Organization Profile Leadership Home Products and Services Frequently Asked Questions News Releases and Coverage Speakers Bureau Potential Media Topics Contacts PDF Media Kit PRESIDENT PROFILE Professor Dickon Weir-Hughes, United Kingdom, was elected in 2008 and serves a term through 2012. He is Chief Executive and Registrar of the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) and serves as Non-Executive Director of the National Patient Safety Agency, a trustee of the Foundation of Nursing Studies (FoNS) and a member of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) selection panel for research capacity building. Prior to his NMC appointment, Professor Weir-Hughes is proud to have held a challenging turnaround appointment as Executive Director of Nursing/Professor of Nursing, Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust/London South Bank University. The trust is one of the largest in the UK with 1500 beds, two accident and emergency departments and almost 10,000 deliveries a year. From 1998 to 2007, Professor Weir-Hughes was Chief Nurse/Deputy Chief Executive at the world’s leading cancer hospital, The Royal Marsden Hospital (London and Surrey), where he founded the Royal Marsden School of Nursing and Rehabilitation, was responsible for clinical governance, patient safety and ICT, led the UK National Cancer Leadership Programme and led on leadership development for nurses and midwives in the 97 trusts in London as the ‘leading light’ for the London SHA. Professor Weir-Hughes was Deputy Director of Nursing at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London from 1994 to 1998. Prior to this he had a varied clinical career at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London and St. George’s/Atkinson Morley’s Hospital, London, mainly in neurosciences, critical care and accident and emergency. He was also a flight nurse for Europ Assistance and was one of the six nurses who went to Baghdad, to repatriate sick and injured hostages at the start of the first Gulf War.
Prior to his NMC appointment, Professor Weir-Hughes is proud to have held a challenging turnaround appointment as Executive Director of Nursing/Professor of Nursing, Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust/London South Bank University. The trust is one of the largest in the UK with 1500 beds, two accident and emergency departments and almost 10,000 deliveries a year. From 1998 to 2007, Professor Weir-Hughes was Chief Nurse/Deputy Chief Executive at the world’s leading cancer hospital, The Royal Marsden Hospital (London and Surrey), where he founded the Royal Marsden School of Nursing and Rehabilitation, was responsible for clinical governance, patient safety and ICT, led the UK National Cancer Leadership Programme and led on leadership development for nurses and midwives in the 97 trusts in London as the ‘leading light’ for the London SHA. Professor Weir-Hughes was Deputy Director of Nursing at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London from 1994 to 1998. Prior to this he had a varied clinical career at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London and St. George’s/Atkinson Morley’s Hospital, London, mainly in neurosciences, critical care and accident and emergency. He was also a flight nurse for Europ Assistance and was one of the six nurses who went to Baghdad, to repatriate sick and injured hostages at the start of the first Gulf War.