Dame Barbara Ann Hakin DBE (born December 1952) is a former Deputy Chief Executive of

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. She was formerly the Chief Executive of the East Midlands

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. She was formerly a

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. She was involved a controversy around patient safety, in which she was referred to the

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. The case was closed in 2017. Hakin was created a

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in the 2009 Queens Birthday Honours List.

Life

Barbara Ann Hakin was born in December 1952. She is a former Deputy Chief Executive of

. She was formerly the Chief Executive of the East Midlands

. She was also formerly a

. She was said by the Health Service Journal to be the 16th most powerful person (and most influential woman) in the English NHS in December 2013, and her salary (£195,000) in 2013 was the seventh highest in the NHS. As of 2015, Hakin was paid a salary of between £200,000 and £204,999 by NHS England, making her one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time. Hakin was created a

in the 2009 Queens Birthday Honours List. In July 2015 she announced that she would retire by the end of the year.

Controversy

She was accused of disregarding patient safety in a drive to ensure trusts met performance targets when chief executive of the East Midlands Strategic Health Authority in 2009 by ''Private Eye'' journalists Andrew Bousfield and Dr.

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. 17 allegations were made by and related mainly to her treatment of former

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chief executive Gary Walker. She was referred to the

. In October 2013, GMC case examiners ruled that the case be closed as there was no realistic prospect of finding her fitness to practice as a physician had been impaired in relation to any of the claims.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hakin, Barbara Administrators in the National Health Service 20th-century English medical doctors 21st-century English medical doctors Living people Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 1952 births