Amanda Pritchard

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Amanda Pritchard
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Official portrait, c. 2021
Chief Executive of NHS England
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 August 2021
Education Durham Johnston Comprehensive School
Alma mater St Anne's College, Oxford
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Amanda Pritchard's voice
Pritchard speaks at a government press conference on the COVID-19 pandemic
Recorded 30 November 2021

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. [1] [2] [3] She was formerly chief executive of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust from January 2016 to July 2019, having been acting chief executive from October 2015 to January 2016. [1] [4]

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Early and personal life

Pritchard was born in May 1976 in Somerset, [5] [6] the daughter of John Pritchard, later a Church of England bishop. [7] She grew up in County Durham, attending Durham Johnston Comprehensive School. [5] She graduated from St Anne's College at the University of Oxford with a degree in modern history. Whilst a student, she served as the Librarian of The Oxford Union. [8]

Pritchard is married with three children. [4]

Career

Pritchard joined the NHS Management Training Scheme in 1997 [3] and has worked for the NHS for her entire career.

In 2002, she became a manager at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. [9] [10] [11] From 2005 to 2006, Pritchard served as the health team leader of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit under Tony Blair, [12] before returning to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2006 as deputy chief executive, aged 29. [3] [9] [13] Six years later she moved to Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust as chief operating officer and was appointed as its first-ever female chief executive in 2015. [12]

On 5 June 2019, [3] Pritchard moved to NHS England and NHS Improvement as COO of NHS England and CEO of NHS Improvement. Effectively the deputy CEO of the NHS, [14] she led it operationally through COVID-19, the vaccine rollout, and its recovery, including service transformation, digitisation, and patient care improvements. [15]

Long seen as the frontrunner to replace Simon Stevens as CEO of the NHS, [16] it was announced on 28 July 2021 that Pritchard would be appointed as the next chief executive of NHS England; she took up the post on 1 August 2021 as the first woman in the role. [17] On 3 August 2021 [18] [19] she was replaced as CEO of NHS Improvement by Stephen Powis on an interim basis. [20]

On 14 December 2021 she joined Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Sajid Javid in calling for volunteers to come forward to help with the COVID vaccine booster campaign. [21]

The Labour Government elected in 2024 declared it had "full confidence" in Pritchard as head of the NHS. [22]

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  5. 1 2 "CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF THE SCHOOLS' MACE". English-Speaking Union . 15 May 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  6. ↑ Sylvester, Rachel; Lay, Kat (13 January 2023). "'We've had 13,000 in hospital who didn't need to be there — they were fit': Amanda Pritchard interview" . The Times . London. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
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  8. ↑ "Amanda Pritchard appointed NHS Chief Executive". Oxfordshire CCG (Press release). 30 July 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  9. 1 2 "Amanda Pritchard | Chief Operating Officer, NHS England and NHS Improvement". Healthcare Financial Management Association. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
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  11. ↑ "Trust Board Minutes December 2005" (PDF). Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 September 2011.
  12. 1 2 Neville, Sarah (28 July 2021). "Amanda Pritchard named new head of NHS England" . Financial Times . Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  13. ↑ "Chief Executive set for new challenge". Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Press release). 3 January 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  14. ↑ "Daily Insight: Making the cut". Health Service Journal . 6 July 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
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