Nigel Crisp, Baron Crisp

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Nigel Crisp, Baron Crisp

Edmund Nigel Ramsay Crisp, Baron Crisp KCB (born January 14, 1952 ) is a former senior civil servant in the UK Department of Health and a manager in the National Health Service . After his retirement he was promoted to life peer . He sits as a crossbencher in the upper house . He is particularly concerned with international health policy and development.

Personal

Crisp studied philosophy at Cambridge .

He is married with two children and lives near Newbury . He is interested in country life, gardening and painting.

Career

Crisp joined the National Health Service (NHS) in 1986 after previously working in the local community in Liverpool and Cambridgeshire . From 1981 to 1986 he was a director at Age Concern in Cambridge. He then worked for the learning disabled in East Berkshire. In 1988 he assumed an executive position and later became General Manager of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals. In Oxford he became CEO in 1993 the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital , one of the largest teaching hospitals in the country. He was appointed Regional Director of the NHS for the South Thames Area in 1997 and Regional Director of London in 1999.

Crisp was named General Manager and Secretary of State of the NHS on November 1, 2000. On March 8, 2006, he announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the month as he could no longer handle the NHS 'financial problems. He was commended by Prime Minister Tony Blair for his commitment to the UK healthcare system. In 2003 he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath . On April 28, 2006 he was promoted to Life Peer as Baron Crisp , of Eaglescliffe in the County of Durham. His successor at the NHS was Sir Ian Carruthers as General Manager and Hugh Taylor as Secretary of State.

International healthcare and development

Nigel Crisp has been very active in international healthcare and development since 2006. Notable among other things is his 2007 publication Global Health Partnerships , a report for the Prime Minister on the UK's ability to support health development in developing countries. A task force was set up together with the African Union Commissioner Bience Gawanas to promote the training of healthcare workers. This resulted in the publication Scaling up, Saving Lives in 2008 and in 2009 the Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance study together with the Zambian Minister of Health . He regularly publishes and lectures on international health care and published his book Turning the world upside down - the search for global health .

He is Chairman of Sightsavers International , Senior Fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Guest of Honor at Harvard School of Public Health, and Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine .

Publications

  • Turning the world upside down - the search for global health in the 21st Century , Hodder Education , 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Debretts , The Rt Hon the Lord Crisp, KCB ( Memento from September 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed May 12, 2011
  2. ↑ a b NigelCrisp.com, Nigel Crisp: Lord Crisp KCB
  3. ↑ a b c The Guardian , November 22, 2000, "The CV that got Nigel Crisp the top job in the NHS"
  4. ↑ a b The Guardian , Nov. 21, 2003, Sir Nigel Crisp
personal data
SURNAME Crisp, Nigel, Baron Crisp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crisp, Edmund Nigel Ramsay, Baron Crisp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and life peer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1952