Education
University of Manchester.
general manager chief executive
University of Manchester.
He was general manager of the Royal Free Hospital and chief executive of Street George"s Healthcare National Health Service Trust. He joined NICE as its founding chief executive in 1999. In September 2013 he wrote an open letter to The Times in which he said companies should be sure that all expenses spent on research were necessary in order justify the high prices demanded for new products assessed by health technology assessment (HTA) bodies such as NICE. “If it really does cost £1.2bn to develop a new drug, the question the pharmaceutical industry must be able to answer is this: are you absolutely confident that it needs to?”
He was said by the Health Service Journal to be the 34th most powerful person in the English National Health Service in December 2013. and among The 25 most influential people in biopharma today.
As of 2015, Dillon was paid a salary of between £185,000 and £189,999 by NICE, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.
Dillon was born in Sale, Cheshire. He attended Street Ambrose College, Hale Barns, Cheshire, then North Cheshire College of Further Education and finally Manchester University.
