title: 'I see myself as a conductor'.
abstract: North West Healthcare NHS Trust chief executive Dame Jacqueline Docherty has held a variety of posts during a nursing career that has spanned more than 40 years, including theatre sister and executive director of nursing. She was appointed chief executive at West Middlesex University Hospital in 2009, and has been in her current role since April 2015. In 2004, she was awarded a DBE for services to nursing and the NHS.