Sir James Mackey, Chief Executive of

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, was appointed to be Chief Executive of

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in October 2015 as a two-year secondment. He confirmed that he intended to return to Northumbria. He has resumed his post as Chief Executive at Northumbria Healthcare Trust in November 2017. Born in Hebburn, South Tyneside, in 1966. He is a qualified accountant and joined the NHS in 1990. He was reckoned by the

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to be the seventh most influential person in the English NHS in 2015, and the third in 2016. He was

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in the 2019 New Years Honours List. In 2021 he unsuccessfully applied to become NHS chief executive to succeed

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, losing out in the open competition - alongside

Dido Harding Diana Mary "Dido" Harding, Baroness Harding of Winscombe (born 9 November 1967), is a British businesswoman and Conservative life peer. She served as chairwoman of NHS Improvement from 2017, and from May 2020 to April 2021, during the COVID-19 ...

and

Mark Britnell Mark Douglas Britnell (born 5 January 1966) is an English business executive. He is a senior partner at the professional services firm KPMG and a global healthcare expert. He was the chairman and senior partner for healthcare, government and infras ...

- to

Amanda Pritchard Amanda Kate Pritchard (born May 1976) is a British healthcare official and public policy analyst who has been the Chief Executive of NHS England since 1 August 2021. Pritchard previously served as chief operating officer of NHS England and as chi ...

. In 2022 he was acted to lead the Elective recovery work for NHS England and remains one of the most influential figures in the NHS, ranked fifth of the

's most influential people in health.

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