edinburgh University. She was involved in the Cochrane Collaboration as it first became established, and still contributes as an editor to the EPOC Group (Effective Practice and Organisation of Care). She specialised in public health medicine, and worked as a consultant before moving to NICE in 1991.
At NICE, Gillian has been responsible for the initial set up and running of the clinical guidelines programme, for establishing the NICE implementation function, and for setting up NHS Evidence. More recently she has been responsible for the transfer of the National Prescribing Centre into NICE, for establishing the NICE accreditation programme, and for new work on Quality Standards across health and social care.
This page was last updated: 26 March 2012
