Gloria Rowland
Gloria is currently Chief Nursing Officer of African Medical Centre of Excellence. Previously the Chief Nursing and Allied Health Professional Officer, NHS South West London Integrated Care System.
Gloria first trained as a registered nurse and midwife in Nigeria before relocating to the United Kingdom. Gloria completed her Nursing and Midwifery Council adaptation programme to become registered as a nurse and subsequently qualified as a midwife, Specialist Community Public Health Nurse and a Doctor of Clinical Practice.
She has a strong passion for change, innovation and transformation of health services. She has worked within the NHS and community settings as a Consultant Midwife and from 2018-2020, worked as Director for Midwifery at Barts Health NHS Trust which has the largest maternity services in the UK.
Gloria was Awarded an MBE by Her Majesty Queen in January 2021, for her exceptional work and contribution to transforming maternity care.
She has won many national awards for her work in transforming maternity care, her most recent work involved transforming poor performing maternity services into good maternity units. She is the founder of the project Turning the Tide and led the Turning the Tide team to become a proud winner of the 2022 Race and Equity Health Service Journal award.
Gloria is a member of the Chief Nursing Officer National Advisory Group, and leads the BAME Maternity Leaders Covid-19 Response Team.
She was appointed as an Associate Council Member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council in 2020.
She also chaired the trailblazer group that developed the new midwifery standard and apprenticeship pathway entrance into the midwifery profession.
Gloria is first Black African Director of Midwifery in the history of maternity services in the UK. She was a Mary Seacole Scholar in 2009, and a Florence Nightingale Research Scholar in 2011.
