Candice Pellett OBE

RN DN Queen’s Nurse

Candice is an experienced District Nurse with the Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing and holds the Clinical Practice Educator and Independent Nurse Prescribing qualifications. Her previous career was in banking. Candice became a Queen’s Nurse in 2007 and she has been actively involved in contributing to national policy documents over many years. Examples of her work include membership of the Transforming Community Services Board at the Department of Health, secondment as Clinical Lead (Nursing) on the Transforming Community Services Programme, a member of the Prime Minister’s Nursing and Care Quality Forum and a member of the Clinical Nursing Advisory Group (DH). She has also worked with the University of Nottingham as a Clinical Health Lecturer on the pre-registration nursing programme and has worked in clinical practice with nursing students from many universities.

In 2014 Candice was awarded the OBE for “Services to Nursing and Healthcare” and received this at an investiture at Buckingham Palace from the late Majesty the Queen. Also that year she was awarded The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Award for Outstanding Service by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI). Candice has also been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science for “Services to Nursing”.  She has worked at the QNI in London as a Nursing Project Manager and her work has included projects on Specialist Qualification, Transitions of Care in Discharge Planning and Young People moving from Children’s to Adult Services. Over the recent years she has worked at a children’s charity undertaking further research around the value and impact of specialist children’s nurses. Currently Candice is back working with the NHS with the phlebotomy service in a community hospital clinic.