Rajeev Shah

Professor Rajeev Shah is a primary and community care doctor with over 25 years’ clinical experience, providing a broad clinical perspective and deep understanding of health systems.

He has held senior roles in health innovation and transformation, including supporting the national primary care innovation programme at Health Innovation East. He is a technical consultant and mentor for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) in Brussels and a former member of the NIHR i4i committee supporting the development of medical devices, diagnostics and digital health technologies. He represents the NHS Innovation Accelerator at the World Health Organization roundtable on public health innovation and is a Visiting Professor in health systems innovation at UWE Bristol.

His national advisory work spans healthcare policy, clinical guidelines and quality standards. This includes roles with the Department of Health and Social Care in medical devices and the NICE Centre for Guidelines. He has also contributed to evidence-based medicine, health technology assessment and national quality standards.

Rajeev brings regulatory experience from his work as a Specialist Advisor and inspection team member for the Care Quality Commission, and as a Clinical Advisor to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.

He is currently Clinical Director for Community Health Services at East London NHS Foundation Trust, a trust with a strong track record in quality improvement and co-production. Previously, he was Clinical Lead for the HUC–London Ambulance Service partnership during the COVID-19 pandemic and a GP partner in primary care. His clinical practice focuses on urgent and emergency primary care.

He has led major system transformation programmes including a 200-bed technology-enabled virtual ward, improvements to patient flow through intermediate care pathways, and the development of a two-hour urgent community response model with integrated ambulance access.

Rajeev studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and later undertook further training in healthcare innovation. He holds an MBA in healthcare, with additional expertise in strategy, entrepreneurship and medical technology. His MBA dissertation abstract was selected by the World Health Organization for presentation at its symposium in Copenhagen.