Wild Geese: Colette Datt, honorary MBE, London
“I’ve always been good at looking at areas for improvement and proceeding to improve,” says Datt. She attributes this entrepreneurial way of thinking to her businessman father. “He would just get on and do things and I did just get on and do things.”
“What we needed to do is target schools and do some prevention work,” she says. She developed asthma-friendly standards for schools in her local area of Islington and then benchmarked 60 schools against them. The resulting impact on health outcomes for children won Datt a Nursing Times award in 2019. School absences due to asthma were also cut.The environment is a sensory assault for some. “A young person came into clinic and didn’t feel heard because of her autism,” says Datt.
Having completing the Florence Nightingale Foundation aspiring nurse leader scholarship in her late 40s, Datt wishes this leadership training had come earlier in her career and wants those training opportunities for junior nurses. “Nurses are frontline, we are the people who can see the areas of improvement, but we have different medical training to our other colleagues. We are not necessarily empowered to speak up. We see more. We have the ideas, but don’t always have the skills and the voice.
“We wanted to develop their voice earlier, give them some quality improvement skills so that they would make improvements where they saw the need, give them the Rada training and leadership training,” says Datt. The pilot has shown impact. “The plan is to roll it out in four trusts next year. I’d like it to go nationally really,” says Datt.With an English husband and two young adult children there, Datt is enmeshed in British life and public service.
Her husband’s suggestion of giving up her Irish passport for British citizenship didn’t fly with her. The workaround was an honorary MBE. The honour came just 24 hours before Queen Elizabeth’s death, one of the final acts of her reign. Getting on top of post-Covid waiting lists and funding to meet the demands of a growing number of NHS service-users are the challenges of the day, she says. This includes the recruitment of international nurses.
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