Eileen Sills

Dame Eileen Sills, DBE is the Chief Nurse, Director of Patient Experience and Infection Control and a member of the board at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. She was also, briefly, the first Freedom to Speak Up National Guardian. Before taking up the National Guardian post, she was additionally senior nursing advisor at the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Chair of the nurses group for the Shelford Group of leading NHS Foundation Trusts.[1] She was previously the Clinical Director of London’s Strategic Clinical Network for Dementia.

She qualified as a nurse in 1983 at Stepping Hill Hospital. She moved from there to work in A&E at North Middlesex Hospital and then became director of nursing at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and then Whipps Cross Hospital. She chaired the London Standing Conference group on Homelessness.[2] She has trained MPs to be “dementia friends”.[3]

She was elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours having been awarded a CBE in the 2004 New Year Honours.[4]

In January 2016 she was appointed as the first Freedom to Speak Up National Guardian for the NHS.[5][6][7] Some reactions were hostile as she will only work in this role for two days a week while retaining her three roles at the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust for the other three days. Julie Bailey described her appointment as "disappointing". Roy Lilley described her appointment as "an affront" and "waving two fingers".[1] On 4 March 2016 she resigned from her National Guardian post as she felt unable to do it justice together with her other responsibilities.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 New whistleblower tsar only working for TWO DAYS a week but keeps £174,000 a year NHS job Daily Mirror Andrew Gregory 8 Jan 2016
  2. ↑ "Chief nurse from Stoke Newington made a Dame in Queen’s New Year Honours". Hackney Gazette. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Leading London nurse trains MPs to be ‘dementia friends’". Nursing Times. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Eileen's gong shock". Watford Observer. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  5. ↑ Dame Eileen Sills Care Quality Commission website 7 Jan 2016
  6. ↑ CQC appoints first National Guardian for the freedom to speak up in the NHS Care Quality Commission website 7 Jan 2016
  7. ↑ The National Freedom to Speak Up Guardian for the NHS Care Quality Commission website 7 Jan 2016
  8. ↑ CQC statement on the resignation of Dame Eileen Sills as National Guardian Care Quality Commission website, 4 March 2016.
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