Duncan Burton

Burton has a bachelor's degree in Nursing and master's degree in Healthcare Practice.^[1]

Barton has been an NHS nurse for all of his career.^[2] From 2014 to 2017, as Executive Director of Nursing and Patient Experience at the Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, he oversaw the Trust's dementia strategy.^[2][3] As Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for England, he led England's maternity and neonatal programme, nursing workforce policy and infection prevention and control. In this role, he implemented a Nursing International Recruitment Programme and Health Care Support Worker Recruitment Programme.^[1][2]