- Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff
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honorific-prefix =The Right Honourable
name=The Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff
honorific-suffix = MCSP
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office=Life Peer
term_start = July 30th, 1979
term_end =
predecessor =
successor = Incumbent
birth_date =
birth_place =
party=Crossbench Jean Kennedy McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff MCSP is a member of the
House of Lords .She trained as a nurse, a midwife, and as a health visitor before going on to pursue a successful career in nursing teaching and administration. In 1974 she became the holder of the first Chair of Nursing in an English university (the
University of Manchester ). She served on theRoyal Commission on theNational Health Service .She was created a
life peer in the House of Lords as Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff, of Llandaff in the County ofSouth Glamorgan onJuly 30 , 1979, in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. She has been a member of four select committees of the House of Lords. As well as being a Vice President of the League of Nurses of St Bartholomew's Hospital, she is a Trustee of numerous charities. In 2005 she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the "British Journal of Nursing".
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