Mary Uprichard
{{Short description|Nurse and midwife from Northern Ireland}}
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Dame Mary Elizabeth Uprichard, DBE, FRCM (born March 1938) is a British nursing, midwifery and health care activist. She was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1998.
She lives in Moira, County Down.{{cite web | url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/MMohnkYR4VIfqeYtN9iLA-E3Hsc/appointments | title=Dame Mary UPRICHARD personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK }}
Positions
- First President of the UKCC
- Vice-President of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM)
- Chairwoman of the Nurses' Professional Conduct Committee
- Lay Secretary (until 2011) on the Board of Governors of Methodist College, Belfast
Publications
- The Evolution of Midwifery Training (Midwives Chronicle: January 1987;)
- Myles textbook for midwives, Myles, Bennett, Brown & Uprichard (eds), (Churchill Livingstone Publishing, 1993; {{ISBN|0-443-06392-3}})
Legacies
- Dame Mary Uprichard Prize for Excellence in Midwifery Studies (Queen's University Belfast)
- Dame Mary Uprichard Annual Lecture
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.nmc-uk.org/ Nursing & Midwifery Council website]
- [http://www.internurse.com/cgi-bin/go.pl/library/article.cgi?uid=6169;article=BJN_5_4_202_203 "UKCC: is it now fit to govern?"]
- [http://www.methody.org/uploads/doc/Annual%20Report%202006-07.pdf Annual Report (2008) of the Board of Governors of the Methodist Church]{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- [https://archive.today/20070510015120/http://rcm.pncl.co.uk/membership/pages/categories.php?id=5 Royal College of Midwives site]
- [http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/1253531/DAME-MARY-ELIZABETH-UPRICHARD Profile], checkcompany.co.uk; accessed 16 June 2016.
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