Who are the most influential people in the NHS and health policy?
The HSJ100 is our annual list of the most influential people in the NHS and English health policy.
At present we are preparing the ‘long list’ from which our judges will choose and rank the final 100.
We would like HSJ readers to help us prepare that list by leaving suggestions below.
The HSJ100 seeks to measure power and influence as it will be exercised over the 12 months from November 2012. The list tries to represent reality – rather than an ideal. It is a list of who will have power and influence, not who should.
We would like to hear readers’ suggestions of who should be in this year’s HSJ100 and why. The prime minister, the deputy prime minister and the chancellor are the only people excluded from consideration.
All readers’ suggestions will be included in the ‘long list’ which will be presented to our judging panel. The judges are chosen from all the key areas in healthcare and represent most professions and political points of view.
You can see last year’s list here.
The seventh HSJ100 will be revealed on 5 December.
View results 10 per page | 20 per page | 50 per page
Have your say
You must sign in to make a comment.
Share
Readers' comments (24)
Anonymous | 26-Oct-2012 2:21 pm
Jo- Ann Wass, Chief of Staff to D Nicholson has got to be a contender. Also, "in charge" of HR of NHS and overseeing he transition appointments to NHS CB.
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 29-Oct-2012 8:46 am
Sir Peter Dixon, now Chair of Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust but as former Interim Chair of both Basildon & Thurrock University NHS FT and Colchester NHS FT, provided stability to the Boards and made necessary changes at this level so these Trust's could move forward in sustaining high quality care in a safe environment. Helping to restore reputation with the regulators and the community served. Sir Peter should be considered.
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 29-Oct-2012 9:14 am
Duncan Selbie - reforming health protection and leading Public Health England
Unsuitable or offensive?
Andrew Langford | 29-Oct-2012 10:51 am
Professor Martin Lombard, NCL for Liver Diseases, with the imminent national Liver Strategy and governmental interest in health and wellbeing (esp alcohol) Martin will have an extremely big part to play in implementing change that will improve prevention, early detection, treatment and care for liver health
Unsuitable or offensive?
@Jeremy_Twunt | 29-Oct-2012 10:56 am
@Jeremy_Twunt!!! Obviously. *The* #bigministerialswingingdick in the world of health policy. Director and enforcer of #operationshafttheNHS. If I am not in the top spot I shall be most put out...DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME ALISTAIR McMELLON???!!!
Unsuitable or offensive?
David Hamilton | 29-Oct-2012 1:39 pm
Andrew Burnell - City Health Care Partnership CIC. With his team has taken the provider sector forward significantly into the wider commercial world whilst improving outcomes at the same time.
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 29-Oct-2012 2:25 pm
Professor Mike Cooke CBE CEO notts Healthcare given his drive and vision for NHS leadership and his contribution to raising the profile of mental health and learning disabilities nationally
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 29-Oct-2012 2:34 pm
How about Dean we cant afford a pay award Royles.
Not content with an extra 2.4% pa pension contributions by some staff he really thinks a 3rd year of a 0% pay award would be good for patient care.
He has influenced me to leave the NHS
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 29-Oct-2012 3:12 pm
Top of the list will almost certainly be either David Nicholson or Robert Francis.
Lord Howe, the only survivor of the "Lansley ministerial team", will probably be the only minister to make the top 10, as so far the other DH ministers since the reshuffle (including his new boss) don't seem to have established themselves as credible players.
Fiona Caldicott should be high up the list, as her Information Governance Review is supposed to deliver its report early in 2013.
There will probably be a GP in the top 20, given the ostensible shift to GP led commissioning. If there is only one, it will probably be Charles Alessi.
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 29-Oct-2012 3:33 pm
The partners of Bridgepoint Capital. Through contributions to political parties, individual politicians and by the latter sitting on 'advisory boards' of BC. Through Alliance Medical and Care UK, Alan Milburn, Andrew Lansley and Sir Chris Patten. Latterly by poaching Jim Easton.
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 29-Oct-2012 5:23 pm
How about Julian Nettel?
He seems to have dropped off the radar recently...
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 29-Oct-2012 10:32 pm
Is this just a wild guessing game or is there some logic or merit in these suggestions which has passed me by...?
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 29-Oct-2012 11:06 pm
How about Valerie Michie, Chief Exec of Serco Health - making big moves into community health recently from the commercial sector as well as their existing hospital FM and service contracts
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 30-Oct-2012 6:09 am
Stephen Dunn and Andrew MacPherson for innovation and execution. Their work continues to ensure strategists at all levels of the NHS, sit up and take notice.
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 30-Oct-2012 7:57 am
Duncan Selbie?
Give us all a break - he got out of BSUH just as the house of cards came tumbling down leaving the team to try to pick up the pieces. If there is a top 100 for window dressing and smoke and mirrors.......
Unsuitable or offensive?
@drjamiegreen | 30-Oct-2012 9:56 am
More recently it has been the leaders of large companies with all the say.
My feelings are that in fact Prof Clare Gerada is professionally the most influential, but not sure the respect she has gained by the professionals is shared by the policy makers.
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 30-Oct-2012 1:04 pm
Helen Bevan for arranging meetings to "think about intrinsic and extrinsic factors of change...", AND lots and lots and lots of hand waving.
It's important that we all have a good think about stuff, and not go charging in, to actually do anything.
Highly paid thought leaders are really, really important. And I'm flapping my hands now!!
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 30-Oct-2012 1:59 pm
Baroness Barbara Young, Chief Executive of Diabetes UK. for pushing diabetes up the agenda and ensuring the voices of people with diabetes are heard by key players in the NHS and goverment.
Unsuitable or offensive?
Anonymous | 31-Oct-2012 11:35 am
Dr Hilary Cass, President of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health - quite new in post but already making waves with her comments on reconfiguration debate and innovative ways of solving the NHS workforce crisis
Unsuitable or offensive?
Jules Acton | 1-Nov-2012 2:20 pm
Jeremy, Jeremy & Jeremy: the National Voices' Jeremys: CEO Jeremy Taylor and Chair Jeremy Hughes (also CEO of the Alzheimer's Society). And the other one.
Unsuitable or offensive?