The chief executive of NHS Plus, Kit Harling (pictured left), has been made a CBE in this year’s New Year’s Honours list, announced in January.
Harling, an NHS consultant occupational physician, is a former president of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, as well as a former chairman of the Association of NHS Occupational Physicians.
Sign up to our weekly round-up of HR news and guidance
Receive the Personnel Today Direct e-newsletter every Wednesday
Other healthcare-related honours included knighthoods for Professor Mansel Aylward, chairman of the Wales Centre for Health, and Andrew Dillon, chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
Janice Stevens, national director of the Department of Health’s Healthcare Associated Infections programme, also became a CBE, and there was an OBE in store for David Henry, chairman of the National Association for Mental Health.