Triple Aim, Triple Gain – The Three Most Promising Areas for Innovation in Health Globally

Nigel Crisp is an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords and works mainly on international development and global health. From 2000 to 2006, he was both chief executive of the NHS, the largest health organization in the world, and permanent secretary of the UK Department of Health and led major reforms in the English health system.

He has a particular interest in human resources and partnerships. In 2007 he cochaired an international Task Force on increasing the education and training of health workers globally with Commissioner Bience Gawanas of the African Union. Its report, Scaling up, Saving Lives, sets out practical ways to increase the training of health workers in developing countries.

He subsequently founded the Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance with Dr Velepi Mtonga, the Honourable Anderson Chibwa, Dr David Percy and Susana Edjang in 2009 in order to implement some of the Task Force proposals and assist the Zambian Government to increase the numbers of health workers trained in the country.

Nigel Crisp chairs Sightsavers International, is a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and has many other affiliations.

A Cambridge philosophy graduate, he worked in community development and industry before joining the NHS in 1986. He has worked in mental health as well as acute services and was from 1993 to 1997 the chief executive of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust, one of the UK's leading academic medical centers.

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