Elizabeth spent most of her clinical career as a Nurse and Midwife in the NHS, including 17 years as Director of Nursing, Deputy Chief Executive and Acting CEO in two NHS Trusts both in Somerset and London.
Subsequently she was CEO of the Florence Nightingale Foundation for 7 years, where the emphasis was on improving health, clinical outcomes and patient experience through building nursing and midwifery research and leadership capacity and capability.
Elizabeth’s Non-Executive career included a period as Non-Executive Director at NHS Professionals Ltd, which included a secondment to Chief Nurse as part of the pandemic response. Currently she is a Non-Executive Director of Somerset Care Limited, a not-for-profit provider of social care, and volunteers on the vaccination programme for St John Ambulance. In 2015 Elizabeth was awarded an OBE for Services to Nursing and Midwifery.
Current role