Andy McKeon, chair of the Nuffield Trust, has been appointed a CBE for services to Healthcare in the 2020 New Year’s Honours. Andy McKeon is a long standing Nuffield Trustee and has chaired the Board since July 2016.
Andy McKeon has a distinguished record of public service, serving as Deputy Chief Executive of Barts and the London NHS Trust; Head of Primary Care at the Department of Health and as managing director for health at the Audit Commission between 2003 and 2012. He has also previously served two terms as a non-executive member of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
Welcoming the news, Nigel Edwards, Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust, says:
“I am delighted to learn that Andy McKeon has been appointed a CBE and extend warm congratulations on behalf of all the Nuffield Trust staff and trustees. Andy’s deep knowledge of and commitment to the health service, deriving from many years of public service, is unparalleled.
We continually benefit from his insights and wise counsel and I am very pleased to see his contribution recognised.”
Read Andy’s profile page here: https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/person/andy-mckeon
Note: This announcement was amended on 10/01/2020 to reflect that Andy stepped down as a non-executive member of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in 2017.