Dame Deirdre Hine is a prominent leader in public health and medicine, and has played leading role in regulating the regime and the progress of medicine in the United Kingdom. In 1997, she was awarded the DBE for Services to Medicine.

Deirdre Hine was Chief Medical Officer for Wales, UK from 1990 to 1997. She is a Public Health Physician with experience in the fields of Paediatrics, Geriatric Medicine and Cancer Services. Since her "retirement" she has been President of the Royal Society of Medicine and Chair of the UK Government's Commission for Health Improvement. She is currently the Chair of the BUPA Foundation, a Member of the Board of the Pfizer UK Foundation, Chairman of the Royal Society of Medicine Press and an Independent Member of the House of Lords Appointment Commission. She has been elected President of the British Medical Association for 2005-2006.