In 1966, when the Salmon Report was published, she planned two of the first experimental first-line management courses for staff nurses and ward sisters.
[4] Green was instrumental in setting up the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (UKCC)[1] and was Chair of the English National Board.
In 1986, Green chaired the committee[4] which initiated a major UKCC plan to modernise nursing education by the end of the millennium, called Project 2000.
[8] Green was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1986 Birthday Honours List.
[9] A devout Roman Catholic, she was made a Dame of St Gregory (DSG), conferred on her by the Diocese of Plymouth.