Dr Crystal Oldman is Chief Executive of the QNI. Crystal trained as a nurse at UCLH and worked in the NHS for 18 years. She worked with some of the most deprived communities in west London, including many families who were homeless and vulnerably housed.

In 1994, she joined BNU to develop the community nursing programmes, completing her academic career 18 years later as Dean in the Faculty of Society & Health, where her role included the establishment of the Institute of Diversity Research, Inclusivity, Communities and Society. The work of the Institute includes research concerning safeguarding children and wider policy issues related to inequalities in health and the social determinants of health.

In 2012, Crystal joined the Queen’s Nursing Institute, a charity founded by William Rathbone and Florence Nightingale in 1887. She has overall responsibility for the delivery of the QNI mission to improve and enhance the care of people in their homes and communities.