Joan Higgins
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Dame Joan Higgins is an Academic.
Since 2007, she is Dame of the British Empire.[1].
Professor Higgins has held academic posts at the Universities of Portsmouth, Southampton (where she was Professor of Social Policy) and Manchester (where she was Professor of Health Policy, from 1992, and Director of the Manchester Centre for Healthcare Management 1998-2004. From 2002-3 she was President of the European Health Management Association. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Health Record Information and Management and is Emerita Professor of Health Policy at the University of Manchester.
Chair of the NHS Litigation Authority. Member (since 2005) QC Appointments Panel. Chair Federal Working Group Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health on complementary therapy. Chair (since 2001) of the Patient Information Advisory Group (PIAG) in the Department of Health. Chair of the Ethics Advisory Group, NHS Care Record Development Board. Chair of the Christie NHS Trust 2002-2007 Chair of the NHS Regional office for the North West, and Chair of Manchester Health Authority.
[edit] External links
- biography at application and selection for Queen's Counsel
- short biography in the BBC news
