Maude Storey


Maude Storey, CBE, FRCN was a British nurse, nursing administrator and writer, as well as President of the Royal College of Nursing from 1988 to 1990.

Career

Storey was born at Wigan, where she attended , After training in Manchester, she went to London to qualify as a midwife.
She then returned to Wigan and was named clinical instructor at Wigan Infirmary as well as a member of the Wigan Health Authority. After serving as a regional nursing officer for the Mersey Regional Health Authority, she was appointed registrar of the General Nursing Council of England and Wales ; she would be the last such registrar, and the first chief executive of its successor, the Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting.

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.

Index of writings by Maude Storey