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Amanda Pritchard is a British healthcare official and public policy analyst who has been the Chief Executive of NHS England since 1 August 2021. Pritchard previously served as chief operating officer of NHS England and as chief executive of NHS Improvement from 2019 to 2021.
The chief executive of NHS England is the head of the National Health Service in England, and is a senior medical management adviser to the Government of the United Kingdom. The chief executive directs the governing body of the NHS, and is the highest-ranking member of the Health Service's board.
NHS England, formerly the NHS Commissioning Board for England, is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care.It oversees the budget, planning, delivery and day-to-day operation of the commissioning side of the National Health Service in England as set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2012. [3]
Sir Stephen Huw Powis is a renal medicine consultant and has been the National Medical Director of NHS England since 2018. Previously he was the chief medical officer at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. [1] He is also a professor at University College London. [2]
The NHS was established within the differing nations of the United Kingdom through differing legislation, and as such there has never been a singular British healthcare system, instead there are 4 health services in the United Kingdom; NHS England, the NHS Scotland, HSC Northern Ireland and NHS Wales, which were run by the respective UK government ministries for each home nation before falling ...
Sir David Behan CBE (born November 1955) is a British public servant who was previously the Chair of Health Education England. Following the merger of Health Education England into NHS England, [2] Behan, now serves as a Group Non-executive Director and Chairs the Workforce, Training & Education Committee.
Simon Stevens was born in Birmingham, England, [14] the son of a Baptist minister and a university administrator. [15] He was educated at a state comprehensive, St Bartholomew's School in Newbury, Berkshire, and won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, [16] where he was elected president of the Oxford Union.
In 2020, she left ELFT to become the chief executive of Health Education England (HEE). [7] [8] Evans was the first and only Asian woman to lead HEE. [9] She also became the interim Chief Workforce Officer of NHS England in June 2022. [10] [11] HEE merged with NHS England in 2023 and Evans became its Chief Workforce Training and Education Officer.