Trustees

Victor West
Victor spent more than forty years in the life assurance and pensions industry having qualified as an actuary in 1964. He was with the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses for almost twenty years, retiring as chief executive in 1999 and then becoming a non-executive director. His work with the RNPFN brought him into close contact with the healthcare professions, particularly nursing. He was a non-executive director of the RCN Institute for four years and is now a Vice President of the RCN. He is also a non-executive director of the Florence Nightingale International Foundation.

Ray Greenwood
Ray Greenwood qualified as a general nurse at Kings College Hospital, London in 1972. He undertook post basic qualifications and worked in a number of London Hospitals as a clinical nurse before becoming Director of Nursing at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford in 1982. In 1985 was appointed to the Department of Health as Nursing Officer for acute services, palliative care and cancer nursing. In 1991 he was appointed Regional Director of Nursing for East Anglian Regional Health Authority and subsequently Anglia and Oxford and South East NHS Regional Offices. In 2003 he was appointed Head of Nursing and Director of Emergency Services of the Directorate of Health and Social Care (South). He left the Department of Health in 2004 to become Chief Executive of the St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service.

Ray Greenwood has a keen interest in medical law and in 2003 graduated with a LL.M degree in Legal Aspects of Medical Practice at Cardiff Law School. He is married to a nurse and has 5 adult children

Sue Norman
Sue Norman's most recent job was as chief executive and registrar at the UKCC, a post she held from 1995 until the NMC was set up in April 2002. Before that she worked for six years at the Department of Health in London and Leeds on policy issues including resource management, education and workforce. Nine years teaching at the Nightingale School including a computer assisted learning project followed a clinical career spanning community practice, oncology nursing and intensive care - this, in Montreal, Canada.

Sue is developing a new career in executive coaching which she combines with her Presidency of the National Association of Theatre Nurses, Trusteeship of the Burdett Trust for Nursing, editing a major nursing text and her board membership of a housing association.

Sue is visiting professor of nursing policy and development in the Faculty of Health at South Bank University, London and has been awarded an honorary doctorate of science from Plymouth University. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Burdett Trust for Nursing
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