He served as president of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2004 to 2006. Being the president of the Royal College of Pathologists he has also the role of vice-chairman of the Academy of the Medical Royal Colleges. In 2004, with the difference of three months he became medical director of the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) and the president of the Royal Society of Medicine At the moment he works as strategic advisor to the National Research Ethics Service.
