Speaker

Lord Nigel Crisp is an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords in the UK and works and writes mainly on global health.

He was Chief Executive of the English NHS and Permanent Secretary of the UK Department of Health, from 2000 to 2006. He had previously been Chief Executive of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals.

He has subsequently worked in health globally, mainly pro-bono in low- and middle-income countries in Africa and Asia.

Nigel Crisp founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health and the global campaign on nursing, Nursing Now, both of which he co-chaired.

His books include:

Health is Made at Home, Hospitals are for Repairs – Building a Healthy and Health-Creating Society; Salus Global 2020 

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Turning the World Upside Down Again – Global health at a time of pandemics, climate change and political turmoil, CRC Press, 2022. 

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Lord Nigel Crisp will be speaking in the Whole Persons Health Conference taking place on Thursday 18th June 2026. The full conference programmes will be announced in February 2026.