David Rog
Salford Royal Hospital

Life is hard in the NHS at the moment, and clinicians could be forgiven for focussing on their own patients and services; there is no shame in this.

Dr Rog is different, however. Since I have known him, he has been passionate about helping all people with MS to access the very best in MS care.

Being passionate is one thing, but where Dr Rog is really worthy of recognition is in his ability to get things done.

He set up a collaboration with the MS register and, in an extraordinarily impactful research paper for the UK MS community, has shown that people in the highest quintile of socioeconomic disadvantage are 40% less likely to be prescribed a disease modifying therapy.

David could have left things at that, his academic legacy unchallenged, but he has used this data as a rallying cry to the MS community and, via his work with the “Raising the Bar” programme, has educated and supported MS clinical teams across the county to deliver the best care for all people with MS.

Many people have advanced the science of MS care, but it is a few people that have ensured that all people with MS, whatever their life chances, and wherever they live in the UK, are able to benefit from the best care.

It is for this reason that I consider David Rog to truly be an outstanding physician.

To read the Outstanding MS Physician case study including the solutions, results, and more. Click here and download the PDF or listen to pharmaphorum’s web editor Nicole Raleigh talking with David Rog here.

Thank you to this year’s QuDoS in MS programme sponsors, Novartis and Roche.