Part of the Inside Evidence-Based Health Care series, providing an insight into Oxford University’s part-time postgraduate programme in Evidence-Based Health Care.

Muir Gray has worked for the NHS in England since 1972, occupying a variety of senior positions during that time, including being the first person to hold the position of Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS (England). Together with Sir Ian Chalmers, Muir was instrumental in establishing the Cochrane Collaboration. An internationally renowned authority on healthcare systems, Muir now leads the Value Based Healthcare programme in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and coordinates the Healthcare Value accredited short course.