David Benton RGN, RMN, BSc, MPhil, FFNF, FRCN

David Benton is consultant nursing and health policy and specialises in regulation, licensing and education and works for the International Council of Nurses.

He qualified as a general and mental health nurse at the then Highland College of Nursing and Midwifery in Inverness, Scotland.

David has held senior roles for nearly twenty years across a range of organisation. These roles have included working as Executive Director of Nursing at a health Authority in London; as a senior civil servant in Northern and Yorkshire Region; as Chief Executive of Regulatory body in Scotland and as Nurse Director of a University Trust Health System.

David has traveled widely looking at various aspects of different health systems and was delighted to receive a Nuffield Policy fellowship in 1999. This enabled him to look at both America and Spain so as to understand how the professional voice might be best heard within the new constitutional arrangements in Scotland.

David is the recipient of several awards and honours. He is particularly proud of being awarded the inaugural Nursing Standard Leadership award in 1993. He was presented with Fellowship of the Florence Nightingale Foundation in 2001 and awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing in 2003 for his contribution to health and nursing policy.  

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