The Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care is delighted that Professor Christine Norton has been awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in King Charles III’s Birthday Honours List, for her services to nursing research.

A Registered Nurse who has specialised in helping people with incontinence, Professor Norton’s research concentrates on improving symptoms and quality of life for people with chronic bowel conditions. She leads a National Institute for Health and Care Research programme on managing fatigue, pain and incontinence in Inflammatory Bowel Disease called the IBD-Boost Programme.

Most of Professor Norton’s 47-year nursing career has been devoted to developing services for people with urinary and faecal incontinence in the NHS and in the charitable sector. She founded, and was the first Director of the charity, the Continence Foundation.

Professor Norton chaired the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on faecal incontinence and has published extensively in a range of nursing and medical journals. She has also mentored a number of nurses to develop as clinical academics. Her other research interests include managing constipation, management of neurogenic bowel symptoms and nurse-led interventions for incontinence.