Simon Stevens Health Manager

Simon Stevens
Stevens in 2016
Chief Executive of NHS England
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 April 2014
Preceded by	Sir David Nicholson
Lambeth Borough Councillor for Angell Ward
In office 7 May 1998 – 2 May 2002
Personal details
Born	Shard End, Birmingham, England
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford

Simon Stevens (born 4 August 1966) is a British health manager, public policy analyst and politician. His appointment as chief executive of NHS England with effect from 1 April 2014 was announced in October 2013, succeeding David Nicholson. He was said by the Health Service Journal in December 2013 to be the second most powerful person in the English NHS, even though he had not yet taken up his appointment.

Simon Stevens was born on 4 August 1966 in Birmingham, England. He was educated at St. Bartholomew's School and Balliol College, Oxford where he was president of the Oxford Union in the same academic year as close friend Boris Johnson. He received an MBA from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, and was a Harkness Fellow at Columbia University, New York. His wife, Maggie, who is an American public health specialist, gave birth to their son on Christmas Day 2003 at St Thomas' Hospital.

He was a Labour councillor for Brixton, in the London Borough of Lambeth 1998–2002.

From 1988 to 1997 he worked as healthcare manager in the UK and internationally. He started his NHS professional career on the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme with a week's work experience as a hospital porter and doing paperwork in a mortuary in Durham. Later, he moved on to be general manager for mental health services at North Tyneside and Northumberland and later group manager of Guy's and St Thomas’ hospitals in London.

In 1997 he was appointed policy adviser to two Secretaries of State for Health (Frank Dobson and Alan Milburn) and from 2001 to 2004 was health policy adviser to Tony Blair. He was closely associated with the development of the NHS Plan 2000.

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