Dr Gillian Rachel Ford (born 1934), also known as Gill, is a retired British medical administrator.

Biography

Ford studied medicine at the

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and

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, qualifying in 1959, and then undertook a number of junior medical roles. She subsequently obtained work with the Department of Health and Social Security, rising to the position of deputy

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in 1977. She was Director of Studies at

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from 1985 to 1999, where she worked on the development of palliative care and hospice medicine. From 1989 to 1990 she was also Chief Executive at the Standing Committee on Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education, and from 1990 to 1997 she was medical director of

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. Following formal retirement, she sat as a member of

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Appeals Tribunals for

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appeals and others. She maintained her involvement with Christopher's Hospice as a volunteer and trustee, and served as a

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nominee on the

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. She was invested as a

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(CB) in the

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, and is a

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(FRCP) and a

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(FFPH). She married the historian and journalist Norman MacKenzie in 1988. He died in 2013.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ford, Gillian 1934 births Place of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Faculty of Public Health Companions of the Order of the Bath 20th-century British medical doctors Alumni of the University of Oxford British civil servants