Nigel Crisp - CV
Educated at Upingham School
and St Johns College, Cambridge.
Career History
1999 to date London
Regional Director, NHS Executive and Deputy Secretary in Department of Health
1997 to 1999 South Thames Regional Director, NHS Executive and Deputy
Secretary in Department of Health
1993 to 1997 Chief Executive, Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust
1988 to 1993 General Manager, later Chief Executive, of Heatherwood and
Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Trust
1986 to 1988 General Manager, East Berkshire Mental Handicap Unit
1981 to 1986 Director, Cambridgeshire Community Council
1978 to 1981 Production Manager, Trebor plc
1973 to 1978 Community Development Officer, Halewood Community Council
Current Post
London Regional Director,
NHS Executive and Deputy Secretary in Department of Health - 1999 to date
40 Eastbourne Terrace, London, W2 3QR, Tel: 020 7725 5425
I was appointed to manage
the largest and most complex of the 8 NHS regions when the London Region was
formed in January 1999. It brings together great institutions, services and
history with inner city populations of enormous need, major health issues and a
high political profile.
As Regional Director I am
accountable to the NHS Chief Executive, am a member of the NHS Executive Board
and work closely with the Secretary of State and other Ministers. I am
responsible for :
• leading and managing a wide ranging programme of change
• the delivery of services, education and R&D through 16 Health
Authorities and 57 NHS Trusts
• managing 135,000 staff and revenue budgets for services of £5.5bn,
education £600m and R&D £250m as well as capital investment of £3.5bn
An important part of the role is in representing the NHS and the government,
engaging with the most senior people in organisations and institutions across
London, working with many parts of the government including No.10 and the
Government Office for London and dealing extensively with the media. This has
increased in importance in the last few months in the run up to the election of
the Mayor and the GLA.
I was appointed to the new
Region with a specific brief to tackle its underlying problems, improve services
and develop new approaches to partnership, staffing and service delivery. Over
the last 18 months I have done so through :
• stabilising the position and improving services
• introducing increased management rigour and discipline into NHS
organisations and beginning to hit performance targets, for example, producing
the biggest fall in waiting lists in the country and significant improvements in
the financial position
• developing strategies and shared plans: for example, creating a Health
Strategy, developing cancer networks and introducing a mental health strategic
plan which covers all local authorities as well as health services
• making strategic investments to support these plans, for example, through
overseeing the development and management of several very large and complex
projects such as the redevelopment of Guy's and St Thomas's, University College
and St Barts Hospitals and planning the integration of services from a number of
teaching hospitals into the development of two new hospitals in the Paddington
Basin
• developing strategic partnerships with, for example, London First
(representative of London Business), the Association of London Government
(representing the London Boroughs) and the Medical Schools
• beginning to change the culture of the NHS in London: to become more focused
on patients and their needs and to operate more effectively as a single
organisation. This has involved, for example, introducing new systems for common
practice and clinical networking across Trusts; bringing together GP's into
Primary Care Groups to focus on the needs of their neighbourhood and supporting
change with a series of learning partnerships, collaborations and demonstration
projects
• enabling the NHS to play its part as a "corporate citizen", the
largest employer in London: most recently this has meant developing a
relationship with the Mayor and GLA.
At a national level, I have taken a lead role in NHS Board activity around
education and training and quality.
Earlier Career
South Thames Regional
Director, NHS Executive and Deputy Secretary in Department of Health - 1997 to
1998
As South Thames Regional
Director I performed a similar role to that of London Regional Director for an
area running from the Thames to the south coast. The Region disappeared in the
reorganisation at the end of 1998.
Chief Executive, Oxford
Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust - 1993 to 1997
I was the first Chief
Executive of the major teaching hospital in Oxford, one of the leading academic
medical centres in the country, which is linked to Oxford University and serves
the specialist needs of 2m people.
It has 5,000 staff and a
budget, at today's values, of more than £220m. In this post I :
• successfully managed major organisational and cultural change, merging
teaching hospitals and leading the resulting organisation into becoming a
semi-autonomous NHS Trust able to operate effectively within the NHS internal
market
• developed the range and quality of services in the hospital and took a
personal lead in promoting radical change in some services eg, the development
of a ground breaking trauma service and the creation of a new breast service
• dealt with very difficult operational, personnel and financial issues in
order to ensure that targets were hit and firm foundations were laid for future
development
General Manager, later
Chief Executive of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Trust - 1988 to
1993
I ran this busy district
general hospital which serves Slough, Maidenhead, Windsor and Ascot for 5 years
leading it through a merger and the process of becoming an NHS Trust. During
this period the Trust developed new services and established a viable position
in the new NHS internal market.
General Manager, East
Berkshire Mental Handicap Unit - 1986 to 1988
I joined the NHS in 1986 at
a time when general management was being introduced and ran this unit in
Bracknell for 2 years.
Director, Cambridgeshire
Community Council - 1981 to 1986
I worked in Cambridgeshire
for a charity involved in the development of the voluntary sector, the promotion
of rural communities and rural life and the delivery of services in association
with public authorities.
Production Manager, Trebor
plc - 1978 to 1981
In 1978 I became a
Production Manager in a new factory in Colchester which was designed to break up
traditional production lines with the introduction of semi-autonomous working
groups. I was responsible for running the first production unit and setting in
place the new systems. The factory was successful in achieving production
targets and an evaluation by Sheffield University demonstrated improvements in
job satisfaction, recruitment and retention of staff.
Community Development
Officer, Halewood Community Council - 1973 to 1978
I worked for 5 years for
this local charity engaged in community development in Liverpool. I evaluated
the success of the project whilst registered within the Department of Social
Administration at Lancaster University.