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David Cameron has identified Tony Blair's former health adviser, who helped plan Labour's multibillion-pound "rescue" of the NHS, as his favoured candidate to become the health service's next chief executive.
According to well-placed sources inside the NHS, the PM recently invited Simon Stevens to Downing Street in the hope of persuading him to take on the task of succeeding Sir David Nicholson.
Stevens is also understood to be the preferred choice of Professor Sir Malcolm Grant, the chairman of NHS England's board. Grant is in charge of selecting Nicholson's successor and, with his five fellow non-executive members of the board, will decide who is offered the job, though health secretary Jeremy Hunt has a right of veto. Cameron and Grant believe Stevens is the ideal person to help steer the service through an overhaul of how care is delivered while budgets remain tight.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/01/cameron-wants-simon-stevens-nhs-ceo
According to well-placed sources inside the NHS, the PM recently invited Simon Stevens to Downing Street in the hope of persuading him to take on the task of succeeding Sir David Nicholson.
Stevens is also understood to be the preferred choice of Professor Sir Malcolm Grant, the chairman of NHS England's board. Grant is in charge of selecting Nicholson's successor and, with his five fellow non-executive members of the board, will decide who is offered the job, though health secretary Jeremy Hunt has a right of veto. Cameron and Grant believe Stevens is the ideal person to help steer the service through an overhaul of how care is delivered while budgets remain tight.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/01/cameron-wants-simon-stevens-nhs-ceo