Talk:Julia Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege

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When was she born?Max Mux (talk) 17:32, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Is there any information on what she did prior to being created a life peer in 1990? What were the circumstances of her writing the 1986 report that, based on the article at present, brought her to the notice of the establishment? Presumably she had a medical career of some kind; simply "coming from a medical family" surely wouldn't qualify her to instruct on anything in the field? I for one can't find anything, but it would be a valuable contribution to the article, that's for sure! RBWhitney12 (talk) 22:39, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Found some sources for details on her role in the 1986 report (chair, commissioned by DHSS), but can't find anything prior to that, i.e. was she a DHSS employee and worked her way up to 'chair' status, etc- Nursing Times, vol. 81, collected issues 30-39 (1985) on Google books [1] gives the rather amusing line "Julia Cumberlege has had to give up working on her much-loved garden to spend the time on her new role as head of the community nursing review team." It can't surely be the case that she had no medical career whatever; she married in 1961 (aged eighteen) and had three sons throughout the 1960s, so possibly, depending on her husband's profession, never had to work- it does seem odd however that she'd be brought in for such an important project- and as the head, no less!- simply by virtue of "coming from a medical family", but all sources give only her convent education, no university, so it's all up in the air as far as I can tell. RBWhitney12 (talk) 22:51, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Managed to find some sources so added details of her local government career, for which she received a CBE; clearly she simply proved herself the right kind of person for the DHSS review team and that was that. At least an element of the mystery is now reduced! RBWhitney12 (talk) 23:15, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]