We support nurses and midwives to improve care and save lives
Our Mission
Dedicated to supporting and developing nurses and midwives to improve care and save lives across the world, maintaining Florence Nightingale’s legacy.
Our Vision
Over the next five years, with our partners, we will continue to grow as a world-class charity, supporting nurses and midwives to develop the personal and leadership skills they need to improve care, save lives, and promote well-being across the world.
We want to reach one million nurses and midwives by 2027.
Strategic Priorities 2022-2027
Within our strategy we are focusing on five specific priorities to achieve the greatest reach and transformational impact:

Supporting, developing and transforming compassionate leaders
- To provide contemporary and relevant FNF leadership development opportunities for one million nurses and midwives in the UK and across the world.

Influencing Policy
- To be recognised as a provider of independent analysis on issues which impact on the ability of nurses and midwives to deliver high-quality care nationally and globally.

Promoting Evidence Based Practice
- To support a learning culture of evidence based practice across health and care systems.

Growing FNF Academy Membership
- To develop the membership offer to meet the needs of our UK and global members to increase reach to one million nurses and midwives.

Creating a financial, social, cultural and environmentally sustainable future
- To ensure a sustainable future is at the heart of all that we do.
"All of our nurses and midwives on our leadership programmes tell us repeatedly what difference they have made to their career, but also importantly, what difference they have made to the patient and health outcomes of the communities in which they work."
Prof Greta Westwood CBE, RNCEO, Florence Nightingale Foundation
"The FNF programme reignited my love and my passion for nursing."
Colette Datt MBEAssociate Director of Nursing, Babies & Children & Young People, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
"The Florence Nightingale Foundation definitely gave me the voice and the skills and tools to be bold and brave and do what we need to do. We almost refer to it as the Florence Effect."
Josh HammondUrgent Community Response Team Lead, Solent NHS Trust
"Nurses and midwives feel stronger, much more empowered as a result of their learning with FNF and that can only have a positive impact both on them personally and professionally but on their teams and those that they care for."
Liz FentonDeputy Chief Nurse, Health Education England
"The Florence Nightingale Foundation helped me grow and have more of a voice for midwifery. FNF gives a platform and a forum for us to be a global profession."
Dionne ThompsonSpecialist Midwife, East North Herts NHS Trust
"I've seen first hand how the FNF scholarships can truly boost and energise individuals and teams. The FNF network helps to bring people together and it's a lifelong network."
Prof Steve Hams MBE, RNChief Nursing Officer, North Bristol NHS Trust
"I never, ever thought that I would be where I am today if I had not attended the Florence Nightingale Foundation course."
Mandeep LallyPatient Safety Support Nurse, University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust
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