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Information16 Mike Richards
As questions of finance continue to dominate this year, the cancer tsar has fallen out of the top five. However, Professor Richards has his hands full with implementing the cancer reform strategy, currently focusing on pilot schemes for early diagnosis and awareness, and an enhanced recovery programme.
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Information17 Mark Britnell
Mark Britnell is the highest ranked horticulturist in this year’s HSJ50: he was on gardening leave when the list was drawn up, before starting a new job as European head of healthcare at KPMG.
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Information18 Ruth Carnall
Ruth Carnall once described herself as “an awful accountant and a good manager” but she has needed both skills to run NHS London for the past three years - probably the hardest job in the NHS.
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Information19 Steve Bundred
Steve Bundred has broken into the top 20 in his second year in the HSJ50. Considering he has been chief executive of the Audit Commission since 2003, this represents a distinct step change in his influence on the shape of healthcare.
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Information20 Oliver Letwin
If the Conservative Party has undertaken a huge rebranding to become “the party of the NHS” then the chair of both its policy review and research department Oliver Letwin deserves as much credit as Andrew Lansley.
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Information21 Sir Robert Naylor
A rise up the rankings for the chief executive of UCLH Foundation Trust, who has become one of the strongest defenders of FT freedom this year.
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Information22 Niall Dickson
Few expected the former BBC social affairs correspondent to take over as chief executive of the King’s Fund in 2004 - and even fewer anticipated his move to run the General Medical Council from next January.
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Information23 Sophia Christie
Chief executive of NHS Birmingham East and North - and HSJ columnist - Sophia Christie’s clear thinking on the challenges facing the NHS has won her many followers and drives debate on PCT and commissioning freedoms.
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Information24 Laurence Buckman
Dr Laurence Buckman, leader of the British Medical Association’s GPs, balances keeping GPs as trusted healthcare professionals with delivering for his members, who want pay to reflect increased work and responsibility.
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Information25 Peter Carter
Former psychiatric nurse Peter Carter has repositioned the Royal College of Nursing as a thoughtful and moderate influence on health policy.
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Information26 Bob Ricketts
The Department of Health’s director of system management and new enterprise slides a few steps down the rankings this year - reflecting the current uncertainty about the direction of some DH policies.
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Information27 Jeremy Heywood
Jeremy Heywood is unlikely to be a household name for many NHS staff: but as permanent secretary to prime minister Gordon Brown, he sits at the heart of government.
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Information28 Steve Field
The chair of the Royal College of GPs is generally not a high profile role: but Professor Steve Field has barely left the television studio this year as his calm perspective is called on in numerous debates about swine flu and other health scares.
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Information29 Nick Timmins
As veteran public policy editor of the Financial Times, whose knowledge of the NHS ensures a steady stream of well researched, insightful articles which are required reading for managers, ministers and Treasury mandarins, Nick Timmins poses questions at press conferences that can leave grown ministers quaking and looking to advisers ...
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Information30 Dame Sally Davies
As director general of research and development at the Department of Health, Professor Dame Sally Davies commands a budget of around £1bn.
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Information31 Sir Ian Carruthers
Sir Ian Carruthers is celebrating 40 years of working in the NHS this year, and shows no signs of changing career.
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Information32 Nigel Edwards
The ebullient director of policy and communications for the NHS Confederation is loved by journalists for his pithy opinions but he also commands influence by being honest about the NHS’s failings and he is no apologist for managers - he wrote recently that the quality of middle management is variable. ...
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Information33 Mark Goldman
Dr Mark Goldman embodies the engaged clinician: he is chief executive of Heart of England Foundation Trust and leads on clinical leadership for the NHS leadership council.
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Information34 Elisabeth Buggins
A former NHS manager who is now the highly regarded chair of NHS West Midlands and leads on board development for the NHS national leadership council, Elisabeth Buggins recently led a review of organ transplants to foreign private patients and is a former chair of the government’s organ donation task ...
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Information35 Hamish Meldrum
British Medical Association chair Dr Hamish Meldrum has struggled with the perennial problem of how to position the BMA as both the guardian of the patient’s interest and the opposer of many government reforms.