Martina Morris – Chief Nurse

Martina is originally from Slovakia, where she began her nursing career, qualifying as an adult nurse in 1994. Martina then worked in intensive care and operating theatres and in early 1998, moved to the United Kingdom (UK). In late 1999, Martina decided to settle in the UK and after completing a period of adaptation, she secured her first registered nursing post in the UK on critical care unit at the Wrexham Maelor Hospital in North Wales in late 2000. In 2005, Martina relocated to the Midlands region and developed her career focusing on practice development, quality, safety and standards, underpinned by robust governance. In her career, she has worked in a variety of senior roles in acute providers and regionally, within the Midlands and East region.

Martina prides herself in being an authentic and compassionate leader with a proven track record of quality improvement and change management skills, which have enabled her to deliver improvements to nursing and wider services and improve patient outcomes and experience. Her expertise includes, operational and strategic nursing and midwifery agendas, practice development, quality improvement, governance, patient safety, patient experience and engagement, workforce assurance and development.

Martina is passionate about ensuring that staff are supported, empowered and equipped in their roles to provide a high-quality patient care and experience and drive continuous and outcome focused improvements. She is also very keen on ensuring that patient voice is heard and opportunities for patient engagement and co-production are maximised.

To consolidate her nursing leadership and experience, Martina successfully completed the national Aspiring Directors of Nursing talent pipeline programme in 2020, facilitated by NHS Improvement and NHS Leadership Academy.