British nursing administrators

Brigadier Dame Florence Barbara Cozens DBE DStJ RRC (24 December 1906 – 18 July 1995) was a British nurse and nursing administrator.

Dame Muriel Betty Powell, DBE (1914–1978), was a British nurse, hospital matron, public servant and, briefly, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for the Scottish Home and Health Department (SHHD)

Dame Julie Moore (born 18 August 1958) is the Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust She spent ten years as a nurse in clinical practice before moving into nursing management.

Eileen Skellern (1923–1980) was an English psychiatric nurse who was involved in pioneering psychosocial and psychotherapeutic methods for treating patients.

Dame Elizabeth Cockayne (29 October 1894 – 4 July 1988) was Chief Nursing Officer from the inception of the National Health Service in 1948 until her retirement a decade later in 1958.

Elizabeth Raybould, OBE, FRCN, was a British nurse and nursing educator credited with helping to create a new organisational structure for nursing education in Northern Ireland, with a heavy emphasis on the development of nursing as a profession, and the preparation and training of safe practitioners.

Dame Katharine Henrietta Jones, DBE, RRC & Bar (died 29 December 1967) was Matron-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) for most of the Second World War, serving from 23 July 1940 to 1944.

Lady Moyra Blanche Madeleine Browne, DBE, GCStJ (née Ponsonby; born 2 March 1918), is a former nurse and the only daughter of The 9th Earl of Bessborough, an Anglo-Irish peer, and his wife, Roberte.

Professor Dame Jill Macleod Clark, DBE, RGN, FRCN (born 11 June 1944) was formally Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Health & Biological Sciences and Head of the School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Southampton.

Brigadier Dame Helen Shiels Gillespie DBE RRC QHNS (26 March 1898 – 1974) was a British nursing matron during World War II.

Frances Dominica Ritchie (born 21 December 1942) OBE, DL, FRCN is a British nurse, specializing in palliative care.

Andrea Spyropoulos, RGN, SCM, RNT, is a British nurse, clinical strategist and a past President of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).

Anne Marie Rafferty (born 7 May 1958), CBE, FRCN is a British nurse, administrator, academic and researcher.

Dame Anne Poole (née Avril Anne Barker), DBE, RGN, RM, RHV, CBIM (born 11 April 1934) was Chief Nursing Officer, Department of Health, from 1982 to 1992.

Annie Altschul, CBE, FRCN (b. 18 February 1919, Vienna – d. 24 December 2001, Edinburgh) was a British nurse, midwife, researcher and educator.

Born to Francis and Marjory (née Grant) Cattanach in Knockando, Morayshire, Scotland in 1920, Helen Cattanach attended the Elgin Academy before travelling to Aberdeen to study nursing at Woodend Hospital.

Dame Mary Rosalind Paget, DBE, ARRC (4 January 1855 – 19 August 1948), was a noted British nurse, midwife and reformer.

Carole Presern has been executive director of The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) since January 2011.

Colonel Diana Geraldine Mary Anderson, RRC, OStJ (born 29 January 1935) is a British nurse, midwife and civil servant.

Dame Doris Winifred Beale, DBE, RRC & Bar (9 August 1889 – 14 January 1971) was an English nurse, and Matron-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (QARNNS) for three years during the Second World War.

Brigadier Dame Evelyn Marguerite Turner DBE, RRC (10 May 1910 — 24 September 1993), known as Margot Turner, was a British military nurse and World War II prisoner of war.

Trevor Clay, CBE, FRCN (10 May 1936 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England – 23 April 1994 in Harefield, Middlesex, England) was a British nurse and former General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing.

Edith MacGregor Rome, RRC, SRN (died 6 June 1938) was a British nursing matron and administrator.

Lieutenant Colonel Janet Pilgrim RRC (born 1966) is a former British Army nurse who was awarded the Royal Red Cross in 2008 for her services in Iraq (when a major).

Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally, DBE (née Bowser; born 26 March 1962) is a British Anglican bishop and former nurse.