Amy Hughes

Amy Sarah Hughes (24 February 1856 – 6 September 1923) was a British nursing administrator. She is credited with being the first School Nurse. She led the Queen's Nursing Institute for twelve years and she was president of the Midwives Association.

Life Hughes was brought up in County Durham.

In 1901 she was sent to the Congress of Nurses in Buffalo, New York.

In 1902 she started work at the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses that had been founded fifteen years before. The organisation (now the Queen's Nursing Institute) was responsible for recognizing the top nurse in the United Kingdom. These nurses were placed on the "Queen's Role" and were known as Queen's Nurses. Hughes worked as a superintendent for the institute and her name was one of the first on the role. She was the superintendent of the institute until 1917.

Hughes died in a Ewell nursing home in 1923.