(This article is about Sir Andrew Dillon, chief executive of NICE. For the Democratic Party politician, see Andy Dillon.) Sir Andrew Dillon, (born 9 May 1954) is the chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). He was general manager of the Royal Free Hospital and chief executive of St George's Healthcare NHS Trust. He joined NICE as its founding chief executive in 1999. “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?”