Chief Nursing Officer outlines the future of nursing in the UK
Posted on 10 February 1997
As Chief Nursing Officer and Director of Nursing since 1992, Yvonne Moores leads Britain's nurses, midwives and health visitors. She works with ministers, civil servants and senior professional colleagues to ensure that nurses and nursing are represented in the national policy-making arena.
The York Health Symposia offer an opportunity to all those working in the NHS to listen to and question directly the leaders of the NHS and those who advise at the highest levels of health policy setting. The first Symposium featured Alan Langlands, Chief Executive of the NHS, and Professor Tony Culyer, author of the Culyer Report on Research and Development in the NHS.
The second speaker at this Symposium will be Professor Ian Russell, founding Head of the Department of Health Sciences and Clinical Evaluation at the University of York. He will talk about research and development in the NHS with particular reference to nursing and professions allied to medicine.
Formerly Director of Research and Development for NHS Wales, Ian Russell has led the Department of Health Sciences since 1995. He is also Associate Director of Research and Development for NHS Executive Northern and Yorkshire.
The University of York leads the world in health services research with three major teaching departments and three research and consultancy centres focusing on health training, treatments, management, research and planning.
The Symposium will be chaired by Barry Foley, Head of the Department of Health Studies at the University of York. It is organised by the Centre for Leadership and Management Development of the Department of Health Studies.
The Symposium is open to anyone who works in the NHS and admission is free. Those who would like to attend should contact the Symposium Secretariat, the Second York Symposium on Health, IFAB Communications, University of York, PO Box 373, York YO1 5YW. Tel 01904 432940.
The Symposium takes place at 1.30 pm on Monday 17 February in the Central Hall of the University of York.