Jane Denton
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Jane Denton, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CBE|FRCN}}, (born 30 June 1953)[https://archives.rcn.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=DS%2FUK%2F25887 Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203054412/https://archives.rcn.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=DS/UK/25887 |date=3 December 2022 }}, rcn.org.uk. Accessed 2 December 2022. is a United Kingdom nurse and midwife notable for her contributions to fertility nursing and genetics. She was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 2006.{{Cite web |last=Royal College of Nursing |date=2022 |title=RCN Fellowship Roll of Honour |url=https://www.rcn.org.uk/About-us/RCN-Fellows-and-Honorary-Fellows |accessdate=3 December 2022}}
Early life
She attended the Nottingham Bluecoat Grammar School (now the Nottingham Bluecoat Academy).{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
Career
She was a contributor to the development of the UK's first IVF programme. She served as nursing director of the Hallam Medical Centre, and was a founder member of the RCN Fertility Nurse Group that lobbied for the development of the current Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) Act.{{cite web|url=http://www.oneatatime.org.uk/242.htm|title=Jane Denton|publisher=One at a Time|accessdate=8 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812083101/http://www.oneatatime.org.uk/242.htm|archive-date=12 August 2016|url-status=usurped}}
In 1992 she was named the first nurse appointed to the HFEA, which regulates and inspects all UK clinics providing IVF, donor insemination or the storage of eggs, sperm or embryos.{{cite web|url=http://www.rcn.org.uk/aboutus/gov/fellows/browse/denton|title=Jane Denton|publisher=Royal College of Nursing|accessdate=8 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823030251/http://www.rcn.org.uk/aboutus/gov/fellows/browse/denton|archive-date=23 August 2010|url-status=dead}}
In her current role as Director of the Multiple Births Foundation, she has contributed to significant change in public and professional perception and attitudes towards multiple births.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
Honours
She was appointed a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2007 for services to health care.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6757317.stm|title=Tomlinson honoured with CBE|date=15 June 2007|publisher=BBC|accessdate=8 January 2010}}
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