NHSE deputy chief executive receives knighthood in Birthday Honours

NHSE deputy chief executive Professor Glen Burley has received a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours List.

Glen Burley (c) NHSE

Glen Burley (c) NHSE

Prof Burley was among those honoured for their services to the NHS, which also saw CBEs for Samantha Allen, chief executive, NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB, former UCLPartners chair, Dominic Dodd, NHSE regional director, Anne Eden, and chief executive, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Prof Timothy Robin.

Other NHS recipients were.

OBEs

  • Prof David Henry Felix, former dean of postgraduate dental education and director of dentistry, NHS Education for Scotland
  • Karen Jane Hamilton, former chair, NHS Borders
  • Prof Mohamed Wasim Hanif, clinical advisor, Diabetes UK
  • Rachel Anne Hollis, former chair, Professional Nursing Committee, Royal College of Nursing and honorary nurse advisor for children's cancer care, The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Dr Niall Gerald James Keenan, divisional director for medicine services, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

MBEs

  • Sara Jane Barr-Frost, deputy chief cursing and allied health professionals officer, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust and former director of nursing and allied health professionals, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
  • Prof Stephen James Brett, consultant in intensive care medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Prof of critical care, Imperial College London
  • Dr John Richard Buscombe, former consultant in nuclear medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Prof Dafydd Gareth Richard Evans, Emeritus Prof of Medical Genetics, University of Manchester and Consultant in Medical Genetics, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
  • Corinne Ann Galletly, former Macmillan team lead, NHS Grampian
  • Dr Arun Kumar Gupta, consultant in anaesthesia and neurocritical care, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, director, Cambridge Digital Health and Surgical Training Centre and Affiliated Associate Prof, University of Cambridge
  • Dr Karen Jayne Juggins, lead, Keep Stoke Smiling Dental Health Campaign and consultant orthodontist, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
  • Dr Diane Victoria Laverty, former Macmillan nurse consultant in palliative and end of life care, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
  • Dr Roderick Mackenzie, consultant in emergency medicine and pre-hospital emergency medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Dakshesh Harivadan Parikh, former consultant paediatric surgeon, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
  • Alison Simpson, information manager, ophthalmology department, NHS Tayside
  • Dr Carl Samuel Waldmann, former director, intensive care unit, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
  • Lucy Jane Warner, chief executive, NHS Practitioner Health Service

Medallists of the Order of the British Empire

  • Vittoria Bucknall, consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
  • Janet Mary Cooper, former clinical lead, Children's Speech and Language Therapies, Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
  • Warren John Dunkley, founder, Off the Ropes and occupational therapist, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
  • Donna Rebecca Hilton, youth services manager, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Dr Katie Louise Misselbrook, consultant anaesthetist, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
  • Juliet Ruth Mosney, NHS and care volunteer responder, Royal Voluntary Service
  • Debra Jayne Padgett, pathology network operational lead and clinical pathology lead, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
  • Catherine Mary Repton, founder and trustee, The Friends of the Baby Unit, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
  • Pundrique Radheyshyam Sharma, consultant plastic surgeon, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
  • Josef Matthew Taylor, consultant surgeon, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
  • Roger David Mingins Walton, consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
  • Alice Louise Wintergold, consultant clinical scientist, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
  • Dr David Martin Wright, consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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