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Jane Salvage designated new QNI Chair
04 Oct 2011
The Queen’s Nursing Institute has designated a new Chair of Trustees, Jane Salvage, who will lead the charity’s Council following the retirement of Rosalynde Lowe CBE in 2012.
The charity has also chosen its first trustee from Northern Ireland, Dr Robert Brown.
QNI Chair Rosalynde Lowe CBE said, ‘I couldn't be more delighted at the appointment of Jane Salvage as Chair Designate and Bob Brown as a new trustee. I have thoroughly enjoyed my nine years as Chair of the QNI and am now confident that the organisation will be in excellent hands to lead it on to even greater things’.
Jane Salvage commented, ‘Being appointed Chair of the Queen’s Nursing Institute is both an honour and a challenge, at such a crucial time for community nursing. Strengthening public health and moving services closer to home is vital for people’s wellbeing. The growing epidemic of long-term conditions, the complex needs of older people, and the shift to home care all demand much more support for and support from community nurses. Meanwhile spending cuts, workforce problems and NHS reforms make this a time of both crisis and opportunity. The QNI, with its unique traditions and authoritative, independent voice, is well positioned to shape the debate, and to continue helping community nurses to lead the way, in partnership with patients and communities.’
Dr Bob Brown commented, ‘I am delighted and honoured to be appointed as a Trustee of the Queen’s Nursing Institute. The years ahead will bring a period of unprecedented challenge for nursing in the community and it is vital that the QNI continues to support nurses while influencing the direction of service planning and reform. It is also vital that district nurses have appropriate training and development for roles that are increasingly complex so as to enable them to provide highly skilled care for people who can be acutely ill at home, often with long-term and palliative needs. Working closely with GPs and other agencies in the community district nurses are the bedrock of safe, high quality care and we must work together to maintain this while continuing to develop practice. I am also pleased to bring a Northern Ireland voice to an organisation that has a national profile as well as an international influence and I look forward to working with colleagues at many levels to influence policy and practice’.
Rosemary Cook CBE, Director of the QNI said, ‘I am really looking forward to working with our two new Trustees. It’s great to have a Trustee from Northern Ireland, as we have funded lots of projects there, and we are closely involved in the review of district nursing. I hope having Bob on our Council will mean even closer links with community practice in Northern Ireland. I’m also delighted that Jane Salvage will be our new Chair in due course. Ros Lowe has been a fantastic Chair, and a great support to me as Director. Working with Jane will be the start of an exciting new phase for me and for the QNI.’
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Notes to Editors
1. To arrange an interview with Jane Salvage or Bob Brown or to obtain photographs, please contact Matthew Bradby, Marketing and Communications Manager at matthew.bradby@qni.org.uk or call 020 7549 1400.
2. Jane Salvage
Jane Salvage has been acquainted with the QNI for over 30 years; she was made a QNI Fellow in 2009, and contributed to the Homeless Health Initiative in 2010. Her career-long interest in community nursing began with a health visiting placement in East London. She has maintained her commitment to primary health care and community nursing in many ways, including a national nursing development programme at the King’s Fund; training district nurses in continuing care in London primary care trusts; managing a global PHC project for the World Health Organization; running a PHC reform programme for nursing leaders in Bosnia; and writing reports, articles, book chapters and learning materials.
Jane is an international nursing expert and policy activist who works as an independent consultant. She recently spent a year in government on the Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England. She is a visiting professor at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, and the founding editor of NMC Review, the quarterly journal published by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the UK professional regulator (www.nmc-review.org ).
Jane’s previous posts include Regional Adviser for Nursing and Midwifery at the Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization, 1991-95, where she led support for nursing development in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former USSR, when it was emerging from decades of neglect. She continues to work as a WHO consultant and for other agencies, and on a new International Health Research and Policy Roundtable. Other recent work includes a review of RCN international activities; managing a major project on mental health and HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia; consultancy in Bosnia and Herzegovina; and producing learning materials on Medical Peace Work.
Jane was editor of Nursing Times, 1996-2001. Among her many publications she is probably best known for her first book, The Politics of Nursing (Heinemann 1985), which she wrote at home on a portable typewriter while building her career as a nursing journalist. This made her famous – or, as she says, infamous, with her challenge to the profession to wake up and get out from under.
3. Dr Bob Brown
Bob Brown is Assistant Director of Primary Care and Nursing (Learning and Development) at the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland. Having trained at the Southern Area College of Nursing, Bob qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1989 and has continued to practice since this time working in the care of older people, critical care and palliative care settings.
Between 1999 and 2006 he was a nurse teacher, work-based learning facilitator, practitioner-researcher and practice developer, initially with Marie Curie Cancer Care, and then in a joint appointment between Newry and Mourne Trust and the University of Ulster, before moving to the Southern Health and Social Services Board as an Intermediate Care Facilitator and then on to the Northern Ireland Practice and Education Council for Nursing and Midwifery (NIPEC) as a Senior Professional Officer.
Prior to commencing at the South Eastern Trust in September 2007, Bob was Assistant Chief Nurse at the Southern Health and Social Services Board. He completed his doctoral studies in January 2007 and was awarded the RCN Nurse of the Year research award in 2004 for this study on the experience of loneliness among people with life-limiting illness.
Bob is an accredited RCN Learning Facilitator and has maintained a consistent interest in and support for a wide range of learning and developing practice activities across Northern Ireland, as well as nationally and internationally. In his current role Bob has managerial responsibility for two community hospitals, Minor Injury Units, GP Out of Hours, community dentistry, ICATS, remote telehealth services, rapid response and specialist community nursing and mental health services for older people, as well as leading on nursing and midwifery education, professional development, research and practice development. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Ulster.
