Gillian Leng

Gillian Catherine Leng CBE is a British health administrator, academic, visiting professor at King's College London and the former Chief Executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), where she was responsible for several programmes and guidelines including the guidelines on COVID-19.

Gillian Leng

CBE
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Leeds
Known forFormer Chief Executive, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
RelativesPaul Cosford (spouse)
Medical career
ProfessionPhysician
FieldPublic health
Institutions

She has been involved in the Cochrane collaboration since its foundation, and has worked on clinical trials and epidemiological research in public health medicine. She also teaches at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.

Education

Gillian Leng gained her medical degree from the University of Leeds in 1987, having previously gained a degree in physiology.[1][2] She completed her house jobs at St James's University Hospital and subsequently moved to Scotland to work as a senior house officer in cancer care and in accident and emergency.[2] She received her MD in 1994.[2]

Career

Leng has been involved in the Cochrane collaboration since its foundation.[3] She worked on clinical trials and epidemiological research in Edinburgh, and in London as a consultant in public health medicine.[4]

She became Deputy Chief Executive at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in 2007.[5] In April 2020, during the first COVID-19 lockdown, she succeeded Andrew Dillon as the CEO of NICE.[5][6] There, she oversaw the creation of new guidelines on COVID-19.[6] Previously she was responsible for the initial set up and running of NICE's clinical guidelines programme, for establishing the NICE implementation function, and for setting up NHS Evidence.[1][5] Her other roles included being responsible for the NICE accreditation programme, guideline development in social care, and the NICE programmes of indicators and quality standards.[5]

She is visiting professor at King's College London, and teaches at NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.[5][7]

Awards and honours

Leng was awarded a CBE in the 2011 Birthday Honours.[8] She was appointed honorary librarian at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, in 2017.[9]

Personal and family

She married Paul Cosford in 2006.[10] Following his death in 2021, she announced her retirement from NICE,[11] where Samantha Roberts succeeded her on 1 February 2022.[12][13]

Selected publications

Articles
  • Leng, GC; Fowkes, FGR (February 1993). "The Epidemiology of Peripheral Arterial Disease". Vascular Medicine Review. vmr-4 (1): 5–18. doi:10.1177/1358863x9300400102. ISSN 0954-2582. S2CID 77748948.
  • Cosford, Paul A.; Leng, Gillian C.; Thomas, Justyn (18 April 2007). "Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2): CD002945. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD002945.pub2. ISSN 1469-493X. PMID 17443519.

Books

References
  1. "Professor Gillian Leng CBE (The University of Manchester)". www.festivalofpublichealth.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  2. Davies, Emma (2022). "Leeds Alumni Magazine | Guiding light". magazine.alumni.leeds.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  3. "Professor Gillian Leng CBE". International Festival of Public Health. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  4. "Gillian Leng" (PDF). British Medical Medical Journal. 13 December 2014.
  5. "NICE appoints Professor Gillian Leng as new chief executive". www.nationalhealthexecutive.com. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  6. Robinson, Julia (30 December 2020). "Gillian Leng: 'COVID-19 has been a strain, but also an opportunity'". The Pharmaceutical Journal. Archived from the original on 11 January 2021.
  7. "Gillian Leng". sph.nus.edu.sg. NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  8. "Five minutes with ... Prof Gillian Leng, deputy chief executive of Nice | Healthcare Professionals Network". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  9. "Professor Gillian Leng announced as RSM Honorary Librarian | The Royal Society of Medicine". www.rsm.ac.uk. 15 May 2017. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  10. Gregory, Andrew (15 August 2021). "'My husband had a bad death — he suffered. It shouldn't be like that'". Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  11. "Professor Gillian Leng to retire as NICE Chief Executive". Guidelines. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  12. Taylor, Phil (20 December 2021). "Samantha Roberts to replace Gillian Leng as CEO of NICE -". pharmaphorum.com. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  13. "Dr Samantha Roberts starts work as NICE CEO today. | News and features | News". NICE. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.

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