June Jolly

June Jolly (28 September 1928 – 12 March 2016) was an English paediatric nurse and social worker who in the 1970s–80s transformed the care provided in British children's hospitals to a "family-centred" model.

After a one-year course in childcare at the London School of Economics, she worked in Kent for eleven years as a social worker in the field of child protection.

[3] There, she fitted the wards and nurses with colourful curtains and aprons, and set up a "care-by-parent" unit that encouraged parental involvement.

[2] Jolly received a scholarship from the Nightingale and Rayne Foundation to travel to North America and Jamaica to study different models of paediatric healthcare.

She published a book based on her observations, The Other Side of Paediatrics: a guide to the everyday care of sick children, in 1980, which promoted a "family-centred" model of nursing and was released internationally.