Eileen Sills
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Dame Eileen Sills, DBE FRCN (born June 1962) is the Chief Nurse, Director of Patient Experience and Infection Control and a member of the board at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. She was the first Freedom to Speak Up National Guardian.
Before taking up the National Guardian post, she was additionally senior nursing advisor at the Nursing and Midwifery Council and chair of the nurses group for the Shelford Group of leading NHS foundation trusts.[1] She was previously the Clinical Director of London's Strategic Clinical Network for Dementia.[citation needed]
She qualified as a nurse in 1983[2] at Stepping Hill Hospital. She moved from there to work in A&E at North Middlesex Hospital as a Sister[3] and then became director of nursing at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and then Whipps Cross Hospital. She chaired the London Standing Conference group on Homelessness.[4] She trained medical practitioners to be "dementia friends".[5]
Sills was appointed Chief Nurse at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in 2005.[6] She sat on the Prime Minister's independent commission into nursing and midwifery that published the Front Line Care (Report) in 2010.[7]
Honours
She was elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours having been appointed a CBE in the 2004 New Year Honours.[8] She was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing in 2012.[9]