Professor Michelle Bateman is a Registered Nurse and the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer – Quality at NHS England.

In her role, Michelle provides national nursing leadership to the delivery of a range of nursing safety and improvement support programmes, quality and policy areas, and leads on work to building and maintaining a quality culture across the profession. Michelle is responsible for infection prevention and control (IPC), and provides nursing leadership for incidents, emergency preparedness, resilience and response (EPRR). She also leads the nursing and midwifery professions’ response to sustainability and climate change.

Michelle has 40 years’ experience working in the NHS and started her registered nurse training in 1985 at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. Prior to this Michelle had worked as a nurse auxiliary at City Hospital in Nottingham while attending college.

Michelle went on to complete her registered nursing, midwifery and health visitor training and after working as a locality manager, a role which included responsibility for the development and management of services for older people, she moved back to Nottingham.

Since 2000, Michelle has held a variety of posts centred on clinical leadership, professional development, quality, risk management and patient experience, completing an MSc in health policy in organisations in 2002.

Michelle was appointed as Executive Director of Nursing, AHPs and Quality at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust in February 2019, where she worked until her most recent appointment.

Michelle is a proud Queens Nurse and became the recipient of the inaugural QNI William Rathbone Award for Executive Nurse Leadership in 2023.

In 2024, Michelle was honoured to be conferred the title of Visiting Professor of Healthcare Improvement, Leadership and Policy Development at University of Derby, in recognition for her work in healthcare, specifically in community services.

Michelle is passionate about the contribution of community services to successful system working and achieving the best outcome for patients and communities. During her time at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS FT, Michelle led the development of a newly qualified nurse rotation programme to raise the profile of community and primary care nursing.