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Dame Jennifer Dixon
DBE FRCP FFPH
NationalityBritish
OccupationChief Executive of The Health Foundation

Dame Jennifer Dixon DBE FRCP FFPH is the chief executive of the Health Foundation, a large independent charity in the United Kingdom.[1][2] Her work has been recognised by several national and international bodies for her significant impact in driving national health policy making.

Education

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Dixon holds a degree in medicine from the University of Bristol, and a Master’s in public health and a PhD in health services research both from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Career

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Dixon trained and practiced in paediatric medicine before moving into health policy in 1989.[3][4][2] Dixon was awarded a Harkness Fellowship in health policy in 1990, spending a year in New York City.[5] She was policy advisor to the Chief Executive of the National Health Service between 1998 and 2000,[6] Director of Policy at the King's Fund until 2008,[7][1] where she led the development of the nationally adopted Patients at Risk of Re-hospitalisation (PARR) tool for primary care.[8][9] Dixon was then Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust from 2008 to 2013.[10][11] In 2013 she became Chief Executive of the Health Foundation. Under her leadership, the Health Foundation contributed to a decision by the UK Government to invest an additional £20 billion in the National Health Service (NHS) in 2018[12] and is publishing on the first of its kind Young People's Future Health Inquiry in 2019.[13]

As a renowned health policy expert, she regularly writes for national newspapers such as The Guardian,[14][15][16] Financial Times[17] and Prospect Magazine[18] and is a regular on major current affairs and news programmes such as the BBC[19] and Channel 4 news.[20] Dixon also regularly gives evidence at House of Commons and Lords Select Committees and parliamentary seminars.[21][22]

Dixon was a trustee of the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) (2011-2016),[23] and has served on the board of the UK's Care Quality Commission (CQC) (2013-2016),[24] the UK's Audit Commission (2003-2012)[25] and the UK's Healthcare Commission (2004-2009).[26]

Dixon led a national enquiry about published ratings of quality of NHS and social care providers in England (2013)[27][28] and later another enquiry about ratings for general practices (2015).[29] She was also a member of the Parliamentary Review Panel for the Welsh Assembly Government advising on the future strategy for the NHS and social care in Wales (2016–2018).[30]

She has also held visiting professorships at The London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE),[31] Imperial College London[1] and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)[32] and co-authored two books on the NHS.[33][34]

Honours, awards and recognition

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Dixon was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to public health[35] and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to the National Health Service and public health.[36]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Doctor Jennifer Dixon". The Health Foundation. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
  2. ^ a b Dixon, J. (2014-03-20). "Jennifer Dixon: Not shy about public health". BMJ. 348 (mar20 2): g2104. doi:10.1136/bmj.g2104. ISSN 1756-1833. PMID 24650624. S2CID 5267280.
  3. ^ a b "Dr. Jennifer Dixon, CBE | All-Party Parliamentary Health Group". www.healthinparliament.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
  4. ^ a b Bristol, University of. "Jennifer Dixon | Graduation | University of Bristol". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
  5. ^ a b "Dr Jennifer Dixon". THIS Institute - The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
  6. ^ Dixon, J. (2011-07-01). "My working day: Jennifer Dixon". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 104 (7): 306–307. doi:10.1258/jrsm.2011.11k016. ISSN 0141-0768. PMC 3128870. PMID 21725098.
  7. ^ "Jennifer Dixon King's Fund" (PDF). 2005.
  8. ^ "The future of predictive risk tools for the NHS". The Nuffield Trust. 2017-01-27. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  9. ^ "Hospital admissions predictive software updated". Digital Health. 2006-02-06. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  10. ^ "Dr Jennifer Dixon CBE". The Nuffield Trust. 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
  11. ^ "Career moves in the public services and voluntary sector: Ruth Marks / Mark Lever / Malcolm Lowe-Lauri / Raj Jain / Mark Lloyd / Jennifer Dixon / Steve Douglas". The Guardian. 2008-01-09. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  12. ^ Wickware, Carolyn. "Government announces £20bn increase to NHS funding". Pulse Today. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  13. ^ "Young people's future health inquiry". The Health Foundation. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  14. ^ Dixon, Jennifer; Charlesworth, Anita (2016-11-27). "Shamefully, the autumn statement said nothing about social care". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  15. ^ Dixon, Jennifer (2015-11-08). "The NHS has social objectives as well as economic ones. Can we reconcile them?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  16. ^ Dixon, Dr Jennifer; Trust, director of the Nuffield (2012-02-27). "Bill or no bill, the NHS must undergo radical change". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  17. ^ Dixon, Jennifer (2018-06-30). "How the UK healthcare system can spend its extra funding well". Financial Times. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  18. ^ "Jennifer Dixon". Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  19. ^ "Health service 'improving overall'". BBC News. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  20. ^ "Dr Jennifer Dixon". Channel 4 News. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  21. ^ "House of Commons - Health Committee - Minutes of Evidence". publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  22. ^ "NHS long term plan: oral evidence session on Tuesday 15 January - News from Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  23. ^ "NatCen Social Research". www.natcen.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  24. ^ "CQC announces three new non-executive Board members | Care Quality Commission". www.cqc.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  25. ^ "The Audit Commission - appointment of new commissioners". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  26. ^ "Dr Jennifer Dixon – Speakers for Schools". Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  27. ^ "Rating providers for quality: a policy worth pursuing?". The Nuffield Trust. 2017-01-16. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  28. ^ "Health care ratings system backed". Evening Standard. 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  29. ^ "Indicators of Quality of Care In General Practices in England" (PDF). 2015.
  30. ^ "Items at meetings - Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales". senedd.assembly.wales. 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  31. ^ "Dr Jennifer Dixon - RSA". www.thersa.org. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  32. ^ "Global Health Leadership: Senior Health Leaders at LSHTM". Student blogs. 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  33. ^ Future of the NHS. 2019-10-14. ASIN 1857172191.
  34. ^ Nicholas Mays, Jennifer Dixon. "Purchaser plurality in UK health care is a consensus emerging and is it the right one?". journals.rcni.com. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  35. ^ "Queen's birthday honours list 2013: GCB, DBE and CBE". The Guardian. 2013-06-14. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
  36. ^ "No. 64269". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2023. p. N9.
  37. ^ "New Fellows: 50 top biomedical and health scientists join the Academy | The Academy of Medical Sciences". acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
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