Professor Emeritus Charles Anthony (Tony) Butterworth CBE, FRCN, FMed, Sci, PhD, MSc, RNT, RMN, RGN.
Tony Butterworth is a qualified mental health and general nurse with significant experience in hospital and community settings as well as in teaching and research. He has published extensively and supervised more than 20 students to the successful completion of their PhD.
He worked as a clinical nurse in acute mental health services, emergency and orthopaedic care and in community psychiatry. He developed and led one of the first educational courses for community psychiatric nurses in the world and developed original work on clinical supervision for nurses, midwives and health visitors.
He became the inaugural Chair and Queens Nursing Institute Professor of Community Nursing at the University of Manchester in 1987 where he undertook original and ground breaking research into clinical supervision for clinicians and in the development of psychosocial education for people with schizophrenia. He was invited by the UK Secretary of State for Health to lead a Government review of mental health nursing in 1994 and became General Secretary for the World Health Organisations Collaborating Centres for Nursing in 1997.
Following periods as a Head of Department and Dean of School, he became a Pro-Vice Chancellor for external affairs for the University of Manchester in 1998. He was elected by his academic peers to be the first Chair of the Council of Deans of Health in 1997.
He returned to an appointment in the NHS as Chief Executive for Trent Workforce Confederation in 2001 and became Director of a Research Centre for Clinical and Academic Workforce Innovation at the University of Lincoln in 2005. He and his team led the UKCRC review of Clinical Academic Careers for Nursing and the health professions, work completed in late 2007. He was granted the title Emeritus Professor by the University of Lincoln in 2008.
He was elected to be first Chair of the Academy of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Research (UK) from 2008 to 2011.
In December 2011 he was invited by the UK Secretary of State to become Chair of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and has recently also become Chair of the Foundation of Nursing Studies. He is a Trustee of Dementia UK and the RCN Charitable Foundation.
Honours: Commander of the British Empire (CBE);Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (FRCN); Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci); Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych); Fellow of the Queens Nursing Institute (FQNI); Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA); Fellowship, Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society (USA); Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Huddersfield, Honorary Fellow for Health Innovation NHSII.
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