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| Saturday, 17 June 2006 11:17 | | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk
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A host of doctors, nurses and other NHS staff feature in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Royal College of Anaesthetists president Peter Simpson and Nursing and Midwifery Council head Jonathan Asbridge received knighthoods, while disability campaigner Jane Campbell became a dame.
Dr Simpson, a consultant anaesthetist at Bristol’s Frenchay Hospital, said he felt he has been recognised for his efforts in trying to improve medical training and education. He was involved in the setting up of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board last year.
He said: "Medical training is essential for the future of medicine. I have tried throughout my career to help put something into this and develop the doctors of the future.
"But I also think the honour is a recognition of the importance anaesthetists play in acute patient care."
Mr Asbridge, chief executive of the Barts and the London NHS Trust, worked as a critical care nurse before moving into management.
He said: "However delighted I am personally to have received such an honour, in accepting this knighthood I do so on behalf of all my colleagues at the NMC and in the nursing and midwifery professions who dedicate their lives to delivering high quality patient care."
Ms Campbell, who became an MBE in 2001, has become a dame for services to social care and disabled people. She spent nearly five years as chairman of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, set up in 2001 to promote good practice before stepping down earlier this year.
She previously co-founded the National Centre for Independent Living and has also written books on disability and is a commissioner fro the Disability Rights Commission.
Non-clinical staff including a hospital chaplain and head of the NHS Litigation Authority were also given honours, along with a number of lower profile health professionals.
Thomas Burns, professor of psychiatry at Oxford University Medical School, was made a CBE, while North Glamorgan NHS Trust breast cancer nurse Diane Jehu became an MBE.
Stephen Walker, head of the NHS Litigation Authority, which effectively acts as the insurance body for the health service, became an CBE.
And Father Cedric Stanley, the chaplain at Middlesex's Harefield Hospital, was made an MBE for his work counselling patients and comforting the bereaved.
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