Jonathan Michael

Sir Jonathan Michael received a knighthood in the New Years Honours list on 1 January 2005.

From 2000 to 2007 he was the chief executive of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust where he received his medical training, qualifying in 1970, before his 20-year career as a clinical nephrologist. He spent much of his medical career at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, before becoming first medical director and chief executive of University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust.

In 2007 he became the head of British Telecom's Health division. In 2010 it was announced that he would be moving back into the NHS as Chief Executive of Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust.

He announced in 2014 that he would be leaving the trust and is to become the chief medical officer of the 6PM Group, an IT software firm.

In January 2016 he was appointed to provide independent oversight of plans for a “single hospital service” in Manchester.