Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB
Dr Stephen Shortt, Deputy Medical Director (Primary Care) at NHS Nottingham & Nottinghamshire ICB, has been awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to General Practice in the New Year Honours List 2026.
Dr Dave Briggs, Executive Director of Outcomes (Medical) at NHS Nottingham & Nottinghamshire said:
“We are absolutely thrilled for Stephen. He is well known to his patients in East Leake, where he has worked as a GP since 1992 but during his career, his significant, positive influence has been and will continue to be felt much wider.
“A strategic thinker and passionate advocate for primary care, he has been an inspirational leader in the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire system for more than three decades. If we want to know what GPs are thinking or need advice on a problem affecting primary care, Stephen is our go to.”
Dr Stephen Shortt is a graduate of Nottingham University Medical School, and his post graduate experience was in number of hospital specialities at Nottingham University and City hospitals and in a local general practice.
He is a Partner at Village Health Group in Rushcliffe and has been a GP in South Nottinghamshire since 1992. He has previously served as chair of Rushcliffe Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Joint Clinical Leader (Chair) of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCG and was a GP advisor to the Department of Health including a two-year secondment as a senior policy advisor in the Department of Health Strategy Unit.
Stephen also helped establish not-for-profit organisation, Nottingham Emergency Medical Services (NEMS) in 1998, which provides ‘GP Out of Hours’ services and other urgent primary care services. He also set up NHS Direct in 1999 (becoming its medical director) and the Nottingham Walk-in Centre in 2000.
