Barbara Stuttle CNE
Director of Quality and Nursing and Deputy Chief Executive
NHS South West Essex
Barbara Stuttle is the Deputy Chief Executive/Chief Nurse, Directorate of Quality, Experience and Safety for NHS South West Essex and has a nursing background spanning over 38 years working mainly in the Community and Primary Care Services. This new exciting role is key in ensuring quality of care is inherent in all commissioning decisions. As a commissioner she takes a lead role in influencing and directing commissioning ensuring the quality of services is facilitated within the contract and performance managed. Barbara has wide general experience in all aspects of Community Health Services and the NHS having worked at a national level.
Barbara is undertaking a national role in the IT mobilising of community services to ensure technology is at the point of delivering.
From 2004-2008 Barbara was one of two National Nursing and Midwifery Clinical leads working for Connecting for Health. Her operational role involved reaching out to the whole nursing and midwifery community across England, and to connect it with practical support and resources to ensure the new technologies reflect and support rapidly changing nursing practice.
From February 1999 until July 2002 she was on secondment to the Department of Health as a Project Manager in Nurse Prescribing and was instrumental in the implementation of the National Rollout of Nurse Prescribing throughout the London and South Eastern Regions and across the country. Barbara is also the Chair to the Association for Nurse Prescribing, which offers advice, support and education to nurse and non-medical prescribers throughout the United Kingdom.
She is a renowned speaker internationally and nationally.
No challenge is too high for Barbara – she sees every challenge as a new opportunity. She brings with her a wealth of expertise in all dimensions of health care. She is committed to improving services to patients and considers she is privileged to work with many great nurses and other health care colleagues.
Barbara was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by the Queen in October 2004 for her services to the NHS. A real champion, Barbara’s secret to achieving effective change is by leading, and working with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams.
