Ainna Fawcett-Henesy

Ainna Fawcett-Hennesey is an Irish nurse who is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in the UK.

Education Born in Limerick, Ireland in 1946, Fawcett-Henesy completed secondary school at Scoil Carmel. After graduating, she was offered a job at the Regional Hospital Limerick. She was seconded to the Department of Health, which included working part-time on London’s health care reforms.

She then moved to the World Health Organization in 1995 and subsequently became the Regional Adviser on Nursing and Midwifery for Europe.

Accolades She was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 2004.

In 2018, on the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Nursing Standard named her among the 70 most influential nurses who had helped to shape the NHS.