Jim Mackey (administrator)

Sir James Mackey, Chief Executive of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, was appointed to be Chief Executive of NHS Improvement in October 2015[1] as a two-year secondment. He confirmed that he intended to return to Northumbria.[2] He resumed his post as Chief Executive at Northumbria Healthcare Trust in November 2017.

Born in Hebburn, South Tyneside, in 1966.[3] He is a qualified accountant and joined the NHS in 1990.[4]

He was reckoned by the Health Service Journal to be the seventh most influential person in the English NHS in 2015,[5] and the third in 2016.[6]

He was knighted in the 2019 New Years Honours List.

In 2021 he unsuccessfully applied to become NHS chief executive to succeed Simon Stevens, losing out in the open competition - alongside Dido Harding and Mark Britnell - to Amanda Pritchard.[7] 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 Health Service Journal's most influential people in health.[8]

In January 2024, Sir James took over as CEO of the Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust.

References

1. "KPMG wins £1m contract to design NHS Improvement". Health Service Journal. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
2. "Mackey only in NHS Improvement job for two years". Health Service Journal. 31 May 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
3. BM&D record
4. "Chief Executive, NHS Improvement Jim Mackey". Gov.uk. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
5. "HSJ100 2015". Health Service Journal. 23 November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
6. "HSJ100 2016: The list in full". Health Service Journal. 11 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
7. Discombe2021-07-28T11:41:00+01:00, Matt. "Amanda Pritchard appointed as NHS England chief executive". Health Service Journal. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
8. "HSJ100: The most influential people in health". Health Service Journal. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.