Harrison Carter

Experience

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  General Medical Council

  Sept 2013 - Sept 2018

  Education and Training Advisory Board

  Providing advice to the director of medical education and standards at the GMC alongside senior leaders in healthcare, royal college presidents and the chair of the medical schools council on initiatives and policies launched by the GMC to improve UK medical education.

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  British Medical Association

  Sept 2013 - Sept 2019

  Member of the Negotiations Reference Group working to support negotiations with NHS Employers and Government to review the 2016 terms and conditions of service for junior doctors in the U.K. The 2016 contract was accepted by 82% of junior doctors in a 2019 referendum taking them out of a historical and protracted period of dispute. Education and training subcommittee representing juniors doctors to Health Education England, the General Medical Council, other doctor training organisations and government. Direct involvement in the first review of the foundation programme in its 15 year history which paved the way for newly created Foundation Priority Programmes and Psychiatry Foundation Fellowships. Work on flexible training, improving junior doctor’s working lives, study budgets, special circumstances and medical and dental recruitment across the U.K. Show less BMA Council Member 2013-2018 BMA Non-executive Director 2013-2014National BMA Spokesperson 2013-2018UKMED Advisory Board 2013-2018Selecting for Excellence Group 2013-2016Medical Schools Council 2013-2018BMA Strategic Ref Group 2013-2018Lead negotiator with UK Government on policy pertaining to medical students. Frequent and direct contact with Ministers, MPs and special advisors from across the political spectrum. Worked on landmark reports on widening access, GP recruitment and reforming training. Secured assurances from government about international doctor’s visas in the U.K. Supported EU students coming to study in the UK in the transition period leading up to BREXIT. Helped establish five new medical schools in the UK. Show less

  • UK Junior Doctors Committee Executive Member

    Sept 2013 - Sept 2019

  • UK Medical Student's Committee Chairman

    Sept 2013 - Sept 2018

  • Member of UK Council

    Sept 2013 - Sept 2018

  • Non Executive Director

    Sept 2013 - Sept 2014
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  Health Education England

  Sept 2017 - Mar 2018

  Medical Expansion Assessment Panel

  A panel including the chair of the Office for Students, Chief Executive of Health Education England and Chief Medical Officer for Wales tasked by the then Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, to appraise applications from existing and new medical schools to expand their student numbers to create more doctors.

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  Guy's and St Thomas'​ NHS Foundation Trust

  Aug 2018 - Aug 2020

  Academic Nephrology: Quality Improvement Fellow in Renal and Transplant Renal Medicine SHO: Renal and pancreas transplant service at tertiary transplant centre, Guy's HospitalGeneral Nephrology for patients with end-stage renal failure on dialysis with inter-current illnessThoracic surgery out of hours on-callEmergency Medicine:Extended 8 month placement to work as part of CoVid-19 pandemic response Awards and Publications:Winner of the South Thames Foundation School Clinical Excellence AwardPublished audit on chest x-rays post drain removal in oesophagectomy patients Rotations:Care of the Older Person General Surgery: Upper Gastrointestinal and Emergency General Surgery Ambulatory Emergency Care

  • Academic Foundation Year 2 Doctor

    Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

  • Academic Foundation Year 1 Doctor

    Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
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  UK Foundation Programme Office

  Sept 2018 - Sept 2019

  Foundation Programme Executive Board

  The group with executive oversight of the first post-graduate programme that approximately 8000 newly qualified doctors enter in the U.K. each year.

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  King's College London

  Sept 2018 - Aug 2020

  Undergraduate Faculty Member

  Lectures on the Acute Medicine course for final year undergraduate medical students. Supporting students transitioning to FY1. Bedside ward based teaching of medical students.

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  University of Bristol

  Aug 2019 - Aug 2023

  Member of University Court
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  NHS England

  Aug 2020 - now

  Currently Chief of Staff across two Directorates responsible. Whilst retaining the Chief of Staff role in the Vaccinations and Screening Directorate I am now also Chief of Staff to the Chief Delivery Officer (who retains his role as National Director for Vaccinations and Screening). Support the Executive National Director and an additional Senior Leadership Team that are responsible for HR, legal, governance, Covid-19 Inquiry, cybersecurity, system transformation, provider development, strategic delivery, privacy, transparency, ethics, corporate operations and creating the new NHS England. Show less Responsibility for ensuring the smooth functioning of a Directorate that is responsible for the delivery of 30 major programmes in England, including seasonal, routine and outbreak response/ pandemic/ countermeasure vaccination programmes. This includes managing all clearance processes in the directorate relating to media and publications, all ministerial, parliamentary and very senior stakeholder engagement, and co-ordinating the operational response to policy development and prevailing independent scientific advice. Observer member of the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisations. Directly report to the Executive National Director and am directly responsible for a private office team. Show less Senior role in the Private Office of the National Director for Covid-19 and Flu Vaccination Deployment. Responsible for managing private office activities including relationships with the wider NHS and into Government (DHSC and No10). Co-ordinated briefing materials and 'products' alongside other private offices across Whitehall in preparation for regular meetings with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Prime Minister. Was at the heart of the response to the Omicron variant co-ordinating the covid-19 booster surge campaign. Present for and managed all of the National Directors activities to lead one of the most successful vaccination efforts in history and that has shaped the world that we live in today. Show less Senior role in the Private Office of the National Director for Covid-19 and Flu Vaccination Deployment. Responsible for managing private office activities including relationships with the wider NHS and into Government (DHSC and No10). Co-ordinated briefing materials and 'products' alongside other private offices across Whitehall in preparation for regular meetings with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Prime Minister. Was at the heart of the response to the Omicron variant co-ordinating the covid-19 booster surge campaign. Present for and managed all of the National Directors activities to lead one of the most successful vaccination efforts in history and that has shaped the world that we live in today. Show less

  • Chief of Staff, Delivery and Vaccinations and Screening

    Apr 2023 - now

  • Chief of Staff, Vaccinations and Screening

    Mar 2022 - Apr 2023

  • Strategic Clinical Advisor to Dame Emily Lawson

    Nov 2021 - Mar 2022

  • Strategic Clinical Advisor to Professor Sir Keith Willett

    Aug 2021 - Oct 2021

  • National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow in Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response

    Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
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  University of London

  Jun 2022 - now

  MBA Module Lead and Online Tutor