Dame Barbara Stocking, DBE

Career: fell Kings Fund Coll 1983-86, dir Kings Fund Centre for Health Servs Devpt 1987-93; chief exec: Oxford RHA 1993-94, Anglia and Oxford RHA 1994-96; regional dir: Anglia and Oxford NHS Exec 1996-99, South-East NHS Exec 1999-2000; head Modernisation Agency NHS Executive 2000-01; chief exec Oxfam 2001-13; memb: Riverside Health Authy 1985-89, Advsy Ctee UK Harkness Fellowships 1989-95, Central R&D Ctee NHS 1991-96; Hon DSc: Univ of Luton 1998, Oxford Brookes Univ 1999; CIMgt 1996

Books and Publications: The Image and the Reality: A Case Study of the Impacts of Medical Technology (with S L Morrison, 1978), Initiative and Inertia - Case Studies in the Health Service (1985), Expensive Medical Technologies (ed, 1988), A Study of the Diffusion of Medical Technology in Europe (series ed, 1991), Medical Advances (the future shape of acute services, 1992)