John Black is the Medical Director of the South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) since 2010. He previously joined SCAS in 2007 as Divisional Medical Director for Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

John represents The College of Emergency Medicine and currently chairs the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM). He is a member of the National Ambulance Service Medical Director’s Group and the Army Reserve (Defence Medical Services).

John was appointed a Queen’s Honorary Physician (Civilian) in 2009 and Honorary Consultant Civilian Adviser in Emergency Care to the British Army in 2013.