Sir Chris Ham (born 15 May 1951), is a health policy academic who started life as a political scientist. He was chief executive of the

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from 2010 to 2018. He was professor of health policy and management at

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's health services management centre from 1992 to 2010. He was seconded to the

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where he was Director of the Strategy Unit working with

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and John Reid until 2004. He was said to be "unrivalled in his ability to distil and synthesise complex policy developments and present them in a clear and digestible manner for non-specialists" in 1999. He is frequently called upon to chair large conferences on

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. He was said by the ''

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'' to be the 38th most powerful person in the

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in December 2013. In the June

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he was appointed a CBE for his services. He was appointed as independent chair of the Coventry and Warwickshire sustainability and transformation partnership in January 2019. He is also Co-Chair of the NHS Assembly and a non-executive director of the

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Publications

*''Working together for Health: achievements and challenges in the Kaiser NHS Beacon Sites Programme'', 2010 *''Transforming the Delivery of Health and Social Care: The Case for Fundamental Change'' with Anna Dixon and Beatrice Brooke, 2012 *''Commissioning integrated care in a liberated NHS'', 2011 *''Health policy in Britain'' (6 Editions) *''The Politics of NHS Reform, 1988-97: Metaphor or Reality?'', 2000 *''Management and Competition in the NHS'', 1997 *''The Policy Process in the Modern Capitalist State'', with Michael Hill (Jan 1993)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ham, Chris 1951 births British political scientists National Health Service people Living people Academics of the University of Birmingham Alumni of the University of Kent Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Deputy Lieutenants of the West Midlands (county)