FNF Policy and Influence Think Tank

The Florence Nightingale Foundation is shaping the policy agenda on issues impacting the ability of nurses and midwives to provide high quality care.

Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF) is an independent charity supporting nurses and midwives to improve care and save lives. We have a strong and committed community of nurse and midwife leaders who are already making changes across every aspect of health and care, and a dedicated in-house Policy and Influence staff team. Now, in our 90th anniversary year, we are drawing together that expertise and experience and launching a new arm of our Academy: a Think Tank aimed at influencing health and care policy.

Our Policy & Influence Think Tank will:

• Bring the nursing and midwifery voice to the major health and care issues of the day.
• Offer our FNF Academy members opportunities to influence our policy and research priorities, to engage in policy and influencing work, and to develop political knowledge and influencing skills.

We will work to harness the intelligence and expertise of our diverse and engaged alumni and membership networks to generate evidence and commentary that will:

• promote political behaviours and intelligence across the nursing and midwifery workforce; influence health and care policy development;
• inform health and care policy implementation;
• and evaluate translation of health and care policy into practice.

With an expert and agile policy team, we have experience of convening and supporting nurses and midwives from all roles and at all stages of their career, to shape the policy agenda on issues impacting the ability of nurses and midwives to provide high quality care.

Together we can shape the health and care policy agenda, and create a future where nursing and midwifery perspectives are valued and policies are informed by our professions’ evidence, expertise and needs.

Together we can make change happen.

Click here to read FNF’s latest impact report: the Ripple Effect.

Our Principles

FNF is uniquely positioned as an independent source of thought leadership that can be utilised by organisations to offer objective and impartial advice or recommendations. We are committed to maintaining this independent position and therefore ensure we do not rely on any individual organisation for ongoing funding.

We pledge to work in partnership with other nursing and midwifery policy influencing organisations and individuals where there is a shared commitment to maintaining an independent and objective stance.

Please get in touch to discuss working together.