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Tim Briggs (surgeon)
British surgeon
Professor Timothy William Roy Briggs, CBE FRCS (born December 1957) is an orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH), chairman of the Federation of Specialist Hospitals, Chair of the Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance and a former president of the British Orthopaedic Association.
Early life
Tim Briggs was born in December 1957. He qualified at the Royal London Hospital in 1982.[1]
Career
Briggs was appointed a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in 1992.[2] He was medical director at the RNOH for 15 years.[1] He is chairman of the Federation of Specialist Hospitals and a former president of the British Orthopaedic Association.
He was appointed National Director for Clinical Quality and Efficiency by Jeremy Hunt in October 2015.[3] When appointed he said that surgical patients were at risk of infections because