11 October 2000
With the approval of the Prime Minister, Nigel Crisp has been appointed as the new NHS Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary.
The new post will replace the former posts of Chief Executive for the NHS and Permanent Secretary for the Department of Health. Mr Crisp, who is currently London Regional Director of the NHS Executive has been appointed following an open competition. He will take up post on 1 November.
Notes for Editors
Nigel Crisp is aged 48 and was educated at Cambridge University. In 1999 he was appointed to the post of London Regional Director of the NHS Executive with a specific brief to merge the then two London regions, improve service and develop new approaches to partnership, staffing and delivery. Nigel brings to the post extensive experience in the public, private and voluntary sectors. This includes five years as a community worker in Liverpool, followed by a period in industry and subsequently in the voluntary sector in Cambridgeshire. In 1986 he joined the NHS as General Manager at the East Berkshire Mental Handicap Unit. From here he went on to manage acute and mental health services as Chief Executive of the Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals Trust in Berkshire. He later became the first Chief Executive of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust, a major teaching hospital serving a population of over 2 million. In 1997 Nigel was appointed as South Thames Regional Director for the NHS Executive, and from, here took up the post of London Regional Director.
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