Hilary Chapman

Dame Hilary Anne Chapman, (born 16 August 1963) is a British former Chief Nurse at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Professor at Sheffield Hallam University. She was appointed as Lord Lieutenant of South Yorkshire on 5 November 2021. She was named one of the NHS's most influential nurses.

Biography Chapman was born in 1963; her father managed a steelworks in Stocksbridge and her mother was a French teacher. Chapman has spent her entire career in nursing, beginning her training in 1983. She has contributed to health policy, health care delivery and health system reform.

Chapman co-led, with Katherine Fenton, the development of the Safer Nursing Care Tool, which is now used widely in hospitals across the UK. She was named one of the NHS's most influential nurses.

She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and in the 2018 New Year Honours she was promoted to a Dame Commander of the Order (DBE), for services to nursing.

Chapman lives near Barnsley with her husband, Neil Chapman. She became a patron of Barnsley Hospice in 2023.