Matron in Chief
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Matron in Chief

CAPTAIN H L ALLKINS QHN QARNNS  Captain Helen small file size no badge.JPG

Director Naval Nursing Services/Matron-in-Chief QARNNS 

Captain Helen Allkins was born in Lee-on-Solent and educated at Watford and Stratford-upon-Avon Girls Grammar Schools.  She gained a BSc(Hons) in Geography from Bedford College in 1978.  Shortly after this she joined St Bartholomews Hospital, London to complete her Registered General Nurse (RGN) training.  She then worked at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and then the Royal Southants Hospital, Winchester.  She also completed her Accident & Emergency specialist training during this time. 

She was commissioned into Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service in July 1985 and joined RNH Stonehouse ENT and children’s ward, moving on to be Nursing Officer in Charge of the Accident & Emergency department. Appointed to RNH Gibraltar Families Ward in 1988 she learnt to sail before returning to England and RNH Haslar as the nurse in charge of a female surgical ward and breast surgery outpatients clinics.  She then moved on to become the Practice Nurse and Budget Manager of the medical centre at the Commando Training Centre, Royal Marines, Lympstone, a GP unit with an emergency room and 20 inpatient beds.  There she helped to develop a role for the first female MAs drafted to a Royal Marine establishment and led a female team on exercise with the Swiss Army. Returning to RNH Haslar she ran the Coronary Care Unit and then the Accident & Emergency Department before taking up appointment as the QARNNS Recruiting Officer at DNR, during which she developed a formal pathway for QARNNS Officer recruiting through the AIB. 

Another short appointment to RNH Haslar was followed by 2 years as the Practice Nurse at the NATO Medical Centre in Lisbon, Portugal, supporting all nationalities and their families other than the Portuguese. She return to God’s country and MDHU Derriford, Plymouth in 1998 as NOIC Stonehouse Ward and then SO2 Nursing & Quality, before taking a year out on the Project Implementation Team for the Defence Medical Education & Training Agency (DMETA) and subsequently the Military Assistant to Rear Admiral Kidner, the Chief Executive.  In 2003, on promotion to Commander, she returned to MDHU Derriford and took up the dual appointment of Officer Commanding Nursing and Matron of the Primary Casualty Receiving Facility on RFA ARGUS. 

In July 2004 she was appointed as Officer Commanding Nursing at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in Birmingham and in Mar 2007 as SO1 Quality Assurance at DMSD.  Captain Allkins was promoted and appointed DNNS on 3 Jul 2008. 

Captain Allkins is single and lives in Down Thomas, Devon.  She is Vice President of the Royal Navy Hockey Association and is a Governor for The Royal Star and Garter Homes for disabled Ex-Service Men and Women.  Her interests include the Hosanna Children’s Pilgrimage Trust, gardening, and the theatre. 

 

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