
Topless Lottie Moss displays her posterior in skimpy underwear and jokes about 'acid' in post. before winning best director and best screenplay Maggie Gyllenhaal flashes underboob in Gucci suit with husband Peter Sarsgaard at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Joe Cole proves he's more than able as Michael Caine's speccy spy: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews TV's The Ipcress File. Holly Willoughby wraps up warm in a sheepskin jacket as she takes puppy Bailey for a walk with her 10-year-old daughter Belle Miss Jones has also told how her favourite food is Japanese and her dream dinner party guests would include Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, David Walliams and Nelson Mandela. Her favourite books include Machiavelli's The Prince, a 16th-century guide to ruthlessly obtaining and maintaining political power, and Michael Rosen's classic children's tale We're Going On A Bear Hunt.

The Health Service Journal named her NHS chief executive of the year in 2014. 'I spent a week with him and for half an hour after every meeting he said 'What do you think, Sam? Tell me what your view is'.' She later told the Health Service Journal: 'No one had told me I could, no one had told me I couldn't, and so I did it. When she was on the Health Service's two-year graduate management training scheme, she wrote to then NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands and asked to shadow him for a week.

Her drive and determination stayed with her as she moved rapidly through the ranks. The chief nurse supported Miss Jones's ambitions, telling her to finish her training and then meeting her regularly to discuss her plans. Miss Jones was named NHS chief executive of the year in 2014 by The Health Service Journal I'm too stroppy. I have to stand by my beds while the consultant does his ward round and I'm not allowed to speak until I'm spoken to – and I'm not having any of that'.' She later recalled: 'I said, 'I don't know why I want to be a manager, but I've got four brothers. While still a trainee, she went to see the chief nurse at the London children's hospital and declared she wanted to go into management.

She began her NHS career as a nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital but quickly realised life on the wards was not for her. Miss Jones has spoken of how her son Leo battled for life after contracting meningitis at seven weeks old but later recovered. Her husband, Professor Joe Harrison, is the chief executive of Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In 2019 she posted a picture of herself as a student nurse from February 1989, writing: 'Thirty years in health – as important now to me as it was then.' Samantha Jones is deeply proud of her roots on the NHS frontline. The firm, which is the UK arm of American health insurance giant Centene, last year bought out AT Medics, a large group of GP practices in London.Ĭhampion of the NHS with a love of reading Machiavelli She has worked in the private sector as well, most recently as the chief executive of Operose Health. Miss Jones also had a two-year stint as a director of care strategies at NHS England. She qualified as a nurse in 1989 and started her career at the world-famous Great Ormond Street Hospital for children in London.īut she soon moved into health management, becoming the chief executive of Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust in south London and of West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust. Miss Jones, 50, a married mother of twins, has a wealth of experience with both the NHS and private health firms. But it is understood she will be in the job for just six months until someone is found to fill it longer-term. She will also take on the role of interim permanent secretary.

A former NHS nurse was drafted into Downing Street last night to become the most senior civil servant at No 10.Įxperienced health executive Samantha Jones was appointed Downing Street's first Chief Operating Officer as part of Boris Johnson's team revamp.
