Dr. Nicola Ryley
Dr. Nicola Ryley joined Hamad Medical Corporation in September 2017 and is responsible not only for the strategic direction of its nursing and midwifery services but also for ensuring and enabling the nursing and midwifery contribution to patient safety and quality of care. Dr Ryley is Co-Chair of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), the Nursing Now (Qatar) Board and the lead for nursing and midwifery on national programs.
Prior to arriving in Doha, Dr. Ryley was the Interim Chief Nurse at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and prior to that, Executive Director of Nursing at the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust in England. At both organizations, she was responsible for the leadership, regulation, professional development and performance of all nursing, midwifery and therapies staff, and also was responsible for patient safety as the Director of Infection Prevention and Control.
With a career spanning over 35 years, she has held senior clinical, operational and leadership roles across a diverse range of NHS organizations that both provide and commission healthcare for adults and children. Dr. Ryley has extensive experience in acute, community, mental health and primary care settings. She has successfully led services across all aspects of scheduled and unscheduled care as well as those for a national children’s hospital and tertiary facilities at one of the largest university teaching hospitals in the UK.
Holding nursing registrations for both adults and children, Dr. Ryley has a Master’s degree in Nursing Science and a Diploma in Child Health from the University of Wales College of Medicine; a Post Graduate Diploma in Education & Training and an earned Doctorate in Nursing Science (with a thesis centering on the impact of clinical leadership on patient outcomes) from Swansea University.
She holds an honorary senior lecturer role with the University of Cardiff, is a scholar of the Florence Nightingale Foundation and is an honorary associate professor at the University of Plymouth. In addition, Dr. Ryley has provided advice at a government level on a range of professional issues including nursing and midwifery revalidation; advanced nursing practice; clinical/academic careers; acuity and dependency models; post registration education and clinical staffing models. She was also appointed to two national boards advising on professional regulation and health/social care information governance.
Dr. Ryley is driven to ensuring and enabling services that are responsive to the needs of patients and deliver safe, high quality, compassionate care.
