Professor Sir George Castledine is a British nursing educator and nursing consultant. He is a consultant of nursing at Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust.
He won a scholarship to Oxford University, later attending Liverpool University. He worked as a staff nurse before relocating to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, where he worked as a clinical lecturer and charge nurse working on a trauma unit.
Castledine later moved to Wales, setting up the first nursing degree course linked to Cardiff Medical School and founding the Department of Nursing at the North East Institute of Higher Education. He later moved to Birmingham as Assistant Dean and Professor of Nursing/Community Health at the University of Central England.
Awards/honours
Castledine is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (since 1980) and was knighted for his services to the health care profession in 2007, only the second male nurse ever to receive a knighthood. (The first was Jonathan Asbridge one year previously.)
Father-of-three from Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, has become only the second male nurse to ever receive a knighthood.
"I am just absolutely delighted and more than a little shocked," he said. "My mother was a matron and I think she was determined that at least one of her sons should go into it.
"When I started out in the mid-60s it was very difficult for a man to get into nursing. I am so pleased with the way things have changed and it is 10 times easier for male nurses these days."
Sir George studied at Oxford and was the first ever male charge nurse at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He took on roles as a clinician and lecturer in North Wales before moving to UCE in the late 1980s.
He has worked closely with the Government in helping to train a new generation of "consultant nurses".
External links
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1940s births