Professor Martin Vernon
Martin is a Consultant Geriatrician working in Geriatric Oncology and Associate Medical Director (Neighbourhood Oncology) at The Christie hospital in Greater Manchester.
He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Chester since 2016 and is an affiliate of the Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA) (Barts Health Trust and Queen Mary University London) of which he led the development and launch in 2025.
Between 2016 and 2002 Martin was the National Clinical Director for Older people at NHS England leading on the contractual implementation of the electronic frailty index into general practice in England and the development of the national Ageing Well programme which now forms the foundations of Neighbourhood Health in England.
Martin is a specialist member of the NICE Indicators Advisory Committee, Chair of the Northwest Clinical Senate and has been Chair of the BGS Ethics and Law Special Interest Group in which role he has been the Society’s spokesperson on assisted dying.
His main interests are in clinical frailty, population ageing, health and social care policy in an ageing society and health care ethics and law towards the end of life.
