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Liz Fenton
Director of Nursing and MIdwifery
NHS England
Liz Fenton (MSc, BSC (Hons), RN, QN) is the Director of Nursing in Midwifery in the Workforce, Training and Education Directorate in NHS England.
Having completed nurse training at Kings College Hospital, London, Liz qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1981 and subsequently held a number of clinical and leadership roles in both acute and community settings including at board level. Liz was awarded the title Queens Nurse in 2017 and an OBE for services to nursing in 2021. Passionate about care quality Liz also undertakes national and international accreditation, benchmarking services against best practice most recently in Cyprus and is the chair of the CHKS Accreditation Council.