# Elizabeth Fradd

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{{Short description|British nursing administrator (1949–2024)}}
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'''Dame Elizabeth Harriet Fradd''', [DBE](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire), [FRCN](/source/Royal_College_of_Nursing) (12 May 1949 – 12 May 2024) was a British nursing administrator. 

==Life and career==
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Between 1973 and 1983, she held a variety of [registered nurse](/source/registered_nurse), [midwife](/source/midwife) and [health visitor](/source/Health_Visitor) posts, while training as a children's nurse who also managed children's units in [Nottingham](/source/Nottingham) and worked as a nursing officer at the Department of Health. <ref>{{Cite news |last=Warren |first=Penny |date=2024-06-19 |title=Dame Elizabeth Fradd obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jun/19/dame-elizabeth-fradd-obituary |access-date=2026-04-17 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In 1994, she gained an MSc in Health Care Policy and Organisation from the [University of Nottingham](/source/University_of_Nottingham). <ref>{{Cite web |title=Tribute to Dame Liz Fradd (1949-2024) {{!}} RCPCH |url=https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/news/dame-liz-fradd-1949-2024 |access-date=2026-04-17 |website=www.rcpch.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref>A year later, she became the [Director of Nursing](/source/Nursing_management) and Education at the NHS Executive West Midlands Regional Office. In 1999, she was appointed the Assistant Chief Nursing Officer (Nursing Practice) for the Department of Health. <ref>{{Cite web |title=In Memory of Professor Dame Elizabeth Fradd |url=https://qicn.org.uk/news-and-events/news/in-memory-of-professor-dame-elizabeth-fradd/ |access-date=2026-04-17 |website=The Queen's Institute of Community Nursing |language=en-GB}}</ref>

At national level, she was Assistant Chief Nurse in the [Department of Health](/source/Department_of_Health_(United_Kingdom)), a post she moved to after having been the Director of Nursing and Education in the West Midlands Regional Office. She chaired the Joint British Advisory Committee for Children's Nursing for over ten years. She chaired the Children's Nursing Committee for the English National Board and was Vice Chair of the RCN Children’s Nurse Managers Forum.

Fradd served at the [Commission for Health Improvement](/source/Healthcare_Commission) as Director of Nursing and Lead Director for the Inspection and Review Programme. She held many honorary academic positions which include a Visiting Professor of Nursing at the [University of Central England](/source/University_of_Central_England), [Birmingham](/source/Birmingham). Her career took an international direction, including an invitation to advise [Aboriginal](/source/Indigenous_Australians) health workers in the [Australian outback](/source/Australian_outback). She acted in an advisory capacity to China, the United States, Canada and Australia. 

From April 2004, she worked as an independent adviser on health services and continued to take an interest in children's health as a Trustee for [Contact a Family](/source/Contact_a_Family) and as an adviser to [Action for Sick Children](/source/Action_for_Sick_Children).

She sat on the Prime Minister's independent commission that published the [Front Line Care (Report)](/source/Front_Line_Care_(Report)) in 2010.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Keen |first=Ann |title=Front Line Care - Report by the Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England |date=2010 |publisher=Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England (crown copyright) |isbn=9780956513809}}</ref>

==Death==
Fradd died on 12 May 2024, her 75th birthday.<ref name="obituary">{{cite news |last1=Mitchell |first1=Gemma |title=Tributes paid to nurse leader who championed care of children |url=https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/leadership-news/tributes-paid-to-nurse-leader-who-championed-care-of-children-17-05-2024/ |access-date=22 May 2024 |publisher=Nursing Times |date=17 May 2024}}</ref>

==Awards==
Fradd received honorary doctorates from the [University of Central England](/source/University_of_Central_England), [University of Wolverhampton](/source/University_of_Wolverhampton) and [University of Nottingham](/source/University_of_Nottingham), where she had a special professorship. She was made a Fellow of the [Royal College of Nursing](/source/Royal_College_of_Nursing) in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web |title=RCN Fellows and Honorary Fellows |url=https://www.rcn.org.uk/About-us/RCN-Fellows-and-Honorary-Fellows |access-date=7 Nov 2022 |website=Royal College of Nursing}}</ref>

==Honours==
Fradd was appointed [Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire](/source/Dame_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire) (DBE) in the [2009 New Year Honours](/source/2009_New_Year_Honours).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=58929|date=31 December 2008|page=6|supp=y }}</ref>

Fradd was picked [High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire](/source/High_Sheriff_of_Nottinghamshire) for the year 2020–21.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=62943|page=5162|date=13 March 2020}}</ref>

==External links==
*[http://www.rcn.org.uk/aboutus/gov/fellows/browse/fradd Profile at RCN website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124223408/http://www.rcn.org.uk/aboutus/gov/fellows/browse/fradd |date=24 November 2009 }}

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