Chair: Scarlett McNally

Professor Scarlett McNally OBE is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Eastbourne, where she has worked since 2002 and now practises part‑time. Until February 2026 she was deputy director of the Centre for Perioperative Care, which provides free resources on reducing complications and improving team‑working. She is an honorary clinical professor at Brighton and Sussex Medical School and a BMJ columnist with 67 freely available articles.

She served on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2011 to 2021, becoming only the ninth woman to do so, and was president of the Medical Women’s Federation from 2023 to 2025. She has won awards for work on Doctors’ Assistants, aimed at reducing the administrative burden that can take up 44% of some doctors’ time. She is lead author of Exercise: the miracle cure and writes and speaks on exercise, health, empowerment, workforce, bullying, education, improving the NHS and valuing people.

Scarlett is a mother of four adults and lives with myeloma, cardiac amyloidosis, a stem cell transplant and two hip replacements, one as a day case. She is a 4th Dan karate black belt and an advocate for active travel. She coordinated the Bristol Declaration on health and transport and was named one of #100WomenInCycling 2024. She received an OBE in the King’s 2026 New Year Honours for services to medicine, surgery and the NHS.