Audrey Emerton, Baroness Emerton

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Audrey Emerton, Baroness Emerton

Audrey Caroline Emerton, Baroness Emerton DBE , DL , (born September 10, 1935 ) is a British nurse , politician and life peeress .

Life

Education and career

Emerton, daughter of George William Emerton († 1971) and Lily Harriet Squirrell, attended Tunbridge Wells Grammar School in Tunbridge Wells , Kent .

In 1954 she received the government approval as a midwife ( State Certified Midwife ) in 1957 as a nurse ( State Registered Nurse ) and 1964 nurses a teacher ( Registered Nurse Tutor ).

In 1968 she was a lecturer ( Senior Tutor ) at St George's Hospital London and from 1968 to 1970 Chief Matron ( Principal Nursing Officer ) in the nurse training at Bromley Hospital Management Committee . From 1970 to 1973 she was Chief Nursing Officer of the Tunbridge Wells and Leybourne Hospital Management Committee . She then worked for the National Health Service as a "Regional Nursing Officer" at the South East Thames Royal Health Authority ( SE Thames RHA ) until 1991 .

Emerton has held various positions with the St John Ambulance Foundation; she worked there as a volunteer for several decades: from 1970 to 1984 as "County Nursing Officer", from 1984 to 1988 as "County Commander" for the county of Kent , from 1985 to 1988 as "County Commissioner" and then until 1996 as "Chief Nursing" Officer ". In January 2002, she submitted her resignation, saying that she did not wish to have another three-year term after the current term expired in June 2002. At the charity Care in the Community she was “Chief Officer” from 1996 to 1998 and “Chief Commander” from 1998 to 2002.

She was in charge of the reintegration program for people with learning disabilities at Darenth Park Hospital until it closed in August 1988.

She lives in Tonbridge (as of 2003).

Other offices

Emerton was chairman ( Chairman ) of various organizations. For example, from 1983 to 1985 at the English National Board for Nurses Midwives and Health Visitors , from 1985 to 1993 at the UK Central Council Nursing Midwives and Health Visitors , from 1992 to 1998 at the Nurses Welfare Service , from 1994 to 2000 at the Brighton Health Care NHS Trust and from 2003 to 2006 Chair of the National Association of Hospital and Community Friends .

Emerton was a member of the trustee of the Kent Community Housing Trust from 1992 to 1998 and of the Burdett Nursing Trust from 2002 to 2004 . She has held the same position at Defense Medical Welfare Service since 2001 . She was also a lay member of the General Medical Council (GMC) from 1996 to 2001 and has been President of the Florence Nightingale Foundation since 2004 .

Membership in the House of Lords

On February 17, 1997, Emerton was raised to a life peeress by a letters patent as Baroness Emerton , of Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent and of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington . She gave her inaugural address at the House of Lords on July 21, 1997. She is a member of the Crossbencher group .

She lists health and social care, defense policy, welfare and voluntary services as topics of political interest on the House of Lords website .

On meeting days, Emerton's presence is in the mid double-digit range.

Honors

In 1989 Emerton was ennobled as Dame Commander des Order of the British Empire , in 1992 she was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Kent and in 1993 she received the Dame of Grace des Order of Saint John (D.St.J.)

Emerton has received several honorary doctorates . In 1989 she was made an honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) by the University of Kent . In 1997 the University of Brighton and Kingston University awarded her the title of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) and the University of Central England (Birmingham City University) the honorary title of Doctor of University (DU).

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2003 she was appointed Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University and in 2009 of King's College London . In the same year she became a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Dame Audrey Caroline Emerton, Baroness Emerton on thepeerage.com , accessed August 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ Debrett's: The Rt Hon Baroness Emerton, DBE, DL  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved July 29, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.debretts.com  
  3. ↑ Running into trouble article in The Guardian, May 1, 2002
  4. ^ House of Lords: Members 'expenses Members' expenses on the House of Lords website ; Retrieved July 29, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Emerton, Audrey, Baroness Emerton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emerton, Audrey Caroline, Baroness Emerton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1935