Claire Johnston

Claire Johnston has spent her nursing career in community, acute and mental health roles and was a director of nursing for 20 years, most recently at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust.

She was previously national advisor in primary care and community nursing at the Royal College of Nursing, She also worked at the Department of Health on the community care reforms and at Health Education England running the Capital Nurse programme in North London.

Claire coaches nurses and midwives in managing and developing their careers, as part of Tavistock consultancy. She chairs ‘Our Time’, a charity working to support children who have a mentally ill parent.