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Dr Mike Jones is a Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust having previously fulfilled this role in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh between 2006 and 2012 He was also Consultant Physician and Deputy Medical Director in NHS Tayside 1992-2006. His first consultant appointment was in 1992 as a Renal Physician. He is formerly Director of Training for the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) having previously also been Vice President. 

He is a Past President of the Society for Acute Medicine and a founder member. He was central to guiding Acute Medicine to specialty status and inaugural chair of its Specialist Advisory Committee. He is National Clinical Lead for Acute and General Medicine in the Getting It Right First Time programme.  

Dr Stuart Hood has been a Consultant Cardiologist at NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde since 2000. He has been an examiner for MRCP(UK) for 15 years and was a member of the Cardiology Specialty Question Group from 2007-2012. He served as Director of Medical Examinations at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 2012-2016. Stuart was then appointed Medical Secretary of the Clinical Examining Board in 2016 before taking the role of Associate Medical Director for clinical exams in 2019. 

He was also heavily involved in the development and introduction of PACES23, and became Medical Director for Assessment in January 2024.