Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff

Jean Kennedy McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff, was a British nurse and member of the House of Lords, born in Cardiff in 1926 and died in 2012. She trained as a nurse, a midwife and a health visitor, then built a career in nursing teaching and administration, and studied sociology at Bedford College, London. In the 1960s she took part in the Royal College of Nursing research programme known as the Study of Nursing Care. In 1974 she became the first holder of a Chair of Nursing at an English university, at the University of Manchester, and kept it until 1989. She served on the Royal Commission on the National Health Service from 1976 to 1979, became a life peer in 1979, and received the British Journal of Nursing Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. Her guide to using the nursing process appeared in 1982.