Jon Glasby is Professor of Health and Social Care and Director of the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham. A qualified social worker by background, he is engaged in regular research and policy advice around the future of health and social care. He is a former board member of the Social Care Institute for Excellence and is currently a non-executive director of Birmingham Children's Hospital. He also leads the first MSc degree in public service commissioning of its kind in the UK, as well as a series of MSc programmes for National Health Service commissioners.