Abstract
Alan Langlands is the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England and the most senior health service manager in the UK. He is the Secretary of State for Health's principal policy adviser for the NHS and is directly accountable to him for the effective stewardship of a revenue budget of £34bn.
He joined the NHS in 1974 as a graduate trainee and has spent his working life in health care management. His experience includes time spent managing major teaching hospitals in London (the Middlesex and University College Hospitals and the Hospital for Women, Soho), running Harrow Health Authority; and developing a Health Care practice within Powers Perrin, an international management consultancy firm. From 1990–1992 he was the Regional General Manager of North West Thames Regional Health Authority; during 1993, he was seconded to the Department of Health as Deputy Chief Executive of the NHS where he was responsible for a major review of the top management of the NHS.
Sir Alan is a science graduate of the University of Glasgow and holds the diploma of the Institute of Health Services Management. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick Business School and a board member of the Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change at the University. He is also an honorary fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians.