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Chief Nursing Officer (United Kingdom)


The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is the most senior adviser on nursing matters in a government. The CNOs in the United Kingdom are appointed to advise their respective governments: His Majesty's Government, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government. Each CNO is assisted by one or more Deputy Chief Nursing Officers, and is complemented by a Chief Medical Officer.

The Chief Nursing Officer is based at the Department of Health (and its predecessors).

  • 1941–1948: Dame Katherine Watt
  • 1948–1958: Dame Elizabeth Cockayne
  • 1958–1972: Dame Kathleen Raven
  • 1972–1982: Dame Phyllis Friend
  • 1982–1992: Dame Anne Poole
  • 1992–1999: Dame Yvonne Moores
  • 1999–2004: Dame Sarah Mullally
  • 2004–2012: Dame Christine Beasley
  • 2012–2019: Dame Jane Cummings
  • 2019–2024: Dame Ruth May
  • 2024–present: Duncan Burton
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Shirley-Anne Somerville, Nicola Sturgeon and Fiona McQueen briefing Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic in September 2020

The Chief Nursing Officers for Scotland is based at the Scottish Government and previously at the Scottish Office.

  • 1939–1944: Margaret Colville Marshall
  • 1944–1961: Mary Olivia Robinson
  • 1961–1969: Margaret Macnaughton
  • 1970–1976: Dame Muriel Powell
  • 1977–1988: Margaret Gibson Auld
  • 1988–1992: Dame Yvonne Moores
  • 1992–2004: Anne Jarvie
  • 2004–2009: Paul Martin
  • 2010–2014: Rosalyn Elaine Moore
  • 2015–2020: Fiona McQueen
  • 2020–2021: Prof Amanda Croft
  • 2022–2024: Prof Alex McMahon
  • 2024–2025: Anne Armstrong (interim)
  • 2025–present: Prof Aisha Holloway
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  • 1972–1981: Edith Alice Bell
  • 1982–1988: Dame Yvonne Moores
  • 1999–2010: Rosemary Kennedy
  • 2010–2021: Jean White
  • 2021–2021: Gareth Howells (interim)
  • 2021–present: Sue Tranka
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The Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland is based at the Department of Health (and its predecessors).

  • 1960–1975: Mona Grey

  • 1995–2005: Judith Hill

  • 2005–2011: Martin Bradley

  • 2013–2021: Charlotte McArdle

  • 2022–present: Maria McIlgorm

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