Nigel Crisp

Educated at Uppingham and Cambridge, Nigel Crisp spent five years as a community worker in Liverpool, before joining Trebor in a management position.

Appointed London regional director of the NHS Executive in 1999, Mr. Crisp oversaw the merger of the two regions that had operated in the capital.  He spent five years as a community worker in Liverpool, followed by a period in industry, before working in the voluntary sector in Cambridgeshire.   In the 1980s he worked at a Mental Handicap Unit in Berkshire, moving on to become chief executive of the Heatherwood and Wrexham Park Hospitals Trust in Berkshire, managing acute and mental health services.  He later became the first chief executive of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust and in 1997 was made South Thames regional director for the NHS Executive.   Nigel Crisp left the position of London Regional Director of the NHS Executive on the 1st November 2000 to become head of the NHS in England and Permanent Secretary at the DH.  The combined post means that Mr. Crisp is involved in making decisions on social care and major public health issues as well as running the NHS.    

Email  mb-nigel-crisp-nhs@doh.gsi.gov.uk