Nigel Edwards (health)
Nigel Edwards is a health policy researcher, appointed Chief Executive at the Nuffield Trust in April 2014.[1]
He was formerly an expert advisor with KPMG’s Global Centre of Excellence for Health and Life Sciences, a Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund. He was Policy Director of the NHS Confederation for 11 years.[2]
He has commented on government announcements about the English NHS, such as George Osborne's promise to find extra cash for the NHS,[3] and the reconfiguration of cancer services in Staffordshire. In 2014 he is reported as saying " that "there's nothing intrinsically bad about private or public sector provision",[4] and that the Better Care Fund might live up to the advertised savings if it concentrated entirely on moving people out of hospital into residential care.[5]
He was reckoned by the Health Service Journal to be the 42nd most influential person in the English NHS in 2015.[6]
References
- ^ Barnes, Sopie (7 January 2014). "Nigel Edwards to head Nuffield Trust". Health Service Journal. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- ^ "Nigel Edwards". Nuffield Trust. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- ^ Johnstone, Richard (1 December 2014). "Osborne pledges extra £2bn for NHS". Public Finance. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- ^ "Staffordshire NHS: innovation or backdoor privatisation?". Channel 4 News. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- ^ Williams, David (18 December 2014). "Better care fund investment returns 'wildly unrealistic', analysis finds". Local Government Chronicle. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- ^ "HSJ100 2015". Health Service Journal. 23 November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.