User:Anthony Carr

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Biography:

Nursing Career

Qualified as a registered nurse (not now on the register retired) at Selly Oak Hospital Birmingham UK in 1954

Held positions of:

Staff Nurse and Night Charge Nurse Selly Oak Hospital

District Nurse, City of Birmingham Public Health Department & lecturer in Health Education, City of Birmingham Education Department.

Assistant Matron in charge Sheldon Hospital Rednal Birmingham

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 hospitals & head of Nursing Training School)

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 largest Nurse Training School in the UK))

During that time I was also a pastoral elder of the Assemblies of God Church Bethshan in the city of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

In the 1970's I became chairman of two important working parties at the department of health. In 1975 I 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.*

Finally, I 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.

I was a regular writer to the Nursing press and have had about 100 papers published.

I served as a non-executive director of the Solihull Primary health Care NHS Trust for four years from 1997 becoming vice-chairman of the Board for three years.

I am still a hospital manager under the Mental Health Act (1949)

Minister of Religion

In 1990 I undertook training for the Christian ministry. Ordained into the Elim Pentecostal Church in 1995. Obtained the degree of Bachelor of Theology of University of Manchester. Served on the Elim Executive Presbytery for four years before the Church joined the Free Methodist Church of North America when my ministerial credentials were transferred to this denomination.

I became a pastor of the Renewal Christian Centre Solihull UK in 1990 becoming director of pastoral care of about 600 members. I resigned this position following heart surgery in 1997. Was chairman of the Missions Board until 2005 with a budget of £100,000 per year

Obtained the degrees of Master of Religious Arts and Doctor of Sacred Literature from Logos Graduate School Jacksonville, Florida USA in January and June 2006.

I am a regular contributor to The Times Letters columns. I comment on a number of subjects. See my web site for these letters.

Web Sites:

My main web site is www.ajcarr.org. A secondary one is to be found at http;//sermon-prompts.co.uk

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