Mary Uprichard

Dame Mary Elizabeth Uprichard, DBE, FRCM is a British nursing, midwifery and health care activist. She was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1998.

Positions

• First President of the UKCC
• Vice-President of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM)
• Chairwoman of the Nurses' Professional Conduct Committee
• Lay Secretary (until 2011) on the Board of Governors of Methodist College, Belfast

Publications

• The Evolution of Midwifery Training (Midwives Chronicle: January 1987;)
• Myles textbook for midwives, Myles, Bennett, Brown & Uprichard (eds), (Churchill Livingstone Publishing, 1993; ISBN 0-443-06392-3)

Legacies

• Dame Mary Uprichard Prize for Excellence in Midwifery Studies (Queen's University Belfast)
• Dame Mary Uprichard Annual Lecture

External links

• Nursing & Midwifery Council website
• "UKCC: is it now fit to govern?"
• Annual Report (2008) of the Board of Governors of the Methodist Church
• Royal College of Midwives site