David Oliver (doctor)
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David Oliver {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MA|MD|FRCP}} is a British physician specialising in the geriatric medicine and acute general internal medicine. He was President of the British Geriatrics Society from 2014 to 2016. He is Visiting Professor of Medicine for Older People in the School of Community and Health Sciences at City University London and a King's Fund Senior Visiting Fellow. He was formerly the UK Department of Health National Clinical Director for Older People's Services from 2009 to 2013. He is a researcher, writer, teacher and lecturer on services for older people and a regular blogger, columnist and media commentator. He was elected as Clinical Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians, London. In April 2022 he was elected as president of the Royal College of Physicians but withdrew in July 2022 after he had contracted Covid 19 and "no longer felt able to do it justice".{{cite news |title=David Oliver: My personal pandemic experience is just one of many |url=https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o1761 |access-date=25 July 2022 |publisher=British Medical Journal |date=20 July 2022}}
Early life and postgraduate clinical training
He attended a state primary school, Northern Moor and Northenden in Manchester. He then attended Manchester Grammar School{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/15/david-oliver-old-people-not-burden-british-geriatrics-society |title= Guardian Society > Interview > David Oliver: Older People are Not A Burden |first=Kate |last=Murray |website=The Guardian |date=15 October 2014 |accessdate=24 December 2014}} before studying medicine at The Queen's College, Oxford and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.{{Cite tweet |number=1254494928899579910 |user=mancunianmedic |title=i am a @TrinityHallCamb graduate and i cannot remember now if there were Wisteria there |access-date=2020-10-05 |language=en |url=https://twitter.com/mancunianmedic/status/1254494928899579910 |website=Twitter}}
Senior clinical role
He gained his Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in (General Internal and Geriatric Medicine) London in 1998. He initially worked in South London then from 2004 he held a General Internal Medicine position in Reading, now part of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust,{{cite web |url=http://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/wards-and-services/hurley-ward.htm |title=Wards and services: Elderly Care: Hurley Ward |publisher=Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust |accessdate=2 February 2015}}
Academic and research activities
Oliver began his research career whilst a registrar at St Thomas' Hospital in London. He gained his research doctorate from the University of London in 2001. He was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social care at the University of Reading from 2004 to 2009 alongside his consultant contract at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. He has been involved with City University London.{{cite press release |url=http://www.city.ac.uk/news/2014/nov/city-academics-contribute-to-report-on-the-frail-elderly |title= City academics contribute to report on the frail elderly |publisher=City University London |date=19 November 2014 |accessdate=2 February 2015}} He is a visiting professor at the University of Surrey.{{cite web |url=http://www.surrey.ac.uk/healthsciences/people/visiting/professor_david_olive.htm |title=School of Health Sciences: People: Visiting staff: Professor David Oliver |publisher=University of Surrey |accessdate=2 February 2015}}
National leadership and advisory roles
Alongside his clinical work Oliver was on secondment to the Department of Health from 2009 to 2013, first as specialist clinical advisor leading the national programme of work on Falls and Bone Health{{cite web |url=http://www.nos.org.uk/document.doc?id=987 |title=Report to the Minister of State for Care Services: Breaking through. Better services for people with Falls and Fractures in England |publisher=Age UK and National Osteoporosis Society |date=February 2012 |accessdate=20 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801150723/http://www.nos.org.uk/document.doc?id=987 |archive-date=1 August 2014 |url-status=dead }} and then as National Clinical Director for Older Peoples Services.{{cite web |url=http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/MinistersandDepartmentLeaders/Nationalclinicaldirectors/DH_116075 |archiveurl=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120104134605/www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/MinistersandDepartmentLeaders/Nationalclinicaldirectors/DH_116075 |date=8 August 2011 |archivedate=4 January 2012 |title=Professor David Oliver, National Clinical Director for Older People |publisher=Department of Health (United Kingdom)}} In his government role he developed national policies around the care of older people, advised Ministers and officials and provided assistance to other clinicians with their own local services. He stood down to take on his role as BGS President-Elect, when National Clinical Director roles moved from the Department of Health to NHS England.
He became President of the British Geriatrics Society, in November 2014, having been appointed for a 2-year period.{{cite web |url=http://www.bgs.org.uk/index.php/trustees-board/2945-trustee-david-oliver |title=About us: Trustees Board and Officers: David Oliver |publisher=British Geriatrics Society |date=12 June 2014 |accessdate=24 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225011620/http://www.bgs.org.uk/index.php/trustees-board/2945-trustee-david-oliver |archive-date=25 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}
Opinions, media and commentary
Since July 2015 he has written a weekly freelance column for The BMJ called "Acute Perspective". Oliver has written blogs for the King's Fund, The BMJ website,{{cite web |url=http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/category/david-oliver/ |title=BMJ Blogs. David Oliver |publisher=BMJ |accessdate=20 June 2015}} the British Geriatrics Society and guest blogs for other sites such as the Nuffield Trust. He writes regular opinion pieces for the Health Service Journal and BMJ and others in the national and professional press. He regularly comments on services for older people in print and broadcast media. He has appeared on BBC 1 (The Big Questions, News); BBC News Channel, BBC Radio 4 and 5 and BBC World Service, on Sky News and on numerous local radio stations. He has been quoted in The Independent, The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mirror and Daily Mail. He was written for several other outlets in professional and general press.
He is a senior visiting fellow at the King's Fund.{{cite web |url=http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/about-us/whos-who/david-oliver |title=Who's who: David Oliver. Visiting Fellow |publisher=King's Fund |accessdate=24 December 2014}} In 2014, he was the lead author of the keynote Kings Fund Paper "Making Health and Care Systems fit for an Ageing Population".Oliver D, Foot C, Humphries R. Making our health and care systems fit for an ageing population. Kings Fund. March 2014. At http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/making-our-health-and-care-systems-fit-ageing-population He was also one of the commissioners for the Health Service Journal "Commission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People".{{cite web |title=Health Service Journal/ Serco Commission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People |date= November 2014 |url=http://www.hsj.co.uk/Journals/2014/11/18/l/q/r/HSJ141121_FRAILOLDERPEOPLE_LO-RES.pdf |publisher=Health Service Journal |accessdate=2 February 2015}} He has campaigned on discrimination against older people {{cite journal |first=David |last=Oliver |title='Acopia' and 'social admission' are not diagnoses :why older people deserve better |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |date=April 2008 |volume=101 |number=4 |pages=168–174 |url= |doi=10.1258/jrsm.2008.080017|pmid=18387906 |pmc=2312388 }} in the British National Health Service, against the attitude being that the person is old and there is nothing that can be done about it. He challenges plans for large reductions in older people in acute hospitals,{{cite journal |doi=10.1136/bmj.g5538 |pmid=25249450 |title=Preventing hospital admission: We need evidence based policy rather than "policy based evidence" |journal=BMJ |volume=349 |pages=g5538 |year=2014 |last1=Oliver |first1=D |s2cid=206903341 }} saying it is "absolute la la land to think we’re going to be in a situation any time soon where older people don’t still keep piling through the doors of general hospitals."{{cite news|title=Ex-older people's tsar criticises out of hospital obsession |first=Sarah |last=Calkin|url=http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/policy/ex-older-peoples-tsar-criticises-out-of-hospital-obsession/5055956.article#.VHNeo_msUk4|accessdate=24 November 2014|work=Health Service Journal|date=11 March 2013}}{{subscription required}}{{cite journal |doi=10.1136/bmj.g6297 |pmid=25338499 |title=David Oliver: Pet hate--privatisation by stealth |journal=BMJ |volume=349 |pages=g6297 |year=2014 |last1=Oliver |first1=D |s2cid=36286855 }} He has also written about the need to focus more on healthy ageing,{{cite news |first=David |last=Oliver |work=The Guardian |date=6 August 2014 |title=Ageing well. Whose responsibility is it? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/06/ageing-well-whose-responsibility |accessdate=22 March 2015}} to make health and care professionals better trained in the care of older people.{{cite journal |doi=10.7861/clinmedicine.12-3-230| pmc=4953484 |title=Transforming care for older people in hospital: Physicians must embrace the challenge |journal=Clinical Medicine |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=230–234 |year=2012 |last1=Oliver |first1=D | pmid=22783773 |doi-access=free }} He has criticised the large NHS spend on management consultancy {{cite journal |doi=10.1136/bmj.g7243 |pmid=25491703 |title=Stop wasting taxpayers' money on management consultancy for the NHS |journal=BMJ |volume=349 |pages=g7243 |year=2014 |last1=Oliver |first1=D |s2cid=44374593 }} and pushed the case for NHS staff to learn more from other organisations within the NHS,David Oliver HSJ 28 October 2014. Why no-one is responsible for ensuring best practice in hospitals. At
http://www.hsj.co.uk/comment/frail-older-people/why-no-one-is-responsible-for-ensuring-best-practice-in-hospitals/5075988.article criticised the idea that more aggressive regulation and inspection and "accountability" can bring about quality improvement in services David Oliver. HSJ 15 January 2014 More accountability and regulation could punish the system at http://www.hsj.co.uk/comment/more-accountability-and-regulation-could-punish-the-system/5066958.article and attacked contestible but prevalent "groupthink" and oft repeated "factoids" from the health policy "commentariat" David Oliver. HSJ 5 August 2014 beware false solutions to the NHS challenges. At http://www.hsj.co.uk/comment/beware-the-false-solutions-to-the-nhss-challenges/5073477.article and made the case for improving the care for older people in nursing homes rather than pretending no-one will ever need or want to be admitted to one.David Oliver. Kings Fund Blog. Admission to a nursing home can never be a never event. At http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2014/08/admission-nursing-home-can-never-become-never-event
Awards and honours
In 2014, he was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top 100 Clinical Leaders in England{{cite news |url=http://www.hsj.co.uk/resource-centre/supplements/clinical-leaders-2014/5075983.article |title=Clinical Leaders 2014 |first1=Shreshtha |last1=Trivedi |first2=Claire |last2=Read |work= Health Service Journal |date=21 October 2014|accessdate=2 February 2015}} and as one of the top 50 Leaders in Integrated Care.{{cite web |title=Care Integration Top 50 leaders revealed |url=http://www.hsj.co.uk/resource-centre/supplements/the-care-integration-top-50-revealed/5071853.article |publisher=Health Service Journal |first=Nick |last=Golding |date=13 June 2014|accessdate=26 December 2014}}
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