Senior director voted one of UK's brightest NHS stars

A SENIOR director at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been named as one of the country's most influential healthcare leaders of the future by the Health Service Journal.

Kirsten Major, director of strategy and operations at the Trust, was one of 25 individuals working across healthcare to win the Health Service Journal Rising Stars award. The award celebrates up and coming young healthcare leaders who are making a real difference to healthcare.

The long list of nominations was created from readers of the Health Service Journal – which is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious healthcare management journals in the UK.

Winners were judged by a prominent panel of healthcare and senior NHS figures from across the country on the following criteria:

• Innovative work which has delivered demonstrable change
• Excellent networking at all levels, with colleagues and patients alike
• Mentorship of other young leaders
• A dedication to compassionate, evidence-based care
• Sharing knowledge widely
• A commitment to finding better ways of doing things.

Kirsten began her career as a health economist in Scotland, rising to become an executive director for planning and performance before the age of 30. She then took up the post of executive director of health system reform at North West Strategic Health Authority. She joined Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust in February 2011, taking responsibility for strategy and operations at one of the largest trusts in the UK.

Kirsten Major, director of strategy and operations at the Trust, said: “I’m delighted to have received this accolade. Innovation is healthcare is fundamental if improvements to patient care are to be made, so I’m privileged to have been singled out from hundreds of nominations across the country to win this award.

“However, I am in absolutely no doubt that I would not have come close to being nominated if it were not for all the inspiring and impressive individuals I have the pleasure of working with every day – both now and in the past.”

Sir Andrew Cash, chief executive for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, added: “My congratulations go to Kirsten on this well-deserved award. Kirsten is an exceptional talent, and since she joined Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust she has consistently improved care for patients through innovative strategy and thinking.”


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