Lisbeth Hockey OBE FRCN (17 October 1918 – 16 June 2004) was an Austrian-born British nurse and researcher.
[1] In 1936 she began studying medicine at the University of Graz where she completed three years of the course before being sent away from the threatening political situation in Hitler's Germany.
[1][4] She first worked as a governess for their children and learned sufficient English to start nursing training in London.
[6] She left the London Hospital on account of a new rule that stopped non-British subjects from nursing people who could be prisoners of war.
[10] In 1965, she began working at the Queen's Institute of District Nursing in London, first as a tutor and then as a research officer.
[13] Her PhD was awarded by City University, London and although her thesis was not published, A Study of District Nursing: the development and progression of a long term research programme provided an early description of the responsibilities involved.