Duncan Kirkbride Nichol

Sir Duncan Kirkbride Nichol CBE (born 30 May 1941) is a British hospital administrator who was the third Chief Executive of the National Health Service Management Executive from 1989 to 1994.[1]

He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, to James Nichol and Mabel Kirkbride.[2] He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland.[1] He joined the NHS in 1963 as a graduate trainee, and worked his way up in St Thomas's Hospital and Manchester Royal Infirmary, from senior administrative assistant to regional general manager of the Mersey Regional Health Authority.[3] He has been Chairman of the Academy for Healthcare Science, Her Majesty’s Courts Service, Skills for Justice, the Parole Board for England and Wales and Synergy Healthcare. He is a director of Deltex Medical Group.[4]

He was a non-executive director of the Christie Hospital from 2008 and deputy chairman from 2009 until 2012, when he was appointed Chair of the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.[5] He announced his retirement in November 2019.[6]

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 New Year Honours and knighted in the 1993 New Year Honours.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2891. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
  3. ^ "UK: PROFILE - SIR DUNCAN NICHOL - NHS CHIEF EXECUTIVE". Management Today. 1 October 1993. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Deltex Medical Group". Data shareview. 12 May 2016. Archived from the original on 6 November 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  5. ^ "Countess of Chester appoints former NHS chief exec as chair". Health Service Journal. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Former NHS chief executive to retire". Health Service Journal. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2019.