Andrea Sutcliffe

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Andrea Mary Sutcliffe{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/671144/NY18_Queens_List_-_Final_.pdf|title=New Year's Honours 2018|work=Gov.uk|publisher=Government Digital Service|date=29 December 2017|accessdate=29 December 2017|page=20}} CBE is the chief executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

She was educated at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College in Darlington and the London School of Economics.{{Cite news |url=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/may/15/andrea-sutcliffe-scie-social-care |title=Scie's chief executive looks to the future |date=15 May 2012 |newspaper=The Guardian}}

She started working in the health service at Tower Hamlets District Health Authority as a trainee management accountant in 1986 and became finance policy officer at Bloomsbury and Islington District Health Authority in 1989. In 1992 she moved to Camden and Islington Community Health Services, managing services for older people. She was General Manager for Children, Women and Neurosciences Services at St George's Healthcare NHS Trust and then Assistant Director in the Social Services Department for the London Borough of Camden.{{cite web |title=Andrea Sutcliffe |url=http://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/andrea-sutcliffe |website=Gresham College |accessdate=27 October 2014}}

She was Deputy Chief Executive at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence from 2001 to 2008, Chief Executive of the Appointments Commission from 2008 to 2012, and Chief Executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence before moving to the CQC as chief inspector of adult social care in October 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cqc.org.uk/news/releases/andrea-sutcliffe-cbe-chief-inspector-adult-social-care-announces-departure|title=CQC's Andrea Sutcliffe CBE, Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, announces departure | Care Quality Commission}} She remained at the CQC until December 2018.{{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/cqc-chief-i-ll-open-care-home-inspections-public-8877680.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112003923/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/cqc-chief-i-ll-open-care-home-inspections-public-8877680.html |archive-date=2020-11-12 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=CQC chief: I'll open up care home inspections to the public' |date=13 October 2013 |website=The Independent}}

Sutcliffe was appointed as chief executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Council in January 2019.{{Cite web |url=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/11/andrea-sutcliffe-nursing-and-midwifery-council |title=Andrea Sutcliffe: Nursing body urgently needs to rediscover its humanity | David Brindle |date=11 December 2018 |newspaper=The Guardian}} Sutcliffe has said that previous attempts to diversify the governing council of the organisation had not worked, and an "ethnicity pay gap" existed there.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/professional-regulation/nmc-chief-sets-out-steps-regulator-is-taking-to-tackle-discrimination-in-nursing-30-06-2021/|title=NMC chief sets out steps regulator is taking to tackle discrimination in nursing|date=30 June 2021}}

Her brother, Adrian, killed himself after a long struggle with clinical depression in 2006. She says. "My brother’s experience and the impact on my family underpin my approach to what I do, and serve as a constant reminder of some important lessons".{{cite news|title=Andrea Sutcliffe: My brother's suicide spurs me on to end the care crisis|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/10390602/Andrea-Sutcliffe-My-brothers-suicide-spurs-me-on-to-end-the-care-crisis.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020062708/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/10390602/Andrea-Sutcliffe-My-brothers-suicide-spurs-me-on-to-end-the-care-crisis.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 October 2013|accessdate=27 October 2014|work=Daily Telegraph|date=19 October 2013}}

She was reckoned by the Health Service Journal to be the 23rd most influential person (and third most influential woman) in the English NHS in 2015.{{cite news|title=HSJ100 2015|url=http://www.hsj.co.uk/7000366.article|accessdate=23 December 2015|publisher=Health Service Journal|date=23 November 2015}}