London Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2026

Professor Jane Salvage

Independent Nursing Consultant, Author; Visiting Professor, Kingston University London

Professor Jane Salvage is passionate about helping nurses and midwives to become more articulate, effective and influential. Her commitment to social justice, women’s rights and high-quality health services has been the main driver of her unusual career. Her best-known book, The Politics of Nursing (Heinemann 1985), was a wake-up call to the professions. She was chief nurse at the World Health Organization (European Region and Headquarters), and worked on the Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England (2010). From 2016-2021 she was programme director of the International Council of Nurses’ Global Nursing Leadership Institute. Her new book on the once famous but now largely forgotten midwives at Jesus’ nativity will be launched at this conference!