Sir Simon Stevens steps down – the end of an era?

Sir Simon Stevens steps down – the end of an era? Sir Simon Stevens’ departure as Chief Executive of the NHS in England marks the end of an era. Pity his successor. The ‘to-do list’, or perhaps more accurately the ‘still-to-do list’ is enormous.

Sir Simon has been, by any measure, by far the most effective and powerful chief executive of the NHS, of whom there have been – in one form or another – eight, since 1985. If the test for ‘Who have been the greatest health ministers?’ is that they found the NHS as one thing and left it as another, Stevens, as a chief executive rather than a minister, passes that test easily. The King's Fund