Professor Iqbal Singh receives OBE

Professor Iqbal Singh, consultant physician in medicine for older people, at Royal Blackburn Hospital and NHS East Lancashire, has been awarded an OBE for services to healthcare.

Professor Singh has been a leading contributor to healthcare and medical regulation in the UK - as founder commissioner of the Health Care Commission and as Council Member of the General Medical Council.

Professor Singh is a former chair of the Expert Reference Group on Patient Safety (which helped develop standards of assessment of safety in healthcare).

Medical vice chair of the Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards for the North West and governor of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Blackburn, are other prominent positions he has held. He has contributed to the development of healthcare, through the University of Bolton and other roles, for ethnic and culturally diverse communities nationally and internationally.

Professor Sir Peter Rubin, Chair of the GMC's Council, congratulated Professor Singh (on behalf of the Council) at the start of the last GMC Council meeting held on 18 July 2012.