Sheona Macleod
Sheona Macleod is a Scottish physician. She was chair of the Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans (COPMeD), lead for Health Education England’s deans, and the postgraduate medical dean in the East Midlands. In 2025, she is the director of education and training for NHS England. Macleod delivered the Royal College of General Practitioners' 2021 William Pickles Lecture, a lecture normally about medical education.
Life
Macleod studied at the University of Glasgow, and trained as a GP in Paisley.[1] Macleod has been a General Practitioner in Ashbourne, Derbyshire since 1989, and also worked as an occupational health advisor, a clinical assistant in a community hospital, and as a Medical Officer for Her Majesty's Prison Service.[2][3] She was appointed GP dean for the East Midlands in 2009,[4] and in 2012, was appointed Postgraduate Dean at East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery,[2] part of Health Education East Midlands.[5] She led the Health Education England working group on enhancing the working lives of junior doctors.[4] In 2017 she was appointed as Deputy to the National Medical Director.[3] In 2025, she is now the National Director of education and training for NHS England.[3]
Macleod was awarded an honorary professorship from the University of Nottingham in 2016.[6] Macleod delivered the Royal College of General Practitioners' 2021 William Pickles Lecture, The Future Doctor — touching hearts and minds.[7][8]
Macleod cites Vicky Osgood, a clinician and educationalist, as her inspiration, in a Women in Medicine project by the Royal College of Physicians.[4]
References
- ↑ Chappell, Roy. "Professor Sheona MacLeod - COPMeD". www.copmed.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "News archive : East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery". www.eastmidlandsdeanery.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Sheona MacLeod - London 2024". London 2024 - International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare site. 2024-02-29. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Women in medicine: Sheona Macleod and Vicky Osgood". RCP London. 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
- ↑ "The Deanery - About us : About us : East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery". www.eastmidlandsdeanery.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
- ↑ "LIST OF HONORARY PROFESSORS - SESSION 2016-17" (PDF). 2017-02-02. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ↑ MacLeod, Sheona (2021-11-01). "RCGP William Pickles Lecture 2021: The Future Doctor — touching hearts and minds". British Journal of General Practice. 71 (712): 520–521. doi:10.3399/bjgp21X717641. ISSN 0960-1643. PMC 8544150 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 34711571 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ RCGP. "RCGP awards". www.rcgp.org.uk. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
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