Terence Stephenson

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Sir Terence John Stephenson, FRCP (born December 1957) is a Northern Irish consultant paediatric doctor and chair of the Health Research Authority (HRA). He is also the Nuffield Professor of Child Health at University College London (UCL) and chair of NHS Providers.

Early life

He was born in Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.[1] He was educated at Larne Grammar School.[2] He attended the University of Bristol, Imperial College London, University of Oxford and University of Nottingham.[3]

Career

Stephenson was dean of the Medical School and Professor of Child Health at the University of Nottingham from 2003 to 2009.[4] In 2009 he became the Nuffield Professor of Child Health at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.[5] He was President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from April 2009 until May 2012; in 2011 the college published ten national standards, Facing the Future: Standards for Paediatric Services. This was the first time the college committed to a set of standards for all children receiving inpatient care or assessment across the UK.[6]

He then took up the role of chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in July 2012.[3]

He became a member of the General Medical Council in 2009.[3] In September 2014 it was announced that he would become the chair of the GMC, succeeding Peter Rubin on 1 January 2015.[7][8]

In October 2014 it was announced that he had been appointed as a panel member for the Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.[9]

In September 2019 he was appointed chair of the Health Research Authority, succeeding Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery.[10]

In April 2020 he was appointed as a vice-president of The Academy of Experts.

He has co-authored textbooks, written invited chapters and editorials, and published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in academic journals.[4] He has been described as leading by example.[11]

Throughout 2021 and 2022, Stephenson researched the effects of COVID-19 on British teenagers in a study named CLoCk (Children & young people with Long Covid).[12][13]

Since February 2025, he has been the chair of NHS Providers.[14]

Awards and honours

By March 2016, ten honorary fellowships had been bestowed on Stephenson from colleges in the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong and Australia.[15][16] In November 2014 he received an honorary fellowship from the Royal College of General Practitioners.[1] In May 2015 he was elected a fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine.[17]

Stephenson was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to Healthcare and Children's Health Services.[18]

References

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  3. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Campbell, Denis (24 July 2012). "The doctors' leader who says it's time to make tough decisions on the NHS". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
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  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Professor Terence Stephenson: new Nuffield Professor of Child Health" (Press release). University College London. 16 April 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Professor Terence Stephenson". Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Archived from the original on 1 May 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nash, Sally (9 September 2014). "Royal college chief appointed as new chair of GMC". Pulse magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Professor Terence Stephenson to take up new role as Chair of the General Medical Council" (Press release). Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. 5 September 2014. Archived from the original on 12 November 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Written statement to Parliament: Child sexual abuse (Woolf Inquiry)". UK Government. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."New Chair for the Health Research Authority". Health Research Authority. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stephenson, T. (28 May 2014). "Terence Stephenson: Leading by example". BMJ. 348 (7959): 864. doi:10.1136/bmj.g3465. PMID 24871314. S2CID 45312451.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stoppard, Miriam (17 October 2021). "'New study could help children and young people suffering from long Covid'". Mirror.co.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."£18.5 million to tackle long COVID through research". Gov.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Professor Sir Terence Stephenson is next chair of NHS Providers". NHS Providers. 7 November 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The 2016 stevens lecture: the gmc as a 21st century patient safety organisation". Royal Society of Medicine. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Honorary Fellows of the Academy of Medical Educators". Academy of Medical Educators (AoME). Retrieved 18 April 2022.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Criteria for Honours, Awards and Prizes" (PDF). Faculty of Pain Medicine, Royal College of Anaesthetists. 18 June 2015. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
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