Amanda Croft is a

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nurse, who has served as the Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland since January 2021.

Nursing career

Croft trained at the Sheffield and North Trent School of Nursing (now part of the

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), and qualified as a nurse in 1992. She has a

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(MSc) degree in nursing from the

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. Croft joined

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in 2000, and became its Director of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Healthcare Professionals in September 2015. She was made a

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in August 2016. She served as the Chief Executive of NHS Grampian from April 2019 to June 2020, having been acting CEO for the previous year. On 23 December 2020, she was announced as the next Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland: she took up the post in January 2021.

References

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