John Hewitt RN

John’s nursing career has taken him through the nineties in the NHS and the noughties in New Zealand health care in a variety of acute and strategic settings. Though he has a deep clinical love of acute medical nursing, his passion is focusing on how nursing can be sustained into our near future.

John currently work as a clinical nurse specialist in the corporate quality and patient safety department at Canterbury DHB. He is the chair of the New Zealand early warning score working group, a group of clinicians from Canterbury DHB working to enable the health work force to use the New Zealand early warning score to its maximum potential.