Surgeon-General (United Kingdom)

Surgeon-General of the British Armed Forces
Incumbent
Martin Bricknell
since 2018
Defence Medical Services
Inaugural holder Nigel Mills
Formation 1990
Website Defence Medical Services

The Surgeon-General (SG) is the senior medical officer of the British Armed Forces; the post is held by the senior of the three individual service medical directors.

The Surgeon General is the Defence Authority for Healthcare within the Defence Medical Services Department which is the headquarters for the Defence Medical Services.

As of 2018 the Surgeon-General is Martin Bricknell, an Army Officer.[1]

List of Surgeons-General since 1990

RankNamePost nominalsYears in office
Air MarshalSir Nigel MillsKBE, QHP, FRCGP, FRCP1990–1991[2]
Lieutenant GeneralSir Peter BealeKBE, QHP, FRCP1991–1994[3]
Surgeon Vice AdmiralAnthony RevellCB, QHS, FRCS1994–1997[4]
Air MarshalSir John BairdKBE, DL, QHS, FRAeS, FRCPE1997–2000[5]
Lieutenant GeneralRobert MenziesCB, OBE, QHS2000–2002[6]
Surgeon Vice AdmiralIan JenkinsCB, CVO, CStJ, QHS, FRCS2002–2006[7]
Lieutenant GeneralLouis LillywhiteCB, MBE, CStJ, QHP, FRCP2006–2009[8]
Surgeon Vice AdmiralPhilip RaffaelliCB, CStJ, QHP, FRCP2009–2012[1]
Air MarshalPaul EvansCB, OStJ, QHP2012–2015[9]
Surgeon Vice AdmiralAlasdair WalkerCB, OBE, OStJ, QHS, FRCS2015 – 2018[10]
Lieutenant GeneralMartin BricknellQHP2018 –

References

  1. 1 2 "Ministry of Defence: Defence Medical Services". Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  2. ↑ ‘MILLS, Air Marshal Sir Nigel (Holroyd)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 Who was Who, accessed 26 April 2011
  3. ↑ Letters to the Editor 15 Mar 2007 The Telegraph
  4. ↑ Gulf War Illnesses Archived 2011-10-09 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ Winds of Destruction Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ Lieutenant General RC Menzies (b. 1944) Kilmarnock Academy
  7. ↑ Obituary The Telegraph
  8. ↑ Louis Lillywhite MOD
  9. ↑ Defence Medical Services, Ministry of Defence
  10. ↑ "No. 61488". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 February 2016. p. 1994.
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