Sheona Macleod

Sheona Macleod is a Scottish physician. She was chair of the Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans (COPMeD), lead for Health Education England’s deans, and the postgraduate medical dean in the East Midlands. In 2025, she is the director of education and training for NHS England. Macleod delivered the Royal College of General Practitioners' 2021 William Pickles Lecture, a lecture normally about medical education.

Life

Macleod studied at the University of Glasgow, and trained as a GP in Paisley. Macleod has been a General Practitioner in Ashbourne, Derbyshire since 1989, and also worked as an occupational health advisor, a clinical assistant in a community hospital, and as a Medical Officer for Her Majesty's Prison Service. She was appointed GP dean for the East Midlands in 2009, and in 2012, was appointed Postgraduate Dean at East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery, part of Health Education East Midlands. She led the Health Education England working group on enhancing the working lives of junior doctors. In 2017 she was appointed as Deputy to the National Medical Director. In 2025, she is now the National Director of education and training for NHS England.

Macleod cites Vicky Osgood, a clinician and educationalist, as her inspiration, in a Women in Medicine project by the Royal College of Physicians.

Awards and honours

Macleod was awarded an honorary professorship from the University of Nottingham in 2016. In 2019, she was made an honorary fellow of FSEM.. She delivered the Royal College of General Practitioners' 2021 William Pickles Lecture, The Future Doctor — touching hearts and minds. She was awarded an honorary fellowship by the Academy of Medical Educators in 2021. In 2025, she was awarded Fellowship in surgery ad hominem by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

References

  1. ↑ Chappell, Roy. "Professor Sheona MacLeod - COPMeD". www.copmed.org.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  2. 1 2 "News archive : East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery". www.eastmidlandsdeanery.nhs.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 "Sheona MacLeod - London 2024". London 2024 - International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare site. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
  4. ↑ "Professor Sheona MacLeod: Postgraduate Dean". www.westmidlandsdeanery.nhs.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 "Women in medicine: Sheona Macleod and Vicky Osgood". RCP London. 3 October 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "The Deanery - About us : About us : East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery". www.eastmidlandsdeanery.nhs.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  7. ↑ "LIST OF HONORARY PROFESSORS - SESSION 2016-17" (PDF). 2 February 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  8. ↑ "About us > Honorary Fellows of FSEM". Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
  9. ↑ MacLeod, Sheona (1 November 2021). "RCGP William Pickles Lecture 2021: The Future Doctor — touching hearts and minds". British Journal of General Practice. 71 (712): 520–521. doi:10.3399/bjgp21X717641. ISSN 0960-1643. PMC 8544150. PMID 34711571.
  10. ↑ RCGP. "RCGP awards". www.rcgp.org.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
  11. ↑ "Honorary Fellowships". Academy of Medical Educators. 9 December 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
  12. ↑ "Congratulations to Dr Patrick Byrne and Professor Sheona MacLeod, who were both awarded Fellowship in surgery ad hominem at today's diploma ceremony! #RCSEdDiploma". Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Retrieved 21 October 2026 – via Instagram.