Betty Kershaw

[1] Kershaw received an honorary doctorate from Manchester University in 1995 in recognition of her contribution to nursing education.

Her international consultancy work for the Department of Health included projects in Colombia and China on the modernisation agenda for nursing, in Malta on the development of an EU curriculum of nursing, in Poland on Nursing Accession to the European community and for the Commonwealth Office on Managed Migration.

Other commitments to the Department of Health included their Leadership Project advising on how the program developed ethnic minority nurses for leadership positions.

[citation needed][3] She was president of the Royal College of Nursing from 1994 to 1998,[4] and was once employed as their education adviser.

She was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (FRCN) in 2001[5] She was also St John Ambulance's chief nursing and social care officer.