Bob Nicholls, Esq, CBE

Career: house govr St Stephen's Hosp Chelsea 1966-68, asst clerk of the govrs St Thomas' Hosp 1968-72, dep gp sec Southampton Univ Hosp Mgmnt Ctee 1972-74, dist admin Southampton and SW Hants Health Dist 1974-77, area admin Newcastle Area HA 1977-81, regnl admin S Western Regnl HA 1981-85, dist gen mangr Southmead Health Dist 1985-88, chief exec Oxford Regnl HA 1988-93, seconded as exec dir London Implementation Gp NHS Mgmnt Exec 1993-96, health mgmnt conslt 1996-2004, chm Nat Clinical Assessment Authy 2003-05, NHS regnl appts cmmr for London 2005-08; health assoc conslt Br Cncl 1997-2005; non-exec dir Nestor Healthcare 1997-2003 (sr non-exec dir 2001-03); memb: Inst of Health Serv Mangrs (former memb Cncl, nat pres 1983-84), King's Fund Educn Ctee 1974-79, Health Educn Cncl 1984-87, Calman Ctee on Med Trg 1993, GMC 1996-2005 (chair Preliminary Proceedings Ctee 1999-2003), Clinical Advsy Bd Oxford Univ Med Sch 2001-08; chair Gen Pharmaceutical Cncl 2009-; assoc fell Templeton Coll Oxford 1996-2001; FHSM 1993 (AHSM 1965)

Books and Publications: Resources in Medicine (contrib, 1970), Working with People (contrib, 1983), Rationing of Health Care in Medicine (contrib, 1993), Doctors in Society (contrib, 2005)