Sir John Edward Tooke (born 4 March 1949[1][2]) is the Head of the School of Life & Medical Sciences at University College, London.
Tooke graduated in Medicine from St John's College, Oxford in 1974 and went on to become a Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Physiology and Honorary Consultant Physician at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School before moving to the Postgraduate Medical School of the University of Exeter in 1987.
MMC has become extremely unpopular amongst the majority of medical professionals in the UK, and as a result the Government set up an independent inquiry into the situation.
The "Tooke report" suggests scrapping MMC and starting with a new system which is based on extensive consultation with medical professional bodies and practitioners.
The Department's response accepts only a quarter of the Tooke review's recommendations, and attempts to resist the remainder in varying degrees.