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First Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care in England appointed
Professor Deborah Sturdy has been appointed as the first Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, offering leadership and advice for social care nurses in England.
Sturdy OBE will take up the new role to represent social care nurses and provide clinical leadership to the workforce, working closely with the Minister for Care and the Chief Nursing Officer in this important role to ensure the provision of high quality, personalised, joined up care.
The Department of Health and Social Care says that the Chief Nurse will act as an inspiring leader for social care nursing and help develop social care policy and how it relates to the workforce.
The role is an interim appointment for up to six months, to further increase the professional support and expertise in the department over winter ahead of filling the post on a more permanent basis in 2021. Sturdy has had a long and successful career in nursing, including working with older people and people living with dementia. Since February 2020, Sturdy has worked on secondment for one day a week to the Chief Nursing Officer as strategic adviser for social care nursing.
One of her main tasks will be to engage with the frontline nursing workforce to listen to their views and act as a champion for their interests in government, and the sector. She will also be promoting and raising standards for the social care nursing and wider workforce and working with our national and regional partners to celebrate success.
She said: "I am honoured to have been asked to help define a new narrative for social care nursing and support colleagues to find their voice, and contribute to the development of the workforce in the coming months and work together to deliver the best care possible. The social care nursing and care workforce together are a powerful force to help shape and deliver the health and social care agenda. I hope that in this role I will be able to give a voice to those working in social care and develop the workforce, through the difficult months ahead and beyond."
Ruth May, Chief Nursing Officer for England, said: "I am looking forward to working with Deborah as she takes up this vital role providing a bridge across health and social care as well as supporting the delivery of the winter plan for social care. Most importantly, this means leadership and representation at the highest level for the many thousands of social care nursing colleagues who make a difference to millions of people every day."
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