Jennifer Dixon Explained

Dame Jennifer Dixon
Nationality:British
Occupation:Chief Executive of The Health Foundation

Dame Jennifer Dixon is the chief executive of the Health Foundation, a large independent charity in the United Kingdom.[1] [2] Her work has been recognised by several national and international bodies for her significant impact in driving national health policy making.

Education

Dixon holds a degree in medicine from the University of Bristol, and a Master’s in public health and a PhD in health services research both from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Career

Dixon trained and practiced in paediatric medicine before moving into health policy in 1989.[3] Dixon was awarded a Harkness Fellowship in health policy in 1990, spending a year in New York City.[4] She was policy advisor to the Chief Executive of the National Health Service between 1998 and 2000,[5] Director of Policy at the King's Fund until 2008,[6] where she led the development of the nationally adopted Patients at Risk of Re-hospitalisation (PARR) tool for primary care.[7] [8] Dixon was then Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust from 2008 to 2013.[9] [10] In 2013 she became Chief Executive of the Health Foundation. Under her leadership, the Health Foundation contributed to a decision by the UK Government to invest an additional £20 billion in the National Health Service (NHS) in 2018[11] and is publishing on the first of its kind Young People's Future Health Inquiry in 2019.[12]

As a renowned health policy expert, she regularly writes for national newspapers such as The Guardian,[13] [14] [15] Financial Times[16] and Prospect Magazine[17] and is a regular on major current affairs and news programmes such as the BBC[18] and Channel 4 news.[19] Dixon also regularly gives evidence at House of Commons and Lords Select Committees and parliamentary seminars.[20] [21]

Dixon was a trustee of the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) (2011-2016),[22] and has served on the board of the UK's Care Quality Commission (CQC) (2013-2016),[23] the UK's Audit Commission (2003-2012)[24] and the UK's Healthcare Commission (2004-2009).[25]

Dixon led a national enquiry about published ratings of quality of NHS and social care providers in England (2013)[26] [27] and later another enquiry about ratings for general practices (2015).[28] She was also a member of the Parliamentary Review Panel for the Welsh Assembly Government advising on the future strategy for the NHS and social care in Wales (2016–2018).[29]

She has also held visiting professorships at The London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE),[30] Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)[31] and co-authored two books on the NHS.[32] [33]

Honours, awards and recognition

Dixon was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to public health[34] and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to the National Health Service and public health.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Doctor Jennifer Dixon. The Health Foundation. en. 2019-10-11.
  2. 2014-03-20. Jennifer Dixon: Not shy about public health. BMJ. en. 348. mar20 2. g2104. 10.1136/bmj.g2104. 24650624. 1756-1833. Dixon. J.. 5267280.
  3. Web site: Dr. Jennifer Dixon, CBE All-Party Parliamentary Health Group. www.healthinparliament.org.uk. 2019-10-11.
  4. Web site: Dr Jennifer Dixon. THIS Institute - The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute. 2019-10-11.
  5. 2011-07-01. My working day: Jennifer Dixon. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 104. 7. 306–307. 10.1258/jrsm.2011.11k016. 0141-0768. 3128870. 21725098. Dixon. J..
  6. Web site: Jennifer Dixon King's Fund. 2005.
  7. Web site: The future of predictive risk tools for the NHS. 2017-01-27. The Nuffield Trust. en-GB. 2019-10-14.
  8. Web site: Hospital admissions predictive software updated. 2006-02-06. Digital Health. en-GB. 2019-10-14.
  9. Web site: Dr Jennifer Dixon CBE. 2017-01-05. The Nuffield Trust. en-GB. 2019-10-11.
  10. News: 2008-01-09 . Career moves in the public services and voluntary sector: Ruth Marks / Mark Lever / Malcolm Lowe-Lauri / Raj Jain / Mark Lloyd / Jennifer Dixon / Steve Douglas . en-GB . The Guardian . 2019-10-12 . 0261-3077.
  11. Web site: Government announces £20bn increase to NHS funding. Wickware. Carolyn. Pulse Today. en. 2019-10-14.
  12. Web site: Young people's future health inquiry. The Health Foundation. en. 2019-10-14.
  13. News: Dixon . Jennifer . Charlesworth . Anita . 2016-11-27 . Shamefully, the autumn statement said nothing about social care . en-GB . The Guardian . 2019-10-12 . 0261-3077.
  14. News: Dixon . Jennifer . 2015-11-08 . The NHS has social objectives as well as economic ones. Can we reconcile them? . en-GB . The Guardian . 2019-10-12 . 0261-3077.
  15. News: Bill or no bill, the NHS must undergo radical change. Dixon. Dr Jennifer. 2012-02-27. The Guardian. 2019-10-12. Trust. director of the Nuffield. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  16. Web site: Dixon . Jennifer . 2018-06-30 . How the UK healthcare system can spend its extra funding well . 2019-10-14 . Financial Times . en-GB.
  17. Web site: Jennifer Dixon. en-US. 2019-10-14.
  18. Web site: Health service 'improving overall'. BBC News. en-GB. 2019-10-14.
  19. Web site: Dr Jennifer Dixon. Channel 4 News. en-GB. 2019-10-14.
  20. Web site: House of Commons - Health Committee - Minutes of Evidence. publications.parliament.uk. 2019-10-14.
  21. Web site: NHS long term plan: oral evidence session on Tuesday 15 January - News from Parliament. UK Parliament. en. 2019-10-14.
  22. Web site: NatCen Social Research. www.natcen.ac.uk. 2019-10-12.
  23. Web site: CQC announces three new non-executive Board members Care Quality Commission. www.cqc.org.uk. 2019-10-12.
  24. Web site: The Audit Commission - appointment of new commissioners. GOV.UK. en. 2019-10-12.
  25. Web site: Dr Jennifer Dixon – Speakers for Schools. en-GB. 2019-10-12.
  26. Web site: Rating providers for quality: a policy worth pursuing?. 2017-01-16. The Nuffield Trust. en-GB. 2019-10-12.
  27. Web site: Health care ratings system backed. 2013-03-22. Evening Standard. en. 2019-10-12.
  28. Web site: Indicators of Quality of Care In General Practices in England. 2015.
  29. Web site: Items at meetings - Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales. 2017-02-16. senedd.assembly.wales. en. 2019-10-12.
  30. Web site: Dr Jennifer Dixon - RSA. www.thersa.org. 2019-10-12.
  31. Web site: Global Health Leadership: Senior Health Leaders at LSHTM. 2019-10-07. Student blogs. en-US. 2019-10-12.
  32. Book: Future of the NHS. 2019-10-14. .
  33. Web site: Purchaser plurality in UK health care is a consensus emerging and is it the right one?. Nicholas Mays. Jennifer Dixon. journals.rcni.com. en. 2019-10-14.
  34. News: 2013-06-14 . Queen's birthday honours list 2013: GCB, DBE and CBE . en-GB . The Guardian . 2019-10-11 . 0261-3077.
  35. Web site: New Fellows: 50 top biomedical and health scientists join the Academy The Academy of Medical Sciences. acmedsci.ac.uk. 2019-10-11.
  36. Web site: Jennifer Dixon Graduation University of Bristol. Bristol. University of. www.bristol.ac.uk. en-GB. 2019-10-11.

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