Michael Dixon (doctor)

Michael Dixon LVO, OBE, MA, FRCGP was chair of the NHS Alliance from 1998 to 2015 and is a past President of NHS Clinical Commissioners. He also chairs the College of Medicine. He is a Visiting Professor at University College London and the University of Westminster and National Clinical Champion for Social Prescribing (NHS England).

He studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford University before studying medicine at Guy’s Hospital. He is Senior Partner at College Surgery in Cullompton, Devon, where he has practiced as a GP since 1984. In 2007 he and his GP partners in Cullompton, Devon created the “Culm Valley Integrated Centre for Health”, which has been seen as a model for the future of general practice and was rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission in 2015.

His national appointments have included membership of the National Leadership Network for Health and Social Care, the National Stakeholder Forum and National Steering Group for GP Commissioning. He is an Honorary Senior Fellow in Public Policy at HSMC University of Birmingham, Honorary Senior /Lecturer in Integrated Health at the Peninsula Medical School.

He has been active in the commissioning movement since the early 1990s, when he co-founded the Mid Devon Family Doctors Commissioning Group. Since then he has campaigned for the right of GPs and practices to have a role in improving local health and services and been a prime mover in developing GP commissioning models that will allow them to do so. He sat on the National Executive of the National Association of Commissioning GPs (NACGP) - founded in 1993, and was a co-writer of its document “Restoring the Vision” (1997), which was commissioned by the then Minister of Health, Alan Milburn. When NACGP became NHS Alliance in 1998, he was elected Chairman and has continued in this role by annual election until he announced his retirement in 2015. He is a frequent speaker and national advisor on GP commissioning and co-author of a number of books and chapters in this area (e.g. The Locality Commissioning Handbook (1998, Radcliffe Press) and A Practical Guide to Primary Care Groups and Trusts (2001) Radcliffe Press).

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