Surgeon-General (United Kingdom)

The Surgeon-General is the senior medical officer of the British Armed Forces; the post is held by the senior of the three individual service medical directors.

The Surgeon General (SG) is clinical director of the DMSD which is the headquarters for the Defence Medical Services. It is a Joint Service organisation with personnel from all three services and Ministry of Defence Civil Servants working together to ensure “Provision of strategic direction to the Defence Medical Services to ensure coherent delivery of all medical outputs".

The current Surgeon-General is Surgeon Vice Admiral Philip I Raffaelli.^[1]

List of Surgeons-General (1990-present)

• Air Marshal Sir Nigel Mills KBE (1990-1991)^[2]
• Lieutenant-General Peter Beale (1991-1994).^[3]
• Surgeon Vice-Admiral Anthony Revell CB (1994-1997)^[4]
• Air Marshal John Baird (1997-2000)^[5]
• Lieutenant-General Robert Menzies CB OBE (2000-2002)^[6]
• Surgeon Vice-Admiral Ian Jenkins CB CVO (2002-2006)^[7]
• Lieutenant-General Louis Lillywhite CB MBE (2006-2009)^[8]
• Surgeon Vice-Admiral Philip Raffaelli (2009-)^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Ministry of Defence: Defence Medical Services MicroSite". http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/MicroSite/DMS/. Retrieved 2010-02-10. 
2. ^ ‘MILLS, Air Marshal Sir Nigel (Holroyd)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 26 April 2011
3. ^ Letters to the Editor 15 Mar 2007 The Telegraph
4. ^ Gulf War Illnesses
5. ^ http://www.therli.com/iframe/SHP_books1_1.asp
6. ^ Lieutenant General RC Menzies (b.1944) Kilmarnock Academy
7. ^ Obituary The Telegraph
8. ^ Lillywhite MOD

External links

• "The emerging office of the Surgeon General", Lieutenant Colonel Robert L Pearce, Australian Defence Force Health Journal, April 2002