Sir Liam Donaldson
GGI Good Governance Award 2017
Sir Liam Donaldson was honoured by GGI with the Good Governance Award in 2017 for his contributions to clinical and quality governance and patient safety.
He has a long and distinguished career as a clinician, as an NHS managerial leader, and within public health. The UK smoking ban was introduced on his watch, for example. His work on patient safety is well-known both within the UK, where his report, ‘Organisation with a Memory’, set out the agenda for the next two decades of patient safety policy.
Internationally, he’s renowned for his exceptional work with the World Health Organisation. GGI’s lifetime achievement award recognises his visionary leadership in developing clinical governance. Not only did Sir Donaldson introduce this concept into the NHS, but he also developed it into what has become the statutory ‘Duty of Quality’ placed on all NHS boards.
