Dame Julie Moore (born 18 August 1958) was the Chief Executive of

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from 2006 to 2018. She is a Director of the

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's Charitable Foundation and the Board of the 2022 Commonwealth Games which will be held in Birmingham. She spent ten years as a nurse in clinical practice before moving into nursing management. She became a director of

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in 1998. In 2002 she moved to University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation trust as Chief Operating Officer, and was appointed as Chief Executive in 2006. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the

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and was one of the top ten Chief Executives in the NHS in 2013 according to the Health Service Journal. In 2013, she was awarded an Honorary Chair at Warwick University, and was included in the

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list of the 100 most powerful women in the UK. In 2015 she was said to be the 31st most influential person in the English NHS. and the same year the Health Service Journal judged her as the third to top Chief Executive in the

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, and in 2016 the second. Dame Julie has honorary degrees from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, Oxford Brookes University and Aston University. She has spoken on various radio and TV programmes including Newsnight. Dame Julie is currently a non executive director at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust which she joined on 1 October 2018, and is an associate or advisor of several other organisations. Dame Julie lives in Birmingham with her civil partner, Lesley Pattenson, and three cats. Dame Julie is extremely open about her sexuality, with her partner Lesley accompanying her to many official engagements. She spoke about being a lesbian working in the NHS during her BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour interview and has chaired or spoken at a number of conferences or sessions looking at equality and diversity, gender and sexuality. She is a trustee of The Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund.

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