Yvonne Veronica Coghill is a British National Health Service manager who currently serves on the NHS Equality and Diversity Council and is the Vice President of the

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Early life

Coghill moved to the United Kingdom with her mother in the 1950s from

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(then

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). Her mother worked in

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in Bristol.

Career

Coghill began training as a nurse in 1977 at

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, qualifying as a general nurse in 1980. She entered NHS management in 1986. She worked in the

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from 2004 to 2007 including as

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to the

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of the NHS. Coghill sits as a member of the NHS Equality and Diversity Council. She is a faculty member of the US-based

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. She was elected Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing in 2018, to hold office from January 2019 to December 2020.

Honours

Coghill was made an Officer of the

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(OBE) in 2010 for services to healthcare. She was made a Commander of the same order (CBE) in 2018 for commitment to equality and diversity in the NHS. She was made a fellow of the

in 2018. She was made a fellow of

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, as well as awarded honorary doctorates by both

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and

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in 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Coghill, Yvonne Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of King's College London Fellows of the Royal College of Nursing British nurses