Maude Storey, CBE, FRCN (born 24 March 1930, Wigan, Lancashire — died 29 March 2003, Reading, Berkshire) was a British nurse, nursing administrator and writer, as well as President of the Royal College of Nursing from 1988 to 1990.[1]
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Storey was educated at the Wigan and District Mining and Technical College. After training in Manchester, she went to London to qualify as a midwife, after which she came back to Wigan and was appointed as clinical instructor at Wigan Infirmary (1959–68), and a member of the Wigan Health Authority.
Storey was the last registrar of the General Nursing Council of England and Wales (1977–81) and the first chief executive of its successor, the Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (1981–87). Before this she had been a regional nursing officer for the Mersey Regional Health Authority.[2]
Never married, Storey was a devout Methodist. She suffered from diabetes although no official cause was given in the news reports of her death, which came five days after her 73rd birthday in Reading, Berkshire in 2003.[3]