Dr Ramani Moonesinghe FRCP

Professor Ramani Moonesinghe OBE Ramani was appointed as deputy national medical director at NHS England earlier this year. Previously, she was the national clinical director for critical and perioperative care at NHS England since 2020 and was interim director of patient safety in 2025. During the Covid pandemic, Ramani provided clinical leadership for the national critical care response in the English NHS. She is clinical co-chair of the Sepsis Modern Service Framework (MSF) published in 2026, and provides medical leadership for the overall MSF programme. Ramani has spent her entire postgraduate career working in the NHS, training predominantly in London and working as a consultant in anaesthetics, perioperative and critical care medicine at University College London Hospitals (UCLH). She remains Professor of perioperative medicine at UCL, where she leads a broad portfolio of research developing and evaluating interventions to improve quality of healthcare and reduce health inequalit