HSJ100: The list in full

Simon Stevens tops the 2017 list of the most influential people in health.

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			Role	Organisation	2017 refresh	Change from summer refresh
1	Simon	Stevens	Chief Executive	NHS England	1	0
2	Jeremy	Hunt	Secretary Of State For Health	Department of Health	2	0
3	David	Behan	Chief Executive	Care Quality Commission	3	0
4	Matthew	Swindells	National Director, Operations And Information	NHS England	4	0
5	Paul	Baumann	Chief Financial Officer	NHS England	5	0
6	Jeremy	Heywood	Cabinet Secretary		13	7
7	Ted	Baker	Chief Inspector Of Hospitals	CQC	12	5
8	Ian	Dalton	Chief Executive	NHS Improvement		NE
9	Pauline	Philip	National Urgent And Emergency Care Director	NHS England	21	12
10	Tim	Briggs	National Director For Clinical Quality And Efficiency	Department of Health	11	1
11	Sarah	Wollaston	Chair Of The Health Select Committee		14	3
12	Chaand	Nagpaul	Chair	British Medical Association	10	-2
13	David	Williams	Director General Of Finance And Group Operations	Department of Health	7	-6
14	Catherine	Frances	Director Of Public Services	HM Treasury	17	3
15	Andrea	Sutcliffe	Chief Inspector Of Social Care	CQC	29	14
16	Jon	Rouse	Chief Officer	Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership	39	23
17	Sally	Davies	Chief Medical Officer	England	15	-2
18	Claire	Murdoch	National Mental Health Director	NHS England	30	12
19	Jonathan	Ashworth	Shadow Health Secretary		18	-1
20	Kathy	McLean	Executive Medical Director	NHS Improvement	31	11
21	Keith	Willett	Director For Acute Care	NHS England	65	44
22	Chris	Hopson	Chief Executive	NHS Providers	27	5
23	Paul	Farmer	Chief Executive, Mind & Chair	NHS England mental health taskforce	42	19
24	Jim	Mackey	Chief Executive	Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust	20	-4
25	Jeremy	Marlow	Director Of Operational Productivity	NHS Improvement	26	1
26	James	Kent	Special Adviser On Health to Theresa May		76	50
27	Elizabeth	O’Mahony	Finance Director	NHS Improvement	88	61
28	David	Dalton	Chief Executive	Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Pennine Acute Trust	38	10
29	Helen	Stokes-Lampard	Chair	Royal College of General Practitioners	52	23
30	Amanda	Doyle	Co-Chair/Chief Clinical Officer	NHS Clinical Commissioners/ Blackpool CCG	41	11
31	Steve	Field	Chief Inspector Of General Practice	CQC	24	-7
32	Janet	Davies	Chief Executive And General Secretary	Royal College Of Nursing	19	-13
33	Stephen	Hay	Executive Director Of Regulation/Deputy Chief Executive	NHS Improvement	22	-11
34	Ruth	May	Executive Director Of Nursing	NHS Improvement	32	-2
35	Sara	Gorton	Head Of Health	UNISON	71	36
36	John	Bell	Government Life Science Champion			NE
37	Ian	Dodge	National Director Commissioning Strategy	NHS England	33	-4
38	Julie	Moore	Chief Executive	University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust and Heart of England Foundation Trust	28	-10
39	Malcom	Grant	Chair	NHS England	23	-16
40	Chris	Wormald	Permanent Secretary	Department of Health	53	13
41	Keith	Conradi	Chief Inspector	Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch	36	-5
42	Dido	Harding	Chair	NHS Improvement		NE
43	Danny	Mortimer	Chief Executive	NHS Employers	51	8
44	Andrew	Dillon	Chief Executive	National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence	35	-9
45	Chris	Ham	Chief Executive	King’s Fund	44	-1
46	Andrew	Cash	Chief Executive	Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust	50	4
47	David	Sloman	Chief Executive	Royal Free London Foundation Trust	81	34
48	Richard	Vautrey	Chair	BMA GPs’ committee	45	-3
49	Nick	Harding	Chair/Founding Partner	Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG/Modality Partnership	86	37
50	Mike	Deegan	Chief Executive	Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust	73	23
51	David	Davis	Secretary Of State for exiting the European Union		16	-35
52	Liz	Truss	Chief Secretary	HM Treasury	8	-44
53	Philip	Dunne	Minister Of State	Department of Health	58	5
54	Steve	Powis	Medical Director	NHS England		NE
55	John	Stewart	Director Of Specialised Commissioning	NHS England	37	-18
56	Matthew	Style	Director Of Strategic Finance	NHS England		NE
57	Nick	Donleavy	Head Of Health Spending	HM Treasury		NE
58	Clifford	Mann	A&E Clinical Lead	NHS England	60	2
59	Lee	McDonough	Director General, Acute Care And Workforce	Department of Health		NE
60	Christina	McAnea	Assistant General Secretary	UNISON	25	-35
61	Mark	Lloyd	Chief Executive	Local Government Association	70	9
62	Philippa	Hird	Chair	NHS Pay Review Body		NE
63	Gavin	Larner	Director Of Workforce	Department of Health		NE
64	Ian	Cumming	Chief Executive	Health Education England	54	-10
65	David	Haslam	Chair	NICE	48	-17
66	Duncan	Selbie	Chief Executive	Public Health England	55	-11
67	Juliet	Bauer	Director Of Digital Experience	NHS England	100	33
68	Nigel	Edwards	Chief Executive	Nuffield Trust	47	-21
69	Sara	Wilkinson	Chief Executive	NHS Digital	80	11
70	Arvind	Madan	Director Of Primary Care	NHS England	56	-14
71	Hugh	Pym	Health Editor	BBC	61	-10
72	Sarah-Jane	Marsh	Chief Executive/ Chair	Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Foundation Trust/ NHS England maternity transformation programme board	78	6
73	Matthew	Cripps	National Director Of Right Care	NHS England	40	-33
74	Taj	Hassan	President	Royal College of Emergency Medicine		NE
75	Claire	Panniker	Chief Executive	Three Essex trusts	93	18
76	Richard	Barker	Regional Director North Of England	NHS England	57	-19
77	Patrick	Carter	Non-Executive Director	NHS Improvement	46	-31
78	Amyas	Morse	Director General	National Audit Office		NE
79	Fiona	Caldicott	Chair	Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust and National Data Guardian		NE
80	Niall	Dickson	Chief Executive	NHS Confederation	62	-18
81	Jane	Cummings	Chief Nursing Officer	NHS England	66	-15
82	Anita	Charlesworth	Chief Economist	the Health Foundation	97	15
83	Ara	Darzi	Chair	Imperial College Health Partners	68	-15
84	Andrew	Morris	Lead	Frimley Sustainability and Transformation Partnership	64	-20
85	Jane	Dacre	President	Royal College of Physicians	79	-6
86	Jennifer	Dixon	Chief Executive	the Health Foundation	84	-2
87	Andy	Burnham	Mayor	Greater Manchester	89	2
88	Stephen	Dorrell	Chair	NHS Confederation	72	-16
89	Kristen	McLeod	Director	Office of Life Sciences		NE
90	Matthew	Patrick	Chief Executive	South London and the Maudsley Foundation Trust		NE
91	Jeremy	Taylor	Chief Executive	National Voices	94	3
92	Robert	Francis	Non-Executive Director	CQC	74	-18
93	Joe	Rafferty	Chief Executive	Mersey Care Foundation Trust	95	2
94	Julian	Hartley	Chief Executive	Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust	92	-2
95	Kate	Cornford	Advisor	No 10		NE
96	Ruth	Carnall	Chief Executive/ Chair	Carnall Farrar/ Northern, Eastern and Western Devon success regime	99	3
97	Peter	Homa	Chair	NHS Leadership Academy		NE
98	Ed	Jones	Special Advisor To The Secretary Of State	Department of Health	98	0
99	Yvonne	Coghill	Director Workforce Race Equality Standard Implementation	NHS England		NE
100	Paul	Harrison	Press Secretary	No 10		NE

Topics

Leadership

Stevens and Hunt in a Mexican standoff at the top of this year’s HSJ100

Little has changed, yet much has changed. The same five individuals occupy the top spots in the 2017 HSJ100 as did in the refreshed rankings produced after this summer’s general election, but their interactions will be very different. By Alastair McLellan