Laura Lee, the nurse who helped found Maggie’s cancer centres and is currently the charity’s chief executive, has been made a dame, and Group Captain Theresa Griffths, from the Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service, has been made an CBE.
She is currently overseeing work to transfer the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre from Headley Court to a new location at Stanford Hall in the East Midlands.
Meanwhile, Professor Alison Leary, a leading light on nursing workforce research and a member of the Nursing Times editorial advisory board, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list for 2019.
An MBE has also gone to the chief executive of Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Cara Charles-Barks, who is a former nurse, for her leadership during the Novichok poisonings in 2018.
A statement from the Cabinet Office said an MBE had been bestowed on Mrs Charles-Barks, as she “showed exceptional and inspirational leadership during the 2018 nerve agent attacks”.
“Her leadership enabled the trust to provide world-class care to patients, which demonstrated the skill of the NHS and earning admiration, both throughout the country and around the world,” it said.
Ms Charles-Barks began her career in 1990, as a registered nurse in Australia. She has given 11 years of service to the NHS, joining Salisbury District Hospital as the chief executive in February 2017.
Alison Leary
Alison Leary
She said: “This is a great honour. I feel that this is recognition of the work of all the staff at Salisbury District Hospital.
“Each of our staff played a part in keeping the hospital open and running smoothly through the first nerve agent attack on European soil since World War II and the longest running major incident in the NHS’s 70 year history,” she said.
“Hospital staff did what they do each day; they gave outstanding care to our community,” she said. “I am humbled by their commitment and care for people in Salisbury and I am delighted to accept this honour.”
Another MBE recipient is Liz Darlison, a consultant nurse and head of services for the national Mesothelioma UK charity.
Liz Darlison
Liz Darlison
She works at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, focusing on the treatment and care of mesothelioma patients, and established Mesothelioma UK in 2004 and continues to lead this national charity for asbestos-related cancer, based in Leicester.
Commenting on the award, Ms Darlison said: “I was absolutely delighted to be awarded with an MBE, not just for myself but would also like to recognise that this is a wonderful achievement for Leicester’s Hospitals, nursing and Mesothelioma UK.
“It is testament to the continued work of our wonderful NHS and shows that nursing is an amazing career,” she said. “Leicester’s Hospitals is an excellent employer that developed me and allowed the charity to get started, and to be awarded an MBE is also a testament to Mesothelioma UK, our supporters and team.”
Carolyn Fox, chief nurse at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, said: “This is a fantastic achievement for Liz who is dedicated to her work both at Glenfield Hospital and for Mesothelioma UK, the charity she established, and this recognition is well deserved.”
Commenting on the list, Royal College of Nursing chief executive and general secretary Dame Donna Kinnair said: “Nurses do so much to serve the public working within the NHS, community services, mental health services, and the armed forces.
“It’s wonderful to see this work being honoured today and the work of former nurses who’ve gone into influential senior positions such Cara Ann Charles-Bark who as Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust chief executive dealt with the fallout of the Novichok poisoning incident in the city,” she said.
“I extend my warmest congratulations to all the nurses who’ve made a difference in diverse clinical areas that make a real impact on the lives of patients like organ donation and cancer treatment,” said Dame Donna.
She added: ”They stand as an inspiration to their colleagues everywhere and, I hope, to young people who are considering a career in nursing.”
Recipients of 2019 Queen’s birthday honours with nursing and midwifery links
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
- Laura Elizabeth Lee – chief executive, Maggie’s. For services to patients with cancer.
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- Group Capt Teresa Anne Griffiths, OBE, ARRC – Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- Maureen Bell – formerly nurse consultant for vulnerable children, NHS Ayrshire and Arran. For services to Child Protection. (Johnstone, Renfrewshire)
- Tonia Dawson – Macmillan clinical lead, East of England Cancer Alliance. For services to Nursing and to People affected by Cancer. (Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk)
- Professor Sarah Elizabeth Hewlett – emerita professor of rheumatology nursing, University of the West of England. For services to People with Arthritis and to Nursing Research. (Somerset)
- Dr Jacqueline Ann McKenna, MBE – formerly director of nursing, professional leadership, NHS Improvement. For services to Nursing. (Kent)
Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
- Shibu Chacko – specialist nurse, NHS Blood and Transplant and Community Volunteer. For services to the NHS. (Chatham, Kent)
- Cara Charles-Barks – chief executive, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. For services to the NHS
- Rita Ciccu Moore – deputy director of nursing, NHS Forth Valley. For services to Nursing and to the NHS Forth Valley Nurses Choir. (Dunblane, Stirling and Falkirk)
- Anita Elizabeth Darlison – consultant nurse, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and head of Services, Mesothelioma UK. For services to Cancer Research and to Patients. (Loughborough, Leicestershire)
- Kathryn Denise Ellaway – formerly designated nurse, Safeguarding National Safeguarding Team. For services to Safeguarding in Wales. (Newport)
- Alison Leary, chair of healthcare and workforce modelling, London South Bank University. For services to spectator safety and medical care.
- Julieth Naomi Minnis – nurse. For services to health.
- Philippa Jane Nightingale – chief nurse and executive director, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Trustee, Rennie Grove Hospice Care. For services to Midwifery. (Marsworth, Buckinghamshire)
- Suzanne Louise Poley – consultant nurse for substance misuse, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. For services to Nursing. (Cardiff)
- Gillian Claire Taylor – Macmillan nurse consultant, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust. For services to Colorectal Cancer Nursing. (St Albans, Hertfordshire)
- Ruth Jane Walker – executive nurse director, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. For services to Nursing in the NHS. (Crickhowell, Powys)
- Janis Ann Wright – specialist nurse orthopaedics, Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust. For services to Nursing. (Ipswich, Suffolk)
Medallist of the Order of the British Empire (BEM)
- Winifred Taggart Chinery – nurse, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Nursing and to Patient Safety. (Southend on Sea, Essex)
- Patricia Diane Clarke – diabetes specialist nurse, Primary Integrated Community Services Ltd. For services to Diabetes Care. (Averham, Nottinghamshire)
- Jean Dunn – nurse, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Nursing. (Consett, Durham)
- Wendy Johnson – head of adult safeguarding and mental health, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Nursing. (Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire)
- Alison Jane Kitson – district nurse, Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Nursing. (Penrith, Cumbria)
- Kathleen Emily Lee – nurse, Medident, Muscat, Oman. For services to the health and welfare of British nationals overseas.
- Karen Mitchell – lead cancer nurse, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Cancer Patients and to Nursing. (Kidlington, Oxfordshire)
- Mary Isobel Nunn – formerly nursing officer, Tiverton Division, St John Ambulance. For voluntary service to First Aid Provision in Devon. (Crediton, Devon)
- Emily May Robertson – ward sister older person’s care, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Nursing. (Fallowfield, Greater Manchester)
Royal Red Cross
- Lt Col Deborah Louise Inglis, TD. VR – Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, Army Reserve
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