All HSJ50 2009 articles – Page 2
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31 Sir Ian Carruthers
Sir Ian Carruthers is celebrating 40 years of working in the NHS this year, and shows no signs of changing career.
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30 Dame Sally Davies
As director general of research and development at the Department of Health, Professor Dame Sally Davies commands a budget of around £1bn.
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29 Nick Timmins
As veteran public policy editor of the Financial Times, whose knowledge of the NHS ensures a steady stream of well researched, insightful articles which are required reading for managers, ministers and Treasury mandarins, Nick Timmins poses questions at press conferences that can leave grown ministers quaking and looking to advisers ...
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28 Steve Field
The chair of the Royal College of GPs is generally not a high profile role: but Professor Steve Field has barely left the television studio this year as his calm perspective is called on in numerous debates about swine flu and other health scares.
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27 Jeremy Heywood
Jeremy Heywood is unlikely to be a household name for many NHS staff: but as permanent secretary to prime minister Gordon Brown, he sits at the heart of government.
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26 Bob Ricketts
The Department of Health’s director of system management and new enterprise slides a few steps down the rankings this year - reflecting the current uncertainty about the direction of some DH policies.
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25 Peter Carter
Former psychiatric nurse Peter Carter has repositioned the Royal College of Nursing as a thoughtful and moderate influence on health policy.
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24 Laurence Buckman
Dr Laurence Buckman, leader of the British Medical Association’s GPs, balances keeping GPs as trusted healthcare professionals with delivering for his members, who want pay to reflect increased work and responsibility.
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23 Sophia Christie
Chief executive of NHS Birmingham East and North - and HSJ columnist - Sophia Christie’s clear thinking on the challenges facing the NHS has won her many followers and drives debate on PCT and commissioning freedoms.
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22 Niall Dickson
Few expected the former BBC social affairs correspondent to take over as chief executive of the King’s Fund in 2004 - and even fewer anticipated his move to run the General Medical Council from next January.
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21 Sir Robert Naylor
A rise up the rankings for the chief executive of UCLH Foundation Trust, who has become one of the strongest defenders of FT freedom this year.
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HSJ50 2009 - Major Shifts of Power
This year’s HSJ50, the ranking of the 50 most powerful people in NHS management policy and practice in England, again reveals major shifts in who is wielding power.
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HSJ50 2009 - the judging process
The judging was carried out by a panel of experts from across the health policy and management field.
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20 Oliver Letwin
If the Conservative Party has undertaken a huge rebranding to become “the party of the NHS” then the chair of both its policy review and research department Oliver Letwin deserves as much credit as Andrew Lansley.
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19 Steve Bundred
Steve Bundred has broken into the top 20 in his second year in the HSJ50. Considering he has been chief executive of the Audit Commission since 2003, this represents a distinct step change in his influence on the shape of healthcare.
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18 Ruth Carnall
Ruth Carnall once described herself as “an awful accountant and a good manager” but she has needed both skills to run NHS London for the past three years - probably the hardest job in the NHS.
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17 Mark Britnell
Mark Britnell is the highest ranked horticulturist in this year’s HSJ50: he was on gardening leave when the list was drawn up, before starting a new job as European head of healthcare at KPMG.
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16 Mike Richards
As questions of finance continue to dominate this year, the cancer tsar has fallen out of the top five. However, Professor Richards has his hands full with implementing the cancer reform strategy, currently focusing on pilot schemes for early diagnosis and awareness, and an enhanced recovery programme.
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15 Andrew Dillon
The calm and focused approach of Andrew Dillon has proved invaluable in weathering the storms faced by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
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14 Cynthia Bower
Cynthia Bower has had a challenging year. As chief executive overseeing the merger of three former health and social care regulators into the Care Quality Commission, she brought together different organisational cultures while getting to grips with an entirely new regulatory approach and dealing with the inevitable redundancies, lease issues ...
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