Anne Marie Rafferty, Baroness Rafferty DBE FRCN is Professor of Nursing Policy, and former Dean of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King’s College London. A historian, health workforce and policy researcher, she served as President of the Royal College of Nursing from 2019-21.
Anne Marie graduated from Edinburgh University in Nursing Studies, did her MPhil (Surgery) at Nottingham University; and was the first nurse to gain a doctorate (DPhil Modern History) from Oxford University.
She was seconded to the Department of Health to work with Lord Ara Darzi on the Next Stage Review of the NHS and awarded a CBE for services to healthcare in 2008. She served on the Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery 2009-10 and has been the recipient of various awards, including the Nursing Times Leadership Award in 2014, and the Health Services Journal Top 100 Clinical Leaders Award in 2015, and was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Hall of Fame (USA) in 2016.
Anne Marie holds fellowships from the Royal College of Nursing and the American Academy of Nursing. She co-led a Student Commission on the Future of the NHS supported by NHS England and was a member of the Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales which reported in 2018. She is a current member of the NHS Assembly. In 2020, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to nursing and made a peer to the House of Lords in 2025.
