Rajeev Shah

Rajeev has been a primary and community care doctor for over 20 years. This has given him a broad clinical knowledge base and a deep understanding of the healthcare sector.

At Health Innovation East, he assisted the delivery of the organisation’s national innovation programme in primary care. Rajeev is also a technical consultant and mentor for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology in Brussels and a member of the NIHR’s i4i committee, which seeks to support funding for SMEs designing medical devices, in vitro diagnostics and MedTech. He will shortly be representing the NHS Innovation Accelerator at the World Health Organisation’s roundtable discussions on public health innovation.

Alongside his operational and service leadership roles, he contributes to national healthcare policy through several advisory positions. He chairs workstreams for the UK government’s Department of Health and Social Care and the Centre for Guidelines at NICE, and has served on committees spanning evidence-based medicine, health technology, and quality standards.

Regulatory experience has included being a Specialist Advisor and inspection team member for the CQC, the independent regulator of health and social care in England. He also continues to work as a Clinical Advisor for the PHSO, which make final decisions on complaints that have not been resolved by the NHS and UK government departments.

Rajeev is currently Clinical Director for Community Health Services with East London Foundation Trust, a Trust which has had considerable strength in Quality Improvement (QI) and co-production. Prior to this appointment, he was Clinical Lead for the HUC-London Ambulance Service Partnership during the pandemic and a GP Partner. His clinical work is in Urgent & Emergency Primary Care. Major transformational projects (with colleagues) have included: the delivery of a 200-bed technology-enabled virtual ward; substantially improving flow and evolving systems through an intermediate care ward; and the development of the 2-hour urgent community response, which included the award-winning integrated access to the ambulance response.

Rajeev studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and subsequently underwent further training in Healthcare Innovation. He also gained further expertise in strategy, marketing, entrepreneurship and MedTech through completing a Healthcare MBA. He was honoured to have his MBA dissertation abstract selected by the World Health Organisation for presentation at its symposium in Copenhagen.