Jonathan Fielden


Jonathan Mark Fielden is an anaesthetics and intensive care consultant. He is a former medical director of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and former Director of Specialised Commissioning NHS England.
His first consultant post was at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. He was chairman of the Central Consultants and Specialists Committee of the British Medical Association, he also served as the secondary care specialist on the governing body of Aylesbury Vale Clinical Commissioning Group.
Fielden chaired the CQC team which assessed Hinchingbrooke Hospital ran by Circle Health Ltd as "inadequate" leading to the trust being put into special measures in 2014. He was appointed director of specialised commissioning at NHS England in October 2015. Subsequently, he was reckoned by the Health Service Journal to be the 49th most influential person in the English NHS in 2015..
Fielden was arrested in December 2016 on suspicion of voyeurism. He was suspended by the General Medical Council in January 2017.. Fielden was convicted of this offence in June 2019 and given a suspended sentence. He was erased from the register - "struck off" - by the MPTS in January 2020.

Personal life

His early education was at the independent Bedford School, Bedford and completed his medical degree at the University of Bristol. He married Christine Mundin, head of media at the British Medical Association in 2010 divorced 2019.