Clifford John Mann (1962 – 20 February 2021) was a British Emergency Medicine physician, and President of the

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2013–2016, becoming the first President of Royal College of Emergency Medicine when the organisation.

Career

Mann graduated from the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in London in 1986. He took up a consultant postition the

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, Somerset. Mann was registrar of the College of Emergency Medicine 2010–2013, then became President in 2013. In March 2015, the College was granted the use of the word Royal in its title. Mann had been an outspoken critic of some government policies. In 2017 he was appointed joint lead of the Getting It Right First Time programme for Emergency Medicine 2017, a set of aligned initiatives to improve standards of care across England. In 2016 he became a NHS National Clinical Director for Urgent and Emergency Care. In 2017 and in 2020, the

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included Mann in their lists of the most influential people in Health.

Personal life

Mann had an oesophageal cancer diagnosis and died age 58 at his home in Somerset on 20 February 2021. Tributes were paid to Mann by NHS England’s Chief Executive Simon Stevens.

Honours

Mann was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the

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list for services to emergency medicine.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mann, Clifford 1962 births 2021 deaths Alumni of Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School British emergency physicians Officers of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century British medical doctors 21st-century British medical doctors Deaths from cancer in England