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Staff and Consultants
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Mel
Chevannes
CBE FRCN PhD DSc MA BA Hons RGN, RM, RHV, Teacher
Cert, RHVT
Mel Chevannes is Professor Emeritus of Nursing,
University of Wolverhampton. She works as a
consultant with Rights and Equality West Midlands
and chairs the England Volunteering and Development
Council West Midlands. |
Mel is a
Registered General Nurse, Registered Midwife, Health Visitor
and a professional teacher. She has a BA (Hons) from the
Open University, MA from the University of Warwick and a PhD
from Keele University. She was awarded a CBE for her
contribution to multi-cultural nursing and is a Fellow of
the Royal College of Nursing.
She was a
Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chair of the English
National Board for Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting to
its closure in March 2002, and a member of the Standing
Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee at the Department
of Health until 2004. From 1998 to 2004, she was Chair of
the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust.
Mel has
worked for many years in the East Midlands, West Midlands
and North West regions of England. Her professional
interests are the education of nurses and research to
develop a better evidence base for patient care. She
supports inclusive health care built around the needs of
patients from all ethnic and racial groups. Mel’s research
is directed at ethnicity and health and she has published
widely on this subject.
For over
eight years she ran a supplementary night school,
encouraging children in their learning and raising parents’
aspirations for their children and developed Hibiscus House,
a Supported accommodation for older people. Her concern for
the welfare of multi-racial communities in Wolverhampton led
eventually to her election as a local councillor on
Wolverhampton City Council, where she served for eleven
years and came to chair the Social Services Committee. She
has three grown- up children of mixed race. Recent speaking
engagements include her Valedictory Seminar, July 2007,
conference on Diversity in Action, December, University of
Wolverhampton and the 2007 Jesse Jackson rally in Handsworth,
Birmingham.
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