Alan Milburn is a British politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington from 1992 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party,he served for five years in the Cabinet,first as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1998 to 1999,and subsequently as Secretary of State for Health until 2003,when he resigned. He briefly rejoined the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in order to manage Labour's 2005 re-election campaign. He did not seek re-election in the 2010 election. Milburn was chair of the Social Mobility Commission from 2012 to 2017. Since 2015,he has been Chancellor of Lancaster University.
Stephen James Dorrell is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He served as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Loughborough between 1979 and 1997 and then for Charnwood from 1997 to 2015.
Paul Kenneth Burstow is a British former politician who served as the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Sutton and Cheam for 18 years,from 1997 to 2015,when he was defeated by Paul Scully.
Andrew David Lansley,Baron Lansley,is a British Conservative politician who previously served as Secretary of State for Health and Leader of the House of Commons. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire from 1997 to 2015.
Helena Ann Kennedy,Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws,is a Scottish barrister,broadcaster,and Labour member of the House of Lords. She was Principal of Mansfield College,Oxford,from 2011 to 2018. A Bencher of Gray's Inn,an Honorary Writer to the Signet and the recipient of 42 Honorary Degrees from many universities including those of Glasgow and Edinburgh in recognition of work on women and the law and on widening participation in higher education. She is President of Justice,the law reform think tank,and is also director of the International Bar Association's Institute of Human Rights.
The South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is the NHS ambulance services trust for south-eastern England,covering Kent,Surrey,West Sussex and East Sussex. It also covers a part of north-eastern Hampshire around Aldershot,Farnborough,Fleet and Yateley. The service was made an NHS foundation trust on 1 March 2011.
Ara Warkes Darzi,Baron Darzi of Denham is an Armenian-British surgeon,academic,and politician.
Healthcare in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter,with England,Northern Ireland,Scotland and Wales each having their own systems of publicly funded healthcare,funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments,together with smaller private sector and voluntary provision. As a result of each country having different policies and priorities,a variety of differences have developed between these systems since devolution.
The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded healthcare system in England,and one of the four National Health Service systems in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest single-payer healthcare system in the world after the Brazilian Sistema Único de Saúde. Primarily funded by the government from general taxation,and overseen by the Department of Health and Social Care,the NHS provides healthcare to all legal English residents and residents from other regions of the UK,with most services free at the point of use for most people. The NHS also conducts research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom,comprising the NHS in England,NHS Scotland and NHS Wales. Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland was created separately and is often locally referred to as "the NHS". The original three systems were established in 1948 as part of major social reforms following the Second World War. The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive,universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need,not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services,provided without charge for residents of the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care. In England,NHS patients have to pay prescription charges;some,such as those aged over 60,or those on certain state benefits,are exempt.
Sarah Wollaston is a British former Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Totnes from 2010 to 2019. First elected for the Conservative Party,she later served as a Change UK and Liberal Democrat MP. She was chair of the Health Select Committee from 2014 to 2019 and chair of the Liaison Committee from 2017 to 2019.
Tim Kelsey is an English-Australian business executive. He is CEO of Beamtree,,an Australian healthcare company (ASX:BMT) based in Sydney,Australia. He started in the role in December 2020.
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It provided for the most extensive reorganisation of the structure of the National Health Service in England to date. It removed responsibility for the health of citizens from the Secretary of State for Health,which the post had carried since the inception of the NHS in 1948. It abolished primary care trusts (PCTs) and strategic health authorities (SHAs) and transferred between £60 billion and £80 billion of "commissioning",or healthcare funds,from the abolished PCTs to several hundred clinical commissioning groups,partly run by the general practitioners (GPs) in England. A new executive agency of the Department of Health,Public Health England,was established under the act on 1 April 2013.
Circle Health Group is a private healthcare provider in the United Kingdom,and is the country's biggest private hospital provider. The company was founded in 2004 and rebranded as Circle Health Group in 2019 after acquiring a rival,BMI Healthcare;in the same year it began an expansion in China. In 2023 the company was acquired by an Abu Dhabi-based holding company called PureHealth.
The National Health Action Party (NHA) is a political party in the United Kingdom.
Lucy Elizabeth Allan is a British politician who served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Telford from the 2015 general election,until standing down at the 2024 general election. Before being elected as an MP for the Conservative Party,she was a member of Wandsworth London Borough Council from 2006 to 2012.
Kate Miriam Granger was an English geriatrician and campaigner for better patient care. In 2011 she was diagnosed with desmoplastic small-round-cell tumor (DSRCT),a type of sarcoma,and subsequently started the "#hellomynameis" campaign encouraging healthcare staff to introduce themselves to patients. Granger also raised over £250,000 for local cancer charity,the Yorkshire Cancer Centre Appeal.
Mahiben Maruthappu is a British physician,entrepreneur,academic researcher and health policy specialist. He co-founded Cera,a home healthcare company and one of the largest social care providers in the UK. He was the founder and first President of the United Kingdom Medical Students' Association (UKMSA). He co-founded the National Health Service (NHS) Innovation Accelerator (NIA),a program that accelerates the adoption of new healthcare technologies,and served as NHS England's Innovation Adviser. He has contributed to more than 60 research papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Dame Jennifer Dixon is the chief executive of the Health Foundation,a large independent charity in the United Kingdom. Her work has been recognised by several national and international bodies for her significant impact in driving national health policy making.
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. 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.
