18 Facts About Tim Kelsey

Tim Kelsey was previously the first National Director for Patients and Information in NHS England.

Tim Kelsey was appointed National Information Director in health and care and chair, the National Information Board, in April 2014.

Tim Kelsey started his career as a journalist and went on to co-found Dr Foster in 2000, an organisation for publishing comparative hospital death rates and other measures of health quality.

Tim Kelsey was appointed visiting professor at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London in November 2015 and is co-author with Roger Taylor of "Transparency and the Open Society", which makes the case for transparency in public services and argues that it improves social and economic equity.

In 2007, Tim Kelsey was the architect and launch programme director of NHS Choices.

Tim Kelsey was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, between 1978 and 1983.

Tim Kelsey documented the use of chemical weapons against civilians during Saddam Hussein's campaign against the Kurds in northern Iraq in a series of articles in The Independent.

Tim Kelsey joined the launch staff of The Independent on Sunday in 1989 and covered the 1990 Gulf War as a combat pool reporter with British forces.

Tim Kelsey is author of Dervish: The Invention of Modern Turkey, a portrait of the country in the mid-1990s which was published by Hamish Hamilton in 1996 and Penguin Books the following year.

Tim Kelsey explained his motives in an article in the New Statesman magazine in 2001.

Since 2001, Tim Kelsey has overseen publication of a series of similar consumer guides to individual hospital consultants, maternity services, and complementary therapists among others.

In 2008, Tim Kelsey won the HealthInvestor award for Outstanding Contribution as an Individual to Healthcare for his work with Dr Foster.

Tim Kelsey was a trustee of the Nuffield Trust, a leading British policy think tank, and a commissioner of the 2020 Public Services Trust.

In 2009, Tim Kelsey was appointed a lay member of the National Quality Board of the NHS.

In May 2011, Tim Kelsey was asked by the British government to direct national policy on Transparency which is core to Prime Minister David Cameron's vision for public service reform.

Tim Kelsey argues that Transparency has the potential to enhance accountability, choice, productivity, and quality of service delivery; transform citizen participation in government; and drive economic growth.

Tim Kelsey led the development of 'Unleashing the Potential' - the White Paper on Open Data - which was published in June 2012.

Tim Kelsey was said by the Health Service Journal to be the seventeenth most powerful person in the English NHS in December 2013.