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, the Tunbridge Wells Grammar School visited in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
In 1954 she received the state licensure as a midwife (State Certified Midwife ), 1957 as a nurse ( State Registered Nurse ) and 1964, a teacher Nurses ( Registered Nurse Tutor ).
In 1968 she was 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 head nurse (Chief Nursing Officer ) of Tunbridge Wells and Leybourne Hospital Management Committee. She then worked until 1991 for the National Health Service as " Regional Nursing Officer" in the South East Thames Royal Health Authority (SE Thames RHA ).
Emerton has held various offices in the St John Ambulance Foundation; she was there for several decades in an honorary capacity: 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 to 1996 as " Chief Nursing Officer ". In January 2002, she filed her resignation and said that she wanted no further three -year term under the current term of office expires in June 2002. When charity care in the community it was from 1996 to 1998 " Chief Officer" and 1998-2002 " Chief Commander".
Until the closure in August 1988 she was in charge of the reintegration program for people with learning disabilities in Darenth Park Hospital.
She lives in Tonbridge (as of 2003).
More offices
Emerton was Chairman ( Chairman ) of various organizations. Among other things, from 1983 to 1985 with the English National Board for Nurses Midwives and Health Visitors, 1985-1993 at the UK Central Council Nursing Midwives and Health Visitors, 1992-1998 of Nurses Welfare Service from 1994 to 2000 of the Brighton Health Care NHS Trust and from 2003 to 2006 chairman of the National Association of Hospital and Community Friends.
Emerton from 1992 to 1998 member of the Trusteeship Council ( trustee ) of the Kent Community Housing Trust, 2002-2004 at the Burdett Trust Nursing. The same function, she has held at the Defence Medical Welfare Service since 2001. She was also from 1996 to 2001 lay member ( Lay Member) of the General Medical Council (GMC ) and since 2004 President of the Florence Nightingale Foundation.
Membership in the House of Lords
On 17 February 1997 Emerton was raised by a Letters Patent as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Emerton, of Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent and of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington to the peerage. Your inaugural speech in the House of Lords held on 21 July 1997. It belongs to the group of non-party peers, the so-called Crossbenchers.
As subjects of political interest calls on the website of the House Health and Social Welfare, defense policy, welfare and voluntary services.
On meeting days is Emertons presence in the mid-double -digit range.
Honors
1989 Emerton Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, was appointed in 1992 they were deputy lieutenant of Kent and in 1993 she was awarded the Dame of Grace of the Order of Saint John ( D.St.J. )
Emerton is the recipient of several honorary doctorates. In 1989 she was appointed Doctor of Civil Law (DCL ) from the University of Kent honorary. 1997 she was awarded the University of Brighton and Kingston University the title of Doctor of Science ( D.Sc. ) and the University of Central England (Birmingham City University ) the honorary title of Doctor of the University (DU).
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2003 they appointed an Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University and in 2009 from King's College London. In the same year she became a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing.