Barbara Stuttle CBE
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Health CareHonorary Award
Honorary Doctor of Health Sciences, 2009Biography
Barbara Stuttle CBE is the Director of Quality & Nursing & Deputy Chief Executive for NHS South West Essex and has a nursing background spanning over 38 years working mainly in the Community and Primary Care Services.
Barbara is currently working on the next steps for GP Commissioning and evolution from PCT to GP led commissioning. It is important that appropriate services are commissioned for the population of South West Essex. From 2005 - 2009, she was one of two National Nursing and Midwifery Clinical leads working for Connecting for Health. Her operational role involved reaching out to the whole nursing and midwifery community across England, and connecting it with practical support and resources to ensure that new technologies would reflect and support rapidly changing nursing practice.
Throughout her career, Barbara has seen every challenge as a new opportunity. She has a wealth of expertise in all dimensions of health care and is committed to improving services to patients. Barbara was awarded the CBE in October 2004 for her services to the NHS. She is honoured for her exemplary leadership skills within the health care sector.
Citation
"Vice Chancellor, it is my pleasure to read the citation for Barbara Stuttle CBE for the award of Honorary Doctor of Health Sciences.
Barbara Stuttle CBE is the Director of Quality & Nursing for NHS South West Essex Primary Care Trust and has a nursing background spanning over 38 years working mainly in the Community and Primary Care Services.
Her role with NHS South West Essex Primary Care trust ensures quality of care is inherent in all commissioning decisions. She takes a lead role in influencing and directing commissioning to ensure the quality of services is facilitated within the contract that it is performance managed. Barbara is currently lead nationally on the IT mobilisation for community staff.
From 2005, she was one of two National Nursing and Midwifery Clinical leads working for Connecting for Health which supports the NHS in providing better, safer care, by delivering computer systems and services that improve how patient information is stored and accessed. Her operational role involved reaching out to the whole nursing and midwifery community across England, and to connect it with practical support and resources to ensure the new technologies reflect and support rapidly changing nursing practice.
From February 1999 until July 2002 she was on secondment to the Department of Health as a Project Manager in Nurse Prescribing and was instrumental in the implementation of the National Rollout of Nurse Prescribing across the country. Barbara is also the Chair to the Association for Nurse Prescribing.
Throughout her career, Barbara has seen every challenge as a new opportunity. She has a wealth of expertise in all dimensions of health care and is committed to improving services to patients. She considers she is privileged to work with many great nurses and other health care colleagues.
Barbara was awarded the CBE in October 2004 for her services to the NHS. A consummate professional, Barbara's secret to achieving effective change is by leading, understanding and working with people within the healthcare sector.
For her exemplary leadership skills within healthcare, we are delighted to honour her today. Vice Chancellor, it is my pleasure to present Barbara Stuttle for the award of Doctor of Health Sciences, honoris causa."