New Crumlin Hospital Group: Dr Pollock

Dr Pollock

Dr Ronnie Pollock, MA.MB.BChir(Cantab)FFPHM

Dr Pollock has been a Partner in MPA International Health Strategy & Planning since 1992, following a distinguished clinical and managerial career in the British National Health Service.

He was educated at Cambridge, and held posts in Medicine, Surgery, Trauma Services, and Radiotherapy at the Middlesex Hospital, London (a University Teaching Hospital), prior to becoming a General Surgeon in Inverness, Scotland.

Moving into Public Health Medicine with the Oxford Regional Health Authority, he developed particular expertise in the organization and delivery of Pathology and Imaging services.

He became Director of Planning and Regional Director of Public Health Medicine and was, for many years, principally responsible for the planning and organization of comprehensive healthcare services for the 2.7 million population of the Region.

Subsequently as Regional Medical Officer and Director of Public Health Medicine, he also handled the procedures for the appointment, development, assessment, and discipline of senior doctors, and for dealing with clinical complaints.

Dr. Pollock has extensive experience in strategic planning, and was responsible for introducing the methodology into the British National Health Service. He also developed a national health strategy for the Government of the Lebanon, following the end of the civil war.

Additionally he has wide international experience in facilities planning, having been a consultant on over sixty projects, spanning fifteen countries, and embracing every type of facility from community hospitals to major teaching hospitals.

He has also been active in promoting the development of Health Services Research in the UK, and created the Health Services Research Unit in Oxford University. His personal research has been in changing patterns of healthcare delivery, on the impact of future organizational structures, and on the hospital of the 21st century.

Dr. Pollock has been extensively involved in lecturing, principally on the management of healthcare, within the Oxford Region, nationally with the Department of Health, and with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he held a Secretary of State's Fellowship. He also designed and initiated a Management Development Program for senior clinicians, in association with Templeton College, Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and is President of the Section of Epidemiology and Public Health.

His consultancy expertise and key interests focus around the following four themes:

Health Needs Analysis
Strategic Planning & Hospital Planning
Service Development
Creative problem Solving

Dr. Pollock has homes both in San Francisco and London, and has acquired an excellent knowledge of both European and American health care challenges and opportunities.

He is committed to improving the strategic planning and organization of health care services and has experience of not-for profit and private health care services.