Colonel Davis trained as a nurse and has spent her nursing career in the NHS mainly in London Hospitals, working in A&E and Critical Care.
During COVID Jane was working at NHS Nightingale London, initially working as part of the Operations team setting up the facility, with special responsibility for staff wellbeing and family and relative support. Once the initial set up was complete she took on the role as Lead for the Family Support and Liaison Team.
For 6 years until February 2021 Jane was a registrant panel member with the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council, where she sat as a Chair on panels of conduct and competence hearings.
Colonel Davis sits on the Board of The HALO Trust and on the Lord Mayor’s Big Curry Lunch Committee.
She was commissioned as a Lieutenant into the Territorial Army in 1981, joining the London Field Hospital. She remained with the London Field Hospital until 2003 when she was promoted to Colonel and took command of 306 Field Hospital. In 2006 she was appointed as TA Col Nursing at 2nd Med Bde and in 2009 as Deputy Commander of 2nd Med Bde, the post she held until her retirement in Sept 2015.
Colonel Davis was deployed to Afghanistan in 2011 as the Senior Nurse for the Role 3 Hospital at Camp Bastion.
She served from 2005 to 2009 as the Queens Honorary Nurse to her late Majesty The Queen and was appointed as one of the two Colonels Commandant of the QARANC from 2014 to 2021.
In 2008 Colonel Davis was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London and was the Representative DL for the London Borough of Lewisham and in May 2018 was appointed as the Vice Lord -Lieutenant of Greater London.
For last 30 years Jane has travelled widely with The HALO Trust an International NGO that she supports and has had the honour of visiting Angola, Mozambique, Somaliland, Kosovo, Abkhazia, Georgia, Nagorno Karabakh, Cambodia, Lebanon, Ivory Coast, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, The West Bank, Columbia, Zimbabwe, Laos, Afghanistan, Solomon Islands and Ukraine; where her involvement includes development of training programmes for the minefield paramedics, procurement of medical equipment and the training and validation of minefield and EOD paramedics.
Jane has been a Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths since 2012 she was elected as a Court Assistant in 2018 and elected to the Wardens Court as the Craft Warden in 2023. In 2024 she was elected as the Renter Warden. She is also a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Nurses. Her other interests when she has time include skiing, walking, and gardening.
