Michael Dixon OBE is a British general practitioner in Cullompton, Devon where he has practised since 1989.
Since May 1998 he has been chair of the NHS Alliance which is a national representative organisation of Primary Care Trusts and the individual health professionals, managers and lay people within them.
His national roles have included membership of:- The National Quality Task Force, The Primary Care Workforce Review, The Cabinet Committee on Bureaucracy in General Practice, The National Demand Management “Think Tank” of the Modernisation Agency and The National Medicines Management Advisory Group. He was the medical director of The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health and has been attacked for advocating the use of complementary medicine. He is a member of the National Leadership Network for Health and Social Care, an Honorary Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the Health Services Management Centre, Birmingham University, and a Senior Lecturer at the Peninsula Medical School.
The Locality Commissioning Handbook (Radcliffe Press 1997),
The Human Effect (Radcliffe Press 2000)
A Practical Guide to Primary Care Groups and Trusts (Radcliffe Press 2000)
Practice-based Commissioning: From good idea to effective practice 2007
Co-author of many NHS Alliance documents including Restoring the Vision (1997) and Implementing the Vision (2000). As a Fellow of Exeter University, he had written a number of research papers on complementary medicine and the therapeutic relationship.