The Archives

• A history of the public hospital in Wellington+
  • The Children’s Hospital
  • Additions 1913 – 1939
  • Additions 1940 – 1960+
    • The Centenary Block
    • The Hospital Post Office
    • The Hospital in the 1950s
  • The Thorndon Hospitals
  • The first Newtown Hospital
  • Early expansion 1888 – 1910+
    • 1901 – 1906
    • 1907 – 1910
• The Early Staff of the Hospital
• Nursing Administration+
  • 1880-1920+
    • Mary Anne Baillie
    • Elizabeth Hermansen
    • Mrs Johanne M Thorpe
    • Mrs Bernard Moore
    • Ellen Dougherty
    • Augusta Godfrey
    • Mary E Kissling
    • Frances K Payne
    • Ellen Mary Pettit
    • Kate Marsden
    • Elizabeth Katherine Berry
    • Edith Crerar
    • Sarah Jane Hetherington ARRC
    • Elizabeth Williamina Inglis Stott
    • Jean Todd
    • Maggie Preston
  • 1921 – 1960+
    • Edith P Tennent
    • Gertrude S Lampp
    • Agnes Milne
    • Althea H Cookson
    • Florence E Hart
    • Blanche L Clark
    • Susan Milne
    • Noeline M Knight
    • Muriel E Tattersall
    • Kathleen G Hausmann
    • Doris Brown
    • Jessie I Martin
    • Irene Tolerton
  • 1961 – 1988+
    • Betty P Cook
    • Barbara J E Hough
    • Mavis H Paton
    • Gloria A Grattan
    • Elaine Whiteman
    • Barbara G Shadbolt
    • Maureen Corry
    • Assistant Principal Nurses
  • 1989 –+
    • Sheila Mahony
    • Anita Bamford-Wade
    • Cheyne Chalmers
    • Kerrie Hayes
    • Andrea McCance
    • Emma Hickson. 2019 – 2020
    • Associate Directors of Nursing

Gloria Agnes Grattan QSM

Born 28 Feb 1928 — Died Wellington 31 Dec 2002

Graduated from the Auckland School of Nursing in 1951

Worked in rural hospitals in Northland, New South Wales, and Queensland before returning as a Ward Sister at Green Lane Hospital, where she pioneered nursing care in the newly established ICU

Appointed Nurse Advisor to the Department of Health in 1966

Appointed Principal Nurse, Wellington Hospital in 1971

This was a time of great change as nursing education progressively moved from hospital-based training to polytechnics

Retired from Wellington Hospital in 1988

In ‘retirement,’ she was a driving force in the establishment of the Mary Potter Hospice, which opened in 1990, and was the founding chairperson of the Mary Potter Hospice Foundation

Voted the inaugural Wellingtonian of the Year in 1989 and awarded the Pope John Paul II Medal for services to the sick

Received the Queen’s Service Medal (QSM) in 1997