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Jane Salvage
Born6 August 1953
Brighton, Surrey, United Kingdom
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Nurse
  • Teacher
  • Writer
Years active1974 – present

Jane Salvage(born 6 August 1953) is a British nursing policy activist, teacher, and writer. She has been described as "a hugely influential nurse leader who has contributed to advancing nursing in a wide number of roles throughout her career".[1]

Her book The Politics of Nursing called for widespread reform and greater recognition of the profession and of women carers. trade magazines. She later established a career in global health, leading World Health Organization (WHO) programmes in nursing and midwifery. Throughout her career, she has highlighted the politics of health, including related issues including nurses' low pay, poor treatment and working conditions, and lack of status.


Early life and education

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Jane Salvage was born in Brighton, Sussex, England, on 6 August 1953. Her parents, Patricia Walker and Robert Salvage, divorced shortly after the birth of her brother Guy in 1957.[2] After winning a scholarship to Brighton and Hove School for Girls, she studied English, French, and Italian Literature at Newnham College, part of the University of Cambridge. She was President of the Junior Common Room and the first student to serve on Newnham College's governing body, later became a Newnham Honorary Associate.[3]

The sudden death of her brother in 1974 influenced her decision to enter nursing after graduating from Cambridge. She trained at the Princess Alexandra School of Nursing, part of the Royal London Hospital. After qualification as a registered nurse she worked there as a staff nurse.

Career

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Salvage became active in the Royal College of Nursing and local politics in the East End of London East End of London in the late 1970s. In 1978 funding cuts to the National Health Service (NHS) threatened to close Bethnal Green Hospital, and she campaigned and wrote about it.[4] She was also active in the Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism.

Writing

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After her 1978 article in Nursing Mirror magazine about cuts to the National Health Service and the poor treatment of nurses,[5] Salvage was invited to write a monthly "Student's View" column.[6] She later joined the staff of Nursing Mirror full time and won the trainee of the year award after the International Publishing Corporation Business Press proficiency examination.[7] In 1981 she moved to the rival magazine Nursing Times as news and features editor. In 1984, she became the launch editor of Senior Nurse (1984 – 1987), then special projects editor on Nursing Standard.[8]

While working on these magazines, Salvage published and spoke at conferences on issues related to nurses' low pay, poor working conditions, and lack of status; meanwhile, she raised awareness of the politics of health.[9] These issues reflect the views of the Radical Nurses Group, of which she was an active member.[10] In the 1980s, her writing promoted feminist views of nursing and highlighted the need for intersectionality in healthcare.[citation needed] In 1988, Andrew Cole described Salvage as "the radical voice of nursing", citing her 1985 textbook The Politics of Nursing.[11]  

The success of The Politics of Nursing reflected nurses' growing recognition of the need to be more assertive.[12] Neil Kinnock helped launch the book, commending her for bringing the ideas of the modern women's movement to nursing.[13] In 1988, Salvage attained a MSc in sociology with special reference to medicine from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, writing a dissertation on the movement known as 'the New Nursing', which promoted patient-centered care through modernization of the profession.[14]

Salvage's next book, Nurses at Risk, was co-authored with Rosemary Rogers. It focused on nurses' health and safety at work, and was described as 'a courageous ground-breaker' in her citation for an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield in 1996.[citation needed] In 1997, while serving as editor-in-chief of Nursing Times, she was named the British Society of Magazine Editors runner-up Editor of the Year.[8] In 1999, she was named the Periodical Publishers Association Columnist of the Year for her weekly column in Nursing Times.[15] In 1998, she was a speaker in the 50th Anniversary Lecture Series marking the foundation of the NHS.

Between 2010 and 2012, Salvage edited NMC Review for the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council.[16] From 2013 to 2023, she was Writer in Residence and Visiting Professor at Kingston University and St George's, University of London.[17]

Health and nursing leadership

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From 1988 to 1991, Salvage was director of the new Nursing Developments Programme at the King's Fund. The programme identified and supported Nursing Development Units in hospitals and community services, promoting research-based, patient-centred care and advocating for greater nursing autonomy.[18][19]

She then became Regional Adviser for Nursing and Midwifery at the WHO's European regional office in Copenhagen.[20] She focused particularly on improving nursing and midwifery in central and eastern Europe and the new member states from the former USSR.[21] Her team also produced the first evidence-based comparative study of nursing and midwifery in Europe.[22] In 2004, she served as interim chief scientist for nursing at WHO headquarters in Geneva, and undertook consultancy work to re-establish nursing systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina and elsewhere .[23] She also worked with the British charity Medact, where she co-authored and edited three reports on the health and environmental costs of the Iraq War .[24][25][26][27]

In 2009 - 2010 Salvage worked full-time in the Department of Health, England, as part of the secretariat of the Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery. It was launched by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and chaired by Ann Keen.[28] She then worked in the secretariat of the Willis Commission on Nursing Education, chaired by Phil Willis. Its 2012 report, Quality with Compassion: the future of nursing education, underlined the importance of moving to an all-graduate nursing profession was essential.[29]

As policy advisor to the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health, Salvage worked closely with its chair Nigel Crisp on a review of global nursing, Triple Impact. It urged policy makers worldwide to see nursing in a different light, and offered solutions and development opportunities.[30] Triple Impact served as a springboard for the global Nursing Now campaign, whose actions led to the declaration of 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife.[31] Salvage was involved in the campaign and wrote and spoke about it worldwide.[32][33][34] From 2016 to 2021, Salvage served as director of the International Council of Nurses' Global Nursing Leadership Institute, an annual programme helping nurse leaders improve their strategic policy competencies.[35] In 2021 she directed a pilot midwifery leadership programme commissioned by the Government of India to advance its Midwifery Initiative, implemented with the WHO Country Office for India.[36] This led to a consultancy with WHO Headquarters to create a model midwifery leadership programme for global use.

Awards and recognition

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In 2008, Nursing Times named her the sixth most influential nurse of the last 60 years.[37] In 2018, as part of the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the NHS identified her as one of the 70 most influential UK nurses and midwives of the past 70 years.[38] In 2012, Salvage was named a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing.[39] In 2019, she was elected as a Fellow of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.[40] She has honorary doctorates from the University of Sheffield (1996), Kingston University and St George's, University of London (2011), and Middlesex University (2016). She is a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, the Queen's Nursing Institute, and the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland.

Bibliography

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  • 1985 The Politics of Nursing London: Butterworth-Heinemann; ISBN 9780433290100
  • 1986 Models for Nursing New York: Wiley
  • 1988 Nurses at Risk: A Guide to Health and Safety at Work (with Rosemary Rogers) London: Butterworth-Heinemann; ISBN 9780433000372
  • 1991 Nurse Practitioners: Working for Change London: King's Fund; ISBN 9780903060967
  • 1993 Nursing in Action: Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery to Support Health for All Copenhagen: World Health Organization
  • 1997 Nursing in Europe:  A Resource for Better Health Copenhagen: World Health Organization; ISBN 9789289013383
  • 2011 Skyros: Island of Dreams Skyros: Skyros Foundation; ISBN 9780956901903

References

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  1. ^ Citation for honorary doctorate of science (Hon DSc), Kingston University and St George's, University of London, 2011.
  2. ^ "Salvage, Jane Elizabeth, (born 6 Aug. 1953), author, nursing and health consultant". Who's Who. 2008: 2035. 1 December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U33755.
  3. ^ "Newnham Associates".
  4. ^ Salvage, J; Boomla, K (1979). The NHS in East London: What Lies Ahead?. London: Keep Bethnal Green Hospital Campaign. OL 9234084W.
  5. ^ Salvage, J. (29 June 1978). "Democracy stifled in the NHS". Nursing Mirror. 146 (26): 8–9. PMID 248767.
  6. ^ Salvage, J. (12 October 1978). "Digging the grave of good nursing". Nursing Mirror: 12.
  7. ^ Allen M (February 1981). "Profile: Jane Salvage, Senior Nurse". IPC News: 8–10.
  8. ^ a b "Jane Salvage Empowered Nurses in the UK and Internationally". March 2010.
  9. ^ "Honorary Doctorate for Nursing Expert Jane Salvage".
  10. ^ Briscoe, J. (23 February 1987). "Fallen angels". Girl About Town.
  11. ^ Cole, A. (20 July 1988). "The nurses' advocate". Nursing Times.
  12. ^ Rice, T. (4 June 1988). "Radical intervention". Nursing Standard: 32.
  13. ^ Kinnock, N. "Out of the shell?". Medicine in Society.
  14. ^ Salvage, J.; Robinson J, Gray.; Elkan, A. "The New Nursing: empowering patients or empowering nurses?". Open University Press. Policy issues in nursing. Milton Keynes.
  15. ^ Emap News. June 1999. p. 5. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ^ "NMC to Engage Nurses and Midwives With New Magazine". 2 March 2011.
  17. ^ "World Renowned Health and Education Researchers Join Kingston and St.George's, University of London".
  18. ^ Salvage, J.; Wright, S. (1995). "Nursing Development Units: a force for change". Scutari Press (1-873853-25-4). London.
  19. ^ Jardine, C. (25 July 1989). "Helping patients to help themselves". Daily Telegraph.
  20. ^ Turner, T. (3 April 1991). "European vision". Nursing Times. 87 (14): 22.
  21. ^ Salvage J.; Heijnen S. (1997). "Nursing in Europe:A Resource for Better Health" (PDF). WHO Regional Publications. 74.
  22. ^ Salvage J; Heijnen S (1997). "Nursing in Europe:A Resource for Better Health" (PDF). Nursing in Europe, WHO Regional Publications, European Series. 74.
  23. ^ Salvage J; White J (23 May 2019). "Nursing leadership and health policy: everybody's business". International Nursing Review. 66 (2): 147–150. doi:10.1111/inr.12523. PMID 31124127. S2CID 163167353.
  24. ^ "Collateral Damage: the health and environmental costs of war on Iraq". Medact. London. 2002.
  25. ^ "Continuing Collateral Damage: the health and environmental costs of war on Iraq". Medact. London. 2003.
  26. ^ "The enduring effects of war: health in Iraq". Medact. London. 2004.
  27. ^ "Rehabilitation Under Fire: health care in Iraq 2003-7". Medact. London. 2008.
  28. ^ "Front Line Care, report by the Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England" (PDF).
  29. ^ "Quality with Compassion: the future of nursing education" (PDF).
  30. ^ "Triple Impact - How investing in nursing will improve health, improve gender equality and support economic growth".
  31. ^ "Who we are".
  32. ^ Salvage, J.; Stilwell, B. (2018). "Breaking the silence: a new story of nursing". Journal of Clinical Nursing. 27 (7–8): 1295–1721. doi:10.1111/jocn.14306. PMID 29430758.
  33. ^ Holloway A; Thomson A; Stilwell B; Finch H; Irwin K; Crisp N (2021). "Agents of Change: the story of the Nursing Now campaign" (PDF). Nursing Now/Burdett Trust for Nursing.
  34. ^ "New tartan launched in Scotland to celebrate nursing 'kinship'". 10 February 2020.
  35. ^ Salvage, Jane; Montayre, Jed; Gunn, Michelle (2019). "Being effective at the top table: Developing nurses' policy leadership competencies". International Nursing Review. 66 (4): 449–452. doi:10.1111/inr.12567. PMID 31721200. S2CID 207963537.
  36. ^ "Meet the first batch of midwifery leadership graduates".
  37. ^ "Nursing Champions – The NT Diamond 20". 8 December 2008.
  38. ^ "70 of the best: NHS celebrates its most influential nurses". 3 July 2018.
  39. ^ Citation for Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing, 'in recognition of an exceptional contribution to the advancement of the science and art of nursing', 2012.
  40. ^ "Ahead of Year of the Nurse 2020, world renowned medical institution recognises contribution of outstanding nurse leaders".
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