Consultant Acute Physician National Clinical Director – Infection management, AMR, Deterioration National Specialty advisor- Sepsis National Clinical Lead- COVID oximetry/virtual wards Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust NHS England and NHS Improvement

Matt is an Acute physician at Hampshire Hospitals, professor at the University of Southampton & Clinical Director for digital at Wessex AHSN.

His roles NHS England are as National Clinical Director for Infection management/Sepsis, AMR and Deterioration; for Virtual wards/COVID oximetry@home.

He developed/lead on national COVID clinical pathways in all settings/policy/evidence in all settings and collaborated with the WHO.

He is currently:

• Developing integrated infection assessment hubs and virtual wards linked to both diagnostics and therapeutics to optimally manage infections in out of hospital settings.
• improving processes in the recognition, escalation, communication and response to the deteriorating patient
  • developing  the soft signs of deterioration and collaborating on ReSTORE2
• standardising the country to using NEWS2, and leading on its CQUIN

HSJ awards in sepsis 2019, deterioration 2020 and safety 2021