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June Crown

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June Crown
Born
June Madge Crown

1938 (age 85–86)
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Alma mater
EmployerNational Health Service England

June Madge Crown CBE FRCP FFPH (born 1938) is a British public health specialist.

She qualified at the University of Cambridge, Middlesex Hospital Medical School and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, then worked as a National Health Service Area Medical Officer in Brent and Harrow, and as a District Medical Officer in Bloomsbury.[1]

In 1989, Crown headed a committee examining nurse prescribing following the recommendations of the Cumberlege Report. In 1997, Crown again headed a committee reviewing prescribing practices.[2]

Crown has advised the World Health Organization since 1980 and from 1995 to 1998 was President of the Faculty of Public Health.

Crown was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1998 Birthday Honours, "For services to Public Health".[3] She is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH).[1]

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  1. ^ a b Virginia Berridge; Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2006). Public health in the 1980s and 1990s: Decline and rise?. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-106-6. OL 11612224M. Wikidata Q29581737.
  2. ^ Dunn, Joanne; Pryor, Claire (2023). "Non-medical prescribing in nursing: the history and evolution of independent and supplementary prescribing". British Journal of Nursing. 32 (20).
  3. ^ "No. 55155". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1998. pp. 1–27.
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