Professor Simon Gregory

Simon is Medical Director, Integrated and Primary Care, Workforce, Training and Education (WT&E), NHS England (formerly Health Education England). He has WT&E responsibility for Primary Care, including GP Specialty Training, Dental training, Digital Learning, Retention, Urgent and Emergency and the Educator Workforce Strategy.

He was previously Director and Dean of Education and Quality (DEQ), Health Education England (HEE), Midlands and East and HEE Lead for Primary Care, prior to that the Postgraduate Dean East of England and before that GP Dean, East Midlands.

Simon is a GP and has been Royal College of General Practitioners Trustee, Council member and Provost of the Leicester Faculty.

Simon chairs the University of Cambridge, Military Education Committee (MEC).

In addition to being a Fellow in Clinical Medicine at Homerton College Simon is Honorary Professor at Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia (UEA), and Visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU). Simon conceived and was Clinical Director and Vice Chair of the NHS Commission on staff and learner mental wellbeing and he continues to advocate for staff and learner wellbeing support. His current interests include the quality of education, training and care and health outcomes and performance, and differential attainment. His past research includes selection methodology, and “value-added” in medical education.

Simon also serves as a Clinical Associate Non-executive Director at Nottingham University Hopsitals NHS Trust.  He is a Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Northamptonshire and his hobbies include being a season ticket holder at Northampton Saints RFC, woodturning, reading and 5k runs.