Kay Fawcett

Kay Fawcett is a British nurse and health sector leader who was made an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 2014 for services to nursing. She qualified at the Warwickshire School of Nursing in 1980, worked as a front line nurse in NHS hospitals across the East and West Midlands and then moved into management. Her senior posts include Executive Director of Nursing for Derby Hospitals from 2005 to 2008, Chief Nurse at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, and Interim Executive Director of Nursing at George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton from 2017 to 2018. In 2014 she led development of the National Care Certificate for health and social care workers, and in 2017 she chaired the national steering group that developed the Healthcare Apprenticeship Standards for support workers and assistant practitioners in England. She has since worked as an independent consultant on nurse team training and sits on the boards of several health organisations. The University of Derby awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2018.