Chris Ham
| Chris Ham CBE |
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|---|---|
| Born | May 15, 1951 |
| Nationality | British |
| Other names | Political scientist (public health policy) |
| Occupation | Chief executive of the King's Fund |
Professor Chris Ham (born 15 May 1951),[1] CBE is a health policy academic who started life as a political scientist. He has been chief executive of the King's Fund since 2010. He was professor of health policy and management at University of Birmingham's health services management centre from 1992 to 2010. He was seconded to the Department of Health where he was Director of the Strategy Unit working with Alan Milburn and John Reid until 2004.[2]
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.[3] He is frequently called upon to chair large conferences on health policy in England.
He was said by the Health Service Journal to be the 38th most powerful person in the English NHS in December 2013.[4]
Publications
- 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)
