Maude Storey

Maude Storey, CBE, FRCN (born 24 March 1930, Wigan, Lancashire — died 29 March 2003, Reading, Berkshire) was a British nurse, nursing administrator and writer, as well as President of the Royal College of Nursing from 1988 to 1990.^[1]

Career

Storey was educated at the Wigan and District Mining and Technical College. After training in Manchester, she went to London to qualify as a midwife, after which she came back to Wigan and was appointed as clinical instructor at Wigan Infirmary (1959-68), and a member of the Wigan Health Authority.

Storey was the last registrar of the General Nursing Council of England and Wales (1977-81) and the first chief executive of its successor, the Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (1981-87). Before this she had been a regional nursing officer for the Mersey Regional Health Authority.^[2]

Personal life

Never married, Storey was a devout Methodist. She suffered from diabetes although no official cause was given in the news reports of her death, which came five days after her 73rd birthday in Reading, Berkshire in 2003.^[3]

Index of writings by Maude Storey

• Operation and education in home health care service: A study on home health care services in a hospital: Wonju Christian Hospital
• Operation and education in home health care service: Operational research on the development of a hospital based home health care program
• Development of a new statutory structure for nursing, midwifery and health visiting in the United Kingdom
• Nurse education conference: meeting society's requirements
• Nurses must take the professional conduct code seriously
• UK Central Council elections: why bother?
• Your profession needs you: determining our destiny
• Keeping an eye on care

References

1. ^ Royal College of Nursing profile
2. ^ Royal College of Nursing profile, ibid.
3. ^ Obituary for Maude Storey in The Independent

External links

• Biodata

Persondata
Name	Storey, Maude
Alternative names
Short description	British midwife, nurse and nursing administrator
Date of birth	24 March 1930
Place of birth	Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK —
Date of death	29 March 2003
Place of death	Reading, Berkshire, England, UK