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Simon Stevens

Former Chief Executive of the National Health Service, now Member of the House of Lords

Simon Laurence Stevens, Baron Stevens of Birmingham, is a British public policy adviser, former CEO, and independent member of the UK House of Lords. He served as the eighth Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England from 2014 to 2021.

He first joined the NHS in 1988, and worked at the Department of Health and 10 Downing Street, as well as internationally, including in Guyana, Malawi, and in the United States. A former member of the Labour Party, Stevens was a councillor in the London Borough of Lambeth from 1998 to 2002. Stevens served as a senior executive at the UnitedHealth Group from 2004 to 2014, an American for-profit managed health care company which offers health care products and insurance services. He was also a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics from 2004 to 2008.

Visit website: https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/person/simon-stevens

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Details last updated 31-Jan-2020

Simon Stevens News

NHS England rolls out at-home cancer screening pillcam kits

Guardian - 11-Mar-2021

Sci-fi turned real: swallowable tiny camera capsules to spot signs of bowel cancer

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A blood test that can detect 50 types of cancer

BBC - 27-Nov-2020

NHS to offer this test to 165,000 people next year for detecting cancers early

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NHS warns the public about Gwyneth Paltrow and her Goop lab

Huffington Post - 30-Jan-2020

She's not a doctor or scientist, so listen to the people who are

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Patients' illnesses could soon be diagnosed by AI

Guardian - 12-Sep-2017

Computers could start diagnosing patients’ illnesses within the next few years as artificial inte...

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