Candice is an experienced District Nurse with the Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing and holds the Clinical Practice Educator and Independent Nurse Prescribing qualifications. Her previous career was in banking. Candice became a Queen’s Nurse in 2007 and she has been actively involved in contributing to national policy documents over many years. Examples of her work include membership of the Transforming Community Services Board at the Department of Health, seconded as Clinical National Lead (Nursing) on the Transforming Community Services Programme, a member of the Prime Minister’s Nursing and Care Quality Forum and a member of the Clinical Nursing Advisory Group (DH). She has also worked with the University of Nottingham as a Clinical Health Lecturer on the pre-registration nursing programme and has worked in clinical practice with nursing students from the University of Lincoln. In 2015 Candice was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science for her contribution to educating and supporting student nurses over many years. In 2014 Candice was awarded an OBE for “Services to Nursing and Healthcare” and received this at an investiture at Buckingham Palace from her Majesty the Queen. Also that year she was awarded The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Award for Outstanding Service by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI). She has worked at the QNI in London as a Nursing Project Manager; her work includes projects on Specialist Qualification and Discharge Planning and Transition of Care, empowering community clinicians to support young people transitioning from children’s services to adult community services. Candice has been judging the Nursing Times awards for several years alongside involvement in national forums. In addition she is working in a community hospital within the phlebotomy team with North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.