Muir Gray

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|known_for = UK National Screening Programme, National Library for Health

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Sir John Armstrong Muir Gray {{post-nominals|CBE|}} {{post-nominals|list=FRCPSGlas}} {{post-nominals|list=FCLIP}} is a British physician, who has held senior positions in screening, public health, information management. and value in healthcare. He was the 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 and supported the United Kingdom Centre of the Cochrane Collaboration in promoting evidence-based medicine. He held the positions of director at the UK National Screening Committee, during which he helped pioneer Britain's breast and cervical cancer screening programmes,{{cite web|url=http://www.nhs.uk/news/Pages/SirMuirGraysBiography.aspx|title=What is Behind the Headlines?|publisher=NHS Choices|accessdate=2009-11-07}} and National Library for Health, and director of Clinical Knowledge Process and Safety for the NHS National Programme for IT.{{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}}

He was knighted in 2005 for the development of the foetal, maternal and child screening programme and the creation of the National Library for Health.

He was the director of the National Knowledge Service and Chief Knowledge Officer to the National Health Service, a Director of the healthcare rating and review service iWantGreatCare and helped found the [http://www.Sustainablehealthcare.org.uk Centre for Sustainable Healthcare].{{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}}

In 2006 he developed the NHS's framework for value (triple value). He was then the founding Director of the NHS Rightcare{{Cite web|url=https://www.england.nhs.uk/rightcare/|title=NHS RightCare|website=www.england.nhs.uk|access-date=2019-01-14}} 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.{{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}}

He is also one of the original authors of the IDEAL framework for surgical innovation.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.