Lewis Ritchie

In January 2018 he was named as the chair of a review of urgent care services in Skye, Lochalsh and Wester Ross. Interim findings were published a few months later.

In 2017 he was named as chair of a group of independent advisers, charged with looking at NHS Tayside's financial difficulties and to report to Scottish Government within a three month period.

In January 2015, the Scottish Government announced him as the chair of a review into Out-of-hours services. Ritchie said that to inform the review he had talked to doctors, patients, ambulance staff and NHS 24 workers. Ten months later, his report made 28 recommendations.

In 2014 he was appointed chair of Council of the Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS).

Ritchie retired from practicing medicine in 2012. To mark the occasion he bought the Julia Park Barry, a lifeboat that had been used to save hundreds of people before being taken out of service in 1969. He gifted it to the community.

He was made OBE in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2016.

In the 2011 New Year Honours he was made Knight Bachelor for services to the NHS in Scotland. He was invested on 5 July 2011.

Ritchie was appointed the James Mackenzie Professor of General Practice at the University of Aberdeen in 1992. In 2012 he was appointed director of Public Health in NHS Grampian.

Sir Lewis Duthie Ritchie OBE FRSE FRCSE FRCPE FRCPSG FRCPG FFPH FBCS FRSA CEng (Computing) CITP (born June 1952) is a Scottish medical doctor who worked as a general practitioner (GP) and medical researcher. He is the James Mackenzie Professor of General Practice at the University of Aberdeen and holds honorary professorships at the University of Edinburgh and the University of the Highlands and Islands.