Peter Carter (nurse)
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Peter Carter, OBE (born 1949[1]) is an independent healthcare consultant and a former General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing.[2][3] He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, and Hon fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and an Ad Eundem of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland.[4]
Peter Carter trained for three years as a psychiatric nurse at Hill End Hospital in St Albans, undertaking further training in family therapy and crisis intervention.
Carter is also a general nurse and trained at St Albans City Hospital and the Institute of Urology in London, and held clinical and managerial posts in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and London.
He started his managerial education at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and got an MBA and PhD from the University of Birmingham.[5] He spent almost twelve years as the Chief Executive of the Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust, and in January 2007 became general secretary and Chief Executive for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). He sat on the Prime Minister's independent commission that published the Front Line Care (Report) in 2010.[6]
In July 2013, Carter was awarded an honorary doctorate by Edge Hill University.[7] He was appointed OBE for services to the National Health Service (NHS) in the 2006 New Year's Honours list. In 2011 he was awarded the inaugural Presidents medal of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
He is visiting professor at Anglia Ruskin University, Canterbury Christchurch University, Chester University and King's College London, and vice president of the Institute of Customer Service.