About Anne Marie Rafferty
Anne Marie Rafferty, Baroness Rafferty (born 7 May 1958) is a British nurse, academic and researcher. She is the professor of nursing policy and the former dean of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King's College London. She served as President of the Royal College of Nursing from 2019 to 2021. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, the American Academy of Nursing, and the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2008, she was seconded to the Department of Health to work with Lord Ara Darzi on the Next Stage Review of the NHS and was subsequently appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to healthcare. She was a member of the Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery between 2009 and 2010, Front Line Care (Report published 2010). and a member of the Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales which reported in 2018. She is a current member of the NHS Assembly. In 2020, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to nursing. She was inducted onto the Sigma Theta Tau International Hall of Fame in 2016 and in 2017 Rafferty was nominated as one of the 70 most influential nurses in the first 70 years of the National Health Service. In 1989, she was awarded her DPhil and is widely cited as the first nurse to be awarded a DPhil from the University of Oxford. In 1994, Rafferty was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to study nursing policy at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked with Linda Aiken on the role of nursing in the Clinton Administration health care reform agenda.
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