A career in nursing
|
Anthony Carr has had two interesting careers. The first in nursing shown here and later in the Christian ministry. See 'As an ordianed minister'. Anthony entered general nurse training at Selly Oak Hospital Birmingham at 18 years, and after qualifying as a State Registered Nurse, successively held posts of Staff Nurse and Night Charge Nurse, Selly Oak Hospital Birmingham (1951-1956). He left nursing for four years and worked as an Industrial Sales Representative for a Manufacturing Heating Company first in Birmingham then in Newcastle Upon Tyne. 1959 - 1963 District Nurse,City of Birmingham Public Health Department & Lecturer in Health Education, City of Birmingham Education Department. 1963-1965 Assistant Matron in charge Joseph Sheldon Hospital Rednal. Commissioned this New hospital. 1965-1967 Midlands Area Officer of the Royal College of Nursing, 1967-1969 Principal of the William Rathbone Staff College Liverpool. A residential management training college. 1970-1972 Chief Nursing Officer Central Wirral Hospital Management Committee (9 hosptials & head of Nursing Training School) 1972-1984 Chief Nursing Officer Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (Teaching) Health Authority ( 17 hospitals and the community nursing services in the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne & Head of lagest Nurse Training School in the UK) In the 1970's he became chairman of two important working parties at the department of health. In 1975 he chaired a working party of the Education and Training of SRN/RGN in District Nursing and later chaired another group on the Education and Training of the Enrolled Nurse in the Community. Action on the former report resulted in district nurse training being moved to colleges of further and higher education and paved the way for the present degree in district nursing. For this work he was honoured by the Royal College of Nursing by the award of Fellowship of the College. (See citation of Royal College of Nursing) He was one of four members of a committee (Cumberledge) set up by the Secretary of State for Health in 1985 to review the Community Nursing Services in England. The subsequent report Neighbourhood Nursing had a great impact upon the management of the community nursing services.
Anthony also was either appointed or elected to the following professional organisations bodies/government bodies.
At 52 years, through illness, he retired from the NHS and became a management consultant under the name AJC Consultants. Among his clients were Cow & Gate and the Royal College of Midwives. He still kept in contact with the NHS becoming a non-executive director of Solihull primary Care NHS Trust in 1997 and vice chairman of the Trust in 1998 until 2003. At present he is a Hospital Manager under the Mental Health Act reviewing patients detained under that act. |
