Dr Gale Pearson has been an intensive care consultant at Birmingham Children’s Hospital since 1995 and was involved in the preparation of the policy document on paediatric intensive care ‘A Framework for the Future’. He is a former chairperson of the Paediatric Intensive Care Society and was involved in setting up the national audit PICANet. He was also a former National Director of Confidential Enquiries in Children at The Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE). Dr Pearson is the current Chair of the National Clinical Reference Group on Paediatric Intensive Care at NHS England.