June Clark

Dame Margaret June Clark, FAAN FLSW (31 May 1941 – 14 May 2025) was a British nurse and academic who was Professor Emeritus of Community Nursing, at Swansea University in Wales.

Life and career Before qualifying as a nurse, Clark studied Classics as an undergraduate, receiving a BA from London University.

Before her retirement in 2003, Clark was responsible for the development of a program of research in community health nursing and primary health care at Swansea University. Her special interest was the development and use of standardized nomenclatures to describe nursing practice, in particular in primary health care. In 1990, she left the NHS and went into higher education as Professor of Nursing to start a new School of Nursing at Middlesex University. In 1997 she "went home to Wales" as the first professor of nursing at Swansea University.

During the 1990s she was consultant to the International Council of Nurses' project to develop an International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP). She was deputy president of the Welsh Nursing Academy. Clark qualified as a nurse at University College Hospital, London, after obtaining an honours degree in Classics at the University of London. - the first in the UK and only the third in Europe and was STTI Board member from 2009 to 2011.

She was an RCN activist since her student days and has held many leadership roles in the RCN, including serving as president from 1990 to 1994.

Clark died on 14 May 2025, at the age of 83.

Legacy The June Clark Travel Scholarship Trust

Honours In 1995 Clark was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her services to nursing.

Clark was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 1982.

She was awarded the RCN Award of Merit in 1996.

Clark was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2012.