Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHSNursing Times Hall of Fame - a celebration of the best in nursing and healthcare
The Nursing Times Hall of Fame is a celebration of nurses who have had a profound influence on the profession.This year we asked for nominations of outstanding nurses who have led and influenced nursing and healthcare over the past 5-10 years. Over 100 excellent nurses were nominated, and our admissions panel selected seven who they believed had been truly influential beyond their immediate sphere of practice.
The inductees
Cheryll Adams - for Services to Public Health Nursing
Cheryll Adams is and independent consultant and former professional lead, Unite/Community Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Association
Carol Baxter - for Services to Diversity in Nursing
Carol Baxter, head of equalities and diversity, NHS Employers
Phillip Collings - for Services to Increasing Care Closer to Home
Phillip Collings, team leader, Pembrokeshire Assertive Outreach Team
Louise Boden - Lifetime Achievement Award
Louise Boden, chief nurse, University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust
Elizabeth Anionwu - for Services to the Development of Nurse-led Services
Elizabeth Anionwu, emeritus professor of nursing, Thames Valley University.
Ian Bullock - for Services to Increasing the Effectiveness of Nursing
Ian Bullock, chief operating officer, National Clinical Guideline Centre
Jacqueline Denyer - for Services to the Management of Long Term Conditions
Jacqueline Denyer, epidermolysis bullosa nurse consultant, Department of Dermatology, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Nursing Times Hall of Fame - the founder members
Phil Barker - Developed the tidal model of mental health nursing
Mental health nurse and psychotherapist Phil Barker developed the Tidal Model, which encourages nurses to explore people’s stories as a way of helping to reclaim mental health. It is now used internationally.
Dame Christine Beasley - Chief Nursing Officer for England and the 'matron' in whitehall
By her own admission, it is over 20 years since Dame Christine Beasley, England’s chief nurse, handled a bedpan. Yet she is perceived as the nurses’ nurse, the matron in Whitehall.
Patricia Benner - US nurse theorist and author of From Novice to Expert
Where Virginia Henderson and Nancy Roper were concerned with the ‘how’ of nursing, Patricia Benner examined how nurses learn to nurse. Her 1984 book From Novice to Expert is still in print and much read.
Trevor Clay - won fair pay for nurses
Trevor Clay was the man who got nurses a fair pay deal as general secretary of the RCN from 1982 to 1987.
Christine Hancock - RCN secretary and dignity campaigner
Nurse and midwife Christine Hancock made a big impact as RCN general secretary from 1998 to 2001, shifting the public view of the RCN back to one of leading a caring profession after years of pay disputes.
Virginia Henderson - Developed a definition of nursing
Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1897, Virginia Avenel Henderson graduated from the Army School of Nursing in Washington DC in 1921 and gained her master’s degree at New York’s Columbia University.
Nola Ishmael - first black director of nursing in London and mentor
Born in Barbados, Nola Ishmael was tempted to England to nurse by a friend telling how much fun she was having as a trainee nurse in Lancashire
Ann Keen - government champion for the nursing profession
District nurse, one-time general secretary of the Community and District Nursing Association, Ann Keen became an MP in 1997 and a junior health minister in 2007.
Professor Dame Jill Macleod-Clark - helped take nurse education into universities
Dame Jill was professor of nursing at King’s College London in the 1990s and played a key role in raising awareness of the importance of communication skills and health promotion in nursing.
Janet Marsden - Advanced care in ophthalmic and emergency nursing
A passionate ophthalmic nurse, Janet developed advanced practice roles in the specialty
Christine Moffatt - revolutionised the care and management of leg ulcers
Professor Christine Moffatt, CBE, has transformed leg-ulcer management and the lives of countless patients through 20 years of nursing research, practice and education, making specialist wound care in the UK the best in the world.
Hildegard Peplau- developed the concept of psychodynamic nursing
American nurse theorist Hildegard Peplau coined the term psychodynamic nursing, describing how the nurse-patient relationship changes over time.
Graham Pink - nursing's best known whistle-blower
Appalled about understaffing in the geriatric ward at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, staff nurse Graham Pink wrote to everyone he could think of, finally going public on the front page of Guardian Society in 1990.
Claire Rayner - advocate of patient rights
Claire Rayner, OBE, is a nurse turned journalist and patient advocate who has championed patient rights, breast cancer and hearing loss.
Nancy Roper - developed daily living theory and influenced generations of nurses
Nancy Roper’s theory of nursing has influenced every generation of nurses since its publication in 1976, not just here in the UK but in Europe and the US too. There is not a student nurse in Britain who does not use it.
Jane Salvage - empowered nurses in the UK and internationally
A nurse, activist, writer, campaigner and academic, Jane Salvage encouraged nurses to think for themselves.
Dame Cicely Saunders - founder of the modern hospice movement
Dame Cicely Saunders devoted her life to making sure people could die with dignity and free from pain. Convinced the last days of a person’s life could be made happy, she said: ‘You matter because you are you, and you matter to the last moment of your life.’
Barbara Stilwell - pioneer for nurse practitioners
Barbara Stilwell pioneered the nurse practitioner role in the UK.
Judy Waterlow - pressure ulcer care reformer
Judy Waterlow was a clinical nurse tutor when she designed her pressure ulcer risk assessment tool in 1985 to help her students.
