Emily McWhirter
Associate director - leadership
RCN Institute of Nursing Excellence
Emily McWhirter is a motivated and dedicated senior healthcare practitioner, with a PhD in nursing leadership, and strategic healthcare management education at Harvard Business School. She has worked in the NHS and the independent and charity sector in the UK for more than 35 years, 20 at a senior level, across four London teaching hospitals, specialist centres and district general hospitals.
Having been a director of nursing for three and a half years, which included leading a hospital through the Covid-19 pandemic, she spent three years working for the chief nurse at the World Health Organization in Geneva.
She is now the associate director for the Leadership Academy, Institute of Nursing Excellence at the Royal College of Nursing.