Health policy chief made a dame

Dame Jennifer Dixon has been Health Foundation chief executive since 2013. Previously, she had been the Nuffield Trust’s CEO, and earlier director of policy at the King’s Fund. She also worked in the Department of Health earlier in her career, as policy adviser to the NHS chief executive from 1998 to 2000.

Jonathan Marron, director general for the Office of Health Inequalities and Disparities at the Department of Health and Social Care, was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (known as CB). He has worked in numerous central health roles, including at the Department of Health and Social Care, Public Health England and Monitor.

Other health and care leaders receiving CBEs include:

• Professor Tim Kendall, the outgoing national clinical director for mental health at NHS England; 

• James Bullion, Care Quality Commission interim chief inspector for adult social care and integrated care, and former director of adult social services at Norfolk County Council;

• Professor Margaret Rae, former president of the UK Faculty of Public Health and NHS England south west’s deputy director of regional health programmes, who also heads the school for public health specialist training; and

• Cathy Edwards, previously a director in NHSE’s national specialised commissioning team.

There were OBEs for:

• Lorraine Sunduza, interim chief executive of East London Foundation Trust. She has been chief nurse since 2018, and was made interim CEO in summer 2023. She joined ELFT in 2002 as a charge nurse in the forensic mental health directorate.

• Professor Simon Kenny, the current national clinical director for children and young people, also a paediatric surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital;

• Shriti Pattani, former president of the Society of Occupational Medicine; 

• Lisa Ritchie, head of infection prevention and control at NHS England; 

• Professor Mark Wilcox, former clinical director for infection prevention and control at NHSE, who also chaired the SAGE sub-committee on hospital onset covid;

• Professor Bryan Williams, chair of medicine at University College London and previously director of research at University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust.

There were MBEs for:

• Fenella Wrigley, chief medical officer and deputy chief executive of London Ambulance Service Trust; 

• Martin Machray, director of performance for NHS England London, who was also covid incident director in London; 

• James McLean, joint chief nurse for the North West in NHS England, previously deputy chief nurse for programme delivery at Health Education England;

• Meenakshi Nagpaul, GP and clinical director of the Harrow East primary care network; 

• Jonathan White, an economist at the DHSC, for services to social care policy.