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Sir Duncan Kirkbride Nichol C.B.E. (born 1941) is a British hospital administrator who was the Chief Executive of the National Health Service Management Executive from 1989 to 1994.
He was born in Bradford in 1941 and joined the NHS in 1963 as a graduate trainee, and worked his way up in St Thomas's Hospital and Manchester Royal Infirmary, from senior administrative assistant to regional general manager of the Mersey Regional Health Authority. He was knighted in the 1993 New Year Honours. He has been Chairman of the Academy for Healthcare Science, Her Majesty’s Courts Service, Skills for Justice, the Parole Board for England and Wales and Synergy Healthcare. He is a director of Deltex Medical Group.
He was a non-executive director of the Christie Hospital from 2008 and deputy chairman from 2009 until 2012, when he was appointed Chair of the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.