Jane Frances Cummings is a former Chief Nursing Officer for England, formerly at the

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and subsequently at

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. In November 2013 she was interviewed about the demand for safe staffing levels in NHS hospitals and told '' ITV Daybreak'': "The most important thing to do is to use evidence to determine what the staffing levels should be. "It's actually quite dangerous to to suggest that there must be a particular minimum and what we really need to do is to look at the needs of the patients on a particular ward or service and that will vary.". In 2012, Cummings developed and published the 6C's of Nursing - a set of core values and expectations of registered nurses in the UK. In December 2013 she was involved in the launch of the £100 million Nursing Technology Fund and said “Technology is a tool that, if embraced and used in the right way, allows healthcare professionals to work differently and more effectively so they can focus on what they do best – providing compassionate, high quality care for patients." She was said by the

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to be the 36th most powerful person in the English NHS in December 2013. As of 2015, Cummings was paid a salary of between £165,000 and £169,999 by NHS England, making her one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time. She was appointed a

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in the

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for services to Nursing and the NHS. She was succeeded as Chief Nursing Officer for England by Ruth May, in January 2019.

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Jane Cummings blog at NHS England
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