Claire Louise Murdoch CBE is the Chief Executive of the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and national director for mental health, NHS England.
She was rated by the Health Service Journal as the seventeenth most influential person in the English NHS in 2016. [1] She was the inaugural Chair of the Cavendish Square Group of the 10 London NHS trusts responsible for mental health services, succeeded by John Brouder, Chief Executive of North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) in 2018. [2]
She was involved in the development of a rating system for Clinical Commissioning Groups performance in mental health during 2016. [3]
She has particularly supported moves to ensure mentally ill people, especially children and adolescents are treated nearer their homes. [4] [5]
She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to the NHS.
Her sister Alison Reynolds received the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to Community Sport in Kent.
Since 1984 Murdoch has been a mental health nurse. [6]
Victor Olufemi Adebowale, Baron Adebowale, is the former Chief Executive of the social care enterprise Turning Point and the current Chair of the NHS Confederation, and was one of the first individuals to become a People's Peer.
Sir David Nicholson is a public policy analyst and NHS Manager who is the Chair of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and Chair of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. He was previously the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England. He was appointed in October 2011 following the NHS reforms, having been seventh Chief executive of the NHS within the Department of Health since September 2006. He issued what has become known as the "Nicholson challenge" regarding the finances of the NHS. He retired from the role on 1 April 2014 in the wake of the Stafford Hospital scandal.
Helen Edwards is a British civil servant, currently serving as the Director-General for Localism in the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Dame Anne Marie Rafferty FRCN is a British nurse, academic and researcher. She is the professor of nursing policy and the former dean of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King's College London. She served as President of the Royal College of Nursing from 2019 to 2021. She was nominated for a life peerage on 20 December 2024.
Kathryn Felice Lampard, Baroness Lampard, is an English politician and former barrister.
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was an NHS foundation trust which ran Worthing Hospital, Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea and St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex, England and served a population of around 450,000 people across a catchment area covering most of West Sussex. It was formed through a merger in 2009 and started with a substantial inherited deficit, mortality issues and poor performance. It merged into University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust in 2021.
Peter Michael Homa is a British health service manager.
Andrea Mary Sutcliffe CBE is the chief executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Healthcare in London, which consumes about a fifth of the NHS budget in England, is in many respects distinct from that in the rest of the United Kingdom, or England.
Healthcare in Devon was the responsibility of two clinical commissioning groups until July 2022, one covering Northern, Eastern and Western Devon, and one covering South Devon and Torbay. It was announced in November 2018 that the two were to merge.
Dr Sam Barrell CBE is an English doctor. She joined the Francis Crick Institute in London as Chief Operating Officer in September 2017 and in 2022 was promoted to Deputy Chief Executive Officer. She is responsible for leading the operational management and running of the institute and deputises for the Director, Sir Paul Nurse.
Sir Andrew Valentine Morris Hon FRCP is a former British hospital administrator who was the chair of NHS Improvement from October 2021 until the body's abolition in June 2022.
Sir David Morgan Sloman was the Chief Operating Officer of NHS England. He has previously been the NHS Regional Director for London and the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. He was knighted in 2017 for his services to the NHS.
Pauline Mary Philip, DBE, is a former nurse and an executive in the National Health Service in the UK.
Sir Michael Deegan,, known as Mike Deegan, has been Chief Executive of Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and its various predecessors since 2001.
Sheila Shribman is a British pediatrician. Shribman was most notable for the successful integration of children's services in hospital, community and mental health settings, working closely with the local authority. She was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire during the 2011 New Year Honours and awarded the James Spence Medal in 2012.
Dame Angela Mary Pedder DBE is a British health care administrator and NHS manager.
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.
Dame Elaine Inglesby-Burke is a British nurse. She was the Group Chief Nursing Officer at Salford Royal Hospital and the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group till 2019.
Ahalia Navina Evans is a British former child and adolescent psychiatry consultant who has been the Chief Workforce, Training & Education Officer of NHS England since April 2023. She was previously the chief executive officer of East London NHS Foundation Trust between 2016 and 2020 and chief executive of Health Education England between 2020 and 2023.