1st Lisbeth Hockey Memorial Lecture was held on the 1st of December 2020
‘Bringing Curiosity & Analysis to Community Nursing: Lisbeth Hockey, her Legacy’

Dame Anne Marie Rafferty is Professor of Nursing Policy, former Dean of the Florence
Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London and President of the Royal College of Nursing. She is a historian, health workforce and policy researcher, graduating from Edinburgh University in social science (Nursing Studies); as a clinical academic, Nottingham University MPhil (Surgery).

She was the first nurse to gain a doctorate (DPhil Modern History) from Oxford University. She is one of first nurses to be elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) & holds fellowships from the Royal College of Nursing, (FRCN) & American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). She was made Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty the Queen for services to healthcare in 2008 & Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2020 for services to nursing.