About Prof. June Andrews
“Professor June Andrews FRCN FCGI is an inspirational dementia expert whose impact on healthcare in the UK, and further afield, is considerable. She works independently to improve dementia care and health and social care of older people.”
Professor June Andrews FRCN, FCGI
She has been described as smart, politically astute, amusing and possessed of a razor-sharp intellect. Her independence means that she is at times confident enough to speak truth to power and go against the grain of populist thinking in a way that ruffles feathers. A Scot, she trained as a nurse in Nottingham, England before taking up a series of posts that moved from practice to policy-making and strategic management and influencing in government, the health service and academia across the UK. She has also studied at degree level in philosophy, law and literature.
Professor Andrews made ambitious things happen during her decade directing Stirling's Dementia Services Development Centre. She heightened public and professional awareness of the practical things you can do to make life better for people with dementia. Now she works independently to improve the lives of people with dementia and their carers and care workers.
June serve on the board of the Target Healthcare REIT, and was adviser to the Dementia Trust. She has been recognised by Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing, the highest honour awarded to nurses in the UK who have made an exceptional contribution to health care. Professor Andrews supports other health and social care teams as a coach and mentor, and has led successful teams for three decades. Her books on Dementia which are based on research but written for a lay audience have been in the Amazon best sellers lists for up to ten weeks at a time, and her latest work on Care Homes was published in 2020.
Working to help make change internationally
Professor Andrews has been working to make change internationally. She has taught and consulted in many countries including the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Hong Kong; she has been an adviser to the Canadian Knowledge Translation Network, and judged awards for Nursing Times, the Design Council, and the European Foundations in Dementia. In 2011 she gained recognition for her international work through the Robert Tiffany Award, and was presented in Philadelphia with the first-ever Founders’ Award of the British American Project, of which she is a Fellow and advisory Board member. Because of her considerable achievements as a nurse leader, she received the Chief Nursing Officers’ Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. In 2013 she was listed in the Health Services Journal as one of the fifty most inspirational women in health care and separately as one of the 100 most influential clinicians in England.
In 2016 she was awarded the OBE and in 2017 made a Fellow of the City and Guilds Institute of London, and in 2020 completed a degree in Law from the University of Edinburgh.
In 2021 she achieved her Expert Witness Certificate from the University of Aberdeen.
“Practical, witty and wise… an inspirational woman whose impact on healthcare in the UK, and further afield, is profound”
How can Prof June Andrews help you?
Contact us for consultancy on improvement of health and social care for frail older adults, in particular dementia. June is a popular public speaker for audiences at every level, being entertaining as well as informative, basing everything on the latest research in the field.