User:Anthony J. Carr
Anthony Carr has had two careers. The first one commenced in 1951 when he entered general nurse training at Selly Oak Hospital Birmingham United Kingdom at 18 years and successively held posts of Staff Nurse and Charge Nurse, Selly Oak Hospital Birmingham,District Nurse,City of Birmingham Public Health Department & lecturer in Health Education, City of Birmingham Education Department. Assistant Matron in charge Joseph Sheldon Hospital Rednal. New hospital.Midlands Area Officer of the Royal College of Nursing,Principal of the William Rathbone Staff College Liverpool. Chief Nursing Officer Central Wirral Hospital Management Committee (9 hosptials & head of Nursing Training School) and finally Chief Nursing Officer Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (Teaching) Health Authority ( 17 hospitals and the community nursing services in the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne & Head of lagest Nurse Training School in the UK))
In the 1970's he became chairman of two important working parties at the department of health. In 1975 he chaired a working party of the Education and Training of SRN/RGN in District Nursing and later chaired another group on the Education and Training of the Enrolled Nurse in the Community. Action on the former report resulted in district nurse training being moved to colleges of further and higher education and paved the way for the present degree in district nursing. For this work he was honoured by the Royal College of Nursing by the award of Fellowship of the College.
He was one of four members of a committee (Cumberledge) set up by the Secretary of State for Health in 1985 to review the Community Nursing Services in England. The subsequent report Neighbourhood Nursing had a great impact upon the management of the community nursing services. Serious illness caused him to resign from the Health Service in 1984.
His second career was in ministry in the Christian Church. Tony has been preaching at various churches since the age of eighteen. In 1974 he was appointed pastoral elder in Bethshan a growing church belonging to the Assemblies of God Church in the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
After his forced retirement through ill health he moved in 1987 to Solihull because God has called him to serve his younger brother David who was minister at the Renewal Christian Centre. In 1990 he started a new career in the Christian ministry. He became a pastor at the Renewal Christian Centre and was appointed director of pastoral care until heart surgery intervened. From 2001 he became a minister at Wren's Chapel Wroxall Abbey in Warwickshire. He undertook training for the ministry and became ordained in December 1995 obtaining a degree in Theology (Manchester) in 1998 through Regents Theological College Nantwich Cheshire.
He served on the Elim Executive Presbytery for four years as the ECI minister elected representative before the Church became Free Methodist when he received credentials from that denomination. Until late 2005 he chaired the Missions & People in Need Board at the Renewal Christian Centre and is part of the Pastoral team. In January 2006 he obtained the degree of Master of Religious Arts and in June 2006 he received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Literature