Dame Joan Margaret Higgins, DBE

FAcSS The Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) is an award granted by the Academy of Social Sciences to leading academics, policy-makers, and practitioners of the social sciences. Fellows were previously known as Academicians and used t ...

is a British academic, educator, and public health service manager.

Career

Higgins graduated in social administration from the

University of York The University of York (abbreviated as or ''York'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public Collegiate university, collegiate research university in York, England. Established in 1963, the university has expanded to more than thir ...

in 1971 and has held academic posts at the

University of Portsmouth The University of Portsmouth (UoP) is a public university in Portsmouth, England. Comprising five Faculty (division), faculties, the university offers a wide range of academic disciplines. in 2022, with around 28,280 students enrolled in Unde ...

University of Southampton The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...

(where she was professor of social policy) and

University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The University of Manchester is c ...

(where she was professor of health policy, from 1992, and director of the Manchester Centre for Healthcare Management 1998–2004). In 2002–03 she was president of the European Health Management Association. Her roles include: *Chair of the NHS Litigation Authority, 2007–2013 *Member (since 2005) of the QC Appointments Panel *Chair, Federal Working Group The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health on complementary therapy *Chair (since 2001), Patient Information Advisory Group (PIAG) in the

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*Chair, Ethics Advisory Group, NHS Care Record Development Board *Chair, Christie NHS Trust, 2002–2007 *Chair, NHS regional office for the North West *Chair, Manchester Health Authority

Awards

*Honorary fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine *Honorary fellow of the Institute of Health Record Information and Management *Emerita professor of health policy at the

Damehood

In 2007, she was created a

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(DBE).

References

External links

BBC article
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