Andy McKeon is to succeed Professor Dame Carol Black as Chair of the Nuffield Trust.
Professor Dame Carol Black is to step down from the position of Chair of the Nuffield Trust after ten years at the helm. The trustees have appointed Andy McKeon to succeed her and he takes up the chair today, Monday 4 July 2016.
Andy McKeon has previously served as a trustee of the Nuffield Trust and as its interim chief executive between September 2013 and April 2014 when Nigel Edwards took up his post. Andy was a career civil servant at the Department of Health, led the Audit Commission’s work on the NHS and health and is currently vice-chair of NICE.
Professor Black has overseen a significant expansion of the Nuffield Trust’s work programme since she first became Chair in 2006, working successively with Jennifer Dixon, Andy McKeon and Nigel Edwards to broaden the range of the Trust’s research activities and raise its profile as an independent commentator on health policy.
Thanking her, Nigel Edwards comments:
“Dame Carol has been a hugely distinguished chair of the Nuffield Trust and we owe her a great debt of gratitude for her work. The last ten years have seen major growth in the Trust’s reach and influence. Professor Black has been a strong champion for our work and for the use of evidence to improve health care. Despite many competing claims on her time, she has taken a close personal interest in the fortunes of the Nuffield and we have all benefited from her insights. I am delighted to welcome Andy McKeon as our new Chair. I know from working with him over many years that his immense knowledge and penetrating analysis will serve us extremely well“
Andy McKeon adds:
“I am delighted to be taking on the chair of the Nuffield Trust. It is a great honour, especially to succeed Dame Carol who has done so much for the Trust in transforming the way it works and making it immeasurably stronger and more relevant. She has ensured that the trustees fulfil their role as stewards of the Trust and that the organisation thinks and acts strategically and delivers high quality work.
“I have had a long association with the Nuffield Trust and look forward to shaping and contributing to its forward programme with my fellow trustees. Our health services are under unprecedented pressure. The Trust has an important role to play in supporting senior clinicians and managers to deal with the challenges posed by financial constraint and rising demand and in advising policymakers how difficult issues might be resolved. I am committed to supporting Nigel and the team to offer the independent evidence and analysis that is so vital in difficult times.”
Dame Carol says:
“It has been a pleasure and a privilege to chair the Nuffield Trust for the last ten years. I am very proud of the way the Trust has grown in stature and influence. It has undertaken and disseminated some highly significant research and analysis – both independently and in partnership with other organisations and I wish the Trust every success for the future.”
Professor Black will chair the 4 July meeting of the Board of Trustees and then hand over to Andy McKeon with immediate effect.
Professor Dame Carol Black DBE, MD, FRCP, MACP, FMedSci is Principal of Newnham College Cambridge, and Expert Adviser on health and work to the Department of Health. She is a past President of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. She established an internationally renowned centre for the research and treatment of connective tissue disease such as scleroderma at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Andy McKeon is Senior Policy Fellow at the Nuffield Trust, after being interim Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust from September 2013 to April 2014. Previously Andy had been a Trustee for five years.
Formerly a career civil servant at the Department of Health, Andy led on several major White Papers reshaping the NHS. He also had responsibility for primary care and all pharmaceutical matters.
He joined the Audit Commission in 2003, where he was responsible for all the Commission’s work in the NHS and on wider health matters. During his time at the Commission, he undertook a review for the Secretary of State on the NHS’ financial management and accounting regime and produced a number of major studies on the NHS and public health issues more generally.
Andy is also a non-executive member and vice-chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and a non-executive director of Egton Medical Information Systems (EMIS). He is formerly an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Health Policy in the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London.