Former nurse and chief executive of University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust, Julie Moore, has been made a dame.
Dame Julie, who is also chair of the NHS Future Forum’s education and training workstream, heads the list of nursing honours recipients. She has been chief executive at Birmingham since 2006, having previously trained and worked as a nurse in Leeds in the 1980s.
Dame Julie is followed in the honours list by Hilary Chapman, chief nurse and operating officer at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, who has become a CBE. She was also previously a member of the Future Forum during its initial assessment of the government’s health and social care bill last year.
Professor Chapman began her nursing career at the Northern General Hospital, where she rose to the position of sister in both the cardiothoracic and critical care areas. She has also been chief nurse at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.
A CBE also went to former NHS Kingston chair Neslyn Watson-Druée. She was the inaugural chair of the Royal College of Nursing’s race and ethnicity committee, which established the Mary Seacole Awards.
Meanwhile, East Lancashire consultant midwife Sheena Byrom and Nottingham community nurse Mary Morgan received OBEs.
MBEs went to Belfast respiratory nurse consultant Anne Marie Marley, Glasgow health visitor Mini Joti, former health visitor and milk bank pioneer Ann McCrea, and Daren Edwards, a clinical nurse specialist in plastic surgery at Barts and the London Trust.
There were also military honours for members of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, Jane Davis and Helen Purvis.
Daren Morgan Edwards – Clinical Nurse Specialist in Plastic Surgery, Barts and the London NHS Trust. For services to Nursing.
Overall 7 per cent of the 2012 honours were given for services relating to health. See the attached file for a full list.
Dame Julie Moore, a nurse and the chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, is to take over the leadership of its troubled neighbour Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust.
Former nurse Dame Julie Moore is to become chair of the Shelford Group, which represents the 10 most prestigious and powerful acute trusts in England.
I have no reason not to believe that each and every honour bestowed on members of the nursing profession has been thoroughly merited.
Although not spitting blood, I find it highly offensive that similar honours are given - on account purely of their success, it seems - to pop stars, footballers, captains of industry and so on, to lie alongside the awards given to our nurses and others who work tirelessly caring for people other than themselves - rather than for their own benefit.