FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Forth Valley Nurses Choir
In addition to her PEF role, Anne is a dedicated member of the Forth Valley Nurses Choir and has performed at many events, including a surprise performance as special guests on the Michael MacIntyre Big Show Christmas Special; which she recalls as being a wonderful experience.
Job Titles:
- Nurse
- Associate of the Royal Red Cross
Commodore Ali Hofman is a serving military nurse and currently Head of the Defence Medical Services Regulator. She is a registered nurse, who has served in the Royal Navy Nurse since joining HMS Raleigh age 18 to undertake her initial military and subsequent nurse training at the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar. Her frontline clinical career was predominantly as a specialist critical care nurse.
Prior to her current role she was in Command of the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Stanford Hall and has also previously held the positions of Head of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service and as the Nursing Advisor for Defence.
She has completed postgraduate studies, with an MSc in Nursing and MA in Defence Studies. Ali was appointed as an Associate of the Royal Red Cross in 2007 and promoted to Royal Red Cross 1st class in 2009; an award bestowed by Queen Victoria to Florence Nightingale in 1883. Passionate about recognition for and advancing the nursing profession she has previously served as a trustee for the Florence Nightingale foundation.
Dame Christine Beasley served the National Health Service in England in a number of roles during a 50-year career, which she began as a student nurse at the Royal London Hospital in 1962. Dame Christine held a number of regional nursing, operations and organisational development posts. In 2003 she was appointed Partnership Development Director in the national Modernisation Agency. A year later, she took up her final role as Chief Nursing Officer for England, a post she held until 2012.
In parallel with her executive career, Dame Christine has been a member of various national nursing and health related committees. She has been appointed to a number of non-executive positions in the health, charity and higher education sector. She currently is Non-executive Director of the NHS Trust Development Agency, Chair of Health Education North Central and East London Education Board and Chair of Council of Bucks (new) University. She has been appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire for her public and voluntary service.
Janet has worked in museums for 40 years at both national and local level. She has been CEO of the Horniman Museum and Gardens since 1998, leading a series of successful capital developments and fundraising campaigns. Underpinned by collections development and audience engagement, this has led to a 300% increase in visitor numbers.
Janet reviews capital projects for various organisations. She has served on expert panels and has wide experience of museum boards including: Visitor University of Oxford (Pitt Rivers); Trustee London Transport Museum; Trustee Collections Trust; HLF Expert Panel; Project Board for Wellcome Collection. She is currently a trustee of the Hunterian Collection at the Royal College of Surgeons, London.
Job Titles:
- Advisor for the UK National Lottery Heritage Fund
Darren has worked in culture for 30 years, and in the last fifteen years has nurtured his company, Barker Langham, into a world leading creative business - working on diverse cultural and heritage projects across the sector and world. Darren has worked with national institutions, governments, trusts and foundations - and these rich experiences will be vital in this role.
His emotional connection with nursing is through his mother, and now his partner, who is training to enter the profession at a time when nurses are needed more than ever. Darren's commitment as a Trustee will be to use his skills of project development, strategy, business and creative planning to ensure that Florence Nightingale's legacy continues to inspire and educate more people into the future.
Darren is also an advisor for the UK National Lottery Heritage Fund, lecture at a number of universities, and in 2020 was honoured to have been included in the inaugural Blooloop 50 Museum Influencer List - which was in recognition of leadership in the cultural sector.
Donna Miles Curry, RN, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus from the College of Nursing and Health, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, U.S. She completed degrees at Maryville College (ADN), St. Louis University (BSN & MSN) and the Ohio State University (PhD).
Dr. Curry has over 45 years' experience in pediatric and family nursing as a practicing nurse, educator and administrator. She has received multiple awards for professional service and education. Dr. Curry was one of the co- founders of the International Family Nursing Association and established the International Family Nursing Foundation, a U.S.- based charity.
In addition to leadership positions on the boards of these two organizations, Dr. Curry has held leadership positions in Ohio Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, Society of Pediatric Nursing and the American Association for the History of Nursing. She has presented numerous papers at professional conferences and has authored professional articles and book chapters in a variety of publications.
Job Titles:
- Trustee and President of the Nightingale Fellowship
Dr Christine Taylor is a current Trustee and President of the Nightingale Fellowship, the Charity founded from the alumni of nurses who qualified from the Nightingale School of Nurses at St Thomas' Hospital from 1860-1996, proud to be called ‘Nightingales' and wear their distinctive badge.
Christine's professional career has given her broad experience commissioning services and hospitals, setting and monitoring quality standards and managing in a variety of NHS settings as well as Local Government, against the backdrop of numerous service reorganizations.
Based in Derbyshire, Christine recognizes Florence's far reaching influence in times (past, present and future) all over the UK and worldwide. In addition that The Nightingale Fellowship's unwavering support for The Florence Nightingale Museum and its ethos is acknowledged by Trustees and members across the globe will be celebrated by this Honorary appointment for their President.
Jane Dwelly is an experienced management consultant with subject matter expertise in digital health strategy and education gained from 16 years in senior Whitehall and NHS England posts and Director and Vice President roles in global professional organisations.
Jane has a track-record of policy communications of NHS improvement and transformation, including the Lord Darzi's High Quality Care for All (2008), CNO's Compassion in Practice (2012) and NHS Five Year Forward View (2014).
She has strong connections in international health corporations, a deep knowledge of Florence Nightingale and global nursing issues, and an international network of health professionals - all of she believes can be used to help transform the Museum's situation and support it to thrive in the post-pandemic world.
Job Titles:
- Treasurer
- Trustee
- Director of Business and Governance at the Imperial War Museums
Jon Card is Director of Business and Governance at the Imperial War Museums group. Jon has worked at the Imperial War Museums for over 15 years, initially in the post of Director of Finance and Museum Secretary. Prior to this, he was Head of Finance at the Natural History Museum for six years. Jon is a qualified accountant.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
Liz Madigan is the Chief Executive Officer of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She assumed the position in November 2017 following a 21 year period as a tenured professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio. Her clinical background and her program of research focused on home health care. During her time at Case Western she led the global health initiatives for the school of nursing including leading the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre for Home Care Nursing. She has provided consultation in multiple countries for home care and aging care in the community. In 2021, she was recognized as one of the top 100 women in global health for the Year of the Nurse and Midwife. She is a graduate of Wright State University, Dayton Ohio (BSN), The Ohio State University (MS in nursing) and Case Western Reserve (PhD), a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, Fellow Ad Eundem, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and proud member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
Mary Seacole was born in 1805 in Jamaica. Her mother was of African heritage and her father was a Scottish army officer. She was a ‘doctress' who practised Creole or Afro-Caribbean medicine and learnt nursing and herbalism from her mother. In September 1854, Mary heard about the Crimean campaign and she was struck with the thought of looking after the troops she had known in Jamaica. She travelled to the Crimea and set up her own business, the British Hotel, which was a general store and also a place where soldiers could come to be nursed. She also rode out to the battlefield to nurse soldiers and would perform operations. She was affectionately known by the troops as Mother Seacole, because of the care she gave them. After returning to London after the war Mary wrote her autobiography The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, which was published in 1857 and is still in print today. She continued to practice as a ‘doctress' in London and when visiting Jamaica. She died in 1881 and was buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Kensal Rise.
Mary Seacole was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1805. Her mother, Mrs Grant, was of African heritage and her father was a Scottish army officer. Mrs Grant was a respected ‘doctress' who like many Jamaican women practised Creole or Afro-Caribbean medicine. Mary learnt with enthusiasm from her mother and by the age of twelve she was helping her mother to look after patients. Among her patients were many British Army and Navy officers and their families.
In 1836, she married Edwin Horatio Hamilton Seacole and settled at Black River in Jamaica. Their marriage was cut short when he died soon after and this tragedy was followed by the death of her mother.
By the late 1840s Mary had established herself as a ‘doctress' to the local British garrison. In 1850 cholera swept Jamaica. Mary closely observed its symptoms and carefully noted how a doctor treated it.
Professor Watkins has a particular interest in governance having been a Secretary of State nominee to the UKCC for Nursing and Midwifery (1996-2001) and was a member of the UKCC Education Commission - the Peach Review, 1999.
On October 27 1961 the Florence Nightingale Medal was awarded to Mrs. Amy Khan-Sajjad, registered nurse, midwife, Sister-Tutor and Nursing Superintendent, at Nishtar Hospital, Multan, Pakistan. The award was granted in recognition of her leadership skills, personal qualities, and the way in which she had raised standards at Nishtar Hospital.
She has been nominated by her family to be remembered in the ‘Book of Honour' at the Florence Nightingale Museum.
Having graduated from the University of London with a degree in History, Peter started a 25-year international banking career at Kleinwort Benson in London. This was followed by postings to New York, Munich, Hong Kong and Singapore, latterly as Global Head of Loan Syndicate at Standard Chartered Bank. Peter now works as a consultant to several technology companies.
While visiting family in Derbyshire in 2010, Peter stumbled across a newspaper article highlighting the sale of Florence Nightingale's beloved home, Lea Hurst, in Holloway. The prospect of owning the home of such a precious national treasure proved irresistible! A decade on, his family is proud to have turned Lea Hurst back into their family home after over half a century of operation as a nursing home (two of his children were born in the bedroom previously occupied by Nightingale's parents, William and Fanny!).
Princess Alexandra is The Queen's cousin and a working member of the Royal Family. She is patron or president of over 100 organisations which reflect her wide-ranging interests, from the arts to health care. She has long supported many nursing charities including the Florence Nightingale Foundation - which provides scholarships for nurses, midwives and health visitors to study. Princess Alexandra also has a long association with a number of museums and organisations which seek to preserve historic locations along with art and artefacts - including the Florence Nightingale Museum Trust. Find out more about about Princess Alexandra's interests and patronage here.
Prof Jennifer Rogers is Vice President, Statistical Research and Consultancy at specialist CRO, PHASTAR, and has a broad portfolio of achievement. She directs the research strategy at PHASTAR and provides leadership and advice to statistical consultancy activities. Jen came to PHASTAR from the University of Oxford, where she was Director of Statistical Consultancy Services.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director of the Faculty of Nursing
- Professor
Professor Thomas Kearns is the Executive Director of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI, University of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is responsible for leading and delivering on the strategic intent and operational activity of the Faculty. His career in nursing started in 1980, since 1993 Thomas has worked in Professional Regulation, Nursing and health Policy at a national, EU and global level and Higher Education.
He is both a general and psychiatric nurse, he has a primary degree in Nursing, a Master's Degree in Education and a Fellowship from the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery RCSI. In 2017-2018 Thomas worked as interim CEO of the International Council of Nursing in Geneva. Thomas is a director of Axia Digital Ireland, a learning and development software company. He is a member of the Rotunda Hospital Audit and Risk committee, the RCSI hospital Group Directors executive and the Board of the International Network of Health Workforce Education.
The Faculty is the Academic Partner for the European Council of Nurse Regulators (ENC). Thomas has developed a Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Advancement across the RCSI Hospital Group.