Duncan Kirkbride Nichol

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Sir Duncan Kirkbride Nichol CBE (born 30 May 1941) is a British hospital administrator who was the third Chief Executive of the National Health Service Management Executive from 1989 to 1994. [1]

He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, to James Nichol and Mabel Kirkbride. [2] He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. [1] He joined the NHS in 1963 as a graduate trainee, and worked his way up in St Thomas's Hospital and Manchester Royal Infirmary, from senior administrative assistant to regional general manager of the Mersey Regional Health Authority. [3] He has been Chairman of the Academy for Healthcare Science, Her Majesty’s Courts Service, Skills for Justice, the Parole Board for England and Wales and Synergy Healthcare. He is a director of Deltex Medical Group. [4]

He was a non-executive director of the Christie Hospital from 2008 and deputy chairman from 2009 until 2012, when he was appointed Chair of the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. [5] He announced his retirement in November 2019. [6]

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 New Year Honours and knighted in the 1993 New Year Honours. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2891. ISBN   0-9711966-2-1.
  2. ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
  3. ↑ "UK: PROFILE - SIR DUNCAN NICHOL - NHS CHIEF EXECUTIVE". Management Today. 1 October 1993. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "Deltex Medical Group". Data shareview. 12 May 2016. Archived from the original on 6 November 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "Countess of Chester appoints former NHS chief exec as chair". Health Service Journal. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "Former NHS chief executive to retire". Health Service Journal. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
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