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BLOG AUTHORS

Here is a list of authors who have posted blogs on this website, select an
author to view their blog posts.

Please note that the opinions expressed in these blogs are the authors’ own
views, and not necessarily those of NHS England.


KEVIN GARROD



Kevin joined the NHS in April 2021 having spent time as the Chief Executive of
Employ-Ability and as Head of Partnerships for Safe Network, the national
third-sector safeguarding unit. He is an experienced leader with a track record
of strategic development and implementation, which includes managing the Mid and
South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Anchor Programme to national prominence. One of
his main tasks has been to influence local, regional and national government to
reflect the importance of Anchors in their strategic planning to support local
communities, including in mid and south Essex.




JANET LINDSAY



Janet Lindsay is CEO of Wellbeing of Women, the leading charity dedicated to
improving the health and wellbeing of women, girls and babies through research,
education, and advocacy.




DR LENNARD LEE



Dr Lennard YW Lee is an Academic Clinical Lecturer in Medical Oncology at the
University of Oxford and senior clinical research fellow at the University of
Birmingham. He is a Medical Oncologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust. He works at the NHSE Cancer Programme as clinical advisor for
cancer innovations and diagnostics. 




LAUREN HARKINS



As Assistant Director of Programmes in the Transformation Directorate, Lauren
works to ensure that digital health technologies deployed in the NHS are safe
for patients to use. The DTAC Programme supports the NHS and innovators by
setting the baseline standards that technologies need to meet.

She supports projects under the Partnerships Award to maximise value.

Lauren has a commercial, governance and procurement background and is passionate
about getting technologies to patients and the system.




RHOD JOYCE



As Deputy Director of Innovation Development within the NHS Transformation
Directorate, Rhod works to support the ecosystem in the development, assurance
and deployment of digital tools and services at scale.

Key programmes include the Digital Health Partnership Award, the Digital Health
Technology Assessment Criteria and drives support for patients to access digital
health apps to support the management of long term conditions. He also leads the
Transformation Directorate’s Partnerships team.

He brings with him extensive experience from the private sector including
politics and finance to media, marketing and creativity leading large scale
digital transformation.

@rhodjoyce




KATIE MATTHEWS



Katie Matthews is a Learning Disability Network Manager in NHS England and NHS
Improvement.

Her team works to improve the engagement between NHS England and Improvement and
people with a learning disability, autism, or both and their families and
carers.

Her work includes co-producing easy read information to support engagement,
quality checking easy read information for colleagues, and promoting accessible
communication.

As her team’s social media lead she has responsibility for one of the most
important ways of keeping in contact with the network of people interested in
the NHS’s work about learning disability and autism.




LUCY



Lucy is 11 years old and lives in Salford, Greater Manchester where she cares
for her Mum and her younger brother.

To relax, Lucy likes to play football with her friends and enjoys art and other
creative pastimes.




RUTH MHLANGA



Ruth is a physiotherapist by background and as well as being the interim Chief
AHP for South Tees, Ruth is the chair for the Chief Allied Health Professions
Officers Black and Minority Ethnicity Strategic Advisory Group (CAHPO BAME SAG).
Ruth is an experienced manager of physiotherapists and other allied health
professions and has a passion for social justice.




ANNE



Anne (not her real name), from London, is in her 50s. She tested HIV positive at
her local emergency department in April 2021 following an opt out test.




TOM WARNER



Tom has just reached ten years’ service in the NHS and recently came into his
first specific equality, diversity and inclusion role as Clinical Workforce
Equalities Manager for NHS England, Midlands region.

This role works on the development of transformational policy for nursing and
midwifery workforce equality. Here Tom has led on the establishment of a Chief
Nursing Officer’s and Chief Midwifery Officer’s Ethnic Minority Delivery Group,
translating national priorities into Midlands specific actions to improve
workforce and patient outcomes.




GUEST BLOGS



Occasionally we invite guest bloggers to write posts for NHS England. Those
posts are marked as authored by “Guest blogs”.




DR SOHAIL ABBAS



Sohail has been working in the NHS since 2003 and has previously worked as the
Clinical Chair of Bradford City Clinical Commissioning Group and Clinical
Director of Community Services in Salford Royal Foundation Trust. He is also a
GP partner in Bradford City and a GP with special interest in diabetes. He holds
the fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners, membership of the
Royal College of Physicians, MSc in diabetes and an executive MBA.

Sohail is passionate about system working and harnessing the power of
communities. In Bradford District and Craven, he is working with organisations,
community partnerships and primary care networks to embed a population health
management approach to reduce health inequalities and develop the district
inequalities action plan alongside public health colleagues and system partners
to address the wider determinants of health. As the Chair of the Integrated Care
System Health Inequalities Network, he is working across places to raise
awareness and build the capacity and capability in the system to tackle health
inequalities.




DR RUW ABEYRATNE



Dr Abeyratne is a consultant geriatrician and recently joined University
Hospitals of Leicester as their first Director of Health Equality and Inclusion.
She has a personal and special interest in workforce wellbeing and is an active
member of the Midlands’ Charter Board.

Dr Abeyratne has campaigned for improvements in organisational approaches to
addressing discrimination and is involved in regional work to tackle
inequalities in the workplace as well as being a certified health and wellness
coach.




CAROLINE ABRAHAMS



Caroline is Age UK’s Charity Director and oversees all the charity’s influencing
and marketing. She is a member of the NHS Assembly and was formerly a SRO for
the Ageing Well strand of the NHS Long Term Plan. She is also co-chair of the
Care and Support Alliance (70+ charities campaigning for decent social care for
all who need it). She has been at Age UK for a decade after other roles in the
voluntary sector, the LGA, and as a civil servant and adviser in Government and
Opposition.




DR CHITRA ACHARYA



Dr Chitra Acharya is a Patient Leader at NHS Nottingham City CCG and is a member
of Nottinghamshire My Life Choices and graduate of NHS England’s Peer Leadership
Academy. She is also a computer scientist with research interest in Human
Computer Interaction (HCI) and patient safety, as well as a trained dancer,
volunteer, advocate and campaigner.




NIGEL ACHESON



Nigel Acheson is Regional Medical Director and Higher Level Responsible Officer
for the South Region of NHS England. With a population of 13.4 million, the
Region stretches from Cornwall to Kent and includes the cities of Bristol,
Oxford and Southampton.

Born in Belfast, Nigel trained in Birmingham and was appointed as a consultant
gynaecological oncologist in 2002, moving to the Royal Devon and Exeter (RD&E)
Hospital in Exeter to help develop the Gynaecological Cancer Centre there and
learn to sail.

From his time as a National Advisor and Clinical Lead to the Department of
Health’s Enhanced Recovery Partnership Programme, Nigel actively promotes the
involvement of patients as partners in their care. Whilst Medical Director for
the Peninsula Cancer Network in the South West of England, Nigel helped to
re-establish the patient and public group with the chair and vice-chair becoming
members of the network Board.




SUE ADAMS



Sue Adams is the Chief Executive of Care & Repair England.

Care & Repair England is a national charity established in 1986 to improve the
housing and living conditions of older and disabled people. Sue has contributed
to successive governments’ policies concerning housing and ageing. She currently
chairs the national Housing & Ageing Alliance & the Home Adaptations Consortium
and has served on DCLG’s Housing Sounding Board, DWP’s Age Action Alliance and
DH’s Ministerial working party on the future of Adult Social Care. She is a
fellow of the World Demographic Association and has written extensively about
housing and older people. She was awarded the Foundations Lifetime Achievement
Award in 2009 and an OBE for services to older people’s housing in 2010.




VICTOR ADEBOWALE



Victor Adebowale is currently Chief Executive and company secretary of Turning
Point. He is a cross-bench peer and Visiting Professor and Chancellor at the
University of Lincoln, a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute, an
associate member of the Health Service Management Centre at the University of
Birmingham and of Cambridge University Judge Business School.

He is a director of Leadership in Mind and THP Innovate and Chair of youth
charity Urban Development. Victor is on the Board of Governors for the London
School of Economics, and is President of the International Association of
Philosophy and Psychiatry.

His previous roles include being the Chief Executive at Centre Point, the youth
homelessness charity and membership of the United Kingdom Commission for
Employment and Skills.

Follow Victor on Twitter @voa1234




JACQUI ADENIJI-WILLIAMS



Jacqui Adeniji-Williams first received a piece of equipment from Whizz-Kidz when
she was seven years old – ‘a purple sparkly manual chair’. Jacqui has been
involved ever since and as she has got older decided to give something back and
take on a volunteering role. In doing so, she has gone on to inspire, support
and bring fun to the lives of many disabled children and young people.

Jacqui volunteers at her local Ambassador Club, takes part in local and national
campaigns and acts as a mentor to young people at Whizz-Kidz Camps.




ADEBUSUYI (ADE) ADEYEMI



Ade is Co-Chair for the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Staff Network of NHS
England and NHS Improvement and was awarded an MBE for services to Global Health
policy.

He is currently supporting a number of commercial activities at NHS England and
NHS Improvement, including PPE procurement for COVID-19 and establishing the NHS
Long Term Plan ambition for the NHS Export Collaborative, exploring the ways the
NHS can collaborate around their innovations and engage overseas.

Ade is a Global Health policy expert who is also a Director at the Think Tank
Chatham House, where he supports Ministry of Health stakeholders across Africa,
by strengthening their leadership and policy development capacities.

He is also the Managing Director of the world’s biggest Global Health Jobs
platform www.globalhealthjobs.com. Ade is also the founder and Executive
Director for the African Healthcare Hackathon (www.ahhack.com), an annual
hackathon (an event typically lasting several days where a large number of
people collaborate intensively on a project) that has worked on developing
solutions for organisations such as WHO, Médecins Sans Frontières, Save the
Children and UNICEF.

He has also served on the National Executive Committee of the Fabian Society
(Britain’s oldest political think-tank) and was Chair of the Young Fabian’s (the
under-31 section) Health Network.

Ade is also studying for a Doctor of Philosophy in Global Health and Social
Medicine at King’s College London.




DR VEENA AGGARWAL



Dr Veena Aggarwal is a Chief Sustainability Officer’s Clinical Fellow and is
based in the Primary Care team and the Greener NHS team at NHS England and NHS
Improvement. She is a GP speciality trainee in South West London. She has
practiced medicine in the UK and New Zealand, and is passionate about
sustainable healthcare, global health and preventative medicine. She is also a
co-chair of Greener Practice, South London.




PROFESSOR SANJAY AGRAWAL



Professor Sanjay Agrawal is the National Specialty Adviser for Tobacco
Dependency at NHS England, Chair of the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco
Advisory group and Consultant in Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine.

Over the past decade Professor Agrawal has highlighted the need to address the
treatment of tobacco dependency and is now supporting the NHS Long Term Plan
programme to implement tobacco dependency treatment services across the NHS.




MAQSOOD AHMAD



Maqsood Ahmad, Chief Executive Officer, British Muslim Heritage Centre.

Maqsood joined the British Muslim Heritage Centre in April 2019 as the Chief
Executive Officer, from Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership
(HSCP). He was the senior manager responsible for mental health, dementia,
diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). He also brings with him experience
as a cohort director for the Nye Bevan Leadership Programme for the University
of Manchester.

Maqsood pervious posts prior to HSCP include: Home Office, Head of Equalities
for Policing. He led on programmes on behalf of Home Secretaries, Policing
Ministers and Home Office Policy Directors. National Offender Management Service
(NOMS): Strategic Director for Diversity, Equality and Communications, Maqsood
was instrumental in developing the Inclusion Directorate. Her Majesty’s
Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC): Assistant Inspector of Constabulary.
Maqsood led on the equality and diversity inspections. Inspected all the 43
police forces and made major recommendations that contributed towards increasing
the confidence of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) in policing.




DR SHAHED AHMAD



Shahed Ahmad, National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
at NHS England.

Dr Shahed Ahmad is an NHS England Medical Director in the South East Region
where he is the Responsible Officer for over 3000 GPs. Shahed was educated at
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and University College and Middlesex School of
Medicine. Shahed did his MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine and his leadership training at the London Business School.
Before working for NHS England and NHS Improvement, Shahed was a Director of
Public Health and led on cardiovascular risk reduction in a number of boroughs.
Since joining NHS England and NHS Improvement, Shahed developed the NHS@2030
programme for GPs in South Central (a number of whom are now clinical directors
of primary care networks) and developed the Hampshire Thames Valley Leadership
Forum.




DR LINDA AIKEN



Linda H. Aiken, PhD, RN is the Claire Fagin Professor of Nursing, Professor of
Sociology, Director of Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, and
Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of
Pennsylvania.

Dr Aiken conducts research on the use of performance measures to demonstrate
relationships between health care workforce and patient outcomes in over 30
countries.

She is the author of more than 300 scientific papers, and is the recipient of
the Lienhard Award of the National Academy of Medicine and the Individual Codman
Award from the Joint Commission.

Dr Aiken is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, is a fellow and past President of the American Academy of
Nursing, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing.




MAT AINSWORTH



Mat Ainsworth is the Assistant Director for Employment (Strategy, Policy &
Delivery) at the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Mat is responsible for
the delivery of the employment elements of GM’s groundbreaking devolution
agreement and the Greater Manchester Strategy priority around good jobs for
people to progress & develop. The key elements of this include the development
of a whole population Working Well system to ensure people have the support and
opportunities to secure and progress in work; developing a world-class jobs and
progression service, working with Jobcentre Plus; and developing a GM approach
to managing welfare reform that delivers job progression and addresses low pay.

The role includes significant joint working with partners across GM, especially
those working in health, skills and economic development, as well as with
central government departments, academics and Think Tanks.

Mat has previously worked for Salford City Council, Nottingham City Council,
Jobcentre Plus and as a teacher and freelance translator in Slovenia.




SUSAN AITKENHEAD



Susan Aitkenhead is a Deputy Chief Nursing Officer to Ruth May, Chief Nursing
Officer for England and supports CNO on matters linked to professional
regulation, education, research, and collective leadership. This is in addition
to the work with ministers, government officials, professional regulators, royal
colleges, professional bodies and the Devolved Administrations to help shape
policy and decision making.

Susan was previously a Director of Nursing at NHS England leading on a range of
work aligned to system and service transformation at national, regional and
local levels.

Susan is a registered nurse with extensive clinical, operational and strategic
experience within healthcare across a variety of settings; and provider and
commissioning executive and non-executive Board roles within both the UK and
overseas.

She has also worked in a variety of other national roles such as at the
Department of Health providing advice and support to ministers and policy
officials across central government departments, and in professional regulation
across the UK at the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Twitter: @SAitke
E-mail: susanaitkenhead@nhs.net




BOLA AKINWALE



Bola Akinwale, Deputy Director, National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement
Programme, is a health policy professional and has worked in a variety of
national policy and strategy roles across the health and care system. She has a
PhD in public health and is a member of the government social research
profession.




DR HUSSAIN AL-ZUBAIDI



Movement, community and nutrition are three cornerstones of Dr Al-Zubaidi’s
personal and professional life. He is a lifestyle medic and long-distance
triathlete. He is the Royal College of General Practitioners lifestyle and
physical activity lead as well as a Swim England clinical advisor. He runs a
pioneering NHS based fitness club and lifestyle clinic helping to educate and
support patients to eat better, move more and connect with their community.  He
heads up the social prescribing team at the Leamington Primary Care Network
which assists people holistically to promote, protect and improve their health.
A key passion is to use lifestyle to tackle health inequalities. Hussain
volunteers at the mental health charity Run Talk Run as the West Midlands
regional leader, where they use movement to help forge conversations and peers
support. It is his strong belief that lifestyle can be a powerful tool in the
fight against many conditions both physical and mental, while being a great way
to socialize and stay connected with our community. He is a keen triathlete and
UK Athletics leader in running fitness and tries to use his own personal journey
of taking up physical activity from a previous sedentary lifestyle and
improvement in his own nutrition and knowledge of food to promote its benefits
for our wellbeing. He delivers numerous talks and lectures to various audiences
both professional and public including a regular slot on Steph’s Packed Lunch on
Channel 4.

Instagram: @irondoctorhaz | Twitter: @zubaidihussain | Linkedin:
www.linkedin.com/in/hussain-al-zubaidi-402b141a7/




SARAH ALDRIDGE



Prior to working as a counsellor, Sarah Aldridge worked in media, mainly in TV
and newspapers including The Guardian and MTV.

In 2010 she completed her training as a Psychodynamic Counsellor and then worked
in the voluntary sector, a cancer charity and set up private practice.

Later roles include clinician and casework, Tavistock and Portman Primary Care
Psychotherapy Consultation Service (Hackney community team).

In 2016 Sarah joined Ealing Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT),
West London NHS Trust and she is a British Association for Counselling and
Psychotherapy (BACP) and BPC accredited counsellor.




CAROLINE ALEXANDER



Caroline has significant nursing leadership experience at director level across
a breadth of portfolios – healthcare provision, commissioning and system
leadership.

She was director of nursing and therapies for Tower Hamlets PCT and then
director of nursing and quality For NHS ELC, then NHS NEL clusters of primary
care trusts. Caroline was regional chief nurse for NHS England in London for
three years before taking up her current post as Chief Nurse for Barts Health.

She graduated as a nurse in 1987 from Edinburgh University (BSc/RGN) and has an
MSc in Nursing Studies from South Bank University. Caroline was a 2008 Florence
Nightingale Leadership Scholar and is a Visiting Professor at Bucks New
University.




SALMA ALI



Salma Ali is a Liaison & Diversion Practitioner, specialising in working within
people with Intellectual Disability. She has worked in Liaison & Diversion for
the past 6 years, and has been integral in the development of a screening and
assessment pathway for offenders with Intellectual Disability within the
offender care service at the Central & North-West London Foundation Trust, as
well as the development of the ‘RAPID’ screening tool.




DR AMAR ALI



Dr Amar Ali Graduated from university of Sheffield in 2005. Completed GP
training in 2010 and joined Oakenhurst Medical Practice as a partner. He has a
active interest in diabetes research and education. Currently works at the
community diabetes service and is the CCG lead for diabetes. He is also working
as clinical lead for the Lancashire and South Cumbria NDPP




DR AYESHA ALI



Dr Ayesha Ali, Medical Advisor to Highly Specialised Services at NHS England and
NHS Improvement.




DR MARTIN ALLEN



Dr Martin Allen is Interim National Clinical Director for Respiratory Medicine,
GIRFT National Clinical Lead for Respiratory Medicine and National Specialty
Adviser for Physiological Science.
 
Martin is also Consultant Respiratory Physician at the University Hospital of
North Staffordshire, one of the largest respiratory departments in the country.
He currently chairs the National Expert Group on Respiratory Coding and sits on
the Royal College of Physicians Commissioning Advisory Group and the British
Thoracic Society Board.




YASMIN ALLEN



Yasmin Allen is a dentist who has worked in emergency dental services in a
dental hospital environment and within London.

She continues to work within the Emergency dental service and Urgent Dental
service.

In her day job she works in Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex as dental
programme manager.




JOY ALLEN



Joy Allen is the Registered Manager at Hemsworth Park Care Home.

Joy manages the care home in Pontefract, with a 93 bed capacity for elderly
nursing, residential, and adults up to 65 years of age.




DR DAN ALTON,



Dan is a GP at Wargrave Surgery in Berkshire, combining this with his local role
as Berkshire West CCG Population Health Management (PHM) Clinical Lead, as well
as National PHM Clinical Advisor to NHS England and NHS Improvement.

Dan’s work focusses on using Population Health Management methodology to drive
the development of transformative approaches that lead to proactive, integrated
care.

He has been instrumental in helping design and deliver multiple large-scale
system transformation projects and longer-term strategies to create the
governance and data infrastructure that enable this cultural change within
systems.




SARAH AMANI



Sarah Amani is Senior Programme Manager at the EIP Programme (South of England)
and currently seconded to NHS England (South) mental health priority programme.
With experience of leading complex programmes spanning multiple organisations to
deliver measurable results, her role involves supporting 16 providers and 50
clinical commissioning groups to implement the new national target for
psychosis, whilst supporting NHS England managers to assure delivery of robust
service development and improvement plans.




CLARE ANDERSON



Clare Anderson is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the CAMHS Crisis and Liaison
Team in Durham & Darlington in the North East of England.

She is a paediatric nurse with Tees Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Trust and helped
develop the Crisis & Liaison service from its conception in May 2014. She has
been involved in developing national guidelines for emergency care of young
people with mental health problems. She has also visited other areas of the
country to share the Durham model and help shape newly developing CAMHS crisis
services. She has worked in various clinical settings including acute
paediatrics and Accident & Emergency before spending the majority of her career
in CAMHS.




CAROL ANDERSON



Carol Anderson is an accomplished senior nurse leader with 30 years’ experience
in the NHS. Her recent roles have included Director of Nursing and Interim
Managing Director of Mid-Essex CCG, where she championed the role of the nurse
on the governing body and its importance in advocating for patients. As Chief
Nurse for the Mid and South Essex STP Joint Committee, she has provided
oversight of all contracts delegated to the Joint Committee on behalf of the
five CCGs in Mid and South Essex as well as delivering professional leadership
for nursing across the STP.




ADAM ANDERSON



Adam is the Head of Commercial Medicines Unit in the Commercial Medicines
Directorate of NHS England. Adam is responsible for the overall tendering and
supply chain strategies for secondary care. His team works very closely with the
trusts, suppliers and trade bodies to ensure appropriate category frameworks are
implemented and supply chain resilience is achieved for secondary care




TIM ANFILOGOFF



Tim Anfilogoff is Head of Community Resilience at Herts Valleys CCG, and NHS
England’s Social Prescribing Regional Facilitator for the East of England.




TIZIANA ANSELL



Tiziana Ansell is a registered nurse, independent nurse prescriber and Darzi
Fellow.

She specialised in continence care in 1999 and has been working in the field
since.

Tiziana works for the Health Innovation Network on a two-year project to reduce
catheter-associated urinary-tract infections (CAUTIs) in South London. She has
20 years’ clinical and managerial experience working in the UK across community,
acute and private sector.

Prior to moving to the UK she also worked in Italy as a volunteer and paramedic
in the ambulance service and underwent work experience in Slovenia in
neuro-surgery intensive care unit.




DR AMIT ARORA



Dr Amit Arora is a consultant geriatrician in the North Midlands, Clinical
Director for the Emergency Care Improvement Support Team of NHS England and a
Vice President (Workforce) for the British Geriatrics Society.

He is the founding Director of the National Frailty Academy and creator of the
National Deconditioning Awareness and Prevention campaign and is now leading the
national mission to #ReconditionTheNation.




RICHARD ASHWORTH



Richard Ashworth has been with NHS England for four years and is a Senior
Insight Account Manager in the Insight & Feedback team. He leads work on PROMs
and also on other major projects such as the annual NHS Staff Survey.




ALISON AUSTIN



Alison Austin is Deputy Director of Research in the Innovation, Research and
Life Sciences Group within NHS England and NHS Improvement. Her role is to raise
the profile of research across NHS England and NHS Improvement and ensure we
take a cross organisational approach to supporting research in the NHS. Her work
focuses on improving patient outcomes by embedding research in healthcare
practice across all NHS settings, and increasing the number and diversity of
people accessing and taking part in research.

Alison has worked on health, medical or research related policies in a number of
government departments including the Department of Health, the Medical Devices
Agency, the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills and the Treasury.
She is a qualified nurse with 13 years front line experience and has a degree in
molecular biology and a PhD in molecular endocrinology.




LESLEY BAINBRIDGE



Lesley Bainbridge is Lead Nurse at Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning
Group.

Lesley trained as a nurse and midwife in Gateshead in an apprentice style
training that she loved. She says she laughed through all the student years
while making lifelong friends and importantly being privileged to work
alongside, and learn from, nurses and midwives she still regards to be among the
best in the business. Since then she has complimented her training with
graduations from Northumbria University.

Professionally there are two things that get Lesley out of bed every morning and
they are nursing in its fullest sense and the care of older people. She is very
much looking forward therefore to progressing all of the clinical components of
the Care Home Vanguard programme so as to make a positive contribution towards
improving not only the lives of older people and their families; but the working
lives of the staff providing the services also.




PROFESSOR JAMES BAINBRIDGE



Professor James Bainbridge, Consultant Retinal Surgeon Moorfields Eye Hospital
NHS Foundation Trust.




DR BERGE BALIAN



Dr Berge Balian has been a full time GP in a large semi-rural practice in
Somerset with approximately 11,000 patients for the past 20 years, having
completed his medical training at St Thomas’s Hospital in London.

Berge has a career long interest in medical politics and has been a
representative of the South Somerset GP practices on the Somerset Local Medical
Committee (LMC) for the whole of his GP career – including a period as Chair of
the LMC. He has been Associate Medical Director for Primary Care at Yeovil
District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust since 2013 and was elected to the role of
Chair of the Symphony Programme Board in April 2015.




DR ROGER BANKS



Dr Roger Banks FRCPsych FRCGP(hon) FIPD is a Consultant Psychiatrist with more
than 30 years of experience of working with people with a learning disability,
autistic people and their families. In 2020 he was appointed as National
Clinical Director for Learning Disability and Autism.

Roger is a previous Vice-President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Fellow of the
Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability. He is Vice President of the
Association for Research and Training on Integration in Europe (ARFIE) and a
past President of the European Association for Mental Health in Intellectual
Disability.

In 2009-10 he was jointly responsible for drafting “Better Health – Better
Lives” the World Health Organisation’s Declaration and Action Plan for the
Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities
and their Families and he continues to work as a consultant to WHO-Europe on
intellectual disability issues.




DR WASIM BAQIR



Dr Wasim Baqir is currently on secondment to NHS England to lead the care homes
medicines optimisation scheme.

He was the lead pharmacist for the Northumberland PACS Vanguard where he led an
integrated team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, working collaboratively
with doctors, nurses, social care and other professionals to develop and test
services for patients across Northumberland.

Before this, he was the R&D and quality improvement pharmacist, leading on
several projects including the Shine project; optimising medicines in care
homes.

He has a passion for quality improvement and sits on the Trust Quality
Laboratory and recently was successful in joining the Health Foundation’s
Generation Q Network. Nationally, he is a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society Innovators’ Forum and the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists’ National
Professional Committee.

Follow Wasim on Twitter: @wasimbaqir.




JUDITH BARLOW



Judith Barlow works as a community midwife in London, as well as working with
the National Elective Care Transformation Programme site delivery team.

She has been part of the team working on all the specialty based specialty
waves, case studies and handbooks.

‘Using the rapid implementation approach we were able to implement good practice
in several sites for women needing care to support them through a significant
life change which can be individually challenging’




ANGELA BARRAGO



Angela Barrago is the Project Manager for the Spice Time Credit project in
Chorley, Lancashire.

Spice develops Time Credit systems that value everyone’s time and are proven to
improve outcomes for individuals, organisations and communities. Over 25,000
people have earned Time Credits, and approximately 450,000 Time Credits have
been issued across England and Wales.

Spice works with a network of over 1,200 organisations and services across the
private, public and voluntary sector in England and Wales.




JOANNE BARROW



Joanne Barrow lives in Wigan, Greater Manchester. She is the parent to three
adult children. Her youngest son Tom has a personal health budget which she
manages. She is chairperson of Embrace Wigan and Leigh, an organisation which
provides support to disabled people and their families. Through personal
experience, Joanne believes that personalisation has been extremely positive
both for her son, and for her family




JONATHAN BARROW



Jonathan Barrow started his working life at 13, cleaning the local supermarket
at 4.30am every morning.

At 15 Jon faced a no-brainer decision, was he to finish school, or take a job in
a Butchers shop? So a Butcher he was to be, well at least for a couple of years
then, he says: “I found the cold just too offal.”

By 18 he was married to his best friend’s sister, living on a notorious estate,
set to be a father.

With no money, and little to look forward too, he took a job working nights on
the Underground.

Over the next 15 years he educated himself, gaining extensive knowledge of
signalling and qualifications in management. He spent the last 20 years as an
operations manager, dealing with contracts in excess of a million pounds.

In this time he suffered traumatic events – the most devastating being when he
lost his mum when aged just 24, and she was only 53. His next traumatic
situation came when his soul mate of 30 years, Deb, began the painful, daily
battle to cope with primary progressive Multiple Sclerosis.

The method of blotting out the pain Jon had put so much faith into, resulted in
him spending two years shut in his bedroom unable to cope or face the world, too
frightened to leave the room.

His long journey back took five years. Along the way he gained a degree with the
Open University.

Jon now takes care of his wife but, having a real desire to share his coping
skills, he started up a new charitable incorporated organisation for anyone with
a health condition that feels they could benefit from peer support.

After just five months in operation Jon received the 2015 Volunteering through
Adversity Award from Basildon Council.




JON BASHFORD



Jon is an experienced senior manager, researcher and teacher with over 30 years’
experience working in health, social care and education in the public,
independent and voluntary sectors. He is particularly known for his work on
mental health, veterans, drug and alcohol use, offender health and equality and
human rights. Coming from a practitioner background as a Registered Mental Nurse
Jon has been able to successfully bridge the gap between research, innovation
and practice. He has worked extensively as a senior manager on programmes for
health and social care improvement including service user, carer and community
engagement. In particular Jon has a reputation for ensuring that engagement and
inclusion are at the forefront of mainstream organisational change management.




BETSY BASIS



Betsy Basis is Chief Executive of NHS Blood and Transplant she has extensive
experience leading complex, customer-facing organisations across the private and
public sectors. Before joining NHSBT in March 2019, she was the Chief Operating
Officer at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Betsy spent
12 years at Centrica/British Gas in a range of senior roles, including Strategy
Director for British Gas.




RACHEL BASSETT



Rachel is 47 and lives with her husband and her dog. She has now been sober for
18 months.

She volunteers with the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust working
with the alcohol team that saved her life. Though she feels she can never repay
them enough, it is her way of saying thank you for all the hard work they do and
hopefully, helping patients that are in the same position as she was.

She is enjoying life again. Has started baking again and is happily sleeping in
her own bed. Her mood and physical health are so much better and she is enjoying
the feeling that the people she loves are not having to worry about her anymore.




NEEL BASUDEV



Neel Basudev is Senior GP Partner at Springfield Medical Centre in Lambeth,
Clinical Director Diabetes at Health Innovation Network (South London Academic
Health Science Network) and Out of Hospital Lead.




JULIET BAUER



Juliet was previously NHS England’s Chief Digital Officer. Tara Donnelly is due
to take over the role of CDO at the beginning of February. She will oversee a
portfolio of digital services including the NHS website, NHS ‘assured’ apps
library, and the development of digital services to empower patients to better
manage their health and care, including long-term conditions such as diabetes.




DR NOEL BAXTER



Dr Noel Baxter is a GP in Southwark, London. He has been the respiratory
champion there for the last 10 years, working with both primary and secondary
care colleagues within a population based integrated respiratory service. He is
also Clinical Director for Quality and Service Improvement at NHS Southwark CCG.

He is the Executive Chair of the Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS) and is
a clinical advisor to the British Lung Foundation. He recently led the primary
care workstream of the Royal College of Physicians’ asthma and COPD audit in
England and Wales and was a member of the recent National Institute of Clinical
and Care Excellence clinical guideline group for asthma management.

Passionate about tobacco harm, Dr Baxter is a member of the board of trustees
for Action on Smoking in Health (ASH) and recent co-lead of the London
respiratory strategic clinical network from 2010 -16 and the London Clinical
Senate ‘Helping smokers quit’ delivery team programme.




JOANNA BAYLEY



Jo is a GP and the chief executive of GDoc Ltd, the countywide GP provider in
Gloucestershire and of Gloucester GP Consortium Ltd, which provides urgent and
primary care to deprived communities. She was until recently the National
Medical Advisor on Urgent and Emergency Care to the Care Quality Commission.

Jo was previously the medical director of a community provider, Gloucestershire
Care Services, and of a mental health provider. Before becoming a GP, Jo trained
in emergency medicine and intensive care, with membership of the Royal College
of Emergency Medicine. Jo was awarded an MA in medical law and ethics from the
University of Manchester and has studied transformational change in healthcare
at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.




TRACEY BAYLISS



Tracey Bayliss has worked for nearly 30 years in various admin and clerical
roles for two acute NHS trusts in the West Midlands. Currently she works as a
Senior Project Manager at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. As a member of
the Service Improvement and Programme Management Team, established to oversee,
challenge and support the trust’s transformation workstreams, she is responsible
for managing and delivering multiple complex projects; helping to embed use of
the trust’s own programme management tools; and providing assurance of delivery
to the trust’s Transformation Delivery Group. Tracey recently completed the
Improvement FUNdamentals Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and would like to
recommend it to others.




PROFESSOR LISA BAYLISS-PRATT



Lisa was appointed as Chief Nurse at Health Education England (HEE) in 2012 and
in this role she is responsible for leading national policy, workforce planning,
and multi-professional education and training commissioning for the non-medical
healthcare workforce.

Key achievements include delivering transformation of nursing education and
training (Raising the Bar), the successful test site programme for the Nursing
Associate role, development and piloting of pre-degree care experience for
aspirant nurses and leading the ‘return to practice’ initiative.

In 2017, in addition to her Chief Nurse role, Lisa was appointed to the as
Interim Regional Director for London and South East. As the Regional Director
Lisa is responsible for approximately £1billion of investment in education,
training and workforce development across London. Her role also includes
providing support to five Sustainability and Transformation Plans within the
capital.




PROFESSOR JULIET BEAL



Juliet is the Director of Nursing: Quality Improvement and Care for NHS England.
She is responsible for ensuring that care, compassion and patient experience are
at the heart of nursing and midwifery in the healthcare system.

Juliet is responsible for the implementation of ‘Compassion in Practice’ the
vision and strategy for nurses, midwives and care staff. Juliet provides
clinical and professional leadership for mental health, midwifery, children’s
health and leadership for the nursing and midwifery contribution to the five
domains of the NHS outcomes framework.

She has over ten years Executive Director of Nursing experience in several acute
trusts, and was the Cluster Director of Nursing at NHS Outer North East London.
Juliet also has Acting Chief Executive, Director of Operations and Director of
People and Organisation Development experience. Juliet was included in last
year’s Health Service Journal top 100 clinical leaders.

Juliet’s particular areas of expertise and interest are quality improvement,
patient safety and experience, clinical standards and outcomes, complex
organisational change, sustainability, leading teams to provide excellent
standards of care whilst improving financial and patient care standards.

She has a BSc in Sociology and Social Administration from Southampton University
(1982) and an MBA from Henley Management College (2005). Juliet was awarded a
visiting professorship by the Faculty of Health and Social Care at London South
Bank University in 2011 after holding a joint post with NHS Barking and Dagenham
and London South Bank University from 2009. Juliet qualified as a registered
General Nurse in 1986 and a Registered Midwife in 1988.




PAULA BEE



Paula Bee is Chief Executive of Age UK Wakefield District.

Throughout her career in the health and voluntary sectors Paula has developed a
passion for changing the lives of older people, recognising that we all have an
important part to play if this is to become a reality.

Training as a physiotherapist involved her in the well-being of older people.
Now, as Chief Executive of Age UK Wakefield District and member of the Age
England Association Executive Group, she has been fortunate to be at the
forefront of local and national changes that have the potential to alter the
experience of ageing for us all.

At Age UK Wakefield District, Paula is responsible for ensuring the changing
needs of older people are met throughout the district. Integration into the new
model of care has brought Age UK some fresh challenges but has significantly
improved the service it provides. As a result it is able to place the expertise
gained over many decades alongside other health and social care professionals to
significantly alter and improve the lives of older people.

Paula also chairs the Wakefield Assembly (the local voluntary and community
sector board for voice and influence), and is on the board of Nova (the support
agency for voluntary and community groups in Wakefield district). In addition,
she is a member of the local Health and Wellbeing Board and part of Wakefield
Provider Alliance.




ELIZABETH BEECH



Elizabeth Beech is a National Project Lead for Healthcare Acquired Infections
and Antimicrobial Resistance at NHS England, and also works as a pharmacist for
NHS Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group, where she has
been based since 2007.

She qualified from Aston University and trained as a junior pharmacist at St
Mary’s Hospital Paddington before continuing to work in a variety of roles
within the NHS. She has worked as a Regional Clinical Pharmacist with the North
Thames Regional Health Authority, as an academic teacher/practitioner and health
services researcher at London University, and established an academic research
and development support unit in Swindon on behalf of the South West Strategic
Health Authority.




AMANDA BEGLEY



Dr Amanda Begley is Director of Innovation and Implementation at UCLPartners.
She supports work across the organisation by building partnerships and expertise
to deliver innovation at scale for patient and population benefit.

Most recently Amanda co-wrote the national guidelines for Clinical Commissioning
Groups on their duty to promote innovation, on behalf of NHS England. She also
currently works part time as a GSK Fellow, supporting the generation of
collaborative solutions between pharma, academia and the NHS to achieve even
greater outcomes for patients.

Following an educational psychology PhD, Amanda joined the NHS as an Assistant
and Trainee Clinical Psychologist. She has worked as a commissioner and senior
manager across primary, community and secondary care, and has led the
implementation of policy. Before joining UCLPartners, Amanda worked as Head of
Innovation at NHS London.




POORNA BELL



Poorna Bell is an award-winning journalist and author. She has written a book,
Chase The Rainbow, an account of life with her husband Rob who struggled with
depression and took his own life in 2015. Poorna has since campaigned around
mental health – particularly men’s mental health – speaking on radio, TV and at
events. She is also a judge for this year’s Mind media award.




DR ILAN BEN-ZION



Ilan is a Clinical Psychologist working at St Pancras Rehabilitation Unit –
Inpatient Wards and Hertfordshire Neurological Service – Community team –
Outpatients

I feel very privileged to be able to say I love what I do and always have, ever
since I started volunteering for ChildLine in 2007. Following this, I’ve had
experience working with a wide variety of individuals including children, young
people, adults, older adults, military personnel, individuals with learning
disabilities, neurodevelopmental disorders and neurological conditions.

Currently, I’m based across two teams, one at St Pancras Rehabilitation Unit,
where we support individuals to recover from various difficulties from strokes
and brain injuries, to falls and occasionally unknown conditions. In my other
post, I work at Hertfordshire Neurological Service where we see individuals as
outpatients in order to support them with a variety of neurological conditions
such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease and strokes.

I am passionate about mental health, as this something we all share and an area
where there is real potential to make a positive impact in the world. I hope the
#ihavementalhealthcampaign will contribute towards helping people better
understand this part of themselves.




RUTH BENDER ATIK



Ruth Bender Atik qualified as a social worker in 1973 as has worked in both the
UK and in Israel. She has been National Director of the Miscarriage Association
since 1993.




PROFESSOR JONATHAN BENGER



Professor Jonathan Benger is National Clinical Director for Urgent Care for NHS
England.

Jonathan is the Director of the Academic Department of Emergency Care at the
University of the West of England, Bristol and a Consultant in Emergency
Medicine at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. He also has
extensive experience of pre-hospital care, having previously contributed to the
establishment of a pre-hospital critical care team for Great Western Ambulance,
and does regular clinical work in both the Emergency Department and ambulance
service.

Jonathan has led or collaborated on 28 grant-funded research projects with a
total value in excess of £8million, and has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed
publications. His main research interests are the evaluation of new technologies
and techniques, service configuration and workforce, emergency airway
management, resuscitation and pre-hospital care.

Until May 2013, Jonathan chaired the Clinical Effectiveness Committee of the
College of Emergency Medicine, and served on the Council and Executive of the
College. He has been closely involved with guideline and policy development in
the UK, alongside international initiatives to define and improve the quality
and safety of emergency care.




JON BENNETT



Jon Bennett is an Honorary Professor of Respiratory Sciences at the University
of Leicester, a Respiratory Consultant at Glenfield Hospital Leicester and Chair
of the British Thoracic Society Board.




LAURA BENNETT



Laura Bennett is Carers Trust’s lead on policy and public affairs, including
external relationships with stakeholders such as parliamentarians, government
departments, NHS England, local government, and voluntary sector organisations.
She has worked for the organisation since 2015.

Laura – who tweets as @LauraBWork – is a public policy professional, with
experience of policy, public affairs and campaigns, supported by her background
of project delivery, frontline work, partnership and strategic working. She has
worked in a variety of local, regional and national voluntary sector
organisations, as well as charities using the experience of service user
experience and service delivery as evidence for change. These policy areas and
organisations include end of life and palliative care, mental health, advice and
information, volunteering, older people, Sense (where she led on their work as
part of the Campaign to End Loneliness), and a local Mind.




SIMON BENNETT



Simon Bennett is Deputy Director Quality Framework Team at NHS England

Simon works across the clinical directorates of NHS England to ensure that a
coherent, aligned and strategic approach is taken to improving quality in all
five domains of the NHS Outcomes Framework. Simon has lead responsibility within
NHS England for a range of quality ‘levers’, including NICE Quality Standards,
Quality Accounts, the national clinical audit programme and clinical governance
policy. He also leads NHS England’s programme of work on seven day services in
the NHS.

Simon has worked in the NHS Commissioning Board/NHS England since January 2012.
He has previously worked in the Department of Health, as well as in the
Department of Trade and Industry and the Cabinet Office. He also spent several
years seconded to a Strategic Health Authority.




SAM BENNETT



Dr Sam Bennett is Head of the Integrated Personal Commissioning programme and
the Personal Health Budgets team at NHS England. He is passionate about
personalised care and support and has worked on implementing personalised
systems in health and social care at local, regional and national levels for
over 10 years.




DR PHILLIP BENNETT-RICHARDS



Dr Phillip Bennett-Richards is clinical director of the GP care group and chair
of THIPP and Tower Hamlets Together.




KEITH BENTHAM



Keith Bentham is a Senior Programme and Project Manager with over 25 years’
experience of working for and with the NHS.

His health career began as an Information Systems Manager at a hospital in
Manchester, and has since progressed through various pre-sales, project and
programme management roles.

In 2008, he was a medallist at the prestigious British Computer Society Project
Manager of the Year Awards for his work in the Lorenzo Release 1 Project.

Within the last five years has worked in a very senior capacity within the
Health Informatics team in University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation
Trust.




DR RICHARD BERMAN



Dr Richard Berman FRCP is NHS England’s National Clinical Lead for Enhanced
Supportive Care, and a Consultant in Supportive & Palliative Care based at The
Christie NHS Foundation Trust.




DR GILES BERRISFORD



Dr Giles Berrisford is Associate National Clinical Director for Perinatal Mental
Health for NHS England.

Dr Giles Berrisford is the Clinical Lead at the Birmingham Perinatal Mental
Health Service at BSMHFT – leading one of the largest inpatient Mother and Baby
Units in the country. He is the Chair of the national charity Action on
Postpartum Psychosis (APP) – working closely with women and families directly
affected by postpartum psychosis – the most severe form of perinatal mental
illness. He is the Vice-Chair Elect of the Perinatal Psychiatry Faculty within
the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is the West Midlands’ Senate
representative for the Perinatal Psychiatry Clinical Reference Group. He is
committed to bringing about improved access to maternal mental health services
and reducing the unwarranted variation in care currently seen across the
country.




JONATHAN BERRY



Jonathan Berry is Personalisation and Control Specialist in NHS England’s Person
Centred Care Team. He took up this post in November 2015, and leads on policy
development with regard to Health Literacy and Shared Decision Making.

Prior to this Jonathan was the Director of the Community Health and Learning
Foundation, a national voluntary organisation that specialises in delivering
Health Literacy programmes in deprived communities. He has an extensive health
background and was Executive Director for Health for five years at the national
charity, ContinYou, where he project managed the development of the national
Health Literacy Programme, Skilled for Health.




MARC BERRY



Marc Berry qualified as a physiotherapist in 2006 from the University of
Brighton.

He began his career at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and in 2010
became a band 7 in Critical Care. Marc then secured a NIHR Biomedical Research
Centre Fellowship, where he researched non-invasive lung imaging for ventilated
patients.

This led to further research work around physiotherapy in Critical Care. Marc
returned to clinical practice in 2014 at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust as a physiotherapy clinical lead for Acute Care. The work outlined above
was part of Marc’s QI Fellowship at the Wessex School of Quality Improvement.




TREVOR BESWICK



Trevor Beswick started his career in hospital posts before joining the South
Western Regional Health Authority in education and training and medicines
information.

In 1993 he took up the post of South West Regional Pharmaceutical Adviser,
followed by a post at Bristol Primary Care Trust as Head of Medicines Management
and then as Associate Director of Primary Care Commissioning.

He took a specialist regional pharmacy role in medicines information and
education and training at South West Medicines Information and Training and then
joined HEE’s South Region in August 2017 and has been working on a range of
national and regional projects including:

• Advanced Clinical Practitioner Framework
• The review of pharmacy education and training
• Reforming pre-registration pharmacist support in HEE South
• Education quality
• Medication safety education and training
• Supporting advanced and consultant pharmacy practice
• Apprenticeships for pharmacy technicians
• Pharmacy workforce data and intelligence.




ADRIENNE BETTELEY



Adrienne Betteley, Strategic Adviser for End of Life Care for Macmillan.

Adrienne is a nurse by background and has worked in a variety of settings
including care homes and hospital but most of her nursing career was spent as a
District Nursing Sister and Practice Educator working in Cheshire.

Adrienne then went on to do a number of different roles which were all focusing
on End of Life Care in a variety of settings such as a Primary Care Trust,
Cancer Networks and Strategic Health Authorities. She also undertook some
national work on Advance Care Planning as part of the team leading on Preferred
Priorities for Care in England.
Adrienne was also a trustee at her local hospice for 4 ½ years and a trustee of
Care2Save for 2 years. She was also an elected Board member for the North West
RCN Board for 2 years from 2006.

In 2011, Adrienne joined Macmillan Cancer Support and has worked there in a
variety of roles, mostly focusing on End of Life Care. Her current role
commenced in January 2020 as Strategic Adviser for End of Life Care, which is UK
wide and provides expertise and advice internally and externally. Adrienne
represents Macmillan on several national groups in England such as the Ambitions
Partnership of which she was elected as co-chair in January 2019 and she also
sits on the National End of Life Care Programme Board for England.

To find out more about the reasons she is passionate about End of Life Care, you
can read this article or listen to her on the “You, Me and the Big C” podcast.




MIKE BEWICK



Dr Mike Bewick is Deputy Medical Director at NHS England.




LIZ BIGGS



Liz Biggs is Programme Lead – Children, Young People and Maternity at Herts
Valleys CCG, one of 90 CCGs, six STP footprints and four NHS England regions
that make up 20 proposals that were selected for wave 1 of the Perinatal mental
health community development fund. Liz leads the Children young people and
maternity programme in Herts Valleys CCG. She has worked in Hertfordshire for
over 15 years and her previous roles have been in the county council in both
Children’s Services and Public Health.




DR JO BLACK



Dr Jo Black is a consultant perinatal psychiatrist with Devon Partnership NHS
Trust, SW regional representative on the perinatal faculty at the Royal College
of Psychiatrists and Chair of the Regional Reps Committee. She has developed an
integrated community perinatal mental health service, with perinatal expertise
embedded in the three maternity units serving families in Devon.

Jo has experience of working with teams, bringing together clinical, management
and commissioning colleagues from primary care, acute and mental health
services, women, families and colleagues from the third sector. She looks
forward to bringing her energy, experience and ideas to this national role.




SHARON BLACKBURN



Sharon Blackburn CBE, RGN RMN, has worked in the independent care sector for
over 28 years, having previously spent 10 years in the NHS in a variety of
roles. She has held the posts of director of nursing and director of quality
assurance in one of the largest UK care providers and was the managing director
for Heart of England Housing and Care until 2009.

She has served on a number of national policy groups, where she seeks to bridge
the gap between policy and practice. She is director of the Residential Forum, a
director of CommonAge and Vice Chair of NAPA.

Sharon began her role at the National Care Forum in 2009 as Policy and
Communications Director. In addition to representing members at national and
international events, Sharon has developed skills in social care and health
policy and regularly works with directors and boards on the successful
management of change.
Sharon was awarded an CBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours for services to nursing
and the not-for-profit care sector.




DR CLAIRE BLOOMFIELD



Dr Claire Bloomfield, Deputy Director, Data for Research and Development (R&D) ,
Centre for Improving Data Collaboration, NHS Transformation Directorate, NHS
England.

Claire is based at the Centre for Improving Data Collaboration as the Deputy
Director and SRO for the Data for Research and Development programme. She
oversees development and delivery of NHS coordinated investments in health data
for R&D, to support the ambitions of the Life Sciences Vision and Vision for
future of UK Clinical Research Delivery. Prior to joining CIDC Claire was the
CEO of the world-leading UK National Centre of Excellence for Artificial
Intelligent in Medical Imaging (NCIMI), at the University of Oxford. NCIMI is a
launchpad to improve the healthcare industry through the use of AI.




DAVE BLOWERS



Dave Blowers is an advanced paramedic with North West Ambulance Service,
covering West Cheshire and the Wirral. He started his paramedic training with
London Ambulance Service and the University of Hertfordshire in 2000. He
currently lives with his partner and two cats in Chester.




FRANCES BLUNDEN



Frances Blunden has been an elected patient governor at the Royal Free London
NHS Foundation Trust since October 2014.

She also chairs the NHS Providers Governor Policy Board.

Frances has had a career as a highly experienced policy analyst and adviser,
with particular expertise in health and regulatory issues. She has established a
reputation as an authoritative and effective advocate for consumers with a
long-standing commitment to improving the quality and safety of healthcare,
strengthening complaint-handling and achieving effective patient and public
engagement.




MARIE BOARDMAN



Marie Boardman is a Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner with Mental
Health Matters, which is partnered with Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust to
provide IAPT services in South Staffordshire. She spent 20 years employed by a
housing association within Care and Support services. She later set up a pilot
programme at Sandwell to help hard-to-reach groups access primary care mental
health services. This led to her following a career in IAPT – training with
Wolverhampton Healthy Minds before moving to Birmingham Healthy Minds. In her
present role Marie has been instrumental in developing community engagement
initiatives and developing the West Midlands Senior PWP Forum.




KAREN BONNER



Karen is the chief nurse at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

In her 25 years qualified nursing career, Karen has worked in a number of large
and complex NHS organisations in London. She holds a diploma along with a BSc
(hons) in Nursing and a MSc in advanced practice leadership from Kings College
University. She is a graduate from the NHS Leadership Academy Senior Leaders and
Nye Bevan programme for aspiring directors.

Karen is a member of the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) strategic
advisory group and works with the Prostate Cancer UK, to educate and raise
awareness of the disease.

She is also a trustee of the Mary Seacole Trust and leads the diversity in
leadership programme and was highly commended by the Nursing Times in 2019 for
her work in diversity and inclusion.




TONY BONSER



Tony Bonser is a trustee of St Catherine’s Hospice, Preston and the National
Council for Palliative Care, for whom he chairs the People in Partnership User
Group.

He is also the North West Local Champion for the Dying Matters Coalition. He
speaks and writes on end of life care issues, and campaigns for better
communication between professionals and patients. He has broadcast on television
and local and national radio. He is a member of the Independent Review Panel for
the Liverpool Care Pathway.




ALISON BOREHAM



Alison Boreham is an expert by experience working in the broader field of mental
health service provision.

Her main interest is in secure services and mental health within the criminal
justice arena.

She is currently volunteering as a peer support worker within Bristol and
Taunton courts supporting people with mental illness through the court process.

Alison also works extensively with her local clinical commissioning group as an
expert by experience and has also worked with NHS England at a national and
local level by providing a lived experience perspective to meetings and
consultations.




JULIET BOUVERIE



Juliet has been chief executive of the Stroke Association since June 2016. Prior
to joining the charity, Juliet worked at Macmillan Cancer Support for 16 years
in roles including head of planning and policy, director of corporate
development and executive director of services and influencing. In this last
role she led a staff team of over 800 people, managed a budget of £150m and
oversaw a programme of award-winning innovations and service design across the
UK. She also secured important government commitments to improve patient
experience and post-treatment support through the 2015 Cancer Strategy for
England.

Prior to Macmillan, Juliet worked at the British Red Cross in strategy and
service evaluation, the Community Development Foundation in fundraising and a
political consultancy. She was a trustee of the Long-Term Conditions Alliance
and chaired the Cancer Patient Experience Board for University College London
Hospital (UCLH) from 2011 to 2014.

Juliet has a degree in modern languages from Oxford and a postgraduate diploma
in management.




CAROLINE BOVEY



Caroline Bovey BEM RD, Chair of BDA

Caroline is an HCPC registered Dietitian, who has been practicing for 16 years,
with practice experience in acute hospital settings, community rehabilitation,
and more latterly Public Health.
Caroline was appointed to the role of Chair of the British Dietetic Association
in 2018. Throughout this time Caroline has been instrumental in leading a
Governance review and implementation phase for the Association. As a strong
advocate for the benefits of Professional Association membership Caroline
advocates for the diversity and breadth of practice for dietitians and
challenges the Board regularly to work creatively within a strong governance
framework to advance the Association and the profession.

Caroline qualified as a Dietitian in Cardiff, Wales in 2004 and has Master’s
Degree in Post Compulsory Education. She is currently a Professional Doctorate
Candidate at Cardiff University. Her research interests are in professional
identity and professionalisation with a focus on developing individual and
collective leadership for the profession. In 2016 Caroline was awarded a BEM for
Services to Equality in NHS Wales.




JOYCE BOWLER



Joyce Bowler is a Registered Nurse by background, and has been Programme Lead
for personal health budgets for the three Clinical Commissioning groups of
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland since June 2014.

Joyce first became interested in PHBs back in 2013 when she was Head of Quality
Contracting for the CCGs and had Continuing Healthcare in her portfolio.

She is a passionate advocate for personalisation and believes that people should
not only be given the choice of care and services, but they should be able to
access novel ideas to create packages that are outside of what is traditionally
commissioned by the NHS that best meet their needs.




REBECCA AND COLIN BOWMAN



Bekki Bowman is a 30-year-old mum of two young children. Until recently she has
been a stay at home mum, but has just begun a degree in adult nursing. Her
experience of a mental health illness has spurred her to get involved with the
development of perinatal services, and NHS development in general.

Bekki is excited to see where her degree will take her, and is looking forward
to seeing her children grow and achieve new things.

Colin Bowman, 38, works across Lancashire for a charity called Ncompass. In his
role he raises awareness of their Carer’s hub project which provides support for
unpaid carers.

Colin is passionate about a number of things, support for partners, mental
health awareness, aeroplanes and Derby County Football Club.




PAUL BOX



Paul Box is a volunteer with Black Health Agency Skyline.




ADRIAN BRADLEY



Adrian Bradley is Head of Health and Wellbeing at the EFL Trust – the national
charity that represents, advises and supports 72 charities linked to
professional football clubs across England and Wales.

Adrian is responsible for a wide ranging public health offer including an
expanding portfolio of person-centred support services in non-clinical settings
designed to encourage healthy choices and self-management of conditions. These
include health education in primary schools, adult testing and screening
programmes, cancer recovery services, dementia support groups, drug and alcohol
recovery services, adult mental health support groups, services tackling chronic
loneliness in older people, the FIT FANS adult weight management programme, and
Extra Time Hubs – a shared interest community of people in their retirement who
meet on a weekly basis to socialise and to do the things they enjoy.

He has over 25 years’ experience in local government and the charity sector.
Prior to joining EFL Trust in 2016 he held senior roles as Director of Strategy
for the Child Migrants Trust and at Alzheimer’s Society where he was National
Lead for Young Onset Dementia.




DR MICHAEL BRADY



Dr Brady was appointed as the National Advisor for LGBT Health at NHS England in
April 2019. In this new role Dr Brady works across NHS England and NHS
Improvement, with the Government Equalities Office and a wide range of
stakeholders, partner organisations and the LGBT community to address health
inequalities for LGBT individuals and improve experience in the NHS. Michael is
also an HIV and Sexual Health consultant at Kings College Hospital in London and
the Medical Director of the Terrence Higgins Trust.




DAVID BRAMLEY



David is Deputy Head of NHS England’s Long-Term Conditions Unit. 

He started his public sector career working for the Ministry of Defence before
moving into Health around 10 years ago. David has worked in a range of roles
supporting organisational change and collaboration including diversity policy in
the Armed Forces through to overseeing the smooth closure of Arm’s Length Bodies
for the Department of Health. In NHS England, David’s main focus is clinical
strategy and policy on frailty and multimorbidity.




MAGDA BRANKER



Magda Branker is GP Partner and GP Trainer at Amersham Vale Training Practice.




PAUL BRECKELL



Paul Breckell is the Chief Executive of Action on Hearing Loss.

He has been in this position since August 2012 and has worked for the charity
since July 2007. Action on Hearing Loss is the new name for RNID; the charity
working for a world where hearing loss doesn’t limit or label people, where
tinnitus is silenced and where people value and look after their hearing.

Prior to this, Paul was the Finance and Corporate Services Director of the
Church Mission Society for seven years and the Head of Finance at the HIV/AIDS
healthcare charity Mildmay for three years. He is a chartered public finance
accountant (CIPFA), having trained whilst working with the Audit Commission.
Paul is a past Chair of the CIPFA Voluntary Sector Panel and a past member of
CIPFA Council.

Paul is a Trustee of the Roffey Park Institute, a Commissioner on the ILC
Commission on Hearing Loss and the Chair of the NHS England Working Group on the
Early Diagnosis of Hearing Loss. Paul a former Chair of the Disability Charities
Consortium and the Charity Finance Group. He writes and speaks on a number of
topics in relation to hearing loss and disability as well as on leadership,
organisational development, governance and finance in the ‘beyond profit’
sector.

He was named one of Cityweath Magazine’s top 10 charity Chief Executives of
2016.




EMMA BROOKES



Emma Brookes – Head of Soft FM Strategy & Operations

Emma has been with the Estates and Facilities team at NHS England since the end
of July 2017. Emma is responsible for policy and strategy development for soft
facilities services across the NHS in England, with a portfolio which includes
cleaning, catering, portering, security and linen and laundry.

Emma holds a master’s degree in Healthcare Leadership and has a career which
spans 28 years in the world of Facilities management 19 of which have been in
the NHS as both a provider and a direct employee and has led projects including
National Standards for Healthcare Cleanliness, Provision of non-sterile PPE
during the height of the Covid pandemic, EU exit preparations, NHS Chef
competition and the National Standards for Healthcare Food.




SIAN BROOKES



Sian Brookes is a Project Manager in the Integrated Care team at Age UK.

She is currently working on the Integrated Care Pilot sites in Sheffield,
Redbridge, Barking and Havering and Kent and is also working on developing new
models of care.

She also provides project management support in the Programme’s Communications
Strategy and most recently established a series of pilot programmes focused on
Wellbeing Co-ordinators.




DR ABBIE BROOKS



Dr Abbie Brooks is a GP at the Priory Medical Group in York.Dr Abbie Brooks is a
GP partner at Priory Medical Group in York – a large, nine-site practice with a
practice population of over 55,000 patients.

Abbie trained locally at Hull York Medical School and went on to complete her
postgraduate foundation jobs and GP training in Yorkshire. She enjoys the
variety that general practice brings but has a passion for communications and
making healthcare accessible to all in a variety of ways.

You will often find Abbie running her practice social media accounts and
publishing videos or blogs on specific health problems and wider issues.




DR ANDY BROOKS



Andy is a practising primary care doctor and Clinical Chief Officer for the
Frimley Clinical Commissioning Group. He is currently on secondment to NHS
England and NHS Improvement as a National System Policy Advisor.




POPPY BROOKS



Poppy is the Lead Nurse for Cardiac Support Services at Royal Devon University
Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Northern services). Poppy practices as a Heart
Failure Specialist Nurse in an integrated heart failure service, covering both
in-patient and community care.

Poppy has worked in cardiology for 20 years, initially on the coronary care unit
at Southampton General Hospital, before moving to North Devon to specialise in
heart failure in 2015. Poppy has completed specialist post registration
education at Masters level and is a non-medical prescriber.

Poppy is Chair of the British Society for Heart Failure (BSH) Nurse Forum and
also volunteers on the BSH policy and media committee. Poppy has written
articles and editorials both independently and on behalf of the BSH. She
previously represented the BSH on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of
Cardiac Nursing.

Poppy is passionate about highlighting the essential role of the heart failure
nurse specialist (HFSN), particularly the urgent need to grow the specialist
workforce in heart failure and meet the needs of this complex group of patients.




EMMA BROTHWOOD



Emma Brothwood is part of NHS England communications team, working as a Digital
Audio Visual Technician, producing video and graphics for the organisation.

Her experiences of bereavement have opened a path into working with charities to
help raise awareness and support to families who have lost a child.




OLIVER



Naval Officer Oliver was 29 when he was diagnosed as living with HIV. Since his
diagnosis, Oliver has been campaigning to lift the blanket ban on people with
HIV being able to serve for their country.




MATT BROWN



Matt Brown is passionate about working to improve services and outcomes for
patients, having spent 15 years working in the NHS around the country,
particularly in Cumbria and the North East.

During that time, Matt has worked for a number of commissioner and provider
organisations, across a range of strategic and operational roles, latterly as
Head of Primary Care and Head of Strategic Planning for NHS England.




COLETTE BROWN



Colette Brown is the Social Prescribing Coordinator for Southmead Development
Trust in Bristol and for SPEAR (Social Prescribing for Equality and Resilience).

SPEAR is a partnership of community anchor organisations in Bristol working
together to address the health inequalities in low-income areas of the city.
Together they use an assets-based approach to health and wellbeing, using social
prescribing link workers based in GP practices.

Each SPEAR partner (Knowle West Healthy Living Centre, Southmead Development
Trust, Wellspring Healthy Living Centre and The Care Forum) is embedded in and
trusted by their local community.

Email: colettebrown@southmead.org
Web: www.spearbristol.org




STUART BROWN



Stuart Brown currently works as an antimicrobial pharmacist at County Durham and
Darlington NHS Foundation Trust and has spent the last 10 years working within
Secondary care.

He is a keen advocate of antimicrobial stewardship, presenting on this at both
local and national conferences.

Stuart works closely with his colleagues in primary care and is the current
chair of the Antimicrobial Pharmacist Group in the North East of England. He is
currently seconded to NHS England as a national project lead for AMR and HCAI’s.




SUE BROWN



Sue is the CEO of the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance (ARMA), a role
which she took up in February 2017.

ARMA is an umbrella body representing the breadth of musculoskeletal (MSK)
conditions and professions. Its vision is that the MSK health of the population
is promoted throughout life and that everyone with MSK conditions receives
appropriate, high quality interventions to promote their health and well-being
in a timely manner.

Sue has over 20 years’ experience of policy work in health and social care.
Before joining ARMA, she was Head of Public Policy at deafblind charity Sense
and Vice-Chair of the Care and Support Alliance and previously worked for Mind.
Sue is also a trustee of VoiceAbility.




JENNY BRUMBY



Jenny Brumby is a married mother of two boys and has a holiday home business in
Millom.

She is one of the Editors of Around The Combe Magazine and a steering group
member of Millom Health Action Group. The group works on behalf of the community
with the NHS to make decisions about health services.




BEVERLEY BRYANT



Beverley Bryant was previously Director of Digital Technology, since the
publication of these blogs she has left NHS England.




LAURA BUCKLEY



Laura Buckley is a Primary Care Network Pharmacist in Hull, having taken up the
post in December 2019. Laura is the regional ambassador for the Primary Care
Pharmacy Association (PCPA) in the North East and Yorkshire. She is currently
studying on the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway course, led by the
Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education.

Prior to taking up her current role, Laura was a community pharmacy manager.
Since March 2019, Laura has also been freelance writing for a variety of
platforms about topics within pharmacy. She also runs her own blog with the hope
to provide insight into the pharmacy profession for the general public.




KATE BUFFERY



Kate Buffery is Senior Programme Manager (NHS England) for personal wheelchair
budgets.

Kate originally qualified as a Registered Nurse and has 20 years’ experience
working in the NHS.

Kate spent the majority of her nursing career working in the community as a
District Nurse, before moving into Commissioning. Kate has commissioning
experience within Continuing Healthcare, urgent care and health and social care,
and before coming into the team Kate held a varied portfolio of community
services which included commissioning wheelchair services.




ALISTAIR BURNS, CBE FRCP, FRCPSYCH, MD, MPHIL



Alistair Burns is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at The University of
Manchester and an Honorary Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist in the Greater
Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. He is the National Clinical
Director for Dementia and Older People’s Mental Health at NHS England and NHS
Improvement.

He graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1980, training in psychiatry
at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry in London. He became the
Foundation Chair of Old Age Psychiatry in The University of Manchester in 1992,
where he has variously been Head of the Division of Psychiatry and a Vice Dean
in the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, with responsibility for liaison
within the NHS. He set up the Memory Clinic in Manchester and helped establish
the old age liaison psychiatry service at Wythenshawe Hospital. He is a Past
President of the International Psychogeriatric Association.

He was Editor of the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry for twenty
years, (retiring in 2017) and is on the Editorial Boards of the British Journal
of Psychiatry and International Psychogeriatrics. His research and clinical
interests are in mental health problems of older people, particularly dementia
and Alzheimer’s disease. He has published over 300 papers and 25 books.

He was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2016,
received the lifetime achievement award from their old age Faculty in 2015 and
was awarded the CBE in 2016 for contributions to health and social care, in
particular dementia.




CHRISTINE BURROWS



Christine is from Wigan, Greater Manchester and is passionate to give back and
make things better for carers. She has been Mark’s carer for five years. She is
now also working as part of NHS England’s Personalisation and Choice Lived
Experience Team, where she is part of the National Personal Health Budget Peer
Network and the Integrated Personalised Commissioning Strategic Co-production
Group.




MARY BUSK



Mary Busk is one of two new Family Carer Advisers in the Improving Health and
Quality Team, part of the Learning Disability Programme. They are both working
on the new #AskListenDo project about concerns and complaints.

Mary is also involved with the children and young people part of the
Transforming Care programme. Mary previously co-founded the National Network of
Parent Carer Forums and was the Steering Group member for London.




JENNIFER BUTE



Jennifer Bute is a former GP.




OLIVIA BUTTERWORTH



Olivia Butterworth is Head of Public Participation for NHS England and NHS
Improvement.

She ensures the NHS works with citizens and communities to have a voice that
influences the development, design and delivery of our health and care services.
Olivia is the national lead for the People and Communities workstream of the
Primary Care Networks programme and was named in the HSJs Top 50 Innovators and
the Top 50 Integrators in 2014. In 2018 she was named as one of the Top 70 NHS
Stars.

She has a background in Community Development and education with a passion for
empowering people to be their own change.

Olivia has worked with a wide and diverse range of voluntary sector
organisations, both in paid and voluntary roles, providing support with
organisational development, developing services, engagement, involvement and
fundraising. Olivia is very proud to be a Trustee of Manchester based LGBT
Foundation and a Non-Executive Director of Local Care Direct.

You can follow her on Twitter @LiviBF




JENI CAGUIOA



Jeni Caguioa qualified in 1994 as a nurse in the Philippines, and worked in a
government hospital for 5 years. She was among the first Filipino nurses who
came to work in the UK in 1999.

She started in Haematology at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital (now Heart of
England) and have worked in the NHS for the last 21 years.

Jeni pursued her passion on health care and leader ship as an MSc in 2016 . As
BAME Network Engagement Lead, she believes in equality and the strength of
diversity so that teams can deliver the best care for our patients.

In 2018, she initiated Project KINs (King’s International Nurses) How are we
doing? which focuses on supporting the care and well-being of newly arrived
overseas nurses. This led her to a secondment post with NHS England and NHS
Improvement as the first Filipino Chief Nursing Officer’s BAME Nurse Advisor for
COVID19 in 2020. Her workstream relates to work on addressing the
disproportionate impact that the pandemic has had on our ethnic minority
workforce and improving their pastoral care and support.

Currently, her substantive post at NHS England & Improvement as Nurse Advisor
supports programmes of work related to the outcomes and experiences of
internationally recruited and ethnic minority nursing and midwifery staff and
the formation of a network for international nursing associations across the UK.




DR CATHERINE CALDERWOOD



Dr Catherine Calderwood is National Clinical Director for maternity and women’s
health in NHS England. She is also a medical adviser for Scottish Government and
an obstetrician and gynaecologist working in Edinburgh.

Catherine has a special interest in high risk pregnancy, particularly in those
women with complex medical problems and continue to have an obstetric medicine
antenatal clinic. She carries out a number of teaching and training roles in
both obstetrics and gynaecology and in general medicine. Research interests
include thromboembolic disease in pregnancy and she is an investigator on the
AFFIRM study which will study the effect of the introduction of a standardized
education and management plan for the care of women presenting with decreased
fetal movements in hospitals throughout the UK and Ireland.

Catherine is chair of the UK maternal, newborn and infant Clinical Outcome
Review Programme – the new process for confidential enquiries into maternal,
newborn and infant deaths and severe morbidity run by MBRRACE-UK.




IAN CALLAGHAN



Ian Callaghan is the Recovery and Secure Care Manager at the national mental
health charity Rethink Mental Illness, where he delivers a national network of
involvement groups for people in secure mental health services called Recovery
and Outcomes.

Ian is also a Patient and Public Voice partner with the NHS England Adult Secure
Clinical Reference Group. Ian was the Rethink Mental Illness Member of the Year
in 2012 and in February 2015 was awarded the Deputy Prime Minister’s Mental
Health Hero Award in recognition of his role with Recovery and Outcomes.

Ian was also recognised as one of the top 50 Patient Leaders by the Health
Services Journal in July 2015.




NEIL CALLAND



Neil Calland is a Senior Programme Lead in the Operations and Information
Directorate within NHS England.

He is leading the development of an STP-led investment programme focused on the
digitisation of secondary care providers, and the business adoption and
transformation workstream of the Digital Child Health programme.

Previously for NHS England, Neil has managed the Nursing Technology Fund and led
the Local Digital Roadmaps agenda.

He has worked extensively across public services, including health, social care,
youth justice, welfare to work, parenting support and education.




SHELLEY CANN



Shelley, is 50, lives in Brighton and has a 14 year old daughter, Faye. She has
always been very active with a healthy lifestyle and a very positive outlook but
suddenly, in 2014, she was diagnosed with stage IIb high grade serious ovarian
cancer.




FIONA CARRAGHER



Fiona Carragher is the Deputy Chief Scientific Officer for England, supporting
the head of profession for the 50,000 healthcare science workforce in the NHS
and associated bodies – embracing more than 50 separate scientific specialisms.
A Consultant Clinical Biochemist by background, Fiona has a broad portfolio of
policy responsibilities, providing professional leadership and expert clinical
advice across the health and care system as well as working with senior clinical
leaders within both the NHS England and the wider NHS.

Fiona has a strong background in both public health and treatment & care, having
led and worked in multi-professional teams for two decades at Guy’s & St Thomas’
Hospital, the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh and Kings College
Hospital, London – with a focus on providing high quality, innovative laboratory
services. More recently she led a number of specialised laboratories for the
diagnosis and monitoring of inherited metabolic disease and was Director of
Newborn Screening for the South East Thames Region.

She has led a number of broader healthcare science projects including technology
adoption and leadership development, and created a proactive scientific and
diagnostics network across London that supports quality improvement and
effective commissioning.




JULIE CARRICK



Julie was successful in becoming the Director of Nursing for GPS Healthcare in
2015, when six individual general practices across Solihull merged to become
one. She started her journey in primary care back in 2007, when she was employed
to provide care for patients who had diabetes.

Julie attended Birmingham City University to complete the Return to Nursing
course, as she had been a midwife for 20 years previously, and could not become
a practice nurse without obtaining a nursing qualification. Since qualifying as
a nurse, Julie has not looked back and had enjoyed every moment of her journey
so far.




DOMINIC CARTER



Dominic Carter is a Policy Officer with the United Kingdom Homecare Association.

He joined the sector three years ago through the Skills for Care Graduate
Management Training Scheme and previously studied at Leeds University.




JANET CARTER



Dr Carter is a Senior Clinical lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry at UCL Division of
Psychiatry.

She works for as a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry for NELFT in Havering where
she runs a community mental health team and a Cognitive Disorders clinic with a
fast track service for under 65s. She is member of the Steering group for the
Young Dementia network.




ANDREW CARTER



Andrew Carter is the Stockton-on-Tees Integrated Personal Commissioning
Communications Workstream Lead.

He is an experienced public sector governance and communications officer who has
worked in local government, central government and the NHS.

Andrew has worked in the NHS for five years in varying roles including for acute
providers, primary care trusts and currently for Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees
Clinical Commissioning Group.




EMILY CARTER



Emily Carter has worked in the field of public engagement and patient experience
for 12 years in a range of settings – voluntary sector, Primary Care Trust,
Strategic Health Authority and a community healthcare NHS Trust provider.

Emily has worked as Regional Head of Patient and Public Voice at NHS England
since April 2013- working with the Area Teams and Clinical Commissioning Groups
across the South of England.

Follow Emily on Twitter: @NHSEmily.




RACHEL CASHMAN



Rachel Cashman, Head of Collaboration for Excellence, NHS England

Rachel leads on creating the conditions and incentives for the behavioural
changes needed to foster a culture of collaboration and excellence within NHS
England, across the wider NHS and between healthcare stakeholders, demonstrating
new ways of working to deliver health outcomes, quality care and economic
growth.

She utilises evidence and research of network leadership to spread new ideas,
build and orchestrate communities that foster learning and knowledge exchange,
and achieve effective cooperative action and peer support. Rachel coordinates
across NHS England and its industry, third sector and social care partners the
Integrated Care for the 3million lives programme enabling new investment and
operating models for the self-management of long term conditions and clinical
collaboration underpinned by new technologies.

Prior to joining NHS England, Rachel was the Head of the Innovation Health and
Wealth (IHW) programme in the Department of Health have worked as part of the
NHS Chief Executive’s Review of Innovation and co-authored IHW. This was a role
on secondment from worldwide pharmaceutical company Pfizer where Rachel lead on
policy and public affairs in the areas of UK R&D and Science Policy, Oncology,
inward investment and Life Sciences sector engagement with UK Department of
Business and Department of Health, product and strategic value proposition and
QIPP, NHS partnerships and advising the business on the strategic operating
environment in the UK.




DR DIANA CASSELL



Dr Diana Cassell is Clinical Director at the South London Partnership, CAMHS
programme having worked as a child psychiatrist since 1987.

She became a consultant in 1987 in a community tier 3 team and currently her
clinical sessions are in CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Disorders. She has held
additional management roles with South West London and St George’s since 2007,
and is Clinical Director for CAMHS at the trust.

Throughout her career Diana has championed and raised the needs of young people,
and has developed effective local services; recently including providing mental
health input to the development of Child Sexual abuse services, and roles for
the NHS England CAMHS Tier 4 Clinical Reference Group.




RICHARD CATTELL



Richard Cattell has been a pharmacist for 28 years with a career mainly in acute
hospitals in the South West, Cardiff and the West Midlands.

He most recent roles have included Chief Operating Officer and Chief Pharmacist.

His current role is the Deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for NHS England and
NHS Improvement. In this he focuses on supporting trusts with their care
quality, driving the improvement in 7-day pharmacy services, developing aspiring
chief pharmacists and providing the senior medicines leadership to the Medicines
Safety Programme.

He is passionate about supporting patients and the healthcare team in getting
the best from medicines, reducing harm and improving care.




PROFESSOR MARK CAULFIELD



Professor Mark Caulfield is the Chief Scientist at Genomics England. After
graduating in Medicine in 1984, he trained in Clinical Pharmacology at St
Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts) where he developed a research programme in
molecular genetics of hypertension and clinical research.

In 2000 Mark successfully bid for £3.1m to create the Barts and The London
Genome Centre at the Queen Mary University of London and subsequently became
Director of the William Harvey Research Institute.

Since 2008 he has directed the Barts National Institute of Health Research
(NIHR) Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit/Centre. He is a Fellow of The
Royal College of Physicians, has been elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences
and became a Senior Investigator for the NIHR in 2013.




KATY CHACHOU



Katy Chachou works part time for Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health
Foundation Trust as a Recovery Peer Support worker. She also works voluntarily
at the Barberry Mother and Baby Unit in Birmingham. As someone who’s had
experience of their services, she provides manicures and peer support for mums
there, and gives talks to medical audiences so people can learn from her story.




DR NAV CHANA



Dr Nav Chana, National PCH Clinical Director, National Association of Primary
Care (NAPC).

Dr Nav Chana has served as NAPC Chair for four years and has been integral to
the development and roll out of more than 200 primary care home (PCH) sites
across England. He has been a GP at the Cricket Green Medical Practice in South
West London for over 26 years.

Previously Nav was Clinical Adviser for Workforce Redesign for the new care
models programme, Director of Education Quality for Health Education South
London and Postgraduate Dean for General Practice and Community-Based Education.

Nav featured in Pulse’s Power 50 list of the most influential GPs in 2018.




SIMON CHAPMAN



Simon Chapman joined NHS England as a Deputy-Director in the Personalised Care
Group in April 2018. He has over 15 years’ experience in the voluntary sector
campaigning for people to have better choice and control over their care,
particularly in relation to the end of life. He was most recently Director of
Policy and External Affairs at the National Council for Palliative Care, where
he also led the Dying Matters coalition. He has also served as a trustee of the
National Voices charity which advocates for person-centred care.




DR LINDA CHARLES-OZUZU



Linda Charles-Ozuzu is NHS England’s Director of Commissioning in the North
West.

She was previously NHS England’s Director of the Elective Care Transformation
Programme, and Assistant Director/Associate Medical Director in NHS England
Midlands and East.

Her other senior healthcare management roles include extending the Department of
Health’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme to people
with long term conditions, severe mental illness and medically unexplained
symptoms.

Linda is a member of the Royal Society for Public Health; a recipient of the NHS
Leadership Academy Award in Executive Healthcare Leadership and an alumnus of
the Global Health Leadership Forum.




REBECCA CHARLWOOD



Councillor Rebecca Charlwood is the Chair of the Leeds Health and Wellbeing
Board and has been the Executive Member for Health, Wellbeing and Adults for
Leeds City Council since May 2016.

Councillor Charlwood moved to Leeds at the age of 20 for university and has
called the city home ever since. After university, she was determined to pursue
a career that could genuinely make a difference to the lives of others. So, she
became a mental health support worker, with a focus on peer support. Her four
years in that environment had a profound effect. She then went on to work for a
national charity for a further four years as a quality officer. This role
reinforced just how important it is that people receive the right support at the
right time, in order to help them work towards recovery.

Councillor Charlwood then began a Masters degree in public policy and
management. This led to her decision to get involved in politics, with a
commitment to making sure the right people were making the right decisions about
how best to support those who need it most.

Following completion of her Masters, Councillor Charlwood continued to work
within the third sector, as a UK compliance advisor for a care provider. She was
then elected to represent Moortown and Meanwood ward as a local councillor.




KATE CHARTRES



Kate Chartres is a registered Mental Health Nurse with around 18 years
post-qualification experience.

As the Nurse Consultant at Sunderland Psychiatric Liaison Team, she has provided
clinical practice and professional leadership for the nursing team, research,
training and development. The service has been accredited by the RCP with
excellence (PLAN).

Previously, she worked for nine years within crisis services, Primary Care, EIP
and Clinical Management of the Psychiatric Liaison Teams within NTW.




CHRIS CHILD



Chris Child is Communications Manager for NHS England’s Primary Care Digital
Transformation team.

He was a journalist and health correspondent with a major regional newspaper
before working for over 10 years as a Communications Director for the Government
in the North East.

He latterly led on communications for a national heart charity.




PROFESSOR FRANK CHINEGWUNDOH MBE



Professor Frank Chinegwundoh MBE MBBS MS MML (Med Law) FRCS (Eng) FRCS(Ed) FRCS
(Urol) FEBU, is a Consultant Urological Surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust, the
Honorary Visiting Professor at City University of London, School of Health
Sciences, Chairman of Cancer Black Care, Trustee of TACKLE (National Federation
of Prostate Cancer Support Groups) and an advisor to Prostate Cancer UK. Frank
was awarded a MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list 2013, for services to the
NHS. The opinions in this blog are Frank’s own.




TERESA CHINN MBE



Teresa Chinn is a Registered Nurse, and Professional Social Media Community
Development and blogger for WeNurses.

Teresa was an agency nurse who found herself professionally isolated and reached
out to social media to connect with other nurses.

Teresa runs WeNurses which is primarily a Twitter-based real time weekly
discussion that enables nurses to share ideas, information, experience and
expertise around a predetermined subject.

WeNurses has grown and developed significantly and now has a following of nearly
75,000 and uses a range of social media to engage them including Twitter,
Facebook, Pinterest, Vimeo, Blogs and Prezi.

In addition to running WeNurses Teresa has become a social media specialist and
now works with healthcare organisations delivering workshops, seminars, speaking
at conferences and providing social media consultancy.

In 2005 Teresa received an MBE for services to nursing .

Teresa tweets as @AgencyNurse and @WeNurses.




PROFESSOR PRATHIBA CHITSABESAN



Professor Prathiba Chitsabesan is National Clinical Director for Children and
Young People’s Mental Health, NHS England.

Prathiba is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry working in a large
mental health and community trust (Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust). Lead
consultant since 2005, she became Clinical Director in 2015 and continues to
work clinically within a community child and adolescent mental health service in
South Manchester. She graduated from Medicine (University of Manchester) before
completing her MD, inspiring her interest in the needs of children and young
people in contact with the criminal justice system.

Over the last 12 years she has published in journals and books and contributed
to national reports and guidance for the Youth Justice Board and Office of the
Children’s Commissioner.

She has contributed to the development of the Comprehensive Health Assessment
Tool across the youth justice secure estate for the Department of Health and NHS
England and continues to be research active as an Honorary Research Fellow and
Lecturer for the Offender Health Research Network (University of Manchester).

As a clinical advisor (Greater Manchester and East Cheshire Strategic Clinical
Networks), she has also promoted the development of regional clinical guidance
across Greater Manchester.




DR SHERA CHOK



Dr Shera Chok is a GP in Tower Hamlets Together vanguard and Director of Primary
Care, Barts Health NHS Trust.

Shera is a GP in Tower Hamlets, a member of the Tower Hamlets multispecialty
community provider vanguard and Director of Primary Care at Barts Health. Her
role involves bringing a primary care voice and perspective to the largest acute
trust in England, shaping their clinical strategy, listening to our GP partners,
improving patient safety, delivering new models of care and building
relationships with primary care and CCGs. Shera is also a member of the national
Independent Reconfiguration Panel which advises ministers on NHS
reconfiguration, and a Clinical Associate with NHS England’s new care models
team.

Shera’s MBA and MA in Inter-Professional Education focused on patient experience
and clinical leadership. She won a Nuffield Trust Fellowship on
cross-organisational learning and studied at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard
School of Public Health and the Institute of Health Improvement (IHI) in Boston
as part of the prestigious NHS Executive Fast Track Programme. She has worked in
Sudan, Indonesia, Laos and Greece as a clinician with leading NGOs.




CHRIS SMITH



Chris Smith is Clinical Director of Ambulance, Urgent Care and Community
Services part of the My Life a Full Life vanguard (Isle of Wight) vanguard.

Chris started his career with West Midlands Metropolitan Ambulance (WMAS)
service in March 1979 as a patient transport driver. He moved to the emergency
service as a qualified Ambulance Man in August 1981 and became a paramedic in
July 1987.

In 1992 he became a supervisor and was then promoted to Area Superintendent in
September 1994. He then held a number of senior manager positions and became
Deputy Director of Operations in 1997. In 1998 he then became Director of
Operations/Head of Training.

He left WMAS in July 2000 and after a brief spell with Warwickshire Ambulance
Service he came to the Isle of Wight on 22nd January 2001 as a Clinical Team
Leader. In March 2002 he was seconded to Hampshire Ambulance Service as a
Director of Operations returning to the IOWAS in July 2003.

Chris became Head of Ambulance in December 2009 and during this time has lead
the team on the development of the integrated care hub. He took over ED MAAU and
Bed Management in September 2014 and in November 2015 became Clinical Director
of Ambulance, Urgent Care & Community along with Clinical Director of Integrated
access and Integrated Localities.

Chris currently also chairs the National Ambulance Control group and holds a
seat on the National Director of Operations Group and the National Emergency
Care Standards Group.




DR KAREN CHUMBLEY



Dr Karen Chumbley has been a GP in North East Essex for 17 years and the
Clinical Director at St Helena Hospice for the last 4 years.

In 2018 she was appointed the Senior Responsible Officer for End of Life Care in
North East Essex and is chair of the North East Essex Alliance End of Life
Board.

Karen led Castle Gardens Practice in Colchester to be one of the first cohort of
practices accredited with the Gold Standard Framework Going for Gold award. She
was the Clinical Lead for End of Life care for North East Essex from 2013-2015
and as such led the CCG Primary Care End of Life programme promoting the
identification of people approaching the end of life, advance care planning,
care coordination and symptom control.

In 2019 Karen was awarded FRCGP for her work in end of life care within Primary
Care.




DR NEIL CHURCHILL



Dr Neil Churchill is Director for Experience, Participation and Equalities at
NHS England.

His brief includes insight and feedback, patient participation in
decision-making, improvement programmes on cancer, learning disability and
support for carers and national partnerships with volunteers and the voluntary
sector.

Neil joined NHS England in 2013 after a 25 year career in the voluntary sector
at organisations including Barnardo’s, Age Concern, Crisis and Asthma UK. He has
been a Non-Executive Director for NHS South of England, an appointed member of
the National Information Governance Board and a trustee of a number of charities
across the UK.

Neil is a member of the Executive Board for the Beryl Institute, a change agent
from the School for Change Agents and a member of Q, the quality improvement
collaborative from the Health Foundation. He tweets as @neilgchurchill.




PROFESSOR DAVID M CLARK



Professor David M Clark, Clinical and Informatics Advisor: NHS Talking Therapies
for Anxiety and Depression, NHS England.

Professor David M Clark holds the Chair of Experimental Psychology at University
of Oxford and is the National Clinical and Informatics Advisor for the IAPT
programme. Along with Lord Richard Layard and other colleagues, he is one of the
original architects of the programme. He is well-known for his research on the
understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders, especially panic disorder,
social anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Recognition of his
work includes Lifetime Achievement Awards from the British Psychological Society
and the American Psychological Association.




NICKY CLARK



Nicky is a Senior Lecturer, Lead Midwife for Education and the Head of
department for Midwifery and Child Health at the University of Hull. Nicky
provides professional advice at strategic and operational levels and takes full
responsibility for the impact of midwifery practice, midwifery research and
midwifery education within the Faculty.

Nicky has significant experience in Higher education, having worked in HE since
1990. Nicky is a member of the NHS England’s taskforce for developing a New
Model of Supervision and is co-chair of the education workstream. Nicky chairs
the LME strategic reference group; is a member of the NMC Education stakeholder
forum to provide input and have oversight of the NMC’s education framework and
is a member of the CoDH Midwifery advisory group working on the vision for the
future midwife.

Nicky qualified as a registered general nurse in 1982 and her first midwife
teacher post was in 1990. Nicky has undertaken many national and international
external collaborations, working in the UK and across Europe and Asia providing
expert advice on programme approvals in midwifery, and also undertaking
institutional quality assurance reviews across the UK and Croatia.




FIONA CLARK



Fiona Clark has worked in and around the NHS from ward to Board for more than 30
years, first qualifying as a registered general nurse and midwife and currently
sitting on the Board of Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as
a non-executive director, a position she has held for 13 years.

She has worked extensively in the voluntary sector developing services and
managing projects in healthcare related charities locally, nationally and
internationally. Fiona is currently the NHS Programme Director leading the
development of Scaling up Shared Lives in Health programme funded by NHS
England.




OLIVIA CLARK-YOUNG



Olivia Clark-Young is from a seaside town in Essex. She was diagnosed with Type
1 diabetes aged seven.

By day, Olivia works in a post office and in her spare time is a keen baker and
regularly volunteers for Diabetes UK to help others living with Type 1 diabetes
– particularly children – learn about and better manage their condition.

Follow Olivia on twitter: @livvyinabox




EMILY CLARKE



Genetic Counsellor working with families for the charity Genetic Disorders UK.




JANET CLARKE



Janet Clarke qualified in the 1980s from Birmingham University and went on to
work in general practice, but primarily the community dental service in and
around Birmingham. She has significant involvement with the British Dental
Association, firstly as Chair of the Central Committee for Community and Public
Health Dentistry and then as BDA President in 2011. She was a member of the
Steele Review team in 2008 and led the production of the Commissioning Guide for
Special Care Dentistry that was published in 2015. She is currently Deputy Chief
Dental Officer for England, chairs the Local Professional Network for dentistry
in the West Midlands and was awarded an MBE for services to dentistry in 2010.




KATIE CLARKE-DAY



Katie Clarke-Day is an expert by experience as a patient living with numerous
long term conditions.

She has a background as a social worker and psychologist, but due to ill health,
now spends as much time as possible using her skills and experience to advocate
for an improved patient experience.

Katie works alongside NHS England on a number of projects and is also the lead
governor of an NHS foundation trust. On Thursday, she is taking part in a
patient panel session at the Insight and Feedback Conference in Leeds.




JULIE CLAYTON



Julie Clayton is the Head of Communications and Engagement at NHS North Cumbria
Clinical Commissioning Group and leads co-production across the North Cumbria
Health and Care Partnership.

She supports the local health and community forums and has worked to involve
people, patients, staff and the third sector in service change and developing
the future strategy for services in the area.




SIOBHAN CLIBBENS



Siobhan Clibbens has worked with NHS England for three years, starting in the
corporate PMO, supporting the Strategy Programme Board, moving to the-then
Policy Directorate in the Partnerships team.

Siobhan is Senior Information Manager for the Yorkshire and Humber specialised
commissioning hub, working with the CSU and specialised commissioning contract
and finance leads to ensure contractual relationships with providers are
underpinned by good quality data and information.

Siobhan is the inaugural co-chair of the LGBT+ Staff Network at NHS England,
alongside Oli Mansell, a post she has held since September 2015

Her previous jobs include Community Networks Coordinator at ARK Housing in
Edinburgh, a housing association supporting people with learning disabilities
and other support needs; Health Improvement Coordinator at NHS Education for
Scotland, and Project Support Officer in Adult Social Care at Essex County
Council.




TREVOR CLOWER



Trevor Clower is an unpaid carer living in Nottingham. He is very active
organising and running 16 Carers Road Shows each year offering free support for
all Carers. Trevor is an active campaigner for both carers and people with
learning disabilities.




BARRY COCKCROFT



Barry Cockcroft qualified from Birmingham Dental School in 1973 and worked for
27 years in NHS general dental practice.

He was elected to the General Dental Services Committee of the British Dental
Association in 1990, serving on many sub-committees and working groups before
being elected vice-chairman in 2000.

He was appointed Deputy Chief Dental Officer for England in November 2002 and
appointed as Chief Dental Officer in 2006.

In 2008 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Central
Lancashire for his contribution to the dental profession.

He was awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List of 2010.

A year later, Barry was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Faculty of
General Dental Practice.




MIRIAM COFFIE



Miriam began her career working for the NHS as a Midwife providing antenatal,
labour and postnatal care in both hospital and community settings. She
progressed to further specialist community qualification as a Registered Health
Visitor, providing support and advice on child and family health and child
development.

In her role as a Health Visitor she worked across Luton, Bedfordshire and
Hertfordshire for many years working with GPs, social workers, children’s
centres and a host of other professionals to promote the wellbeing of children
under the age of five years and their families. In 2011, Miriam took a role with
the local primary care trust to support commissioning of health services in
Bedfordshire, primarily working with GPs to ensure services provided were of
high quality and demonstrated value for money. Miriam was responsible for the
commissioning and reviewing of several healthcare services in Bedfordshire
including services from local GPs for people with long term conditions.

In 2017, Miriam moved into a quality assurance role with NHS England as the Head
of Quality for the Central Midlands area, leading on a variety of work streams
including maternity transformation, enhanced health in care homes and the GP
Nursing 10 Point Plan. Miriam is substantively the Head of Nursing for
Professional Standards for NHS England (Midlands) and is responsible for a large
portfolio including oversight of patient experience and patient engagement
activities, the Chief Nursing Officer’s priorities associated with workforce,
complaints for services commissioned by NHS England, leadership and support for
carers, equalities and health inequalities, and General Practice nursing across
the region.

In October 2021, Miriam commenced a secondment to Assistant Director of Nursing
and Quality for the locality team and retains several nursing corporate projects
such as nursing and midwifery equalities and leadership development.

Here you can read a recent article written by Miriam for Black History Month.




YVONNE COGHILL



Yvonne Coghill CBE, OBE, JP, MSc, DMS, RGN, RMN, HV, CPT, Dip Exec Coaching.

Yvonne commenced nurse training at Central Middlesex Hospital in 1977, qualified
as a general nurse in 1980 and then went on to qualify in mental health nursing
and health visiting. In 1986 she secured her first NHS management job and has
since held a number of operational and strategic leadership posts.

In 2004, she was appointed at the Department of Health as Private Secretary to
the Chief Executive of the NHS, Sir Nigel Crisp.

Yvonne is currently the Director – WRES Implementation in NHS England, and
deputy president of the RCN.




TINA COLDHAM



Tina campaigns for a better understanding of mental health issues in society,
and works to improve service provision. She describes herself as having enduring
mental health problems, having used mental health services over many years.

Tina has worked in the voluntary sector, across disability, in academia, with
regulators and governing bodies as a trainer, researcher and consultant. In 2001
Tina joined the Centre for Mental Health Services Development England (CMHSDE)
at King’s College as a project coordinator, working on the successful national
pilot to implement direct payments in mental health.

Since 2003, she has worked for the Health and Social Care Advisory Service
(HASCAS) on various national projects including direct payments work, service
reviews, independent investigations, and MARD – the review of user and carer
involvement in NIMHE (CSIP). Tina also chairs the SCIE co-production network.




DR KATIE COLEMAN



Dr Katie Coleman is a GP partner at The City Road Medical Centre. The practice
was established in 1999 in collaboration with Dr Josephine Sauvage, Chair of
Islington CCG and together they developed the organisation into a thriving
inner-city training practice.

She is the Islington CCG Governing board GP lead for Patient and Public
Participation and the Chief Clinical Information Officer, leading on the
development of integrated care records for Islington residents in collaboration
with other CCGs across North London Partners in health and social care.

She is the North London Partners clinical lead in Primary care and Care Closer
to Home, providing strategic direction on the development of Care Closer to Home
Integration networks and Quality improvement support teams (QISTs), Access to GP
services and social prescribing.

Katie has recently taken up a GP Director role for the Islington GP federation.




DR LINDA COLLIE



Dr Linda Collie is Clinical Executive at NHS Portsmouth CCG.




DR DONAL COLLINS



Dr Donal Collins qualified in Cork, Ireland in 1989 and worked for five years in
a busy district general hospital in Limerick.

He finished his GP training in Gosport, Hampshire, before taking on a full- time
job at The Highlands Practice in Fareham.

Dr Collins developed his special interest in Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)
conditions and finished his postgraduate diploma in ENT in 2007.

Following this Dr Collins was part of a group who set up Fareham Area Clinical
Enterprise (FACE) Ltd in Fareham and Gosport.

He is now chairman of FACE, which runs ENT, gynaecology and cardiology clinics
in the community, at GP surgeries in the area. He is also lead for the community
ENT service.

Dr Collins is Clinical Lead for the Multi-Specialty Community Provider in
Gosport and Chairman of Fareham and Gosport Primary Care Alliance.




PROFESSOR ALF COLLINS



Professor Alf Collins is NHS England’s Clinical Director, Personalised Care
Group.

He was a community consultant in pain management and in parallel worked for a
decade with the Health Foundation. He has researched and published widely on
self-management support, shared decision making, care planning, co-production,
patient activation and patient engagement.

He has honorary fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal
College of General Practitioners and is a Visiting Professor at Coventry
University.




DR KIREN COLLISON



Dr Kiren Collison is a GP and Interim Medical Director for Primary Care, NHS
England

She is also chair of the NHS long COVID taskforce.




DR VINCENT CONNOLLY



Dr Vincent Connolly is currently Medical Director for the Emergency Care
Improvement Programme and Consultant Physician at the James Cook University
Hospital.

He has an interest in Diabetes and Endocrinology and a medical doctorate on the
impact of social deprivation on diabetes mellitus.

He has been Clinical Lead for the Emergency Care Intensive Support Team since
2010, was a member of the National Clinical Advisory Team and, since 2011, has
been Clinical Advisor to the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
Ambulatory Emergency Care Delivery Network.

Dr Connolly was previously Chair of the North East SHA, Clinical Innovation Team
for Acute Care, and a recipient of the Hospital Doctor Acute Medicine Team of
the Year Award 2004.




ALISON COOK



Alison Cook is Director of External Affairs at the Asthma UK and British Lung
Foundation Partnership. Throughout her role at the Partnership, she helped
establish the Taskforce for Lung Heath, which is a coalition of patients,
clinicians, charities and health organisations that work closely together to
seek and support better ways of improving prevention, diagnosis and treatment of
all lung diseases.

Alison earned her PhD researching nervous system signals processing with a focus
on pain modulation. She then completed post-doctoral research in colour vision
at University College London.

In her early career she worked as a specialist journalist for the BBC as a
bi-media correspondent in regional and national news before becoming Programme
Editor. She then became Head of Media at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology
Authority and following that was asked to join the Department of Health as Head
of Policy Communications and Special Advisor to Ministers in both the Department
of Health and Number 10.

Alison became Director of External Affairs at the Royal College of Surgeons,
setting up their communications and policy teams and steering the College
through the Health and Social Care Act. She had previously headed the media and
public affairs team at Cancer Research UK. Her first role for a charity was as
Director of External Affairs for the Alzheimer’s Society.




LISA COOPER



Lisa Cooper is Chair of the NHS England Child Sexual Exploitation sub-group and
Assistant Director of Nursing, Quality & Safety for Cheshire, Warrington and
Wirral Area Team.




SIMON CORBEN



Simon Corben is Director and Head of Profession for NHS Estates and Facilities
at NHS England.
Simon joined the NHS in May 2017, after 16 years in the private sector, to lead
the estates and facilities function which includes both primary and secondary
care estate. Building on the Carter Implementation Programme and Naylor Review,
Simon leads on work including the Model Hospital, sustainability and ICS
Infrastructure Strategies, ProCure23, and delivery of the Health Infrastructure
Programmes announced by the Prime Minister in 2019. Simon also led the NHS
Estates response to the COVID-19 pandemic including the delivery of the
Nightingale hospitals with over 3,500 critical care beds in a matter of weeks.




DR JACQUELINE CORNISH



Dr Jacqueline Cornish was the National Clinical Director for Children, Young
People and Transition to Adulthood in NHS England from 2013 to 2019.

As a clinician she specialised in pioneering treatments for childhood cancer and
leukaemia, and brought to NHS England 20 years’ leadership experience in the
NHS, having been Head of Division of Women’s and Children’s Services at
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, and a former Director of
Paediatric Stem Cell Transplant (SCT) at the Bristol Royal Hospital for
Children.

The post of National Clinical Director for Children and Young People is now held
by Professor Simon Kenny, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s
NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool and National Clinical Lead for Paediatric
Surgery for the Getting It Right First Time programme.




PROFESSOR PAUL CORRIGAN, CBE



Professor Paul Corrigan gained his first degree in social policy from the LSE in
1969, his PhD at Durham in 1974. He is currently adjunct professor of public
health at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and of health policy at Imperial
College London.

For the first 12 years of his working life he taught at Warwick University and
the Polytechnic of North London. During this period he taught, researched and
wrote about inner city social policy and community development. In 1985 he left
academic life and became a senior manager in London local government and in 1997
he started to work as a public services management consultant. In 1998 he
published Shakespeare on Management.

From July 2001 he worked as a special adviser to Alan Milburn first and then
John Reid, the then Secretary of States for Health. At the end of 2005 he became
the senior health policy adviser to the Prime Minister Tony Blair. Over these
six years he was instrumental in developing all the major themes of NHS reform
not only in terms of policy levers buy also in developing capacity throughout
the NHS to use those levers.

Between June 2007 and March 2009 he was the director of strategy and
commissioning at the London Strategic Health Authority.

Since then Paul has been working as a management consultant and an executive
coach helping leaders within the NHS and internationally create and develop step
changes within their organisation. In September 2011 he published a pamphlet
“The hospital is dead Long live the Hospital” that was recognised by a leader in
the Times as an important contribution to reform. He continues to argue the case
for NHS reform. From July 2013 he has become a non-executive director of the
Care Quality Commission. In 2015 he is working with NHS England to help them
develop the new models of care.

Follow Paul on Twitter @Paul_Corrigan.




CAROLINE CORRIGAN



Caroline Corrigan has been the National Workforce Lead with the New Care Models
Team since November 2015.

Her role is to support and enable vanguards to design and develop a modern,
flexible workforce that addresses local population needs. In addition, Caroline
continues to work with Health Education England on all aspects of workforce
transformation.

Previously Caroline lead Health Education East of England which focuses on the
development of people for health and healthcare. Prior to joining HEE Caroline
spent six years at the Department of Health. Her roles there included People
Transition Director for the NHS, Talent Management Lead and lead for the
department’s business plan.

Caroline has worked for over 15 years for NHS Trusts as an HR Director and
national organisations, including the Modernisation Agency. She is a fellow of
the CIPD and has worked with the Complexity Group London School of Economics.

Follow Caroline on Twitter: @CarolineCorrig3.




PAUL COURT



Paul Court joined Healthworks as their Chief Executive in October 2019. Paul
supported the development and formation of Healthworks over 27 years ago and
since then has worked at a senior level across the NHS and Newcastle City
Council, shaping policy and practice to improve outcomes for disadvantaged
communities including children and young people. Previously, Paul has developed
and led Sure Start services, been a researcher influencing national policy, NHS
board member and a long serving Grant Committee member for BBC Children in Need.
Paul is a current volunteer Director for Swim England North East.




DR DAN COWIE



Dr Dan Cowie, Clinical Director Transformation, Newcastle Gateshead Clinical
Commissioning Group.

Dan graduated in 1999 from Newcastle University and qualified as GP in 2004.
Over the last 10 years he has worked as a GP in varies roles with a particular
focus on elderly care. Dan has also been a part time clinical author of clinical
knowledge summaries and writing guidelines for primary care.

He took up a GP partnership at Crowhall Medical Group in 2012 and also started
his work within Gateshead Clinical Commissioning (CCG) Group as the Community
Services and Urgent Care lead. Recently, Dan has been leading transformation
work within the CCG and has particular interest in service redesign.




DUNCAN CRAIG



Duncan Craig, Chief Executive Officer and Psychotherapist. FRSA. MBACP ACRED; MA
Couns (dist); Cert EMDR.

Duncan is the founder and Chief Executive of Survivors Manchester, a third
sector organisation offering therapeutic and advocacy support to boys and men
affected by sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation.

He began designing and developing Survivors Manchester’s services in 2009, when
he identified a gap in support provision for boys and men, and continues to
develop new services today, most recently across the male prison estate.

As a qualified and BACP Accredited trauma-informed psychotherapist, Duncan’s
personal and professional experience of sexual violation has presented him with
the opportunity to be involved in a number of national inquiries, projects and
forums, including The Stern Review; the National Rape Working Group; and the
Office of the Children’s Commissioner on the Child Sexual Exploitation in Groups
and Gangs.

Duncan has also consulted on a number of projects, including work with male sex
workers; and provided input into various media outlets including BBC Crimewatch,
Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff, C4 Hollyoaks (where he was storyline consultant on
the John Paul rape story) and more recently, the ground breaking male rape story
on Coronation Street.

He is the co-founder of the Male Survivors Partnership, a consortium of male
survivor organisations working together to create quality assured support; and
most recently has travelled to New York, Iceland, Portugal and New Zealand to
talk about the work he does and supporting others to break the silence.

In 2015, Duncan was awarded The Guardian Charity Trailblazer of the Year and
most recently, became a Fellow of the Royal Society Arts.




SIMON CRAMP



Simon Cramp lives in Chesterfield where he promotes the rights of disabled
people at every opportunity.

He has a learning difficulty himself, and works with people with learning
disabilities, helping them get the right support and information. He offers
expert advice on all issues to do with learning disability and has extensive
experience working as a consultant throughout the learning disability sector and
was an early member of the National Forum for People with Learning Disabilities.

Simon has a great interest in politics and political structures and has always
been keen to get involved to make things better. He is also a powerful advocate
on making writings accessible and he worked for several years as a member of the
advisory committee on older and disabled people for Ofcom. He has also worked at
a senior board level for two major learning disability organisations.

Simon has been an important advocate for personalisation and co-authored a key
paper on supported decision-making with Simon Duffy in 2004.




PETE CRANE



Pete is a 63 year old grandad who is now retired following many years working as
a bank cashier.

Pete is married to Wendy and together they have raised son and daughter Nick and
Sarah – both Nick and Sarah have good lives, friends, jobs and mortgages – but
Nick has been profoundly learning disabled since birth.

Pete has always regarded both his children as having equal civil rights – equal
needs for love and respect – and being equally important to him.

Pete would always ‘swap the labels’ in order to work out what a good life should
look like – for example “would I put my 6 year old daughter alone on a bus and
send her 20 miles away each day to school ? – no ! – so why would I do that to
my son Nick – therefore he should go to a local school like his sister would.”

As Nick’s parents for 35 years, Pete and Wendy have been involved in many ways
with the positive changes that have been taking place in civil society for
people with a learning disability – most notably Pete was the chair of the
national charity IPSEA for many years and in this role gave evidence to both the
House of Lords and the House of Commons on various disability related matters.

Following the events at Winterbourne View, Pete was involved as an ‘expert by
experience’ in the Care Quality Commission inspections of Assessment and
Treatment Centres for people with a learning disability and/or autism.

Recently Pete has been working as an ‘expert by experience’ involved in the NHS
CTR program – this is managed and enabled by NWTDT (North West Training and
Development Team) / Pathways, an organisation based in Accrington that has
various networks and work streams all designed to improve the lives of people
and families living with learning disability and/or autism. Pathways is working
hard to capture and share the knowledge that self-advocates, families and
professionals all have in order to enable civil society to welcome and include
people with learning disabilities and/or autism – and at the same time allow us
all to benefit from the gifts and talents that everyone has.




PROFESSOR MATTHEW CRIPPS



Professor Matthew Cripps is National Director of NHS RightCare, a part of NHS
England that focusses on population healthcare improvement and helping the wider
health service to identify and use techniques, tools and methodologies to
increase value in healthcare.

Its focus on increasing value at system level, for individuals and the
population, is seen as integral to the delivery of financial sustainability for
the NHS.




JILL CROOK



Jill Crook is the Transforming Care Lead for NHS England South region.

Jill has been a Director of Nursing for 15 years in a variety of strategic roles
including the Chief Nursing Officers directorate at the Department of Health,
Avon Gloucestershire & Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority, Gloucestershire &
Swindon Primary Care Trusts and the Bath, Gloucestershire, Swindon & Wiltshire
Area Team of NHS England. Jill’s clinical background is within both mental
health and general nursing with a large focus on community settings.

From February 2015 Jill has been working on a part time basis as the Project
Lead for Transforming Care Learning Disabilities and Autism supporting the Chief
Nurse within NHS England South Region.

Jill enjoys an effective work life balance and in her personal time enjoys
cooking, gardening and walking.




RICHARD CROSS



Richard Cross is 71 years old and spent his working life as an auditor. His wife
Sheila has multiple Long-Term Conditions, including COPD, spinal and related
arthritic conditions, severe abdominal pains and mental health issues.

On behalf of carers nationwide, he has met David Cameron at 10 Downing Street,
had several visits to Westminster to meet other M.P’s, a carers meeting at The
Foreign Office (for their staff) and many local meetings with influential
representatives of both government departments and regulatory bodies.




EDDIE CROUCH



Eddie Crouch is Vice Chairman of the British Dental Association Principal
Executive Committee and has worked in South Birmingham providing primary care to
patients in dental practices for more than 25 years.

He is active in supporting colleagues locally via the Local Dental Committee and
nationally via the BDA , and is a member of the Birmingham Black Country and
Solihull Local Professional Network who advise commissioners on patient
services.




PAULA CRUISE



Paula started in the NHS in 1993 working in the private office of the Director
of Policy for the NHS Executive. Most of her NHS career has been spent in
nursing directorates within Primary Care Trusts.

She joined the NHS Commissioning Board in 2012 has PA/Business Manager in the
Chief Nursing Officer for England’s private office. Moving to the Patient
Experience team in 2014 and into the Leadership Support Manager role in 2018.
This role has specific responsibility for young carers, young adult carers and
carers in the armed forces.

You can follow Paula on Twitter: @CruisePM




MARK CUBBON



Mark is Chief Delivery Officer at NHS England. Reporting directly to the NHS
Chief Executive, Mark is responsible for driving change across the NHS to
support the move to system working and enable delivery.

The team that Mark leads is responsible for the creation of the new NHSE
Operating Framework, the establishment of Integrated Care Systems and the
continued development of providers, and for the delivery of the NHS Long Term
Plan. He is also the Senior Responsible Owner for the merger of Health Education
England, NHS Digital, NHSX, and NHSE (formerly NHS England and NHS Improvement),
one of the largest change programmes across the NHS.

Mark joined the NHS as a nurse 30 years ago and held several director roles in
London NHS Trusts before taking on the role of regional chief operating officer
for NHS Improvement, working across the Midlands and East of England.
Immediately prior to joining NHS England, Mark was Chief Executive at Portsmouth
Hospitals University NHS Trust




BARONESS JULIA CUMBERLEGE, CBE DL



Baroness Julia Cumberlege CBE DL was appointed a Junior Health Minister in 1992
and for five years she covered all Health and Social Services matters in the
House of Lords.

She has been commissioned by two Governments to produce two national reports:
“Neighbourhood Nursing – a Focus for Care” and “Changing Childbirth”.

At the invitation of the Royal College of Physicians, Julia has chaired two
working parties. The first report “Doctors in Society” was published in December
2005. The second, “Future Physician, Changing Doctors in Changing Times”, was
published in May 2010.

From 2000 until July 2006, Julia chaired St George’s Medical School.




PROFESSOR JANE CUMMINGS



Professor Jane Cummings is the Chief Nursing Officer for England and Executive
Director at NHS England.

Jane specialised in emergency care and has held a wide variety of roles across
the NHS including Director of Commissioning, Director of Nursing and Deputy
Chief Executive.

In February 2004, she became the national lead for emergency care agreeing and
implementing the 98% operational standard. She has also worked as the nursing
advisor for emergency care. In January 2005, she was appointed as the National
Implementation Director for ‘Choice’ and ‘Choose and Book’.

Jane moved to NHS North West in November 2007 where she held executive
responsibility for the professional leadership of nursing, quality, performance
as well as QIPP, commissioning and for a time Deputy Chief Executive Officer. In
October 2011, she was appointed to the role of Chief Nurse for the North of
England SHA Cluster.

She was appointed as Chief Nursing Officer for England in March 2012 and started
full time in June 2012. Jane is the professional lead for all nurses and
midwives in England (with the exception of public health) and published the
‘6Cs’ and ‘Compassion in Practice’ in December 2012, followed by publishing the
‘Leading Change, Adding Value’ framework in May 2016.

Jane has executive oversight of maternity, patient experience, learning
disability and, in January 2016, became executive lead for Patient and Public
Participation.

She was awarded Doctorates by Edge Hill University and by Bucks New University,
and she is a visiting professor at Kingston University and St George’s
University, London.

She is also Director and trustee for Macmillan Cancer Support and a clinical
Ambassador for the Over the Wall Children’s Charity where she volunteers as a
nurse providing care for children affected by serious illnesses.

Follow Jane on Twitter: @JaneMCummings.




DR JAMES CUSACK



Since joining Autistica Dr James Cusack has led the development of a research
strategy focused on outcomes, leading to their new vision, “a world where all
autistic people and their families live a long, healthy, happy life”.

Autistica has also sought to build involvement to every stage of their work,
including the launch of Discover: the UK’s first autism research network.

Since James joined Autistica they have also dramatically expanded their
portfolio of world class research. He has successfully worked with funders and
academics to influence research funding strategy to make sure community
priorities and critical issues like early death in autism are on their agenda.

Prior to joining Autistica James undertook a PhD and postdoctoral research
fellowship at the University of Aberdeen, and while in Scotland has worked in a
range of different roles related to autism including the Scottish autism
strategy.




ANNIE-ROSE CUTLER



Annie-Rose Cutler is a young adult carer and student nurse.




SIR DAVID DALTON



Sir David Dalton was appointed as chief executive of The Pennine Acute Hospitals
NHS Trust in April 2016 in addition to his role as chief executive of Salford
Royal NHS Foundation Trust, a post he has held since 2001.

Sir David has a strong profile, both locally within Greater Manchester, and
nationally in the areas of quality improvement and patient safety. His
leadership focuses on a disciplined approach of applied ‘improvement science’
coupled with deep staff involvement.

He is currently involved in two strategic developments: creating a fully
integrated health and social care system for the City; and developing the
concept of standardisation of best practice and seeking to apply this at scale,
through a digital enterprise, across multiple organisations.

Sir David has developed national health policy and advised government in the
areas of patient safety, new organisational forms and digital development. He
was the founder Chair of AQuA, NHS QUEST, and Haelo: each of which support
organisations in their improvement activities.

He is also the Vice Chair of the Greater Manchester Academic Health Science
Network and a Governor of the Health Foundation.




FIONA DALY



As the National Deputy Director of Estates for NHS England, Fiona is tasked with
leading the strategies, policies and national programmes to decarbonise of the
NHS Estate, improve operational resilience and patient experience, and develop
the 100,000 strong Estates and Facilities Workforce; driving innovation,
engagement and delivery, and providing healthcare organisations with critical
support they need to implement their plans.

Fiona has 17 years’ experience of working in Estates and Facilities Management
and is passionate about reducing health and social inequalities, establishing an
estate that supports the transition to sustainable models of care throughout the
NHS. She is focused on driving the delivery of a healthy, resilient healthcare
estate; tackling organisational leadership, investment in the built environment
and developing the skills and capacity of the current and future NHS workforce.
In 2018 she was made an honorary professor at University College London (UCL)
for her contribution in supporting the development of students in her field.




DR RON DANIELS



Dr Ron Daniels BEM is the Chief Executive of the UK Sepsis Trust where he
provides clinical advice to NHS England, the Department of Health and to the
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Royal College of
Anaesthetists and Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. He is also Chief Executive
of the Global Sepsis Alliance, and was instrumental in bringing the Chairman’s
concept of the World Sepsis Declaration to fruition.




BLAKE DARK



Blake is the Commercial Medicines Director for NHS England. He is NHS England’s
chief negotiator with the pharmaceutical industry and SRO for the broader
cross-organisational Medicines Value Program.

Blake‘s team oversee all commercial discussions with companies in relation to
individual drugs: Drugs that trigger the £20 million budget impact test (BIT);
commercial arrangements associated with the Cancer Drug Fund (CDF); commercial
arrangements relating to NICE’s Highly Specialised Technology appraisal
programme (HST); commercial arrangements relating to NHS England’s clinical
policy process overseen by its Clinical Priorities Advisory Group (CPAG).

Blake also leads a procurement function relating to medicines used in secondary
care; Commercial Medicines Unit (CMU).
Before joining NHS England in Oct 2018, Blake held senior roles in the
pharmaceutical industry for 24 years at Sanofi. Blake has led both innovative
pharma and generic businesses in the UK for 15 years and 9 years running
innovative pharma businesses across multiple countries in Europe and as
Commercial Operations Head for Sanofi’s global generic’s company.




DR NATALIE DARKO



Dr Natalie Darko, Associate Professor of Health Inequalities, at the University
of Leicester and Director of Inclusion at the Leicester National Institute of
Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre.

Dr Natalie Darko specialises in health research and practice that addresses
equality, equity, and inclusion of underrepresented and minority groups. She has
extensive experience in leading and delivering research within the field of
health inequalities, of which her current research projects focus on maternal
health, womb cancer, social prescribing, diabetes, faith-based interventions,
and dementia. She supports researchers, organisations and practitioners on how
to work collaboratively with and for underserved and minority groups to inform
equitable health and research practice.




DR CHARLIE DAVIE



Dr Charlie Davie joined UCLPartners in 2009 as Stroke Lead and subsequently took
on the role of Programme Director for Neurosciences.

He was appointed as Director of the AHSN in 2014 and became Managing Director in
May 2015. He provides strategic leadership for the AHSN and its integrated
programmes, supporting the operational and clinical directors in transforming
care for patients and populations.

Before joining UCLPartners, Charlie was the clinical lead for stroke services at
the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, where he continues his clinical work
as Consultant Neurologist. He has also been the stroke lead for the North
Central London Cardiovascular and Stroke Network.

Charlie played a pivotal role in redesigning stroke services in London and large
areas of England, which has resulted in significantly improved outcomes.

He qualified in medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1986 and completed
much of his postgraduate clinical training and early research at the National
Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. He was awarded a doctorate
with honours by University of Glasgow in 1997 and has been a consultant at the
Royal Free since 1999.




ANDREW DAVIES



Andrew Davies is Director of Hospital Pharmacy, NHS Improvement.

Having worked for 17 years as a hospital chief pharmacist Andrew became involved
in the Lord Carter productivity programme at NHS Improvement in October 2015,
becoming the professional lead for hospital pharmacy and medicines optimisation
in January 2017 and director of hospital pharmacy in October 2018.




KATE DAVIES



Kate Davies CBE, Director of Health and Justice, Armed Forces and Sexual Assault
Services Commissioning, NHS England.

Kate is the national director for healthcare services across England for Armed
Forces serving personnel, veterans and their families; sexual assault referral
centres (SARCs); and prisons, immigration removal centres and secure children’s
homes and training centres. Her national role is to assure high quality,
consistent and sustained services with a strong focus on health inequalities and
outcomes for patients and their families.

Kate has developed and led national partnership agreements with the Ministry of
Defence for Armed Forces commissioning, the Ministry of Justice for prisons and
the children and young people secure estate and the Home Office for immigration
removal centres. These agreements focus on core objectives and outcomes across
Government for key patient areas that can only be delivered in partnership.

From a health and justice perspective, she has led the development of the
national Liaison & Diversion Programme and Street Triage, the roll out of
community sentence treatment requirements and the launch of RECONNECT to support
prison leavers transition to community health and wellbeing services. Kate has
facilitated the roll-out of increased provision for survivors of sexual
violence, the launch of the Strategic Direction for Sexual Assault and Abuse
Services and the development of enhanced sexual assault and abuse pathfinder
services for individuals with complex trauma mental health needs.

Prior to her current role, Kate worked in a range of senior positions, including
the Executive Lead for Prison, Detainee and SARCs Healthcare Commissioning for
East Midlands; the strategic director of the award-winning Nottinghamshire
County Drug and Alcohol Action Team, where she co-ordinated and delivered the
Government’s National Drug Strategy; and the Director of Black and Ethnic
Minority Community Engagement at the University of Central Lancashire,
International School for Communities Rights and Inclusion. This follows her
early career, when she worked as a probation office in the probation service.

In addition, Kate has been a Non-Executive Director on the National Treatment
Agency Board and a member of the Government’s independent Board for the Prison
Drug Treatment Strategy Patel Review, which implemented the Substance Treatment
Service and strategy and delivery across England. She has also been an
Ambassador for Diversity in Public Appointments for the Government Public
Appointments Commission.

Kate’s strong leadership style and commitment to lived experience, co-production
and addressing health inequalities, has led to her being awarded an OBE in 2009
for services for disadvantaged communities and a CBE in 2018, for her work to
improve services for some of the most vulnerable groups. She is also an Honorary
Doctor of Staffordshire University in recognition of her commitment to health
and social equality.




NEIL DAVIES



Neil Davies was thrown out of secondary modern school at the age of 14, with a
certificate stating this boy has left school with no qualifications. Neil joined
the Parachute Regiment on his 17th birthday and by the age of 19 he’d served on
active service tours in the Middle East and North Africa.

Neil left the army with physical injuries and PTSD, and flitted aimlessly from
country to country, continent to continent, and job to job; as a logger,
steelworker, working on fishing boats, building worker, rank and file union
organiser, out-door pursuits instructor and lecturer.

Neil broke into the film industry as a driver and worked his way up, covering
all jobs and eventually became an award winning filmmaker; best documentary of
the year award for ‘Raw Spice’ – ITV and the huge success of the series; ‘Nights
at the Empire’ – Channel Four, ‘Inside RAF Brize Norton’ – Sky One, ‘The Hunt’ –
BBC and feature film ‘Dog City’.

Neil is a member of the Soldiers Arts Academy, does volunteer work at the London
Veterans Mental Health Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service (TILS) at St
Pancras Hospital and over the last few years scratched an itch for doing
stand-up comedy, acting at Shakespeare’s Globe and writing fiction, Falling
Soldiers, which was published in April 2019.




DR HELEN DAVIES



Dr Helen Davies is a GP clinical lead for community and population health
management in Calderdale which is part of West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board.
Follow her on Twitter @HelenDa21136593 and connect with Helen on LinkedIn.




JANET DAVIES



Janet Davies is Chief Executive and General Secretary, Royal College of Nursing.

Janet Davies is the Chief Executive and General Secretary for the Royal College
of Nursing (RCN), the voice of nursing across the UK. The RCN promotes patient
and nursing interests on a wide range of issues by working closely with the
Government, the UK parliaments and other national and European political
institutions, trade unions, professional bodies and voluntary organisations.

Prior to her current role, Janet was one of the Executive Directors at the RCN
and took the strategic lead for nursing and service delivery to its members.
Before joining the RCN, she had a long career as a Nurse within the NHS. She was
Director of Nursing in West Lancashire and Liverpool and Chief Executive of
Mersey Regional Ambulance Service.




KIERAN DAY



Kieran Day enjoys playing video games (twitchy and YouTube), seeing friends ,
cinema, and spending time with other young carers.




DR STEPHANIE DE GIORGIO



• Portfolio GP in Kent with an interest in Women’s Health
• Perinatal Mental Health National Clinical Lead and Advisor to NHS England
• Works with Perinatal Mental Health Network to promote education via social
media
• Writes and presents the Women’s Health course for NB Medical Education
• Is part of #obsmuk and works with EASO to promote education about and reduce
stigma around obesity
• Working with NHS England and charities to help develop evidence based
postnatal care in the community.
• Runs Resilient GP, an online peer support and educatino forum she co-founded
to support primary care staff
• Likes a nap!




DR JEANELLE DE GRUCHY



Dr Jeanelle de Gruchy is President of the Association of Directors of Public
Health (ADPH), having been elected in May 2018 for 3 years.

Jeanelle’s priorities as ADPH president are to continue to develop the
Association as a well-respected and vibrant voice for prevention and public
health. She is passionate about ADPH advocating for equality in all its forms.

Jeanelle is also Director of Population Health for Tameside and Glossop
Strategic Commission, an integrated NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and
Local Authority organisation, led by both local politicians and NHS clinicians.
She has a role in leading population health system reform developments in
Greater Manchester.




RUTH DEARNLEY, OBE



Ruth Dearnley OBE became Chief Executive for STOP THE TRAFFIK in May 2008 having
participated in its formation in 2005.

With a law degree and background in education, she inspires and enables people
to transform the world around them.

Ruth believes that STOP THE TRAFFIK’s working model demonstrates the unique
power of bringing people and technology into a harmonious relationship for good
for all, imagining a different future where good can prevail.

Ruth was honoured with the award of an OBE in the 2014 British New Year Honours.

For more information on STOP THE TRAFFIK, please visit the STOP THE TRAFFIK
website.




PAUL DEEMER



Paul has been a HR professional for over 30 years. He has worked in local
government, the voluntary sector and the health service – with particular
experience in the fields of recruitment, employee relations, employment law and
diversity. It was whilst working for the charity Barnardo’s that he took on the
role of national equality and diversity manager, further utilising the
experience and knowledge gained in this role when he was seconded into the
Department of Health’s equality and diversity team in 2000 to help them develop
their national strategy in this area. Paul currently works for NHS Employers –
which represents and supports NHS trusts across England – and is helping NHS
organisations to embed diversity and inclusion good practice across the NHS.




DR KAREN DEENY



Dr Karen Deeny works in the national Patient Experience Team and is leading a
work programme to drive improved outcomes and experiences for patients through
improving staff experiences of care.

With a clinical background in speech and language therapy and an enduring
passion for improvement, Karen has worked as a clinician, manager, researcher,
author and coach in health, education and social care.

Karen’s doctoral research involved working with members of more than 200
healthcare teams to understand theirs and their patients’ journeys and using
this learning to drive improvement through experience based co-design in the UK
and internationally.




PARIS DEHGHANI



Paris Dehghani is a proud and committed mum who was born in Iran.

She is passionate about empowering vulnerable people and an advocate for
volunteering.




JOE DENT



Joe Dent, MCPara, MSc Post grad Cert, BSc, is an Advanced Practitioner for
Stroke, working at the Salford Royal Hospital. He is also Lead for Stroke at the
College of Paramedics.

He has worked in healthcare for 28 years, 26 of those spent working for the
ambulance service.
In his current role at Salford Royal, Joe is developing a training package for
universities and ambulance trusts to improve education around pre-hospital
identification and treatment of strokes.

Joe has an interest in data sharing and management and is a working party member
and scientific member for the UK Stroke Forum.




JOANNA DERVISOGLU



Joanna Dervisoglu, Treasurer and Trustee of Knitted Knockers UK, is a Teaching
Assistant, a mum of four and grandmother of three.




DR MO DEWJI



Dr Mo Dewji is a partner and trainer in a ten-doctor urban practice in Milton
Keynes.

He was the PCG and then PEC chair of MKPCT prior to his appointment as the Head
of the National PMS Development Team.

He was then appointed as the Clinical Director for Strategy and System Reform at
South Central SHA.

He is now the National Clinical Lead (Primary Care) within the Medical
Directorate of the NHS England, where he has been advising on the support of the
Friends and Family Test in General Practice.

He has also acted as the clinical lead in the benchmarking of care across health
systems and the active use of data to develop and deliver high quality care.

Between his work at the SHA and his recent move to the NHS England he headed the
Primary Care QIPP Workstream at the Department of Health.

He has been actively involved in the development of new commissioning models
supporting CCG’s and practices, and acted as an advisor to the development of
the Diabetes NSF and was one of the founder members of the National Resource
Framework Group.

His clinical interests lie in Paediatrics and GP Training.




DR MARTYN DIAPER



Dr Martyn Diaper is the Head of Patient Safety (Primary Care) and the chairman
of the Primary Care Patient Safety Expert Group at NHS England.

Born and raised in Southampton, Martyn trained at St Thomas’s Hospital and
worked in the UK and Australia before settling with his wife in Winchester,
where he was a GP for nearly 20 years. During that time he gained an MBA with
the Open University and worked with the NHS Institute for innovation and
improvement as clinical lead for patient safety.

In 2011 he trained as a Patient Safety Officer in Boston MA at the Institute of
Healthcare Improvement. Martyn worked as Clinical Director for South East
Hampshire ISD at Southern Health from 2013 to 2014, and later became Southern
Health medical director until July 2015.

He has also worked for NHS Improving Quality as clinical lead for patient safety
and commissioner development in its delivery team.




NIALL DICKSON



The former head of the General Medical Council, Niall Dickson, was appointed
Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation in February 2017.

During his time at the GMC from 2010 to 2016, Niall delivered a raft of reforms.
These included an expansion of its responsibilities for medical education and
training; the introduction of revalidation in 2012; the introduction of language
checks for doctors from Europe in 2014, and the establishment of the Medical
Practitioners Tribunal Service to provide a clear separation between the GMC’s
investigation of complaints and the adjudication of hearings.

He worked as Chief Executive of the King’s Fund from 2004 to 2009 before being
appointed as Chief Executive and Registrar of the General Medical Council in
January 2010. Niall also led the International Association of Medical Regulatory
Authorities (IAMRA) until 2016.

He was the editor of the Nursing Times from 1983 to 1988 before joining the BBC
as health correspondent and progressing to the position of social affairs editor
for BBC News from 1995 to 2003, broadcasting mainly on the BBC1 Ten O’clock News
and Radio 4’s Today programme. Niall was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday
Honours List in 2017.




DR MARY DOCHERTY



Dr Mary Docherty is a Clinical Quality Improvement Fellow in the Mental Health
Strategic Clinical Network and Specialty Registrar at the South London and
Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust.

She currently holds a Darzi Fellowship supported by the Healthy London
Partnership and is taking a lead role, through Healthy London Partnership, in a
London-wide initiative to reduce the premature mortality of people with serious
mental illness.

Mary came to medicine with previous degrees in Politics, Philosophy and
Economics, completed a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Academic
Foundation Programme at the Institute of Neuroscience in Newcastle and an NIHR
Academic Clinical Fellowship at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and
Neuroscience (IoPPN). She undertook her core training and specialty training on
the Maudsley Training Programme following a year secondment in the Research and
Development team at NICE on the Chief Medical Officer’s Clinical Advisors
Scheme.

As Clinical Fellow at the IoPPN her research interests are in service
improvement, treatment and service gaps in UK Mental Health provision and
cognitive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. She co-authored a national
review chapter on Parity of Esteem in the Chief Medical Officer’s 2014 report on
Public Mental Health. Mary also developed and ran with the National Psychosis
Service the first specialist clinic dedicated to the assessment and treatment of
cognitive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia.

She is involved in clinical research, service development initiatives and a
Kings Health Partners strategic academic network aimed at exploring and
addressing the mortality gap in people with serious and enduring mental illness.




SARAH DODDS



Sarah has been the Director of Nursing at Weston Area Health NHS Trust since
February 2018.

Prior to this role, she was the Deputy Director of Nursing at North Bristol
Trust. She has worked in a variety of senior nursing roles at both University
Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS
Foundation Trust.

Her clinical experience has been in Respiratory Medicine and Emergency Care.




PROFESSOR BRIAN DOLAN, OBE



Professor Brian Dolan OBE is Director of Health Service 360, UK, Visiting Prof
of Nursing, Oxford Institute of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Research and
Honorary Professor of Leadership in Healthcare, University of Salford.

With Lynda Holt, CEO, Health Service 360 he recently co-hosted the 72-hour
#EndPJparalysis Global Online Summit, in collaboration with Royal College of
Surgeons of Ireland, ECIST, NHS Horizons, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, US
#EveryBODYmoves and Safer Care, Victoria, Australia.

All the presentations can be viewed free at https://endpjparalysis.org




LINDA DOMINGUEZ



Linda Dominguez has been a counsellor at One in Four since 2005 and also became
director of One in Four on a voluntary basis in 2009.

Her counselling experience includes working with ex offenders, mental health
issues, children, bereavement and substance abuse. Her passion is working with
survivors of childhood sexual abuse, sharing their journey to become the person
who can be all they can be.

She is a qualified supervisor in counselling. In her day role she is Head of
Safeguarding, for St John Ambulance.




TARA DONNELLY



Tara Donnelly is the interim Chief Digital Officer at NHS England.

She oversees a portfolio of citizen facing digital services, including the NHS
website, NHS App and the development of digital services which meet people’s
needs, target prevention and offer a personalised experience.

Tara is on secondment from her role as Chief Executive of the Health Innovation
Network. She has led the Health Innovation Network for over three years and is
also a non-executive director at the Nuffield Trust.

She has an extensive background in leadership roles within the NHS and the
voluntary and community sector and has spent the past 18 years at board level.
She has worked in the NHS for 30 years, with her first role being as a Ward
Housekeeper when she was 18.




DARREN DOOLER



Daz (Darren) Dooler has worked for Live Well Wakefield for 18 months as a ‘Self
Help Support Worker’.

Live Well Wakefield has been commissioned by Wakefield Metropolitan District
Council, through Nova Wakefield and South West Yorkshire NHS Foundation Trust
(SWYFT). They work with anyone in the Wakefield and 5 Towns area struggling with
their wellbeing.

Daz is a time-served mechanical and electrical engineer and has worked at a
senior level of management in the UK and abroad. Due to long-term health
conditions, including Generalised Anxiety Disorder, he then struggled with
employment for several years.

Having become involved in the Expert Patients Programme (formerly part of SWYFT)
and completing the General Self-Management Community Course, he moved forward to
become a volunteer for the service and trained to become a tutor. He then went
on to become a governor at SWYFT and started his own community group The
S.M.a.S.H Society. Here he ensures social prescribing continues to improve lives
in his community with health conditions, particularly those struggling with
their mental health.




KAREN DOREY-REES



Karen Dorey-Rees is the Assistant Director for Specialist Services in Kent and
Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. Karen qualified as a mental health
nurse in 1989 and since then has worked in a variety of clinical and operational
management roles in the South East of England.

Throughout her career Karen has been involved in developing services and has
lead on key projects within adult mental health community and inpatient services
to support the transformation of services to ensure improvements in the quality
of care.

Over the past 2 years Karen has taken a lead role in the development of
Perinatal Mental Health Services. This has included major expansion of the
Community Perinatal Mental Health Services in Kent and the successful
development of a perinatal mental health Mother and Baby Unit to serve women
from across Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Karen champions the involvement of service
users and carers and co-production has been at the heart of these service
developments and continues with subsequent service delivery.




FELICITY DORMON



Felicity Dormon is the IAPT programme lead at NHS England. Prior to joining NHS
England she worked at the Health Foundation as a Senior Policy Fellow. She has
also worked for the Department of Health, undertaking policy roles in strategy,
mental health and cancer in addition to a secondment as a social care
commissioner in local government. She previously worked in defence research. She
has a Masters in Health Policy from Imperial College, and a degree in Physics
with Computing from the University of Warwick.




MARK DOUGHTY



Mark Doughty co-founded the Centre for Patient Leadership (CPL) in 2011 where he
is responsible for designing their model of patient leadership.

This was shortlisted for the Guardian Healthcare Innovation Awards in 2013. He
was also a finalist in 2012 for the International Ashoka Changemakers Innovation
for Health Award.

Since 2012 Mark has facilitated leadership development programmes for more than
500 patient leaders. He has also coached and supported lay assessors for the
CQC, the People Champions on the board of the NHS Leadership Academy as well as
CCG and Healthwatch chair and board members.




LIBBY DOWLING



Libby Dowling has been a clinical advisor at Diabetes UK for 7 years. Her
background is in nursing and she works across all aspects of diabetes care to
provide the most up to date advice.




SEAN DUFFY



Sean Duffy is the National Clinical Director for Cancer. Professor Duffy is also
a clinical academic gynaecologist based at the University of Leeds with his
clinical practice at the city’s St James’s Hospital. His medical expertise is in
endometrial cancer and he has an international reputation in the field of
endoscopy surgery and training.

He has had senior academic experience in laboratory and health services research
and has had national and regional responsibilities for undergraduate and
postgraduate education in obstetrics and gynaecology with senior roles in the
Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the University of Leeds. For the
eight years before he was appointed National Clinical Director for Cancer, he
was leading the Yorkshire Cancer Network as medical director and over the last
four as director as well.




PROFESSOR JACQUELINE DUNKLEY-BENT



Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent has vast experience in healthcare provision
and is the first Chief Midwifery Officer in England.

She has worked as a midwife and a nurse and held senior positions in clinical
practice, education, leadership and management including: Director of Midwifery
and Nursing positions for Women’s and Children’s services at Imperial College
Healthcare Trust & Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

Academic roles have included: Senior Lecturer, Curriculum Leader, LME and
Professor of Midwifery.

Jacqueline was appointed Chief Midwifery Officer in Spring 2019 at NHS England
and NHS Improvement and is National Maternity Safety Champion for the Department
of Health. She is also visiting Professor of Midwifery at Kings College London
and London South Bank University.

Her experience has seen her leading and influencing national maternity standards
and guidance. She also influences healthcare, nationally and internationally
through research, education and publications and is frequently invited to speak
at national and international conferences. She is a member of the British
Journal of Midwifery editorial board and until recently was an active member of
the Maternity and Newborn Forum at the Royal Society of Medicine.

She has joined the Tommy’s Charity National Advisory Board as Midwifery advisor,
and the Women of the Year management committee. Her voluntary work currently
includes Midwifery Advisor for the Wellbeing Foundation Africa and until
recently a trustee.

In 2014 she received the HSJ, BME Pioneers award and in 2015 she was selected
from over 100 nominations for inclusion on Nursing Times’ Leaders 2015 list that
celebrates nurses and midwives who are pioneers, entrepreneurs and inspirational
role models in their profession.




MIKE DURKIN



Dr Mike Durkin was previously Director of Patient Safety, since the publication
of these blogs he has left NHS England.




JANE DWELLY



Jane Dwelly is head of Health and Care Innovation Expo 2015. Previously as head
of programme communications at NHS England she led the communications and
marketing team for Expo 14.

Before joining NHS England, Jane was head of communications for the NHS Medical
Director Bruce Keogh in the Department of Health.

Jane has led communications on a number of high-profile NHS programmes including
Professor Lord Darzi’s Next Stage Review in 2007/8 and the NHS Future Forum in
2011.

In the early part of her career, Jane trained and worked as a financial
journalist.

Follow Jane on Twitter @janedwelly.




JACQUI DYER



Jacqui Dyer is an independent health and social care consultant with a
background in adult mental health commissioning as well as community and family
social work.

Jacqui has worked with a wide range of vulnerable care groups and has a strong
passion in grass roots community empowerment. As an experienced counsellor,
trainer, personal and professional development coach and group facilitator,
Jacqui brings many dimensions to her insights.

As a mental service user and carer for the past few decades Jacqui’s
experiential knowledge of mental health services is extensive and her commitment
to this agenda is personal, political and professional. Currently she is a
senior management board lived experience advisor for the ‘Time To Change’
anti-stigma and discrimination campaign. Additionally Jacqui was an appointed
member of the Ministerial Advisory Group for Mental Health chaired by the
Minister for Care and Support, which oversaw the implementation of the national
mental health strategy and a member of the Ministerial Advisory Group for Mental
Health.

Jacqui was vice chair of England’s mental health Taskforce, which
collaboratively developed the 5 Year Forward View for Mental Health. Jacqui is
currently the Mental Health Equalities advisor for NHS England and co-chairs the
Mayoral ‘Thrive London’ programme.

Jacqui is also an elected Lambeth Labour Councillor where she is cabinet member
for health and adult social care and is the chair of Lambeth’s Black Thrive; a
partnership for improving black mental health and wellbeing.

Jacqui is also an advisory panel member of the Mental Health Act Review and
co-chair of its African & Caribbean Working Group (MHARAC).




ROB DYER



Dr Rob Dyer is the Medical Director for Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation
Trust and also the Lead Medical Director for the Devon Sustainability and
Transformation Partnership.

A Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, Dr Dyer trained in Birmingham and
Newcastle and has been a consultant since 1994, first in Northumberland and
Newcastle, and from 1998 at Torbay Hospital. His clinical specialisms are in
diabetes, endocrinology and thyroid problems.

Dr Dyer also holds the position of Associate Medical Director for Long Term
Conditions and Transformation and has a long-standing interest in integrated
care models, patient self-management and prevention in long term conditions. He
has experience of management of acute medical admissions and sub-specialty
endocrine and thyroid cancer management.

As Medical Director he plays a key role at Board level, and as part of the
Executive Team, in influencing and shaping the Trust’s strategic direction and
in driving improvement in quality and safety.

In his Lead Medical Director role for the Devon Sustainability and
Transformation Partnership he chairs the Clinical Cabinet, which brings together
medical directors and clinicians from across the health system.




SALLY DYSON



Sally Dyson is Voluntary Services Manager at the Norfolk and Norwich University
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and East Anglian Hub Chair for the National
Association of Voluntary Services Managers.




DR KAREN EASTMAN



Dr Karen Eastman is a Clinical Director for NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG and a
GP Partner at The Brow Medical Centre in Burgess Hill, West Sussex. She also
enjoys a role as a GPwSI in Pain Management.

With a passion for high quality, person centred and innovative patient care and
services provided in local community settings, Karen became involved in Practice
Based Commissioning in 2005 and remained active in representing frontline
patient and clinician experience right through to the formation of Clinical
Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in April 2013.

She is now a Clinical Director for the CCG formed of 23 GP Practices,
responsible for the health and wellbeing of more than 225,000 people. She also
leads the clinical input into Long Term Conditions and Planned Care for the CCG
and feeds into NHS England’s Person Centred Care Working Group, and is a RCGP
Champion for Care and Support Planning and sits on the NHSE PAM Learning set.

Karen has been a GP for 19 years, having trained at The Royal London Hospital
Medical College.




EMMA EASTON



Emma Easton is NHS England’s Head of Voluntary Partnerships. She leads on
developing more inclusive partnerships with the Voluntary, Community and Social
Enterprise (VCSE) sector, including through a close working relationship with
the Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England to support
the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Programme.

Emma’s team also develop and lead the approach to increasing high impact
volunteering opportunities in health and care.

Prior to joining NHS England in 2014, Emma worked for Regional Voices, a network
of regional VCSE organisations, supporting the VCSE sector to be more involved
in health and care policy development, for example in supporting the sector’s
response to the Marmot review, the transition from LINks to Local Healthwatch,
and involvement in the Health and Social Care Act, 2012.




DR SIMON ECCLES



Dr Simon Eccles is the Chief Clinical Information Officer for Health and Care.
The role spans the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England, NHS
Improvement and the arms-length bodies. He is accountable for delivery of the
Personal Health and Care 2020 programme, and the whole of the central NHS IT
expenditure.

Simon still practices one day a week as a consultant in Emergency Medicine at St
Thomas’ Hospital.

Former roles have included: Programme Director for Emergency Care Pathways
transformation at Guys and St Thomas’, including overseeing the building of a
new Emergency Floor on the St Thomas’ site; joint Clinical Director for Urgent
and Emergency Care for NHSE London; joint SRO for Urgent and Emergency Care in
South East London and a reviewer with CQC, the MPA and NHS England. He has been
SRO for Interoperability within the P2020 programme and for NHSmail, providing
secure communication across the NHS.

Simon was a first wave graduate of the Major Projects Leadership Academy at the
Said Business School, Oxford sponsored by the Cabinet Office. He was previously
the Medical Director for NHS Connecting for Health, where he had responsibility
for clinical engagement in health informatics as a driver for clinical quality
and productivity improvement. He was the clinical lead for the NHS Information
Strategy in 2011.

Simon Eccles qualified from the London Hospital Medical College in 1994. He has
previously chaired the BMA Junior Doctors Committee; leading in addressing the
challenges of changing doctors’ post-graduate training and the European Working
Time Directive. He has held a number of strategy and policy advisory roles
within the Department of Health, including clinical lead for the Hospital at
Night programme.

Simon Eccles is co-author of the Oxford Handbook of the Foundation Programme and
joint editor of the best selling careers guide ‘So you want to be a brain
surgeon’.




AMY EDMONDSON



Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the
Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human
interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute
to the betterment of society.

Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of
management thinkers in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 and was honoured with the
Talent Award in 2017. She studies teaming, psychological safety, and leadership,
and her articles have been published numerous academic and management outlets,
including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal,
Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. Her books – Teaming:
How organizations learn, innovate and compete in the knowledge economy
(Jossey-Bass, 2012), Teaming to Innovate (Jossey-Bass, 2013) and Extreme Teaming
(Emerald, 2017) – explore teamwork in dynamic organizational environments. In
Building the future: Big teaming for audacious innovation (Berrett-Koehler,
2016), she examines the challenges and opportunities of teaming across
industries to build smart cities. Her new book,The Fearless Organization:
Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and
Growth (Wiley, 2018), offers a practical guide for organizations serious about
success in the modern economy.

Before her academic career, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning
Centers, where she worked on transformational change in large companies. In the
early 1980s, she worked as Chief Engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster
Fuller, and her book A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R.
Buckminster Fuller (Birkauser Boston, 1987) clarifies Fuller’s mathematical
contributions for a non-technical audience. Edmondson received her PhD in
organizational behaviour, AM in psychology, and AB in engineering and design
from Harvard University.




NIGEL EDWARDS



Nigel Edwards is Chief Executive at the Nuffield Trust. Prior to becoming Chief
Executive in 2014, Nigel was an expert advisor with KPMG’s Global Centre of
Excellence for Health and Life Sciences and a Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund.

Nigel was Policy Director of the NHS Confederation for 11 years and has a wealth
of experience in health and social care. He joined the organisation from his
former role as Director of the London Health Economics Consortium at the London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he remains an honorary visiting
professor.

Nigel has a strong interest in new models of service delivery and a practical
focus on what is happening at the front line as well as a wealth of experience
in wider health care policy in the UK and internationally.

Nigel is a well-known media commentator, often in the spotlight debating key
policy issues.

Nigel is currently working with the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies on developments in health
care provision in Europe.




ELLEN DEVINE



Ellen Devine is a Training Officer for the National Osteoporosis Society and has
worked in the health and social care charity sector since 2008 including roles
with the British Red Cross and The Care Forum.

In her free time she enjoys running and is a run director at Chipping Sodbury
parkrun. Ellen believes that patients should be at the heart of decisions about
their own care and advocates for patient leadership in the development of health
and social care services.




SARAH ELLIOTT



Sarah Elliott was appointed as the Regional Chief Nurse for NHS England (South)
in April 2014 and also leads a number of national commissioning work streams
including continence.

Following qualification, Sarah practiced as a nurse in a range of hospital
settings including intensive care. She later developed an interest in health
promotion and public health and trained as a Health Visitor and Practice Teacher
in Brighton.

She has held several Director of Nursing posts in a number of organisations
within the South in community/mental health Trusts and commissioning
organisations.

In addition to leading the agenda for commissioning for quality and safety in
NHS services across the south, Sarah has initiated multiple patient and public
involvement activities.

Alongside Sarah’s professional working life, Sarah has undertaken voluntary work
with Youth Offending teams and the Alzheimer’s Society. She is also an
accredited coach and special advisor to the CQC.




CAROL ELLIOTT



Carol Elliott is the SeaFit Programme Manager. She has worked extensively in the
Voluntary and Community sector in the UK, as well as spending 9 years overseas
in Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania and Cambodia. Much of her work has focused on
health and well-being, education strategies, mitigating loneliness and poverty,
specialising in collaborative partnerships, dementia support, and strategic
development.

She also spent 2 years as a volunteer with Voluntary Services Overseas in
Cambodia’s Ministry of Education, as a Management Advisor providing strategic
advice and training Central Government Planning Department to manage the change
process of decentralised planning mechanisms and developed the Capacity Building
Working Group within the Directorate of General Education. She has a Masters
Degree in management and her dissertation focused on effectively managing change
in the workplace, one of her greatest passions is helping others to fulfil their
full potential.




GARRETT EMMERSON



Chief Executive of the London Ambulance Service.

Garrett joined the London Ambulance Service as Chief Executive in May 2017 at a
time when the service was in special measures. Driving forward the change needed
to help the organisation become a primary integrator of urgent and emergency
care in London, the Service was rated ‘good’ by the Care Quality Commission and
subsequently came out of special measures in May 2018.

Prior to joining the London Ambulance Service, Garrett was at Transport for
London as Chief Operating Officer for Surface Transport for eight years. In this
role, he had overall responsibility for TfL’s road management including strategy
and planning and the operation of the capital’s major road network. Before
Transport for London, he was the director of a transport consultancy.




CLARE ENSTON



Clare Enston is NHS England’s Head of Insight and Feedback. Working alongside
NHS Improvement, the Care Quality Commission and the Department of Health and
Social Care, she leads on ensuring the views and experiences of patients and
staff England are captured in order to drive improvements in patient experience
and outcomes.

Clare’s team also explore new areas of insight not supported by the current
national survey programme, along with developing thinking on insight and
feedback approaches in the healthcare system.

Prior to joining NHS England in 2013, Clare worked in both the customer service
and civil service sectors before moving into the work of NHS service improvement
– latterly at Yorkshire & Humber Strategic Health Authority, where she had a
regional role in health informatics.




DR MARIE ANNE ESSAM



Dr Marie Anne Essam is a GP in South Oxhey, social prescribing ambassador for
the Herts and West Essex STP, and supports regional, national and international
development of the link worker role. South Oxhey is an area of significant
deprivation in South West Hertfordshire.




SHARON EUSTICE



Sharon Eustice is a Nurse Consultant at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation
Trust’s the Bladder and Bowel Specialist Service. She specialises in the
diagnosis and conservative treatment of urinary and bowel continence conditions
for all populations.




NAVINA EVANS



Dr Navina Evans MBBS, DCH, MRCPsych is one of the first female, ethnic minority
chief executives in the NHS and was appointed CEO at East London NHS Foundation
Trust in August 2016.

She led it to “Trust of the Year” in 2016-17 and to be rated “Outstanding” by
the Care Quality Commission.

She was previously the Trust’s Director of Operations & Deputy CEO, and before
that Director for Mental Health.

Navina was formerly Lead Clinician for Newham CAMHS and then Clinical Director
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, East London Foundation Trust.

She has involvement in Medical Education at Barts and The London Medical School
as Honorary Senior Lecturer, Associate Dean, and Academic Year Tutor.

Her extensive clinical experience is in CAMHS Psychiatry and Paediatrics. Her
interests include leadership, improving the way healthcare is delivered and
learning from sources beyond healthcare.




PAULA EVANS



Paula Evans works for Sherwood Forest NHS Foundation Trust which provides
hospital services for 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark,
Sherwood and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

Paula has been a sepsis nurse since 2012 providing direct clinical support to
teams caring for people with complex infections and sepsis. She also works with
both primary and secondary care teams to improve sepsis care at a strategic
level.




KATHRYN EVANS



Kathryn Evans, RGN, BNurs (Hons), MA, Queens Nurse

Kath is the Deputy Director of Urgent Community Response for the Ageing Well
Programme as part of the NHS Long Term Plan in NHS England and NHS Improvement.

Key areas of work include improving the outcomes and responsiveness of
intermediate care to meet new national standards. She contributes to the greater
work of the programme, which includes continuing the roll out of the Enhanced
Health in Care Homes framework including, NHSmail into the independent social
care sector and supporting community multidisciplinary teams in improving
outcomes for people with frailty and multimorbidity.

Kath’s background includes working as a nurse with over 25 years’ experience in
the NHS, in professional leadership, service development and operational
management in the community. Kath has worked at a regional level in service
improvement and assurance and delivery of CCG’s.

She has led on improving the reduction in Delayed Transfers of Care from
hospital and was the Community Nurse lead for NHS England having a background as
a District Nurse.

Kath is passionate about partnership working across health and social care and
community services.

Follow her on Twitter: @kathevans2015</a




HARRY EVANS



Harry Evans is a senior programme manager in the Primary Care and System
Transformation team in NHS England and Improvement.

He works with local systems to develop their population health management
capabilities, primarily through the population health management development
programme.

Before coming to NHS England and Improvement, Harry worked at the King’s Fund
and Ipsos MORI, leading research projects on digital, data and technology.




KATH EVANS



Kath Evans, RGN, RSCN, MSc (Nursing), PG Dip (Education), BSc (Hons), PG Dip
(Management), Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Accredited Coach, is
NHS England’s Experience of Care Lead – Maternity, Infants, Children and Young
People.

She is a registered general and children’s nurse and her career has included
clinical, educational, managerial and service improvement roles.

She is committed to ensuring the voices of children, young people,
families/carers and maternity service users are heard in their care and in the
design, delivery and commissioning of services.




EVERY MIND MATTERS TEAM



Every Mind Matters is the national platform for good mental health, from the NHS
and Public Health England. It aims to make it easier for everyone to look after
their own wellbeing and improve their mental health, by providing a digital hub
full of advice, tips and resources and a new online tool to help everyone create
their own action plan.




JONATHON FAGGE



Jonathon originally qualified as a Barrister in 2005, and then joined the
Pharmaceutical Industry – working across licensing, marketing, finance, legal
and compliance. He left the industry in 2001 to set up a consultancy firm, and
worked with NHS customers across the East of England – General Practice, NHS
Providers; and PCTs. Services were focused on business development and
organisational efficiency; large scale procurements; health system development;
and GP Appraisal and Revalidation.

In 2010 Jonathon joined Norwich Practice Based Commissioning Group, and managed
the transition to CCGs. He worked with the shadow CCG in Norwich as Programme
Director, then Deputy Chief Officer. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer in
August 2012.




SHERREE FAGGE



Sherree Fagge RN, DMS, MBA is the Head of Nursing for End of Life Care, NHS
England and Improvement. She began her nursing career as a Cadet Nurse and
worked in a psychiatric hospital during placements. She trained at Cuckfield and
Crawley School of Nursing.

Sherree held various nurse leadership roles throughout her career, including
Ward Manager on a male surgical ward and then on a gynae ward. She was
successful in obtaining directorate leadership roles in surgery and critical
care and has also worked as a service manager in medicine and a general manager
in orthopaedics.

Sherree has previously been responsible for inpatient access, so manging patient
flow and admissions both elective and emergency, over three sites and 1040 beds.

She has also worked as Chief Nurse for a large teaching hospital in Sussex. This
included the Executive lead for End of Life Care and ensuring patients and
carers at the hospitals received the very best care during the last phase of
their lives.

Sherree seconded to NHSI to lead EoLC in the nursing directorate and to support
trusts to improve care in this area. She continues to work in this substantive
role, working with partners across the system to make a difference to patients.

Sherree has now celebrated 45 years in the NHS and has continued to enjoy her
nursing career throughout this time. She finds privilege in nursing and caring
for people at times of vulnerability.




PAUL FARMER



Paul Farmer has been Chief Executive of Mind, the leading mental health charity
working in England and Wales since May 2006.

He is Chair of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations
(ACEVO), the leading voice of the UK’s charity and social enterprise sector.
Paul is also a trustee at Lloyds Bank Foundation which invests in charities
supporting people to break out of disadvantage at critical points in their
lives.

Paul is Chair of the NHS England Mental Health Taskforce – bringing together
health and care leaders and experts in the field, including people using
services, to lead a programme of work to create a mental health Five Year
Forward View for the NHS in England.

Paul has an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of East London, is
an Honorary Fellow of St Peter’s College Oxford and The Royal College of
Psychiatrists, and was awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours 2016.




KATE FAYERS



Dr Kate Fayers is a consultant diabetologist who leads Southern Health NHS
Foundation Trust’s West Hampshire community diabetes service.

Kate is involved in the Better Local Care (Hampshire) vanguard, working with
partners to ensure appropriate access to specialist diabetes care and to promote
patient self-management.

Follow Kate on Twitter: @drkatefayers.




DR NADIM FAZLANI



Dr Nadim Fazlani is Chair of Liverpool CCG and has been a GP in Kensington
Liverpool for the past 22 years, having worked in the NHS since 1983.

A Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, he was Chair of
Liverpool Health Care Practice Based Consortium from 2006 – 2011 and Chair of
Liverpool Central Clinical Consortium from 2011 to 2012, before being elected as
Chair of Liverpool CCG.

He has also been a long standing GP trainer and an examiner for MRCGP conducted
by Royal College of General Practitioners since 2004.

In addition, he is also a performance assessor for General Medical Council, a
role he has undertaken since 2005.




DAVID FEARNLEY



Dr David Fearnley was appointed Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist in 2001, at
Ashworth Hospital, one of three high security hospitals in England.

He was appointed Medical Director for Mersey Care NHS Trust in 2005, where he
was also seconded as Medical Director for Calderstones Partnership NHS
Foundation Trust (May 2015-July 2016).

A former Psychiatrist of the Year (2009) by the Inaugural Royal College of
Psychiatrists, David also received the Healthcare Financial Management
Association (in association with the Academy of Royal Colleges) ‘Working with
Finance – Clinician of the Year’ award (2013).

He was named in HSJs “100 Clinical Leaders List” (2015) as Mersey Care Trust’s
driving force behind an international partnership with The Risk Authority,
Stanford, and Lockton insurance brokers to manage and predict risk in mental
health.

In 2016, David was appointed Associate National Clinical Director for Secure
Mental Health and Chair of the Adult Secure Clinical Reference Group, NHS
England.




DR JASON FEE



Dr Jason Fee is the Clinical Director for South West Regional Secure Services
New Care Models programme. He is leading the re-design of clinical care pathways
and service provision across the South West, in order to ensure that individuals
in receipt of secure care are treated as close to home as possible, for the
shortest possible period, within the least restrictive level of security.

Jason is an experienced Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Clinical Director
within good/outstanding rated secure services, and has worked within healthcare
settings both internationally and within the NHS over the course of his career.




GREG FELL



Greg Fell is a Director of Public Health in Sheffield. He graduated from
Nottingham University with a degree in biochemistry and physiology in 1993. He
has worked as a social researcher in a maternity unit; a number of roles in
health promotion and public health before joining the public health training
scheme. Greg worked as a consultant in public health in Bradford in the PCT then
Bradford council. Since Feb 2016 he has worked for Sheffield as director of
public health.




DR TIMOTHY FERRIS



Dr Timothy Ferris took up the post as the National Director of Transformation on
10 May 2021.

Dr Ferris, who has served as a non-executive director of NHS Improvement for
almost three years, is internationally renowned for his pioneering work on
improving health and care in both hospital and community settings.

He will lead the new Transformation Directorate, bringing together the
organisation’s operational improvement team and NHSX, the digital arm, to
maintain the pace of innovation seen during the pandemic.

Dr Ferris joins the NHS full-time from the not-for-profit Massachusetts General
Physicians Organization, where he is chief executive, and a Professor of
Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He founded the Center for Population Health,
which champions the use of prevention and data to improve health, reduce
inequalities, and save lives.




DR SAM FINNIKIN



Dr Finnikin is a GP in Sutton Coldfield, a researcher at the University of
Birmingham and a National Clinical Specialist Advisor in personalised care at
NHS England. Sam has an interest in shared decision-making and cardiovascular
disease and how we can better work with patients to ensure they get the most out
of healthcare.




DR JILL FIRTH



Dr Jill Firth is a Consultant Nurse in Rheumatalogy and Director for Service
Improvement at the Pennine Musculoskeletal Partnership Ltd in Oldham and was
elected President of the British Health Professionals in Rheumatology in 2016.

She has worked in rheumatology since 1997 including a period leading education
and research at the University of Leeds (2004-2011) as Senior Research Fellow in
Long Term Conditions and Lead Postgraduate Research Tutor for the School of
Health care.

Jill has contributed to the development of specialist nursing nationally and
internationally through education, research and publications.




MICHAELA FIRTH



Michaela’s career started in Milton Keynes Hospital Pathology lab when it opened
in 1984. She studied biochemistry and worked in both private and NHS
laboratories before taking up roles in customer service, sales and marketing,
during which time she gained post-graduate qualifications in marketing and
public relations.

Since rejoining the NHS in 2000 Michaela has held various roles from PCTs, to
Dept. of Health, including Communications Manager for NHS Direct, Assistant
Director for Southern National Primary Care Development Team supporting PCTs
with quality improvement and facilitating change. She programme managed for the
South Central PCT Alliance including work to determine behaviours of patients
utilising urgent care services. She also lectures and trains in social marketing
and has contributed to key documents for the Department of Health and the
National Social Marketing Centre.

During a secondment to the Department of Health as a National Coach, she worked
with Sir John Oldham, supporting NHS QIPP Long Term Conditions and Urgent Care
programmes.

Her current role is in NHS England for the Thames Valley SCN, allowing her to
capitalise on her networking passion and develop the network for change and
improvement in the area of Children and Maternity services – subjects both very
close to her heart.

She is closely involved in spreading the messages of NHS Change Day 2014 having
been part of the core team for the first NHS Change Day last year.




JO FITZGERALD



Jo Fitzgerald is the Lived Experience Lead for the Personalised Care Group at
NHS England.

Her role recognises the importance of co-producing and co-designing personalised
care and raising the voice of people with lived experience at a national,
regional and local level.

Jo’s life was profoundly transformed when her eldest son, Mitchell, was born in
1992 with a severe learning disability and complex health needs. The experience
of being Mitchell’s mum has largely influenced the direction of her life; it has
shaped her beliefs, values and life choices.

Mitchell became one of the first people in England to have a personal health
budget which enabled him to live at home and lead a full life until his death in
March, 2015.

Jo is a qualified counsellor and was awarded an MA with distinction from the
University of Manchester in 2008.




BEV FITZSIMONS



Bev is the Head of Improvement at the Point of Care Foundation. Bev has been
with the Foundation since 2015, having been part of the Point of Care team at
the King’s Fund, as a fellow in health policy since 2009. Bev is responsible for
developing and leading programmes to support staff in the NHS and other care
settings to enhance patients’ experiences of care.

Prior to working with the Point of Care team, Bev worked in the Healthcare
Commission, Commission for Health Improvement, and Audit Commission, delivering
thematic reviews of services including maternity care and care for people with
long term conditions.

The Point of Care Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation working to improve
the quality of care by putting patients and staff at the heart of care. Our work
includes the Sweeney programme, which brings together our quality improvement
work; and the Schwartz programme, which delivers training in Schwartz Rounds, a
unique forum to help healthcare workers address the psychological and emotional
challenges of their everyday work.




JACKIE FLEEMAN



Jackie Fleeman was one of the first learning disability strategic health
facilitators in England.

She works in Derbyshire and leads a small team who support GP practices with
annual health checks and manages the learning disability acute liaison nurse at
Derby Acute Hospital. The team employs three people with a learning disability
to support their work with primary care.

Jackie is a LeDer reviewer and has recently completed a project to increase the
uptake of screening.




RICHARD FLUCK



Richard Fluck was National Clinical Director for Renal Disease for NHS England.

Richard trained at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and the London Hospital Medical
College, qualifying in 1985. Early training was undertaken in the East London
area before moving into research at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He was appointed
a British Heart Foundation fellow whilst exploring the link between
cardiovascular disease, calcium signalling and abnormalities of calcium
metabolism in chronic kidney disease. He returned to the Royal London Hospital
as Lecturer and honorary Senior Registrar in Nephrology

In 1996 Richard took up post at Derby City Hospital as a single handed
nephrologist. Over the next decade, the department expanded and developed a
strong clinical research and safety programme. As a whole, the department has
interests in cardiovascular consequences of CKD and dialysis, infection and
vascular access. As part of the team, he is involved in the coordination of two
cohort studies looking at chronic kidney disease in primary care (RRID) and the
short and long term consequences of acute kidney injury (ARID). More recent
projects include the development of PROMs for renal patients and developing home
therapies for patients on dialysis.

Within the acute trust he has been clinical lead for renal disease for 15 years
and clinical director for medicine. He has been the clinical lead for the East
Midlands Renal Network and worked with the DH and HPA on infection in renal
disease. He was also the clinical lead for the Kidney Care National audit on
vascular access and transport in the haemodialysis population.




DR MATTHEW FOGARTY



Dr Matthew Fogarty is currently NHS England’s Head of Patient Safety Policy and
Strategy. Prior to this he was Head of Patient Safety Policy in the Department
of Health.

Matt held a number of roles as a DH Civil Servant, including as a Private
Secretary to the Minister of State for Health, and as policy lead on Emergency
Preparedness and Urgent and Emergency Care.

Before joining the Civil Service, Matt was a research scientist and gained his
PhD in Developmental Neuroscience at University College London in 2006.




ANNE FORBES



Anne Forbes is the Programme Director for New Care Models for Devon Partnership
NHS Trust and is responsible for directing the transformation programme on
behalf of South West Regional Secure Services

Anne has a background in finance, governance and business intelligence and has
held various roles as part of executive and senior teams over the past 20 years,
within the NHS and commercial sector.




MARION FOREMAN



Marion Foreman has been a nurse for nearly 50 years and is a personal trainer.
She has worked across many areas in the NHS and now focusses on helping frail
older people and people on their cancer journey to exercise safely and
effectively.

She is passionate about encouraging people to make the most of their health and
wellbeing and to do the best they can to remain active.




CLAIRE FOREMAN



Claire has worked in the NHS for over 20 years, leading work to improve patient
access, experience and outcomes in care and treatments. Over the last decade,
Claire has focused on developing medicines policy and strategy in specialised
commissioning in regional and national roles. Claire joined the Commercial
Medicines Directorate in the summer of 2021 to lead our policy, strategy and
analysis work, helping drive our efforts on medicines access including
innovative treatments, on optimisation and value programmes, and on medicines
sustainability and Net Zero. Claire is passionate about the role of medicines in
improving patient outcomes and reducing health inequalities and has a particular
interest in innovative medicines.




KIM FOREY



Kim Forey leads on the personalisation agenda as the Director of Integration.
This is a new joint post working across both Gloucestershire County Council and
NHS Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group.




PROFESSOR GRAHAM FOSTER



Professor Graham Foster is Professor of Hepatology at Queen Mary University of
London and the clinical lead for hepatology at Barts Health.

Professor Foster was the founding President of The British Viral Hepatitis
Group, a past President of the British Association for the Study of The Liver
and is a trustee of the Hepatitis C Trust.

He was appointed as National Clinical Chair for the Hepatitis C Delivery
Networks and NHS England’s Hepatitis C (HCV) Elimination Programme in January
2016.




MIKE FRANKLIN



Mike Franklin is the joint Director of Equality and Inclusion at NHS England and
NHS Improvement, a Non-executive Director at South London and Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trust and he sits on the NHS Equality and Diversity Council Working
Group.

He is a former commissioner with the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
He was also Her Majesty’s Assistant Inspector of Constabulary and has acted as a
specialist assistant inspector for race and diversity across 43 police forces in
England and Wales.

Mike was Chair of the Community Police Consultative Group for Lambeth, he
previously worked as a non-executive at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation
Trust and he served on the Trades Union Congress race relations committee.
Having grown up in Lambeth and Southwark,

Mike is passionate about advocating for and engaging with diverse local
communities, as well championing equality and inclusion in all levels of the
workforce.




JILL FRASER



Jill Fraser is Chief Executive and Co-founder of the healthcare charity, Kissing
it Better .

She trained at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas’ Hospital
in London and during her training was awarded a scholarship by The Kings Fund to
work in America.

The experience gave her an interest in medical journalism and, before starting
Kissing it Better, for 25 years she presented health features for many
programmes on television and radio including Woman’s Hour, Newsround and
Breakfast Time for the BBC.

Kissing it Better has won The Nursing Times Care of Older People award, and in
March this year, Jill won the ‘Outstanding Contribution Award’ at The Patient
Experience Network National Awards.

As well as regular visits to hospitals and care homes as part of Kissing it
Better, Jill speaks at conferences across the country and writes articles for
national newspapers and magazines.




JAMES FREED



James Freed is Chief Information Officer for Health Education England and is
passionate about digital literacy and the professionalism of health
informaticians across the health and care system.

He trained as a molecular biologist for several years before making the move to
process redesign and IT. James worked in hospitals in South West London for the
Cancer Services Collaborative. He cut his teeth on national IT implementation
following a move to NHS Connecting for Health where he worked in pathology,
order communications, and prevention, screening and surveillance.

James moved to the Health Protection Agency where he managed an operational
Information Management department. He then became Head of Information Strategy
at Public Health England.




AMY FREWIN



Amy Frewin is the Clinical Transformation Lead for the Personalised Care
Programme at Hertfordshire and West Essex CCG.

She qualified as a physiotherapist in 2013 and became involved in the programme
by taking part in a 100 day challenge in October 2017.

After showing great enthusiasm and passion for improving the personalisation of
care, Amy decided to take on a role within the programme with a particular focus
on workforce.

Amy continues to work for a community healthcare trust and enjoys being able to
share her experiences across both roles in order to shape the future delivery of
services.




AMY FROUNKS



Amy Frounks is a member of NHS England’s Youth Forum, a young person
representative in NHS England’s Children and Young People rehabilitation working
group and an NHS service user.




PROFESSOR AHMET FUAT



GP, GPSI in Cardiology Darlington and Honorary Professor of Primary Care
Cardiology at Durham University.

Professor Ahmet Fuat has been a GP in Darlington, Co.Durham for 33 years.

He has been a GPSI Cardiology for 20 years having undertaken a Postgraduate
Diploma in Cardiology at Bradford University graduating with distinction. He
started the first one stop diagnostic and integrated heart failure clinic in the
UK in 17 years ago with local colleagues.

His PhD by research in heart failure diagnosis and management including work on
natriuretic peptides generated several publications that have informed
guidelines and led to the award of an Honorary Professorial Chair at Durham
University.

He holds various roles in CVD and research including the Past President of the
new Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS) which he was instrumental in
reforming, CVD Clinical Adviser to the RCGP, CVD and Research Leads for
Darlington Primary Care Network (PCN) and Federation, Associate Lead for
Industry Research at North East and North Cumbria NIHR CRN. He has recently been
elected onto the newly formed Darlington PCN Governing body as a GP member, CVD,
Research Leads and Chair.

He has a passion for medical education and remains an active lecturer, tutor and
researcher. He is on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Cardiology
and Primary Care Cardiovascular Journals and a peer reviewer for most high
impact Cardiovascular journals and research bodies. His work in community
cardiology has been recognised with Fellowships from the RCGP, RCP London and
RCP Edinburgh.




SABRINA FULLER



Sabrina Fuller is Head of Health Improvement in the Nursing Directorate.

She leads on health visitor service transformation for Hilary Garratt and Jane
Cummings.

Her role in the organisation is to embed prevention in the clinical role of
nurses in line with the Forward View and the NHS Mandate, building on her own
experience as a clinician and her public health background.




RODIE GARLAND



Rodie Garland is Policy Adviser at FaithAction, a national network of
faith-based organisations involved in social action. She manages FaithAction’s
programme of work as part of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance.




HILARY GARRATT



Hilary Garratt CBE, BSc, MSc, RGN, SCPHN (RHV), PGCE is the Deputy Chief Nursing
Officer NHS England and NHS Improvement.

Hilary leads the implementation of a range of national programmes that focus on
safeguarding vulnerable people and programmes that support the professional
development and leadership of the nursing profession.

Hilary is a registered Nurse and Health Visitor, with 36 years’ experience of
working in clinical, public health and Executive leadership roles in the NHS.
Hilary has held a number of Executive Director posts across both commissioning
and provider organisations in addition to holding and Deputy Chief Executive
post for both. Hilary has been working at National Director level for the last 7
years.

In addition to her professional life, Hilary enjoys volunteering at the front
line and also for the third sector. From 2013 – 2017 Hilary worked for BBC
Children in Need as a committee member that undertook grant making for the North
of England. Hilary also engages in hands on volunteering, working with the
homeless and other vulnerable groups in her home city.

Hilary received a CBE in the 2017 New Years Honours for services to Nursing and
her national work to safeguard some of the most vulnerable people in society. In
2018 Hilary was nominated as one of the country’s 400 Women of Achievement and
Inspiration.

Follow Hilary on Twitter: @HilaryGarratt.




NICOLA GASKELL



Nicola Gaskell, senior clinical advisor for NHS 111, started her nurse training
in September 2010 at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk as a ‘mature’ student when
her three children were all at school.

She has worked in trauma and orthopaedics at Warrington hospital, intermediate
care at Aintree hospital before working in the private sector for a short time.
She started her journey with North West Ambulance Service in July 2018 and lives
with her three grown up children and two crazy dogs.




PAUL GAVIN



Deputy Director, Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme.

Paul has worked at senior management level in both the Royal Air Force, (RAF),
and NHS England and has been Deputy Director for the Healthcare Inequalities
Improvement Programme for almost a year. Paul has had a varied career within the
public sector, comprising of differing roles within the Prison Service, the RAF
and five of NHS England’s directorates.

A graduate of the government Project Leadership Programme, Paul’s time in NHS
England has seen him deliver numerous programmes, ranging from digital
developments to complex change initiatives.




CRISTINA GAVRILOVIC



Cristina Gavrilovic was appointed as the Anti-Slavery Partnership Coordinator
for Essex Police and Kent Police Serious Crime Directorate in 2016. Since her
appointment a record number of 500 victims have been identified through her work
that saw a number of sectors joined and supported in actively participating in
the fight against Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking.

She has the opportunity to address the gaps in our social justice system,
ensuring organisations put Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the top of
their agenda and that victims are at the heart of decision making. This area of
her work was recognised by the British Association of Women in Policing where
she was awarded Best Police Staff of the Year.

Cristina’s formative years were in Romania, where she experienced a growing
awareness of the injustice of a broken system failing individuals living below
the poverty line, experiencing domestic violence, and where children went
missing. This is an area where Cristina is a strong Ambassador for having
recently won the prestigious award of Women of the Future in the Community
Spirit category.

Cristina has been seeking the right education, opportunities and paths that
allowed her to develop the infrastructures required to address these issues. She
has implemented an inclusive model upon which strong partnerships are build and
maintained and this model has won her national recognition from the Marsh Awards
for Outstanding Contribution to the Fight against Slavery.

Cristina has recently been invited to become a Fellow Associate of the Royal
Commonwealth Society where she hopes that her work will influence and support
many communities across the Commonwealth countries and engage with younger
generations to build a stronger resilience against abuse and exploitation.




KYE GBANGBOLA



Kye Gbangbola is Chair of the Sickle Cell Society, a national health care
charity for the world’s most common blood disorder.

He wrote the Foreword to the Sickle Cell Care Standards recently launched in
Parliament and gave a Parliamentary address, as a call to action for medical
professionals and patients, to use the Standard as essential intelligence for
better health care.

Kye is an NHS PPV member for the NHS Programme of Care Board for Blood and
Infections and the NHS Public and Patient Voice Assurance Group. He was formerly
a member of the NHS England Clinical Referencing Group for Haemoglobinopathies.
He is an NHS England Care Quality Peer Reviewer and an NHS England Information
Standard Auditor.

Kye is also an All Party Parliamentary Group Member for Sickle Cell and
Thalassaemia at which he gave a talk on Hydroxyurea, and a more recent talk on
access, equality and change. He has been involved in a PPV capacity in clinical
trials, scientific advice, and medicines development including NICE, the
European Medical Agency, 100,000 Genome project etc.

He has experience of providing a patients perspective from the 70’s when he
would speak to clinicians about suffering from SCD, and more recently
collaborated with Ambulance Services for the development and training of key
staff, and very importantly improving the service the LAS provides.




DR IAN GEDDES



Dr Ian Geddes moved from Scotland to Sixpenny Handley in Dorset in 1975 to take
over a single handed practice. The practice was a dispensing practice, operating
at the time from the house, covering 100 square miles. Although very rural in
nature, he had a wide range of patients, ranging from the landed gentry to a
patient who lived in a double decker bus. He retired from practice in 1993.




DR DAVID GEDDES



Dr David Geddes qualified at the Royal London Hospital (Whitechapel) in 1987.

Married to a nurse, he has three children, and lives in York where he is a GP
partner in a small (5,200) practice working one day a week.

He has a special interest in mental health and got into ‘clinical management’ in
fundholding days, then he was a PCG member. He was PEC member of Selby and York
PCT, before becoming appointed initially as medical Director for Selby and York
PCT, (2004-2007) then Medical Director and Director of Primary Care in North
Yorkshire and York PCT (2007-2012)

He was appointed as head of Primary care Commissioning in the Operations
department in November 2012.

He is a medical panellist for GMC Fitness to practice hearings, a non-executive
of Medipex – a healthcare innovation hub, and a trustee for a number of mental
health charities




NICCI GERRARD



Nicci Gerrard is a journalist who for two decades worked on The Observer. She
describes herself as a novelist, (she writes psychological thrillers with Sean
French under the name of Nicci French as well as solo novels in her own name), a
humanist celebrant, and now a campaigner. She has four children.




DAVE GERRARD



Dave Gerrard works as an advanced pharmacist practitioner for Northumberland
Tyne Wear NHS Foundation Trust and is joint pharmacist lead for the STOMP
programme at NHS England.

Dave runs STOMP clinics in both Newcastle and Sunderland community learning
disability teams where he works in partnership with people having a learning
disability, autism or both, their carers and family members together with
specialist behavioural nurses to challenge the over-medication of psychotropic
medications.

Dave joined the trust as a mental health pharmacist 10 years ago and has
specialised in learning disability services for the last seven years.




ZOE GIBSON



Zoe Gibson is a mother-of-two and part-time peer support worker (PSW) at KMPT’s
Rosewood MBU in Dartford. Prior to her PSW role Zoe was an English for Foreign
Language teacher and service user representative on KMPT’s MBU project
development board. Zoe has also spoken at various events including the Kent and
Medway Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) mental health
conference. She lives with her husband and sons, Harry and Jack in Canterbury,
Kent.




BRYONY GIBSON



Bryony has worked as a mental health nurse and manager in the NHS since 1984 and
worked with an interest in perinatal mental health since 1992. An RMN by
background she has worked as a ward sister with responsibility for a small (now
closed) MBU, a CPN in the community and for the past 6 years as perinatal
service (and development) manager developing services for Berkshire.

For the past four years alongside developing services in Berkshire she has a
perinatal lead role in Thames Valley and for the past 2 ½ years has also chaired
the Thames Valley Regional Perinatal Mental Health Network. Bryony retired from
her service manager role at the end of March 2018 but will be continuing working
part-time delivering SHaRON into new services and continuing as a Perinatal Lead
in the Thames Valley.




DEBRA GILDERDALE



Debra Gilderdale is Deputy Director of Bradford District NHS Care Foundation
Trust and is responsible for acute and community mental health, CAMHS, IAPT and
learning disabilities.

Her role includes the transformation of services across all teams, including
acute and crisis mental health, taking a whole-system integrated approach to
providing high quality care.

Debra is also leading on the Urgent and Emergency Care Mental Health Liaison
Vanguard for West Yorkshire, and is a Positive Practice Mental Health
Collaborative specialist lead for Transformation and Improvement.




DAVID GILL



David Gill is one of three learning disability and autism advisers and two
learning disability and autism network managers working on the learning
disability programme.

He has been with NHS England for four years. During this time David’s main areas
of work have been in the Children and Young People’s team, Autism, STOMP-STAMP,
Restrictive Practices and Ask Listen Do.

He is also a talented artist and has illustrated accessible pictures for NHS
Easy Read documents and presentations.

For his job David uses his experience of going through services, schools and
colleges for people with a learning disability, autism or both.

He previously volunteered at Speakup Self Advocacy where he is still a trustee
and worked as a peer support worker for Rotherham learning disability services.




REBECCA GILL



Rebecca Gill joined the IAPT Programme at NHS England in September 2016. Prior
to this she worked in IAPT services as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
and then as a Senior Practitioner managing the Step 2 service.

In this role Rebecca focussed on equality of access and using data to drive
quality improvement.




SIMON GILLESPIE



Simon Gillespie joined the British Heart Foundation in 2013, following seven
years as Chief Executive of the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society.

He has a family connection with heart disease, and fundraises and volunteers for
the BHF.

His early career was in the Royal Navy, including command of HMS Sheffield and
advising government ministers. From 2000 to 2004, he was Director of Operations
at the Charity Commission. He then moved to become Head of Operations at the
Healthcare Commission, where he was responsible for the inspection of NHS and
independent healthcare facilities in England.

Simon has extensive national and international experience of charity and
non-profit governance as a non-executive director/trustee. He currently holds a
number of non-executive roles, including President of the European Heart
Network.




DAVID GLOVER



David Glover became Deputy Head of the Medicines Analysis Team at NHS England
and Improvement, in January 2019. Prior to joining the NHS, David worked in
central government for over 20 years, including 15 years as an economic adviser
to the Department of Health and Social Care and the Office for Life Sciences,
having also spent six years as a patent examiner at the UK Intellectual Property
Office.




VIRGINIA GOLDING



Virginia Golding is the head of equality, diversity and inclusion at Rotherham,
Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust.
She joined the NHS in 1992 as a clerical officer and progressed to become the
equality and diversity lead at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust.

In 2007 she took voluntary redundancy and set up her consultancy Golding
Diversity Training. She returned to the NHS in 2013.
Virginia is an active member of the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES)
frontline staff forum and a member of the NHS Confederations BME Leaders
Network.
She has a master’s degree in Human Resource Management and a postgraduate
certificate in diversity management.




TED GOODMAN



Ted is married and lives with his adult son in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Ted moved
to Shropshire from the West Midlands around 12 years ago.

Ted’s career has been in social work, mainly in mental health and learning
disability services in the community and in hospital, though at times also
working with young children and their families. Ted moved into the regulation of
health and social care where he managed the regulation and inspection of social
care services for adults and young children in the local authority and later
with Ofsted where he managed one of the regional complaint investigation and
enforcement teams. Since then, Ted has worked as an expert by experience with
CBF (Challenging Behaviour Foundation) supporting CQC inspections and also with
NHS England’s Improving Lives team. Occasional private work includes workplace
and family mediation and independent reviews of local authority complaints.

Ted has “a busy home life as you would expect supporting our son who is autistic
and has learning disabilities”. He enjoys photography, most things to do with
computing and a wide variety of good music of most genres. His family love
walking and keeping active and most importantly for them, taking every
opportunity to get away on weekends or holiday.

Ask Listen Do is a project to develop a series of resources that will support
children, young people and adults with a learning disability, autism or both and
their families and carers to feel confident in giving feedback, raising a
concern or a complaint about care, education or support so that they feel that
their feedback, concerns and complaints are proactively received, listened to
and acted on in a timely manner.




DR ANDREA GORDON



Dr Andrea Gordon is the Programme Director for the West Midlands Cancer
Alliance.

She has held the post since September 2018 following roles working with NHS
trusts in the Black Country and at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS
Foundation Trust. Prior to this she worked in regulation for over fifteen years,
more latterly as Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals for the Care Quality
Commission.

The West Midlands Cancer Alliance has an ambitious transformation programme that
spans from early diagnosis to living with and beyond cancer. In order to make a
difference; improve services, responsiveness and outcomes, the team has to work
with a range of stakeholders to include patients, charities, regulators and NHS
trusts and colleagues in primary care.




HOPE GORTON



Hope Gorton is a 27-year-old Digital Marketing Manager working in the
advertising industry. As a member of The Reporters’ Academy, she has worked with
the NHS Youth Forum to teach young people valuable media skills. She recently
attended the NHS Youth Voice Summit to discuss young people’s mental health.

Diagnosed with Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in 2015, Hope has experienced
first-hand the impact of social media on body image and mental health. She
contributed to blogs to raise awareness of the condition – her latest work
includes a very honest ‘letter to my gut’ which highlights her personal journey
towards accepting her body.




KATIE GOULDING



Katie Goulding is a Personalised Care Organisational Development Facilitator and
EMCC trained coach, working with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals.

She works across Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS which is a Personalised Care
demonstrator site and is currently studying towards a Masters in health coaching
and culture change. She is passionate about people having better conversations
within health and care settings.




DAVID GRAHAM



David Graham is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at University College Hospital,
London.

He has a specialist interest in Barrett’s oesophagus, oesophago-gastric cancer,
endoscopic imaging technologies and interventional endoscopy.

David is part of the expert committee devising the BSG guidelines for the
management of the pre-malignant and early malignant lesions of the stomach and
is part of an international research collaboration looking at ways to improve
the early detection of gastric cancer.




PETER GRAINGER



Peter Grainger is a Patient and Public Involvement representative at St Mark’s
Hospital, part of North West London Healthcare Trust. He and his family are
affected by a genetic disease, so when the Trust joined the North Thames Genomic
Medicine Centre in September, he stepped forward to explain how genetic science
is driving improvements in personalised medicine – and what it means to the
Grainger family.




TRACEY GRAINGER



Tracey Grainger is Head of Digital Primary Care Development at NHS England with
responsibility for supporting transformation across general practice and child
health information services. This includes supporting services with a choice of
high quality clinical IT systems, tailored to local requirements, while enabling
the flexibility and innovation to meet current and future service needs of our
patients and citizens.

She has over 24 years’ experience within the NHS that has involved leading
service management, performance improvement and large scale transformational
change programmes both enabled through technology and organisational
development. Tracey has worked across national, regional and local levels in a
variety of health care settings.

She is currently supporting the digital programme within the Estates and
Technology Fund to support the delivery of new and enhanced technology solutions
that will significantly improve patients’ access to services through innovative
care models, making them available through digital enablement to all users of
health and care data to support the delivery of better, safer care.




DR KATE GRANGER



Kate Granger, 34, was a Consultant in Medicine for Older People at Pinderfields
Hospital in Wakefield.

Launched in 2014 and presented annually at the Health and Innovation Expo, the
Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards are a lasting legacy to her inspirational
#hellomynameis campaign.

Kate was passionate about quality improvement and she used her experiences and
observations as a patient to raise awareness and drive up the standard of care
delivered by the NHS.

The #hellomynameis campaign, launched in 2013 by Kate and her husband Chris
Pointon, came as a result of staff failing to introduce themselves when they
were caring for her.

Kate jokingly said she thought the campaign would “amount to one or two tweets
and then fizzle out”. Instead it became a national campaign, winning the support
of over 130 organisations, including NHS Trusts across England, Scotland and
Wales, before becoming a global phenomenon – with #hellomynameis receiving more
than 1.5billion Twitter impressions.

Kate, who wrote books as well as posting tweets and blogs regularly about her
experiences of illness, also raised £200,000 with her husband which was donated
to the Yorkshire Cancer Centre.




PROFESSOR SIR MALCOLM GRANT CBE



Professor Sir Malcolm Grant CBE is the Chairman of NHS England.

Sir Malcolm is also Chancellor of the University of York, and immediate past
President and Provost of UCL (University College London) from 2003-2013. He is a
barrister and a Bencher of Middle Temple.

As an academic lawyer he specialised in planning, property and environmental
law, and was Professor and Head of Department of Land Economy (1991-2003) and
pro-vice chancellor (2002-03) of Cambridge University, and professorial fellow
of Clare College.

He has served as Chair of the Local Government Commission for England, of the
Agriculture and Environmental Biotechnology Commission and the Russell Group. He
is currently a trustee of Somerset House, a director of Genomics England Ltd and
a UK Business Ambassador.




SIR MUIR GRAY



Sir Muir Gray is a Consultant in Public Health in Oxford University Hospital NHS
Trust and a professor in the University of Oxford’s department of Primary Care
Health Sciences.

He is also a Consultant in Public Health for www.ukactive.com.

He is the author of Sod70! And with Diana Moran the joint Author of Sod Sitting,
Get Moving.




PROFESSOR HUON GRAY



Professor Huon Gray MD FRCP FESC FACC is National Clinical Director for Heart
Disease for NHS England, a position he has held since 2013.

Huon was appointed consultant adult and interventional cardiologist to
Southampton University Hospital in 1989. He was President of the British Cardiac
Society (2003-2005) and co-chaired the Department. of Health’s National Infarct
Angioplasty Project (2006-2008) which led to the subsequent roll out of primary
PCI for ST elevation myocardial infarction.

He was clinical adviser to NICE on acute coronary syndromes (2007-2010), and
chaired its guideline on ST elevation myocardial infarction (2011-2013). He
chaired the International Council of the American College of Cardiology
(2008-2013) and sat on the ACC’s Board of Trustees (2012-2016).

Huon is honorary professor at Queen Mary’s University, and University College,
London, and has published on various aspects of cardiology and health service
delivery. He was Deputy and then Interim National Clinical Director for Heart
Disease at the Department of Health (2007-2012).




MATTHEW GREENE



Matthew Greene graduated in 2013 from the University of Salford with a degree in
Finance & Accounting which involved a 12 month student placement at Greater
Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

After graduating, Matthew moved to work at NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning
Group where he is now Programme Project Accountant and is studying for CIMA.
Matthew is also a Future Focused Finance Value Maker, member of the FSD NW
Student Forum and Student Representative on the HFMA NW Branch Committee.




CHARLES GREENOUGH



Charles Greenough qualified as a doctor from Queens’ College, Cambridge and
University College Hospital, London. He trained as an orthopaedic surgeon at the
Royal Free Hospital, London and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital,
Stanmore. Specialist spinal training was also undertaken at the Royal Adelaide
Hospital, South Australia.

He is also a Consultant Spinal Surgeon, Professor of Spinal Studies at the
University of Durham and undertakes lecturing work in the U.K and
Internationally. He is Past President of the Spine Society of Europe. He is also
Clinical Director of the Golden Jubilee Regional Spinal Cord Injuries Centre at
the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.

In his previous role as National Clinical Director for Spinal Disorders in April
2013 – March 2016 his vision was to promote a seamless care pathway for patients
with low back pain or sciatica across the NHS to reduce long term disability and
multiple ineffective therapies. He is currently chair of the Improving Spinal
Care Project, NHS England. The project aims to implement the National Back Pain
and Radicular Pain Pathway, and to give effect to spinal surgery networks.

Principal research interests have been spinal trauma, spinal cord injury and low
back pain.

Hobbies include fell walking and family life.




DR JON GRIFFITHS



Dr Jonathan Griffiths is a GP at Swanlow Practice in Winsford, Cheshire, and
Chair of NHS Vale Royal CCG.

He qualified from Manchester University in 1994 and worked as a junior doctor in
the West Midlands, completing his GP training in South Birmingham.

He then worked as a GP for 7 years in South Staffordshire, where for a while he
was involved as a member of the Professional Executive Committee for the local
PCT.

In 2005 he moved to work at Swanlow Practice in Winsford.

Jon has been involved in commissioning in Vale Royal since Practice Based
Commissioning (PBC) first developed a few years ago, and was Chair of Vale Royal
PBC group before the NHS reforms led to the creation of Clinical Commissioning
Groups.

He is a member on the board of the North West Leadership Academy.

Jon’s professional interests include GP commissioning and Clinical Leadership.

Outside of work he spends time with his wife and daughters, and enjoys being
outside, particularly if that involves walking (or running) up a hill!.




BRAD GUDGER



Brad Gudger is a member of the NHS Youth Forum.

Diagnosed with Leukaemia in 2013, Brad has extensive experience of NHS services
for more than 6 years.

A champion of youth voice and co-design, he has volunteered for various
organisations and has worked extensively to advocate on behalf of young people.

His experience includes advising the APPG for Young People with Cancer on
various policy changes, petitioning the government to offer more support to
young cancer survivors and he has spoken in Parliament numerous times about
patient experience.

Brad has been an international advocate for young people as well, working with
organisations such as Youth Cancer Europe and being a Young Technical Advisor
for a World Health Organisation & Public Health England Collaborating Centre.

Brad founded his own charity in 2018, called Alike. Alike has been created to
combat isolation amongst people with cancer using a new digital peer support
platform and UK wide peer support groups.

In July 2019, he received a Diana Award for his services to young people and the
cancer community.




ERK GUNCE



Erk (pronounced Eric, pronouns: he/him/his) is a Turkish Cypriot who came to the
UK to pursue higher education. He is an equality, diversity and inclusion
practitioner by profession and his academic specialism is inclusive leadership.
He is currently on a journey, exploring how impact can be made on others using
creative media – blogs, podcasts, presentations, videos, art and more. He works
as an expert by experience in NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Mental Health
team, embracing, and encouraging others to embrace, vulnerability, equity,
dignity in care, patient representation and systems improvement.




DECLAN HADLEY



Declan Hadley is the Digital Lead for the Lancashire and South Cumbria
Integrated Care System.

Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria is the name for the partnership of NHS,
local councils, public sector, voluntary sector and community organisations
working together to improve health and care services and help the 1.7 million
people in Lancashire and South Cumbria live longer, healthier lives.

Declan leads the Digital Health team, who have worked with colleagues across the
local health and care system to co-create a shared digital health strategy for
Lancashire and South Cumbria, ‘Our Digital Future’.

He has been a core member of the leadership team behind the development of a
Population Health Management approach locally, with Lancashire and South Cumbria
taking part in an NHS England sponsored accelerated development programme for
Population Health Management in 2019. He is also joint Senior Responsible
Officer for the Share 2 Care programme, a joint initiative between Healthier
Lancashire and South Cumbria and the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care
Partnership looking at extending shared local health and care records across
Lancashire, South Cumbria, Cheshire and Merseyside.

Declan has worked in the NHS for more than thirty years. He started his NHS
career as a Psychiatric Nurse, moving quickly into Information Management in the
1990s where he worked in a number of different roles across the North West.

Between 2001 and 2014, heworked as Health Informatics Director at Lancashire
Care NHS Foundation Trust, where he oversaw the development of innovative mobile
solutions, new clinical applications and technology to support an agile
workforce. Declan has been leading the Digital agenda on a health and care
system wide level across Lancashire and South Cumbria since 2014.




DR JOHN HAGUE



Based at The Derby Road Practice in Ipswich, Dr Hague’s main interest is in
mental health in primary care, and the provision of high quality mental health
care. Dr Hague was GP Clinical Lead for the Improving Access to Psychological
Therapies (IAPT) programme at NHS East of England between 2008 and 2011 – a role
in which he delivered an IAPT service to between 11 and 13 Primary Care Trusts.
He is a General Practitioner appraiser for NHS England. Having gained more than
30 years’ experience as a GP at the Derby Road Practice in Ipswich, he now works
there as a salaried GP.

Dr Hague is a member of the Clinical Executive at Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG,
and has been appointed Clinical Mental Health Lead for North East Essex and
Suffolk STP. He has written a number of professional publications including The
Neglected Majority (The Centre for Mental Health), November 2005 (co-author).




BECKY HAINES



Dr Becky Haines has been a GP partner at Glenpark Medical Centre in Dunston
since 2002. She has been the practice lead for diabetes since then, involved at
a PCT then CCG level for most of this time and became the Gateshead Clinical
Lead for Diabetes NGCCG in 2014. She is also a Year of Care trainer and has
helped to implement YOC care and support planning across the CCG. She is an RCGP
Champion for Collaborative Care and Support Planning.




RACHEL HALFORD



Rachel Halford is the Chief Executive, of the Hepatitis C Trust.

She has over 20 years’ experience of working with people at high-risk of viral
hepatitis, and liver disease generally – the homeless, prisoners, substance
users and migrants. The past 18 years of which have been in senior management
roles within the voluntary/ NGO sector.

Passionate about equality and human rights, Rachel joined The Hepatitis C Trust
in 2015 as Deputy CEO, before taking over as CEO in July 2018.

Before joining the Trust she was CEO of Women in Prison, a national UK
campaigning organisation that provided support and advocacy for women affected
by the criminal justice system.

Diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 1998, Rachel completed Interferon treatment in
2007 clearing the disease.




REBECCA HALL



Rebecca Hall is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care and Lead Nurse
for the E4 Network PCN.

She has completed the coach practitioner programme with NHS London Leadership
Academy, a course that holds the European Quality Award conferred by the
European Mentoring and Coaching Council.




DONNA HALL



Donna Hall CBE has been chief executive at Wigan, the second largest council in
Greater Manchester, for the last six years.

Despite being the third worst-affected UK council by cuts of £100 million, Wigan
has been voted by 72 per cent of its staff as the best council to work for in
the UK. Donna is also the accountable officer of NHS Wigan Borough Clinical
Commissioning Group.

Donna leads on culture, arts and leisure and supports Andy Burnham, the Mayor of
Greater Manchester, on public service reform across health, social care and
public services.

Donna was awarded a CBE for services to local government in 2009 and has
initiated a major programme of reform in partnership with residents, The Wigan
Deal. She is a passionate feminist and last year won Transformational Leader at
the Northern Power Women Awards.




PROFESSOR SIR CHRIS HAM



Chris Ham is currently Co-Chair of the NHS Assembly, Chair of the Coventry and
Warwickshire Health and Care Partnership, and non-executive director of the
Royal Free London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is emeritus professor of
health policy and management at the University of Birmingham, visiting professor
at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Senior Visiting Fellow
at The King’s Fund where he was Chief Executive between 2010 and 2018. He is an
expert adviser to Carnall Farrar.

Chris is the author of over 20 books and numerous articles on health policy and
management. During his career, he has worked at the universities of Leeds,
Bristol and Birmingham from where he was seconded to the Department of Health to
work as the Director of the Strategy Unit between 2000 and 2004. He works at the
interface between research and policy drawing on evidence to inform decision
making.

Chris has advised the World Bank and the WHO as well as the governments of New
Zealand and Sweden. He has served as an advisor in the UK to the Audit
Commission, the House of Commons Health Committee and the National Audit Office.
He has also been a board member of the Canadian Health Services Research
Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

He is a founding fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a fellow of the
Royal Society of Medicine and a former vice-president of the Patients’
Association.

Chris was awarded a CBE for his services to the NHS in 2004 and a knighthood for
services to health policy and management in 2018. He was made an honorary fellow
of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 2004 and an honorary fellow of
the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2008. He became a companion of the
Institute of Healthcare Management in 2006.

Chris is a regular contributor to radio and TV and writes for the national press
on issues concerned with health policy and management.




DR DAVID HAMBLETON



Dr David Hambleton is chief executive officer at South Tyneside Clinical
Commissioning Group.

Before taking up his current role, he was director of commissioning and reform
at NHS South of Tyne and Wear and held a number of clinical managerial posts,
including head of performance and clinical governance and director of surgery.




DR ANGELA HAMBLIN



Dr Angela Hamblin is currently working as a Molecular Diagnostic Research Fellow
with Prof Anna Schuh in the Oxford Molecular Diagnostics Centre. She trained in
medicine at Oxford University Medical School and undertook a PhD in Cancer
Immunotherapy with Prof Martin Glennie and Prof Peter Johnson in the Cancer
Sciences Division, University of Southampton.

She is completing a Specialist Registrar rotation in Haematology in the Oxford
Deanery. Dr Hamblin is particularly interested in the translation of next
generation sequencing techniques from research into routine clinical practice
for patients with (particularly haematological) malignancies in order to improve
patient outcomes.




TRICIA HANDLEY



Tricia Handley trained as a learning disability nurse 30 years ago. She has
worked in a number of roles: community nurse, multiple disability trainer,
research nurse, project lead supporting people to move from long stay hospitals,
clinical nurse management.

She also enjoyed studying quite a bit during this period, gaining first class
honours in Interprofessional Practice at City University and post graduate cert.
in Health and Social Care Management.

Tricia is passionate about equality and specifically collaboration, both within
and outside the NHS as a means of achieving it. She is currently Lead Nurse for
People with a Learning Disability in Barts Health NHS Trust and enjoying the
challenge of an acute hospital environment.




PADDY HANRAHAN



Paddy Hanrahan is the Managing Director of HelpForce and has experience of
start-ups in the health-social space after helping to set up the Centre for
Ageing Better over 2015-16. Prior to that Paddy was a managing director at
Accenture where he worked for 13 years, mostly with NHS clients.

HelpForce is a Community Interest Company, founded in 2016 by Sir Thomas Hughes
Hallett, Chair of Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. It was set up to
support the development of 21st century volunteering at national scale in
collaboration with the NHS, charities and the patients and communities it
serves.




JASON HANRAHAN



Jason Hanrahan is an ambitious song writer and musician. He writes songs about
personal experiences and life in general. He enjoys doing this because it gives
him a way to express his emotions.

Jason is also a stroke survivor.




PROFESSOR NICK HARDING OBE



Professor Nick Harding OBE is Chair for Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical
Commissioning Group, actively involved in primary care transformation and
leadership development, recognised nationally by awards for its delivery. Nick
undertakes a number of roles, locally (Aston Medical School honorary senior
lecturer), regionally (LETC member, stroke review, Primary Care Leadership
development programme) and nationally (co-chair specialised commissioning,
Health Education Advisor, New Models of Care Evaluator and Nuffield leadership
panel).

Professor Harding established Modality Partnership (formerly known as Vitality
and also a MCP vanguard) with GP colleagues to improve quality of care in the
inner city setting of Birmingham, and build a new sustainable type of primary
care model for the future. This Super-Partnership is now one of the largest GP
provider organisations, with close to 100,000 patients.




VICTORIA HARDING



Vicky leads the Wellbeing Team for Titan Primary Care Network in the
Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICS, creating opportunities for patients
to receive the best possible support locally. She identifies gaps in local
provisions and works with existing or new community groups to create a service
that bridges the gap. She has a wide range of community experience in both a
healthcare setting and the charitable sector. She is a trained Social Prescriber
and enjoys offering support on a one to one basis supporting patients to achieve
their goals. She is also a qualified Health Coach and can offer the tools and
mindset to sustain the positive changes made by the Social Prescribing
interventions.




DOM HARDY



Dom Hardy is the Director of Primary Care and System Transformation in NHS
England, leading the implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan’s commitment to
create Integrated Care Systems across the country, and ensure primary care
provides the strong foundation of those systems so they can provide excellent
health care for patients and communities.

He previously held roles at regional level in NHS England as Director of
Commissioning Operations for Wessex and as Regional Assurance and Delivery
Director.

Prior to that he worked in the South of England and South Central SHA for over 3
years, working with colleagues across the South to establish and then lead the
new commissioning system.

Before moving to the NHS he worked in central government in a range of roles,
including at the DH with Professor Sir Ara Darzi as project director for the NHS
Next Stage Review.

He has also worked at the management consultancy Pricewaterhouse Coopers and as
a policy advisor to Tony Blair and Principal Private Secretary to John Reid and
Patricia Hewitt.




DR SAM HARE



Dr Sam Hare is a consultant chest radiologist at Barnet Hospital, which is part
of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. He is also one of the lead
radiologists for the London Cancer lung pathway board, responsible for improving
regional lung cancer outcomes and patient experience.

Sam studied medicine at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge and
Imperial College School of Medicine, gaining a 1st class honours degree.

After completing formal radiology training in the UK between 2004-2009 he
undertook a thoracic radiology fellowship in North America (2009-2010). Sam was
subsequently appointed to the position of consultant thoracic radiologist at The
Ottawa Hospital in Canada specialising in: (i) complex lung biopsy techniques
and (ii) lung cancer screening & diagnosis. He returned to the UK NHS in 2011
and currently runs the innovative ambulatory lung biopsy service at the Royal
Free London NHS Trust.

Dr Hare’s technical lung biopsy expertise has been acknowledged as providing
earlier lung cancer diagnosis in a wider range of patients. The novel ambulatory
lung biopsy service was awarded the inaugural NHS Innovation Challenge Prize for
Cancer Care in 2016 in addition to the 2016 BMJ Award for Cancer Care Team of
the Year (sponsored by Macmillan Cancer). Sam’s work has also gained national
recognition in Thorax, one of the world’s leading respiratory medicine journals,
as well as in the Times newspaper and BBC news (August 2015).

Sam is currently focused on leading wider NHS adoption of ‘ambulatory lung
biopsy’ and is working closely with NHS England to achieve this. As part of this
ambition, he has established a national lung biopsy education course (POBAS)
that will train clinicians from other hospitals to use the innovative technique.
For more details please visit www.POBAS.co.uk




DR LINDA HARRIS



Dr Linda Harris FRCGP is Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer of Spectrum
Community Health CIC, a not for profit organisation delivering community and
health and justice services on behalf of the NHS, local authority public health
and other partners in sites across the north of England.

Passionate about integrated care for vulnerable groups and tackling the root
causes of health inequality, Dr Harris is the Chair of the NHS England Health
and Justice Clinical Reference Group, which plays host to a range of task and
finish groups and quality improvement initiatives.




CHRIS HARRIS



Chris currently works for the NHS England Medical Directorate on frailty with
the aim of supporting the NHS to understand frailty and consider how future
patient centre services can be delivered.




RUTH HARRISON



Ruth Harrison is a learning disability nurse and busy mum of three with a long
history of working with people with complex care needs from day services,
private and forensic sector and within NHS primary and acute care trusts.

She now provides direct support in clinical situations but also works at a
strategic level to develop improvement plans and monitor progress. Ruth is
passionate about equality and the positives of ability rather than the negatives
of disability.




PROFESSOR CHRIS HARRISON



Professor Chris Harrison is NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Cancer
and he is Medical Director (Strategy) for The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in
Manchester.

He qualified in Medicine from Manchester and, following experience in both
hospital medicine and primary care, trained in epidemiology and public health.

Chris held a series of Director of Public Health Posts in Lancashire before
becoming Cancer Director for the North West Region in 2000, and then Medical
Director of Greater Manchester Strategic Health Authority in 2002.

He became Executive Medical Director at The Christie from 2006 until 2013 when
he moved to London becoming Medical Director at Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust
before returning to Manchester in March 2016.

Between 2011 and 2013 Chris was seconded part time from his role at The Christie
to be Clinical Director for Cancer to NHS London.




JENNY HARTNOLL



Jenny Hartnoll, is Service Lead for Health Connections Mendip.

Email: j.hartnoll@nhs.net
Website: www.healthconnectionsmendip.org
Twitter: @jennyhartnoll




NICK HARTSHORNE-EVANS



Nick Hartshorne-Evans was diagnosed with Heart Failure in January 2010 at 39.
His experience as a patient stimulated him into developing the only dedicated
patient-led Heart Failure charity in the UK, the Pumping Marvellous Foundation.

After significant learning about not only the condition but also the health
system, Nick narrowed his focus to developing and evolving a charity that
delivered patient-led solutions developed by the patients themselves. The
charities knowledge and value comes from the beneficiaries and is a valuable
resource to health economies and has attracted international exposure.
Recruiting driven and innovative beneficiaries is a key driver for the
foundation. Developing solutions from the needs of patients rather than thinking
what the patient needs is a powerful stakeholder position. The Pumping
Marvellous Foundation manages the world’s largest online community of heart
failure patients through their innovative and rich data communities. This is
where the charity gains insights, using it to influence policy decisions.

Nick regularly engages and involves himself in both Global, European, National
and Regional patient advocacy along with delivering patient-led collaborative
solutions at a local level.

Nick is regularly consulted on the “patient opinion” both by key stakeholders
and at conferences. His peers and partners across health channels see him as a
“key opinion leader”.




DR MARI HARTY



Dr Mari Harty, Clinical Director of the SLP Forensic Programme, is a Consultant
Forensic Psychiatrist and Clinical Director – Forensic, Specialist and National
services at South West London and St George’s.

She leads a team of psychiatrists and is responsible for end-to-end service
delivery.

Mari has published on a range of forensic issues including the needs of patients
in the High Secure Psychiatric Hospitals, community forensic services, prison
mental health inreach and service provision for women.




SAM HASKELL



Sam works as the Housing and Integration Policy Lead at the Department of
Health. He is the organisation’s lead for housing and health/care issues.

His previous role was at Public Health England (PHE) as the national lead for
work, worklessness and health. Before joining PHE, Sam worked in the Department
of Health and Ministry of Justice in a variety of different roles. Between 2011
and 2013 he completed the Government graduate scheme – The Civil Service Fast
Stream – as an internal candidate.

Sam recently completed an MSc in Health Policy at Imperial College London. He
received the Dean’s Prize for his dissertation on pet ownership and health in
later life. He now lives and works in London with his partner.




LYNNE HAWKSWORTH



Lynne Hawksworth is Secretary and Trustee of Knitted Knockers UK and is a
retired Head of English, a mum of two and granna of four.




ZARA HEAD



Zara Head is the Lead Nurse for Primary Care Quality at NHS Doncaster CCG and
has been in post for two years.

She trained as a nurse at Scunthorpe General Hospital, starting her career in
Orthopaedics and Accident and Emergency, working in various hospitals in the
north of England.

She has spent most of her career in primary care, first as a practice nurse for
a busy GP and prior to her current role, she was a Lead Inspector for the Care
Quality Commission for primary and integrated care.




SUZY HEAFIELD



Suzy Heafield, BPharm. Head of Medicines Value and Delivery, NHS England (NHSE)
Commercial Medicines Directorate
Suzy is a commissioning pharmacist working for NHSE as the Head of Medicines
Value and Delivery. She graduated from Kings College London in 1996 and
qualified as a pharmacist in 1997.
Suzy leads the cross-organisational Medicines Value Programme. The programme
involves working across both primary and secondary care, aligning clinical and
commercial opportunities to ensure that the NHS achieves the best possible value
from its significant investment in medicines. This includes supporting patients
and clinicians to access the best value medicines to enable the best possible
outcomes.




DR CHARLES HEATLEY



Dr Charles Heatley is a senior partner at Birley Health Centre in Sheffield and
Clinical Director for Planned Care at Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group. He
has special interests in mental health and cardiology.




ALISON HEMSWORTH



Alison Hemsworth has led on many national projects relating to community
pharmacy, the most notable being the introduction of the Community Pharmacy
Seasonal Flu Vaccination Service.

Her previous roles have included: performance management of community pharmacy
and optometry contracts in several PCTs; Service Development Officer for Leeds
LPC; Prescribing Support Technician in Bradford; Education and training of
pharmacy support staff for the University of Leeds/Bradford College; and
Hospital pharmacy in various departments across the country.

In addition to her technician qualifications, Alison has an MSc in Leadership
and Management in Health and Social Care, and a Foundation Degree in Pharmacy
Services and Medicines Management. In 2016 Alison was a finalist in the Women in
the City Future Leaders Award.




JUDITH HENDLEY



Judith Hendley became Head of Supported Self-Management at NHS England and NHS
Improvement in April 2020, which is part of NHS Personalised Care.  She was
previously Head of Patient Safety Policy for the same organisation.  Immediately
prior to joining the NHS centrally, Judith worked in health and social care
policy for London local government supporting initiatives to help local
government and the NHS work more closely together. 




SHEHAN HETTIARATCHY



Shehan Hettiaratchy is the clinical lead for the Veterans Trauma Network.

He is the Lead Surgeon and Major Trauma Director at Imperial College Healthcare
NHS Trust in London.

He has developed the VTN together with Richard Swarbrick, National Lead Armed
Forces and Families & MOD Health Transition, NHS England.

Shehan has served in the British Army since he left school and is currently a
reservist serving with Airborne Forces. He was deployed to Afghanistan twice.




JENNY HICKEN



Jenny Hicken is a Network Delivery Facilitator in the Northern England Clinical
Networks, and is part of the Mental Health and Dementia Network team.

She is currently working on projects addressing the wellbeing of vulnerable
groups, and represents the Network team on the North East and North Cumbria ICS
Zero Suicide Ambition Steering Group. She also keeps a hand in with the
Maternity Network team, with whom she has worked closely on a number of pieces
of work.

Jenny lives in Newcastle upon Tyne with her husband and two young sons, and has
worked in the NHS since 2009.




DR JULIE HIGGINS



Julie has held a number of NHS positions including Chief Executive, Deputy Chief
Executive and Director of Public Health in PCTs; she led the development of CCGs
in Greater Manchester. She has been the Regional Director of Commissioning in
NHS England as well as and has been SRO for large scale hospital
reconfigurations following hospital merger to improve child and maternity
services. Julie was Vice Chair of the Greater Manchester Public Health Network
which carried out a number of ground breaking public health initiatives
including the development of the Greater Manchester Health Commission.

Before joining the NHS, Julie worked at London University in the field of
immunology after gaining her PhD. Julie is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public
Health. She has a strong commitment to reducing health inequalities and
alongside her working life has undertaken voluntary work with Youth Offending
Teams.

In her Current role as Director of Transformation/SRO Learning Disabilities she
is leading on:- Reducing health inequalities and improving health outcomes for
people with Learning Disabilities; Improving services and reducing reliance on
hospital beds, for people with learning disabilities and/or autism with mental
health issues and/or behaviours that challenge.




PROFESSOR DAME SUE HILL



Professor Dame Sue Hill DBE FMedSci FRSB FRCP(Hon) FRCPath (Hon) FHCS (Hon) is
the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) for England and a respiratory scientist by
background.

Throughout her career she has led on large-scale priority programmes across
government and in NHS England including as the senior responsible officer for
Genomics in the NHS, introducing a world-leading and nationwide Genomic Medicine
Service, building on her work in heading up the NHS contribution to the 100,000
Genomes Project.

She has also played a pivotal role in the national COVID-19 programme leading
the development and deployment of testing technologies into use for the UK
population and co-directing the whole-genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 programme.




NIKKY HILL



Nikky Hill qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1998 after completing her
degree at Brunel University.

She started her career in Surrey and London and has always worked in the acute
hospital setting.

For the past 14 years she has worked at Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation
Trust.

In April 2019, she moved into her new role as Macmillan Prehabilitation Project
Manager to look at the feasibility of developing and delivering a model of
prehabilitation with the aim of improving patient’s health and wellbeing before,
during and after primary cancer treatment.




JULIAN HILL



Julian is an experienced nurse with 30 years in the fields of learning
disabilities and mental health.

He works independently and is firmly committed to the principles of Care and
Treatment Reviews.

He believes that people with a learning disability, autism or both should almost
never be admitted to hospital. If there is no other option; then it is only
appropriate to admit when the person has very clear treatment outcomes and a
discharge package in place




DR SELWYN HODGE



Dr Selwyn Hodge is co-Chair of the Self Care Forum.

Having trained as a research organic chemist, he qualified as a teacher and
became Deputy Head of a large 11-18 comprehensive school.

Selwyn then returned to higher education, as a research fellow for a Government
technical and vocational education initiative, and a lecturer in chemistry
education in initial teacher training.

His next move was into local government, firstly as a schools science adviser
and then Chief Education Adviser and Deputy Director of Education. During this
timehe was closely involved in public health initiatives.

Later Selwyn became an inspector of schools for OFSTED.

He was previously Chair of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Chair
of the Royal Society for Public Health and a Board member of the National
Association of Clubs for Young People. And was also Honorary Editor of the RSPH
Journal Perspectives in Public Health.

Currently he is Chair of Ambition, a leading UK youth charity, and an adviser to
the Public Health England Well North Programme.




STEPHEN HODGES



Stephen Hodges is the NHS RightCare Hot Housing Implementation Lead for the
North Region.

He has worked in the NHS for 26 years and started his career in nursing. His
clinical career has included roles within Intensive Care, transplant
coordination and research.

Stephen spent 10 years working in Scotland in clinical, research and public
health roles and more recently worked for NICE within their Medtech and
Diagnostic programmes.

He has experience of working on national improvement programmes, working for NHS
Improving Quality and, prior to joining NHS RightCare was Head of Patient
Services at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.




ISABEL HODKINSON



Isabel Hodkinson is a GP principal in Tower Hamlets, where much of the care for
people with LTCs is delivered through enhanced service funding for packages of
care via GP networks.

She is on the Tower Hamlets CCG board as lead for informatics and is the RCGP
Clinical Champion for Care and Support planning.




JOHN HOLDEN



John Holden was previously Director of Policy, Partnerships and Innovation,
since the publication of these blogs he has left NHS England.




LISA HOLLINS



Lisa Hollins is the Director of Innovation Delivery at NHSX.

Until September, she was Executive Director of Improvement, Informatics and ICT,
at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of the Shelford Group
Transformation Directors.

Lisa is an experienced health leader and has worked in the NHS for over 25
years. Until September 2019, she was Chair of the Shelford Group Transformation
Directors and has held senior positions in NHS trusts with University College
London Hospitals, Barts Health and King’s College Hospital as her most recent
organisations.

She has held regional and national roles in quality improvement and previously
published a number of articles on quality improvement and efficiency.




DR DANIEL HOLMAN



Dr Daniel Holman is a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociological Studies
at the University of Sheffield. He is currently researching inequalities in
chronic diseases, and how they are patterned according to combinations of
socioeconomic factors, age, gender and ethnicity (so-called
‘intersectionality’), and how this patterning is shaped by experiences across
the life course.

Previously, he worked on a European project on extending working lives,
particularly on the relationships between health, age management, pensions and
retirement.




JANICE HOLT



Janice Holt is a retired teacher with a passion for music and a love of dogs.

She volunteered at St George’s Community Centre prior to working with the Care
Homes Vanguard in Wakefield.

In addition, Janice also volunteers twice a week at a Wakefield District Housing
Independent Living scheme.




EMILY HOLZHAUSEN OBE



Emily Holzhausen OBE is the Director of Policy and Public Affairs for Carers UK,
who she has been with since 1996, and is one of the country’s foremost experts
on carers’ issues.

She is responsible for the organisation’s UK and England strategic development
and direction of policy, research, campaigning, parliamentary and media work.

Emily leads on advice and awareness for the charity – supporting tens of
thousands of carers each year through its Adviceline services. She is also
responsible for Carers Week, one of the UK’s biggest awareness weeks.

Emily has developed and led different campaigns which have resulted in new
legislation, policy or practice to improve the lives of carers.

She was a trustee of the Fawcett Society for six years and, prior to her role at
Carers UK, she was responsible for public affairs work at the National
Federation of Women’s Institutes.

Emily was awarded an OBE for services to carers in the 2015 Birthday Honours.




JO HOOPER



Jo Hooper is the Operations Manager for Hampshire’s Integrated Personal
Commissioning Programme, which is called My Life My Way.

She qualified as a Learning Disability Nurse and has since worked for the NHS
and Local Authority, primarily with people who have lived experience of living
with a learning disability, but more recently as a Project Manager and then a
Team Manager for social workers supporting young people through transition.

In her current role Jo has worked very closely with families to trial the new
processes being championed by IPC.




JONATHON HOPE MBE



Over the last 10 years Jonathon has chaired or co-chaired a number of national
and local health care improvement projects, and has spoken widely on person
centred care, self care, self-management, patient participation and activation

Jonathon was diagnosed with kidney failure in his teens – over 30 years ago. He
experienced 15 years on dialysis, much of it on a kidney machine at home. He
currently has a fourth transplant which is working well

Jonathon has recently been appointed as co-chair to a national programme looking
at increasing activation and self-management support for people living with long
term conditions.




MICHELLE HOPE



Michelle Hope trained as a nurse at the University of Chester in 2000. Her
nursing career has been focused within the specialties of haematology and
oncology and she has most recently worked as a ward sister at University College
London Hospital.

The ward sister role is one in which the competing priorities of leader and
manager exist. Michelle is now focusing on the leadership element of an exciting
new chapter in her career through her Darzi fellowship as Quality Improvement
Nurse. The role spans across UCLPartners addressing pressure ulcer prevention,
and her vision is to develop a brand, ‘Help Nurses Care’, building upon elements
of practice which have demonstrated success and removing those which have not.




DR KAREN HORRIDGE



Dr Karen Horridge is a Paediatrician (Disability) in Sunderland and the Chair of
the British Academy of Childhood Disability.

You can follow the British Academy of Childhood Disability on Twitter at
@BACD_tweets.




RACHAEL HOUGH



Rachael Hough is a Consultant in Haematology and Stem Cell Transplantation at
UCL Hospitals and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Haematology/Transplantation at
UCL.

As such, she is now the Clinical Lead of the largest teenage cancer service in
the UK and has developed an adolescent-focussed transplant practice.

After completing undergraduate training at Nottingham University, she undertook
post graduate general medical and haematology training in Sheffield.

She has also established and chairs the BSBMT Umbilical Cord Blood Working Group
and is the Chief Investigator of the 2 NCRI-badged national cord blood
transplant protocols. She is a member of the BSBMT Clinical Trials Committee and
the CCLG Leukaemia and BMT Special Interest Groups and Coordinates the
adolescent and young adult appendix of UKALL2003.




EMILY HOUGH



Emily joined NHS England’s Strategy Group in 2014, taking over as Director of
the Group in July 2017. The Strategy Group is focused on supporting the
strategic priorities and sustainability of the NHS and was instrumental in the
development of the NHS Long term Plan. Emily has overseen programmes including
Healthy New Towns, Health and Work and the NHS as an anchor institution. She has
also led strategy contributions to a wide range of projects from the
specification for Rapid Diagnostic Centers to plans for improving autism
diagnosis and support.

Emily’s previous NHS experience includes supporting a major service
reconfiguration in North Central London, advising the first Trust Special
Administrator appointed to an NHS Trust in South East London, developing a
Commissioning Support Unit’s Strategy and Transformation practice and supporting
the development of London’s Clinical Commissioning Groups. Prior to joining the
NHS Emily was a management consultant, specialising in strategy.




PHILIP HOWARD



Philip Howard is Consultant Pharmacist in Antimicrobials at the Leeds Teaching
Hospitals NHS Trust, an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Leeds University, and is
currently seconded part time to NHS England as an Antimicrobial Resistance and
Healthcare Associated Infection project lead.

Philip has been active in the field of Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) for many
years. He has been involved in the development of national AMS guidance for
primary care and hospitals, the national Antimicrobial Prescribing and
Stewardship Competences.

He is a member of the UKCPA Pharmacy Infection Network, BSAC Council, ESCMID AMS
committee and has represented FIP on the WHO AMR Strategy. He is also a
spokesman for the RPS on antimicrobials.




CLARE HOWARD



Clare Howard is Deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for NHS England and is
leading the work on Medicines Optimisation for NHS England. Clare first started
working in pharmacy at the age of 16 and since then has worked with community
pharmacists, primary and secondary care.




SHARON HOWARD



Sharon Howard is an Administrative Support Officer for NHS England’s Strategic
Clinical Networks in the Thames Valley. She has worked for the NHS since 2010,
starting as a Medical Laboratory Assistant in Biochemistry. She also worked as a
Healthcare Assistant in Radiology before moving into her first administrative
role in Clinical Genetics.




ELLIE HUCKLE



Ellie Huckle shared her story with NHS England on what it’s like to live with
Type 1 diabetes.




RUTH HUDSON



Ruth Hudson is a member of NHS England’s Insight Team, focussed on gathering
patient feedback to improve services and is passionate about making feedback
methods inclusive.




AMANDA HUGHES



Amanda is Senior Finance, Contracts and Commissioning Manager for the
Personalised Care Group at NHS England and Improvement.




LINDSEY HUGHES



Lindsey Hughes is Director of Research and Engagement in the Innovation,
Research and Life Sciences (IRLS) Group and Accelerated Access Collaborative at
NHS England.

During 27 years of NHS service, including 18 years in frontline service
provision as an Orthoptist, Lindsey has held various clinical and professional
leadership roles in service delivery, research and education. Lindsey joined NHS
England in 2014 and led the Improving Rehabilitation Services Programme prior to
joining the IRLS group in 2016 where she developed the research programme before
taking up her current role.

Her portfolio includes Research, Horizon Scanning and Demand Signalling, Health
Inequalities, Net Zero and Patient and Public Involvement.




PHILIPPA HUGHES



Philippa Hughes is regional housing lead for the north region and sub regional
housing lead for Yorkshire and Humber working on the Transforming Care Learning
Disabilities programme.

As well as this, Philippa is a volunteer for a local community association and
hospice and North East regional ambassador for the Housing Learning and
Improvement so brings a real passion to her new role.




DR HENRIETTA HUGHES



Dr Henrietta Hughes was appointed in July 2016 as the National Guardian, a key
recommendation from the Francis Report.

She provides leadership and support to Freedom to Speak Up Guardians across
England in arm’s-length bodies, NHS and Independent sector organisations to
ensure that speaking up becomes business as usual.

The National Guardian’s Office undertakes and publishes case reviews when it
appears that speaking up has not been handled according to best practice,
providing challenge and learning to the healthcare system as a whole.

Previously a Medical Director at NHS England, Dr Hughes continues her clinical
role weekly as a GP in central London.




REBECCA HUGHES



After graduating in Psychology and Counselling, with post-graduate studies in
Low Intensity Intervention, Rebecca Hughes began her career, in 2007, as an
Employment Support Specialist for people with a learning disability in Boston,
USA. At South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, she provided
community support to individuals in crisis and experiencing common to severe
mental health problems. In 2010 she joined Insight Healthcare talking therapies
service in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, as a trainee Psychological Wellbeing
Practitioner (PWP). Rebecca was appointed PWP Team Lead Insight Healthcare in
2014 and Service Lead two years later.




ANNE HUNT



Anne Hunt has been Lead Sepsis Nurse at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
for 18 months, working on meeting the NHS England Sepsis CQUIN to reduce the
impact of serious infections. The easy read leaflet was developed in partnership
with Herts County Council Health Liaison Team including The Purple All Stars.




MIKE HURLEY



Professor Michael Hurley, Clinical Director – Musculoskeletal Programme

Health Innovation Network (Academic Health Science Network for South London)

Mike Hurley qualified as a physiotherapist in 1985. He was Lecturer, Reader and
Professor in Physiotherapy at Kings College London until moving to the School of
Rehabilitation Sciences at St George’s University of London in 2010.

His areas of interest are devising and evaluating exercise-based rehabilitation
chronic joint pain, rheumatic conditions, falls and dementia. He has conducted
several large trials in primary and secondary care. He works closely with
healthcare users, clinicians and commissioners to ensure the interventions
developed are clinically practicable, in order to facilitate wide clinical
implementation.

He has published over 65 papers. In July 2013 he was appointed Clinical Director
for the Musculoskeletal Programme of the Health Innovation Network South London
(an Academic Health Science Network) to promote implementation of best practice
for people with musculoskeletal conditions across the twelve South London
boroughs.

ESCAPE-pain is a rehabilitation programme for people with chronic knee and/or
hip pain. It has an extensive evidence base that shows it is effective,
cost-effective and popular, with large potential savings in healthcare. As of
August 2016 it was being delivered in almost 30 centres across the UK and over
2000 people had benefitted.




PETER HUSKINSON



Peter Huskinson is the National Commercial Director of Specialised Commissioning
at NHS England.

He joined the NHS in 2003 after a successful career in industry, and has worked
in a range of commissioning and transformation roles with responsibility for
primary, community acute and mental health care.

He co-chairs NHS England’s National Programme of Care Board for Blood and
Infection overseeing the work of clinical reference groups in infection,
immunity and haematology.




DR PAUL HUSSELBEE



Dr Paul Husselbee is Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) of NHS Southend CCG and has
been a GP in Southend for 23 years, having been born and brought up in the town.

He is also co-chair of the Quality Working Group of the NHS Commissioning
Assembly, was a member of the Keogh Review Board and sits on the Quality and
Clinical Risk committee, a sub-committees of the Board of NHS England.

He has been CCO in Southend since October 2012 – a small CCG with around 180,000
patients, co-terminus with Southend Unitary Local Authority and served by a
single acute hospital. He has always had a keen interest in the managerial side
of the health service, previously being GP advisor to Southend University
Hospital, then Co-Chair of the PEC of Southend PCT.




WILL HUXTER



Will Huxter is Regional Director of Specialised Commissioning (London) at NHS
England and currently chair of the NHS England Gender Task & Finish Group.

Prior to joining NHS England in June 2014, Will worked in a range of
commissioning roles within the NHS, and for five years at an NHS Trust.

He has also spent eight years working in the voluntary sector.




DR RICHARD ILES



Dr Richard Iles is a consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the
Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Previously he was a consultant at Addenbrookes’ Hospital in Cambridge.

He held an Honorary Lecturer post in Health Economics at the School of Medicine,
Health Policy and Practice, UEA in Norwich from 2004-2010.

In 2013 he became the clinical lead for the high impact change asthma project
for the East of England SCN MNCYP and is the clinical lead for National
Paediatric Asthma Collaborative, NHS England, and is Clinical Advisor to the
Paediatric Asthma Quality Improvement Program for the Health London Partnership.




CANDACE IMISON



Candace Imison joined the Nuffield Trust in December 2014.

Candace was previously Deputy Director of Policy at The King’s Fund where she
researched and published on a wide range of topics including future healthcare
trends, service reconfiguration, workforce planning, polyclinics, community
health services and referral management.

Candace has extensive senior management experience in the NHS, including at
board level for providers and commissioners. She was director of strategy for a
large acute trust and director of commissioning for large health authority.

Candace worked on strategy and policy at the Department of Health between 2000
and 2006, including work for the Modernisation Agency leading a workforce
modernisation initiative. She is currently a non-executive director of a large
NHS Foundation Trust.

Candace holds a master’s degree in health economics and health policy from
Birmingham University and a degree in natural sciences from Cambridge
University.




MATT INADA-KIM



Matt Inada-Kim is an Acute Medicine Consultant at the Royal Hampshire County
Hospital, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.

He is also National Clinical Director for Infection, Antimicrobial Resistance
and Deterioration.




CELIA INGHAM CLARK



Celia Ingham Clark is the Medical Director for Clinical Effectiveness at NHS
England.

She trained in Cambridge and London and was appointed as a consultant general
surgeon at the Whittington Hospital in 1996.

After early work in medical education she developed an interest in quality
improvement and this took her through several medical management roles to become
Medical Director of the trust from 2004-2012.

More recently she worked as national clinical director for acute surgery and
enhanced recovery, and as London regional lead for revalidation and quality.

For two years from 2014 she was the NHS England Director for reducing premature
mortality, and in 2016 became the Medical Director for Clinical Effectiveness.
She was awarded an MBE in 2013 for services to the NHS.

Celia is also the interim National Director of Patient Safety at NHS
Improvement.




ELIZABETH IRO



Elizabeth Iro started in her role as Chief Nursing Officer of WHO in January
2018.

She is from the Cook Islands, Mrs Iro has served as the country’s Secretary of
Health since 2012. She was the first nurse/midwife and woman to be appointed in
this position.

In this role, she has implemented legislative reforms to strengthen the
country’s health system and developed the National Health Strategic plans
(2012-2016, 2017-2021)and a National Health Road Map 2017-2036, among other
National policy and strategic documents.

Prior to this role, she served as the country’s Chief Nursing Officer from 2011
to 2012. In addition, for the first 25 years of her career, she was a practicing
nurse and midwife, serving in several roles in the Cook Islands and New Zealand.




JEREMY ISAACS



Jeremy Isaacs is a consultant neurologist at St George’s and Kingston Hospitals
and is dementia clinical lead at St George’s Hospital. He studied medicine at
Cambridge and UCL; his PhD was on the immunology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(CJD).

Jeremy has a specialist interest in cognitive neurology and dementia. He runs a
multi-disciplinary cognitive neurology service at St George’s Hospital offering
diagnosis, treatment and support for all types of cognitive disorder, including
young-onset and atypical dementias. He has developed a pioneering support group
for people living with young onset dementia. He is currently working with the
London Dementia Clinical Network to support memory services in reducing waiting
times for assessment and diagnosis.

Jeremy is a member of the NICE dementia clinical guideline (update) committee.
He is co-authoring the chapter on Memory Disorders and Dementia for the
forthcoming Oxford Textbook of Neuropsychiatry. He has published on clinical and
molecular aspects of neurological disorders, prion biology and the history of
medicine. He has research interests in clinical trials in Alzheimer’s disease
and other dementias, repurposing of drugs for dementia and delirium and the
neuropsychology of functional cognitive disorders.




PRERANA ISSAR



Prerana Issar is the first NHS Chief People Officer. In joining the NHS, Prerana
brings a wealth of expertise in leadership development and strategic talent
management, as well as diversity and inclusion.

Prior to joining the NHS Prerana was Director for Public-Private Partnerships at
the United Nations and prior to that she was the Chief Human Resources Officer
for the World Food Programme. During this time leading the development of the
United Nation’s first strategic human capital approach, as well as the reform of
many key policies. Before the United Nations, Prerana worked for over 15 years
at Unilever Plc, starting with them in India and then for several years was in
global roles at Unilever’s headquarters in London. Her last role in Unilever was
Vice-President HR for the Global Foods business.

Prerana gets her strong service ethos from her parents who were both in public
service in the Government of India for close to 40 years. A proud mother to a
teenage son and a younger daughter she says they keep her grounded with timely
performance feedback on a variety of topics. One of the happiest days of her
life was when her daughter was born at the Royal Free hospital in London, giving
her first-hand experience of the NHS staff who every day deliver outstanding
care to patients.




MEL IVE



Mel Ive is the Hospital Broadcasting Association Regions Manager and Trustee as
well as Chairperson for Hospital Radio Wexham. She has over 18 years’ experience
in the voluntary sector, and is passionate, that no matter what age, experience
or skills a volunteer has, all volunteers have the opportunities to develop, and
has the philosophy “whatever you put in, you get out!”.

The Hospital Broadcasting Association (HBA), more formally known as the National
Association of Hospital Broadcasting Organisations (NAHBO), is the national
charity that supports and promotes Hospital Broadcasting in the UK.




DR GRAHAM JACKSON



Dr Graham Jackson is GP Principal and Clinical Chair of Aylesbury Vale CCG and
has worked within Buckinghamshire continually since 1988.

He became a partner at Whitehill Surgery in 1991 and still thoroughly enjoys the
challenge that primary care provides.

In 1994 he brought together a group of local colleagues to found AYDDOC, an Out
of Hours GP co-operative, of which he was Medical Manager for 10 years. He has
been an LMC (Local Medical Committee) member since 1995.

From 1992 to 2003 he was a Hospital Practitioner in Psychiatry and Chaired
Neurolink (a national board of mental health experts providing educational
material) for several years.

Dr Jackson has been involved in health service provision in Buckinghamshire for
a number of years having previously been Managing Director of Bucks Urgent Care
and former chair of Vale Health (a GP Provider company).

He remains a member of the Formulary Management Group for Bucks, and has joined
the CCG Development Group with NHS England, and is a member of the Steering
Group for the NHS Commissioning Assembly.

He is also a member of Buckinghamshire Health and Wellbeing Board and the
Strategic Clinical Network oversight committee for Thames Valley.




KATE JACKSON



Kate Jackson (she/her) is the Head of Clinical Workforce and Quality,
Personalised Care Group at NHS England and Improvement. An occupational
therapist by profession, she has held clinical and non-clinical roles across
national and local footprints.

Kate (@krjacks) was previously the Allied Health Professional (AHP) Professional
Advisor to the Ageing Well programme and Discharge and Community Cell as part of
the COVID-19 response at NHS England and Improvement. She is married with two
children, two stepchildren and two granddaughters.




TOM JACKSON



Tom Jackson was appointed as Chief Finance Officer for Liverpool CCG in August
2012.

Before that he fulfilled a number of senior financial roles for NHS Merseyside
including Locality Director of Finance for Liverpool PCT and NHS Sefton.

He has worked in NHS financial management for over 20 years. After graduating
with a degree in Economics he joined the NHS as a Graduate Financial Management
Trainee working in hospitals around Liverpool.

Upon qualification as an accountant he continued to work in Liverpool hospitals
before a move to Commissioning in Wigan with the advent of PCGs and PCTs. In
2007 he returned to Merseyside firstly as Deputy Director and then as Director
of Finance for NHS Sefton.

Tom is currently the Senior Responsible Officer for the Healthy Liverpool health
and social care transformation programme.




JACQ EMKES



Jacq Emkes is a maths teacher and lives in Bedfordshire.

She is a patient advocate for continence care, speaking at events across the UK
to raise awareness of issues for bladder and bowel patients.

Jacq is a patient champion for the It’s Personal campaign, which calls for
better services and support for people with bladder and bowel problems.

She is also a patient advocate for NHS England’s Excellence In Continence Care
Programme Board and has contributed to the Excellence in Continence Care
guidance.




RAY JAMES CBE



Ray brings a wealth of experience and knowledge from a career in local
government to his role leading NHS England’s work to transform care for people
with a learning disability and their families/carers.

He has served as Executive Director of Health, Housing and Adult Social Care at
Enfield Council for over a decade and is a Past President of the Association of
Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS). Ray was awarded a CBE for services
to Adult Social Care in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List.

His Local Government career began in 1984 as a Scale 1 Clerical Officer and
after working in three other London boroughs he joined Enfield in 1991 where he
was appointed as Director in 2006 . Enfield is a multi-award winning North
London Council, it’s growing reputation for adult social care reflected in
national recognition in respect of safeguarding, independent living, community
involvement and transition amongst other issues. Ray has always championed the
insight and expertise of people with lived experience and their families. He has
consistently sought greater recognition for the front line care and support
workforce.

He has held a number of roles within ADASS including Chair of the London Region,
National Lead for the Regions and President. His background in Commissioning has
led to extensive work on national policy issues in this area.

Ray was born and raised in the East End of London, his family and Irish Ancestry
are very important to him. Ray’s studies have included dual professional
qualifications and a Masters in Leadership.




URSULA JAMES



Ursula James joined the IAPT Programme in NHS England in June 2016 and has an
extensive background in mental health, having trained as a nurse in 1991. She
worked in acute mental health care for many years and completed extensive
training in therapy before moving into IAPT services in 2009.

Ursula has worked as a Clinical Lead and IAPT Service Manager focusing on
quality improvement and, before joining NHS England, was the regional Recovery
Lead for the South West IAPT Clinical Network.

Ursula works on national policy developments of the IAPT programme, most notably
this year has been the expansion into integrated IAPT services into physical
health pathways, and is a specialist clinical advisor for the CQC.




NICOLA JAY



Nicola Jay is a consultant paediatrician leading a clinical network in South
Yorkshire and Bassetlaw.

After qualifying as a doctor in London (Royal Free Hospital MBBS, St Mary’s
Hospital/Imperial BSc physiology) she trained in paediatrics across three
regions (Nottingham, Sheffield and Birmingham) with post graduate qualifications
in Health Care Leadership (MSc) as well as Ethics & Law (PgDip).

Nicola has worked at Sheffield Children’s Hospital as a consultant in paediatric
allergy for a decade with research interests being prevention of food allergy as
part of the BEEP study, looking at minority population to improve health, moving
allergy services into the community to improve access and de-labelling of
antibiotic allergy.

She sits on the paediatricians in medical management committee at the RCPCH
which advices on national health policies and standards for young people and is
a council member for the clinical senate of Yorkshire & Humber which gives
impartial advice to clinicians.

Her main additional role is as the clinical lead for the acutely unwell child
managed clinical network (MCN) of South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw (Barnsley,
Bassetlaw, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield and Chesterfield/Mid Yorks NHS
Trust). The MCN is a workstream of the Integrated Care System (ICS) aiming to
improve equity of access, quality of care and subsequent reduction in
inequalities of health for the children in our region by working closely
together.

Central to her vision is an NHS that unites across currently recognised
boundaries to provide seamless care for all children that need health care.




PAUL JEBB



Paul Jebb registered as a nurse in 1996 and has held several senior leadership
roles within nursing and operational management in the NHS and voluntary sector.

He supports the development and advancement of nursing by being a Care Maker,
member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council professional standards advisory
group, and ambassador for the Mary Seacole statue appeal.

Paul now leads on Action Area 2 of the Compassion in Practice strategy, looking
at developing  co-production of Always Events within the NHS and works with the
national patient experience team delivering NHS England commitment to carers,
specifically with a lead on older carers.

Prior to this Paul was the Assistant Director of Nursing (Patient Experience) at
Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust where he led and implemented
improvements within the patient experience team.




HELEN JENKINS



Helen Jenkins has worked for NHS Central West Neighbourhood Team, based in
Blackpool, Lancashire for approximately two years as Health and Wellbeing
Support Worker. She was previously employed in similar roles based in and around
Blackpool and has built up a foundation of knowledge of services, groups and
organisations to help suitably signpost patients.

The role involves working with complex and diverse patients – some from deprived
social and economic communities. During the NHS England pilot scheme – on
Population Health Management (PHM) – she worked closely with GPs, the CCG and
Blackpool Council.

For her the Health and Wellbeing Support Worker role is about caring, spending
time to listen, reacting and supporting people to access the right organisation
with a helping hand.




GRACE JEREMY



Grace Jeremy is the Engagement Lead and Lead Young Advisor for We Can Talk, the
Rights and Participation worker at Off The Record Bristol and Peer Project
Coordinator for The Blurt Foundation.

She has been working as a mental health activist, educator and speaker since she
was 17. You can follow her at @_graceadele.




DR CAROLINE JESSEL



Dr Caroline Jessel is the Regional Lead for Sustainability and Health for NHS
England, South. She has been a GP for 30 years in Kent and has always had a
strong interest in the relationship between the environment and health. She also
works for the Kent and Medway area team as Clinical Strategy Lead responsible
for facilitating all NHS organisations in the county to develop safe,
sustainable and effective services. She is a member of the Kent Surrey and
Sussex Clinical Senate Council and supports the Strategic Clinical Networks in
the region. Caroline has led the development of the Sustainable Surgery Award
Scheme, piloted in Kent and she is co-chair of the Kent Nature Partnership.




JAMES JEYNES



James Jeynes is the proud father of Lewis, 12, who was diagnosed with terminal
Batten Disease in 2014.

In his professional life, James is Chief Executive of MemNet Ltd and Executive
Office Ltd and also has roles as Associate Director for Advantage Public
Services and as a director of the Football Argument Ltd.

James is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and for over 24 years he has
been helping to improve the membership and association sectors through his
creation of high quality professional networks.

He has previously worked in local and central government including public sector
development roles overseas in South Africa, France, Switzerland, UAE, Barbados,
Jamaica and Trinidad.

In his spare time, James is a trustee of The Lewis Jeynes Fund, a board trustee
of the Batten Disease Family Association and a lived experience advisor to the
NHS England Personal Health Budgets Team.




HARDEEP JHUTTY



Deputy Director, Strategy and Development, Centre for Improving Data
Collaboration, NHS Transformation Directorate
Hardeep is Deputy Director for Strategy and Development in the Centre for
Improving Data Collaboration. Prior to this she led Strategy and Policy for
Integrated Care Systems, and Pricing Strategy at Monitor/ NHS Improvement. More
broadly, Hardeep’s experience has focussed on healthcare strategy and economics
in the UK and in the global health arena. She has worked with a wide range of
NHS organisations, international actors including the UN and WHO, funders and
industry partners to develop and deliver transformative partnerships. Hardeep is
passionate about health and enabling research and innovation that has the
potential to transform lives and improve equity. She has also held and continues
to serve in Trustee roles that are focussed on health and care at home and
overseas.




DR JAGAN JOHN



Dr Jagan John, North East London CCG Chair and Clinical Chair Barking and
Dagenham, has worked in the NHS since 1999 and is a GP at the Aurora Medcare
Practice in Barking. Before training as a GP, he worked in A&E and cardiology.
He has a special interest in cardiology and paediatric cardiology.
Jagan has worked in senior roles in various leadership positions locally and
nationally in the NHS, NHS England, and Department of Health and Social Care. He
is a strong advocate of personalised health care and excellent patient
experience. He is the clinical lead for personalised care in London (NHS
England-London) and Healthy London Partnerships. He also works as a GP with a
Special Interest (GPwSI) in Cardiology.
Jagan is married with two children and enjoys travelling and spending time with
his family. He is a keen West Ham United supporter.




JEFF JOHNSTON



Jeff Johnston, Associate Director of Operations at Liverpool Women’s NHS
Foundation Trust, joined the Trust in December 2005 as the Assistant Director of
Finance before moving into operational management in 2009, and has held a number
of senior management roles including Divisional Manager, managing all the
divisional services within the Trust.

Jeff became the Associate Director of Operations in September 2014.

Prior to joining the Trust Jeff held a number of senior positions in both the
NHS and other public sector organisations.

He led the successful Acute Care Collaborations Vanguard application in 2015 and
continues to work with the programme team to develop new care models.




DR MATTHEW JOLLY



Dr Matthew Jolly is National Clinical Director for the Maternity Review and
Women’s Health, NHS England, taking up the role in October 2015.

He is an experienced clinician who is committed to providing excellent
individual care and to the strategic improvement of maternity services and
women’s health.

Matthew qualified at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School and trained as an
obstetrician and gynaecologist in the North West Thames region, including two
years researching the role of maternal metabolism in fetal growth at Imperial
College School of Medicine.

He trained as a sub specialist in maternal and fetal medicine at the Centre for
Fetal Care, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital. Since 2001 he has worked as a
consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust
and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust.

He has in the past worked as a departmental clinical director and as joint
clinical director for The Maternity Children and Young People South East Coast
Strategic Clinical Network.




SAMANTHA JONES



Samantha Jones is NHS England’s Director for New Models of Care.

Samantha Jones was appointed as NHS England’s New Care Models Programme Director
in January 2015 leading the implementation of new models of care as outlined in
the NHS Five Year Forward View.

She started her NHS career as a paediatric and general nurse and was a national
management trainee. Having worked in a variety of operational management roles,
and in the national clinical governance support team, she became the Chief
Executive of Epsom and St Helier Hospitals NHS Trust.

Following this, Samantha worked in the independent sector before she was
appointed Chief Executive of West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust in February
2013.

In 2014 she was awarded Health Service Journal Chief Executive of the Year and
the trust’s “Onion” was highly commended in the patient safety award.




SUZANNE JONES



Suzanne Jones is NHS England’s Project Lead for Personal Health Budgets in the
End of Life Pathway. Suzanne began working in the NHS in 1975 as a student
physiotherapist, and spent the first 23 years of her career working clinically,
both in the NHS and in the private sector. Following the creation of PCTs,
Suzanne became a clinical member of North Devon PCT’s Professional Executive
Committee, and a year later Head of Physiotherapy. In 2005, Suzanne moved into
commissioning, with a portfolio covering older people and Continuing Healthcare.
From 2009-2014, Suzanne led Oxfordshire’s work to successfully pilot personal
health budgets and prior to moving to NHS England, Suzanne was Programme
Director for Community Integrated Localities in Oxfordshire. Outside work
Suzanne has enjoyed several volunteer roles, most notably as a volunteer at the
London Olympics and as Chair of a local parish council.




ANNWEN JONES



Annwen Jones has been Chief Executive of Target Ovarian Cancer since its
formation in 2008. She is the Vice-Chair of the World Ovarian Cancer Coalition
and co-founder of World Ovarian Cancer Day.

Annwen was appointed by NHS England to the National Cancer Drugs Panel in 2014
and currently sits on several clinical trial steering committees, including the
UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS).




DR INDRA JOSHI



Dr Indra Joshi is the Clinical Lead for NHS England’s Empower the Person
Portfolio overseeing the national citizen facing digital initiatives within the
NHS with a focus on evidence, data, digital health standards and policy for AI.

Indra has a unique portfolio with experience stretching across policy,
governance, digital health and marketing, national project strategy and
implementation; whilst remaining true to her professional training as an
emergency medic.

She is the Clinical Director of One HealthTech – a network which campaigns for
the need and importance of better inclusion of all backgrounds, skillsets and
disciplines in health technology. Alongside she is a Vice Chair for the British
Computer Society (Health), an international speaker and consultant on digital
health, an expedition medic, and most importantly a mum to two wonderful little
munchkins




ANNE JOSHUA



Anne Joshua is Head of Pharmacy Integration for NHS England and NHS Improvement
and is responsible for leading the programme of work supported by the Pharmacy
Integration Fund. Prior to this she was Chief Pharmacist at NHS Direct before
moving to NHS England in 2013 as NHS 111 Pharmacy Lead supporting the integrated
urgent care programme.




DR NIKKI KANANI



Dr Nikki Kanani is a GP in south-east London and is Medical Director of Primary
Care for NHS England and NHS Improvement. Prior to joining NHS England she was
Chief Clinical Officer of NHS Bexley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

Nikki has held a range of positions within healthcare to support the development
of innovative models of care, highly engaged clinical, patient and public
leadership and is passionate about supporting primary care, improving service
provision and population wellbeing.

She is a member of The King’s Fund General Advisory Council and holds a MSc in
health care commissioning. With her sister she co-founded STEMMsisters, a social
enterprise supporting young people to study science, technology, engineering,
maths and medicine. She has two young children.




LUVJIT KANDULA



Luvjit Kandula, Chief Officer, Leicestershire and Rutland Local Pharmaceutical
Committee. Specialist Advisor APPG Diabetes, Chair – PCPA Community Pharmacy
Group.

Luvjit is a qualified pharmacist who currently works as the Chief Officer of
Leicestershire and Rutland Local Pharmaceutical Committee and was recently
seconded to NHS Digital to support digitising medicines and Pharmacy.

Her role involves advancing community pharmacy in the local NHS whilst
representing Community Pharmacists interests through integration. Luvjit has
extensive experience working as a Community Pharmacist also having worked in
hospital pharmacy and industry both in the UK and abroad. Previous roles include
Head of Pharmacy Services, Head of the Pre-registration Training Programmes and
also Chairing Warwickshire Local Pharmaceutical Committee.




VIRAL KANTARIA



Viral Kantaria is Senior Programme Manager in NHS England’s Adult Mental Health
Team.

He used to be a policy lead for mental health crisis care and legislation at the
Department of Health. He has been a member of the Mental Health Act Review’s
Working Group. You can follow him at @ViralKMH.




PROFESSOR PARTHA KAR



Professor Partha Kar is National Specialty Advisor, Diabetes with NHS England
and co-author of the national Diabetes GIRFT report.

He has been a Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Portsmouth Hospitals
NHS Trust since 2008- and pioneer of the Super Six Diabetes Model which is
recognised as one of the good examples of integrated care.

He has helped to expand use of technology in Type 1 Diabetes- namely use of
Flash Glucose in Type 1 Diabetes and CGM in Type 1Diabetes pregnancy along with
online digital self-management platforms- while recently leading on real world
data collection on Closed Loops for subsequent NICE review. He has worked
subsequently with NICE on updating relevant guidelines in non-invasive glucose
monitoring access in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.

His other work has involved introduction of frailty into QoF treatment targets,
Diabulimia pilot projects in the NHS; championing “Language Matters” and helping
to create an overview of Diabetes care in Primary Care Networks. Recent work has
focussed on transitional care models- as well as tackling inequalities in
technology access based on deprivation and ethnicity.

He is one of the leading users of social media in diabetes care – and writes a
monthly blog for the British Medical Journal.

He has also been:

 * Co-creator of TAD (Talking About Diabetes) – TED talks from those with
   T1Diabetes
 * Co- creator of Type 1 Diabetes comic (Volume 1 to 4)
 * Co-creator of DEVICES (Virtual Reality educational modules in diabetes)

Beyond diabetes, he also recently taken a role in tackling issues of racial
disparity in the medical workforce as the Medical Workforce Race Equality
Standard lead for NHS England. He has also been named as one of the most
influential BAME individuals in healthcare in 2020,2021 and 2022.

Follow Partha on Twitter: @parthaskar




DR JULIANE KAUSE



Dr Juliane Kause is the care group lead emergency care, lead consultant out of
hours care and seven day services University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation
Trust.

Visiting fellow at the University of Southampton

Intensivist and General Physician with interest in service improvement,
multi-professional working and recognition & treatment of acute illness.

First full time Out of Hours and Seven Day Services consulant in NHS (to date as
far as we know).

Passionate Leader for Seven Day Services and Out of Hours Hospital Care.

Proactive teacher, leader, contributor and learner to the patient safety
collaborative.

Research interests include rapid response systems in hospitals, Out of Hours
Care Systems and Human Factors.




NICOLA KAY



Nicola Kay is NHS England’s Deputy Director for Personalised Care Policy and
Strategy.

In her role, she develops and leads the approach to scaling up and mainstreaming
personalised care, including embedding the relevant IT infrastructure,
developing necessary skills across the NHS, identifying new legislative rights
and strategic stakeholder engagement.

Nicola leads a team which work closely with local areas to embed new
opportunities for personalised care in areas such as substance misuse and
neuro-disability. Her team also includes a range of people who bring their own
lived experience to the team’s work.

Prior to joining NHS England in 2016, Nicola worked for 10 years as a civil
servant in a range of central government policy, strategy and finance roles. She
led on health and social care spending at HM Treasury, including the
commissioning reforms in the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, the Dilnot
Commission and the 2010 Spending Review.




PROFESSOR PETER KAY



Peter Kay is National Clinical Director for Musculoskeletal Services for NHS
England.

He is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Wrightington Hospital, Lancashire and
a former President of the British Orthopaedic Association (2011), British Hip
Society (2008) and British Orthopaedics Trainees Association (1992).

Peter is also Honorary Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of
Manchester and Clinical Professor at the University Central Lancashire and
currently serves on the Council of The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

He has produced research publications (scientific and popular) and presentations
on orthopaedics and trauma, health service management, modernisation and
medico-legal aspects of orthopaedics and trauma, clinical networks, integrated
care, workforce development and specialist commissioning.

His clinical interests include hip and knee replacement surgery, revision joint
replacement surgery for loosening and infection and knee arthroscopy,
multidisciplinary approach to arthroplasty services.

Managerially he has been Director of Research, Clinical Director, Divisional
Chairman for MSK (responsible for elective orthopaedics, trauma and
rheumatology) and Associate Medical Director in his own Trust (Wrightington,
Wigan and Leigh NHS FT).

He has three years’ experience as a full Trust Board Member up to a successful
Foundation Trust application and is the clinical lead for the Specialist
Orthopaedic Hospital Alliance in the UK.

He has campaigned nationally and internationally for effective and equitable
commissioning for musculoskeletal services across the whole of healthcare.




DR MATT KEARNEY



Matt Kearney is NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular
Disease Prevention and a GP in Shropshire. He has been working for both NHS
England and Public Health England since 2013, and has led development of the NHS
Long Term Plan CVD Prevention Programme.

In particular, he has focused on driving system change to help the NHS to get
serious about prevention of heart attacks, strokes and other vascular conditions
– through clinical leadership, better use of data, and new ways of working that
support primary care to improve outcomes for patients and communities.

Previously Matt worked as clinical and public health advisor to the Department
of Health respiratory programme, and was a member of the NICE Public Health
Interventions Advisory Committee from 2005 to 2013. He has a Master’s Degree in
Public Health and is a Fellow of both the Royal College of GPs and the Royal
College of Physicians.




LAVINIA KELLMAN



Lavinia Kellman works as the Young Carer Administrator in the Patient Experience
Team at NHS England. Young Carers are supported through our Commitment to Carers
programme.

Lavinia spent a large part of her childhood caring for older family members.

As a result of her employment with NHS England, Lavinia is hoping to gain
transferable office skills and to widen the range of career opportunities open
to her.




BRIAN KELLY



Brian Kelly is a 73 year old, retired fireman.

Following 30 years services in the fire service, he spent 10 years working at
the Bank of England printing works, where he was in charge of their Fire
Section.

Brian’s final employment was as a support worker in the Home Treatment Team for
a community mental health team.

He retired last year to care for his wife who has just reached the age of 78 and
who was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s four years ago. Brian has been a
full-time carer for his wife for the last two years.

When his caring role allows, Brian’s interests are D.I.Y, some golf, getting
involved in the garden, walking, and generally keeping busy. Brian also enjoys
reading and watching TV, when time permits.




BETH KELLY



Beth has worked in the NHS for 16 years. She is a DSN in Southampton
specialising in the care of type 1 diabetes. Beth also has a special love for
all things young adults and tech!

Beth is a co-chair for the DSN Forum Team & an editorial Board Advisor for
@DRWFDiabetes. She is also about to complete her 1st year in her @MScDiabPrac!
Beth also lectures in diabetes subjects and has spoken nationally. She has
published various work with leading nursing journals.

The DSN Forum Team won the @QICProgramme award for Healthcare Professionals of
the Year in 2018.




PROFESSOR PETER KELLY



Professor Peter Kelly joined Public Health England in September 2016 as Centre
Director for the North East having previously been the Director of Public Health
for Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council for 4 years.

Previously he was a Director of Public Health for 11 years in various NHS posts
in the North East of England, including two years as Acting Regional Director of
Public Health.

His current responsibilities include leading the provision of a high quality,
responsive expert public health service to support the work of the Local
Authorities and NHS partners in the North East.

Peter started his career as a medical statistician following completion of his
PhD in statistics in 1987. He worked as a lecturer at Newcastle University
Medical School until 1996 and was the founding director of the Centre for Health
& Medical Research at Teesside University until 1999.

He joined Pfizer Pharmaceuticals for a brief spell before joining the NHS in
2000. He also had four years’ experience as an acute hospital non-executive
director, including being the trust vice chair and setting up and chairing their
original clinical governance committee.

He joined Tees Health Authority in 2000 and has held senior public health roles
in the North East since then.




TIM KELSEY



Tim Kelsey was previously National Director for Patients and Information, since
the publication of these blogs he has left NHS England.




SCOTT KEMP



Scott graduated with honours in Philosophy and then gained post-graduate
qualifications in Fashion Marketing.

He has worked as the Social Media Manager for three years and prior to this,
worked at the NHS Leadership Academy within their digital team. Whilst the last
three years have been in healthcare, the majority of his professional life has
been within commerce.

His background strengths are within healthcare, fashion and apparel industry and
the motor vehicle industry, where he has several years of experience,
particularly within the latter two industries. Both his industry background and
experiences are far and wide, ranging from traditional offline marketing
(events/print), project management through to website management and of course,
social media management.

Scott can be found on Twitter via @scottaustinkemp




PROFESSOR TIM KENDALL



Professor Tim Kendall is NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Mental
Health. He has been Director of the National Collaborating Centre for Mental
Health at the Royal College of Psychiatrists for 15 years and Visiting Professor
at University College London for the last eight years.

Tim has also been Medical Director for 13 years and continues as Consultant
Psychiatrist for the homeless at Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation
Trust.

As Medical Director, Tim has set up a service user experience monitoring unit,
led the reconfiguration of acute care and rehabilitation leading to the
elimination of out of area treatments, the modernisation of the acute and crisis
care pathways and initiated the development of NICE recommended personality
disorder services within the community.

He chaired the first NICE guideline, launched in December 2002, on the
management of schizophrenia and the first National Quality Standard (Dementia)
for NICE.

Tim has published numerous articles and papers and often represents the NCCMH,
NICE or the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the media. In 2004, he was awarded
“Lancet Paper of the Year” for showing the impact of selective publishing by the
drug industry about antidepressants in the treatment of childhood depression;
and with others was awarded the Paper of the Year Award for the Health Economic
Journal ‘Value in Health’ in 2012 for work on schizophrenia.




ANNETTE KENNEDY



Annette Kennedy was elected 28th President of the International Council of
Nurses (ICN) in June 2017 after serving four years as Vice President.

Previously, she held the position of President of the European Federation of
Nurses and was active in lobbying the European Parliament, Commission and
Council.

A Registered Nurse and Midwife with a BA in Nursing Studies and an MSc in Public
Sector Analysis, Annette was the Director of Professional Development for the
Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation for 19 years and established the INMO’s
very successful Education, Research and Resource Centre.




PROFESSOR SIR BRUCE KEOGH



Professor Sir Bruce Keogh is NHS England’s Medical Director and professional
lead for NHS doctors. He is responsible for promoting clinical leadership,
quality and innovation.

Formerly, Sir Bruce had a distinguished career in surgery. He was Director of
Surgery at the Heart Hospital and Professor of Cardiac Surgery at UCL. He has
been President of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and
Ireland, Secretary-General of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic
Surgery, International Director of the US Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and
President of the Cardiothoracic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He has
served as a Commissioner on the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) and the
Healthcare Commission. He was knighted for services to medicine in 2003.

Follow Bruce on Twitter @drbrucekeogh




JASBINDER KHAMBH



Jasbinder Khambh is an experienced pharmacist who has worked in the NHS for 20
years as a pharmacist and a senior manager. Jas has led on various initiatives
and programmes of work across London to help deliver the objectives of the
strategic QIPP programme and other medicines optimisation initiatives. More
recently, she has been working at NHS England as the National Pharmacy Adviser
for NHS RightCare, focusing on the national initiatives for medicines
optimisation within NHS RightCare.




DR SHASHIDHAR KHANDAVALLI



Dr Shashidhar Khandavalli has been a GP partner at The Chorley Surgery, Chorley,
since 2008 and is now also Clinical Director for Chorley Central Primary Care
Network.

Shashi has interests in a number of areas including management and completed an
MBA in 2015. He was previously a CCG clinical director and is a GP Partner at a
CQC rated Outstanding practice. His passion for improvement and innovation has
driven projects such as the PCUST (primary care user support team) which was
shortlisted for the BMJ Award for Primary Care in 2018.

In partnership with Chorley Council, Shashi is determined to bring together the
local community assets around the Primary Care Network to improve community and
individual resilience. He aims to work collaboratively to improve the lived
environment and in particular the ability for residents to access real food and
nutrition.




KAMLESH KHUNTI



Kamlesh Khunti is Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at
the University of Leicester, UK. He is Co-Director of the Leicester Diabetes
Centre and leads a research group that is currently working on the early
identification of, and interventions with, people who have diabetes or are at
increased risk of developing diabetes.

His work has influenced national and international guidelines on the screening
and management of people with diabetes. Professor Khunti is also Director of the
UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in
Applied Health Research and Care East Midlands and Director of The Real World
Evidence Unit and the Centre for Black Minority Ethnic Health. He is a NIHR
Senior Investigator and Principal Investigator on several major national and
international studies.

Professor Khunti is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and is currently
an advisor to the Department of Health, a Clinical Advisor for the National
Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and Secretary of the Primary
Care Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. He is
Past Chair of the Department of Health–RCGP Committee on Classification of
Diabetes and is Past Chair of the NICE Guidelines on Prevention of Diabetes.

In addition, he is Co-Director of the Diabetes MSc at Leicester University. He
has won numerous awards nationally and internationally.




NICOLA KING



Nicola King is Head of Commissioning Skills in the Commissioning System
Development support team.

For the last year she has been leading a programme of work to support the
development of CCGs. One of the things that CCGs have been asking for is support
to develop governance arrangements that suit the new organisational form of CCGs
and which are light on bureaucracy while being rigorous in providing assurance
to their full range of stakeholders.

She has supported a task and finish group of the NHS Commissioning Assembly CCG
development working group to commission a piece of work from the Good Governance
Institute to assist CCGs with this.

Nicola has worked in the NHS for 25 years. She originally trained as a
pharmacist and was a specialist in cardiothoracic medicine before moving into
general management roles more than ten years ago.




EWAN KING



Ewan King joined SCIE in September 2014 and is responsible for ensuring the
delivery of SCIE’s contracted work, attracting new commissions, and supporting
co-production with people who use services and carers. Ewan has been Director of
Business Development and Communications at the OPM Group, an employee owned
research organisation and consultancy.

A social researcher and policy analyst by background, Ewan was previously
Director of the research team at OPM and led several large scale national
evaluations, policy development projects and research studies for organisations
including NHS England, Communities and Local Government, Department for
Education, Department of Health, CQC and numerous national charities.

Before joining OPM, Ewan worked as a researcher for the Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP.
Ewan is a Trustee of the Charity Penrose, which seeks to re-integrate
ex-offenders and people with mental health conditions into society, and was
educated at the London School of Economics and Warwick University.




ANDREA KING



Andrea King is the Local Authority Advisor for Wessex and Thames Valley Regions,
having previously spent 20 years in Children’s Services, in the voluntary
sector, central government and as a senior leader in Local Authority, most
recently as Assistant Director for Safeguarding and Prevention Services in West
Berkshire Council. Andrea uses restorative approaches to enable senior leaders
and frontline staff to work together to find solutions to improve outcomes for
children and families. Andrea is working part-time for NHS England and part-time
providing safeguarding improvement or restorative/systems change consultancy
across the UK, whilst studying for a Bachelor in Theology at Oxford University.




SALLY KINGSLAND



Sally Kingsland is the Clinical Quality Manager for North Central and East
London and Infection Prevention and Control lead for NHS England (London).

She qualified as a nurse in 1996 and has a degree and Masters in Public Health.

Sally has worked across the acute, community, social care and health and justice
sectors and her current role within NHS England’s nursing directorate is to
support the quality improvement, system leadership, direct commissioning and
assurance functions of the organisation.

She is a member of the national Infection Prevention and Control Steering Group
and the NHS England Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy Implementation Group.




DR JAMES KINGSLAND OBE



Dr James Kingsland OBE is President of the National Association Primary Care,
having previously served as Chairman from 2004-08.

He is the senior partner in a nationally renowned, award winning General
Practice in the North West of England and has a wealth of experience in primary
care, medical education and medical politics.

James is the co-author of the new care model for the NHS, the Primary Care Home,
and is now one of the two national leads for the programme.

He served as a senior GP advisor at the Department of Health to both ministers
and the senior civil service from 1999-2002 and from 2009–2013.




KAREN KIRKHAM



Karen Kirkham has been a GP for over 25 years and is now senior partner in a
large practice, combining this with a senior leadership role in Dorset.

She also has a national role as Senior Medical Advisor to the Primary Care
Provider Transformation team.

Karen is currently focusing on the redesign, transformation and delivery of the
integrated community services and primary care component of Dorset’s STP.

During 2018/19 she was a national clinical advisor for primary care with the
NHSE System Transformation team.




SIMON KNIGHT



Simon Knight is a Special School Leader and National SEND Leader at Whole School
SEND, a consortium of organisations committed to enhancing the quality of
education for learners with special educational needs and / or disabilities.

He has sat on the Department for Education panels developing both the
Professional Standards for Teaching Assistants and the Standard for Teachers’
Professional Development.

He writes features for the TES and regularly contributes comment and content to
other publications and conferences.

Follow Simon Knight on Twitter: @simonknight100




DR PHIL KOCZAN



Dr Koczan has been a GP in Chingford North East London for nearly 30 years. He
is a fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a member of their
Health Informatics Group. He is also a founding fellow of the Faculty of
Clinical Informatics.

He has a long interest in medical informatics and has roles supporting shared
records, digital primary care and clinical safety at both London and national
levels.

His particular interest is around both the application of technology to support
care and bringing data together from different care settings to support direct
patient care and quality improvement.




LELA KOGBARA



Lela Kogbara combines her role as Director of the NHS Learning Disability
Employment Programme with being Assistant Chief Executive of Islington Council.
She also undertakes voluntary leadership roles with City & Islington College,
Action for Southern Africa, Bernie Grant Arts Centre, and Islington Community
Theatre.




MERVYN KOHLER



Mervyn Kohler is External Affairs Adviser at Age UK, having been Head of Public
Affairs at Help the Aged since 1984.

His original role was to manage the Charity’s links with Parliament, Government
and the outside world, and to develop the policy positions of Help the Aged.

As the political and social agenda involving older people has mushroomed, Mervyn
has increasingly focussed on cross-cutting issues and new developments in policy
and practice whilst retaining an overview of the broad policy field, and a
long-standing interest in fuel poverty and the issue of keeping adequately warm
in winter.

This, with his (nearly) thirty years of long service, means he plays a part too
as the public face of the Charity, at conferences, seminars and in the media.

He is, and has been, on the trustee board of a number of charities and on
several public bodies, and currently serves on the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group.




DR KATERINA KOLYVA



Dr Katerina Kolyva is the Executive Director of the Council of Deans of Health,
the UK network of universities that deliver healthcare programmes and research.
In this role, she leads the strategy of the organisation, engages with
government and parliament across the UK and influences policy in the field of
higher education and research. Prior to joining the Council of Deans, Katerina
held director roles in UK healthcare regulation and worked with the EU
Commission and Parliament as an expert on education and culture policy. Katerina
holds a PhD in European studies and MA in international relations from the
University of Kent. She held two Marie Curie Fellowships funded by the EU and a
national fellowship funded by the Danish Government and taught identity politics
and EU policy in Denmark, the UK, Belgium, Lithuania and Jordan. She speaks five
European languages fluently, having lived and worked in six European countries.




DR PRIYA KUMAR



Dr Priya Kumar has been a GP Partner at Kumar Medical Centre since 2013 and
holds a variety of other roles. This includes being the Health Inequalities lead
for Slough, Transformational Clinical Lead for Connected Care in the Frimley
Integrated Care Board and an Urgent Care Clinical Advisor for East and North
Hertfordshire Trust. She was also identified and shortlisted for the ‘NHS Rising
Star’ Health Service Journal (HSJ) awards in 2016.

Priya completed both her undergraduate medical degree and GP Vocational Training
Scheme training at GKT School of Medical Education and Kings College in London.
After completing the Darzi Fellowship Programme in 2014, she understood the
importance of co-production and clinical leadership within the NHS. Priya has
been involved in transforming care across the system by working with various
stakeholders which includes the residents, primary care, secondary care, social
care, the voluntary sector, and public health. Her main passion lies in
developing innovative clinical pathways by using a population health and digital
approach to improve patient outcomes, as well as building in efficiencies and
productivity whilst incorporating the residents’ views and circumstances.




DR STEVEN LAITNER



Dr Steven Laitner is a General Practitioner with a Public Health and Clinical
Leadership background.

As well as practising as a part time GP he is a freelance health consultant with
his own consultancy company Programmes for Health which supports a range of
healthcare commissioning and provider organisations.

Steven was one of the original architects of the Accountable Lead Provider model
whilst working at the Department of Health, where he was also National Clinical
Lead for Shared Decision Making.

He is currently supporting a range of organisations on developing accountable,
integrated, programmes of care.

During 2016 Steven joined the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) as a
Clinical Advisor to their Primary Care Home (PCH) Programme.He has developed a
keen interest in Population Health Management, in particular, Population
Segmentation and Risk Stratification.

His work also covers new models of care delivery such as telephone triage,
referral triage, self management support, care coordination, case management and
care planning. He supports commissioners and providers to develop new programmes
of care such as Musculoskeletal and Frail Elderly Programmes.

His clinical interests include primary care, frail elderly, care planning, self
care support, GP access, patient leadership and shared decision making.




ANDREA LAKE



Andrea qualified as a nurse in 2008 after working as a healthcare assistant from
the age of 18. Andrea’s first role as a staff nurse was on a high dependency
unit. She has worked within a split clinical and research role in the speciality
of diabetes at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust for nine years.
Clinically, Andrea is a senior Diabetes Specialist Nurse primarily working
within the inpatient setting. She also has experience with insulin pump therapy,
DAFNE and all aspects of inpatient and outpatient adult diabetes services.
Within Andrea’s research role, she is the lead diabetes research nurse and
supports commercial and academic research, as required, through all stages of
the process from development of an idea through to dissemination.

Andrea has an MSc in clinical research and several publications. She is also the
vice chair of the Diabetes UK clinical study group 4 in acute care. Andrea’s
personal areas of interest are inpatient diabetes management and how research
can improve this, translating research into clinical practice and clinical
academic careers for nurses, midwives and allied health care professionals.

Andrea loves to use twitter as platform to share good practice and experience
and believe it is important to listen and learn from each other. You can follow
her at @AndreaLake1984.




ANGELA LANE



Angela Lane trained as a contemporary dancer and choreographer.

Her career in dance took her to Eastbourne where her second daughter Cherry was
born and eventually diagnosed with Rett Syndrome

While her daughter was at school, Angela joined the SEN Forum for East Sussex
Education Authority and through her Transition to Adult Services she worked with
researchers and consultants to help inform policy in this area, eventually
becoming one of the parent carer representatives on ESCC Learning Disabilities
Partnership Board (LDPB).

Angela went on to lead projects in Intensive Interaction (Interact Now) with
Sussex Partnership NHS Trust, and Person Centered Approaches projects for the
LDPB. As creative director of these projects, Angela worked with a team whose
aim was to discover the conditions and contexts in which person centered
approaches, Total Communication and other contemporary methodologies can be
successfully used to complement the inherent ability of individuals and their
supporters to have the life they want.

Following completion of a creative writing certificate at Sussex University,
Angela went on to become an associate tutor in the service user and carer
network at the university, teaching and supporting the development of the social
work undergraduate and master’s degrees.

During this time she worked to establish her daughter’s Independent Living Trust
and has experience of both the social care direct payments scheme and the new
NHS Personal Health Budgets scheme.

With the progression of her father’s Parkinson’s disease and dementia, Angela is
interested in developing her skills to support families and people encountering
dementia in their lives.

Angela continues to have a deep interest in dance and writing and considers
everything in her life to be connected. Now a grandmother to two beautiful
grandsons, she feels she is enjoying the rewards of a long life.




STUART LANE



Stuart Lane qualified as a chartered physiotherapist in 1998 and quickly
developed a specific interest in long term neurological conditions, which has
seen him work in a variety of settings across the NHS.

Over the last seven years, Stuart has dedicated his time to supporting the
development of personal health budgets and person centred care in the NHS.

In 2014 Stuart created lanes4change limited, working with leading organisations
committed to developing new approaches to supporting those with long-term
support needs.




MARTHA LANE FOX



Martha Lane Fox is the founder of Doteveryone.org.uk. Martha was asked by the
Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to recommend practical proposals for the National
Information Board on how to ensure increased take-up of new digital innovations
in health.




DR PETER LANYON



Dr Peter Lanyon is a Consultant Rheumatologist at Nottingham University
Hospitals, where he provides clinical care integrated with research, including
specialised rheumatology services for rarer autoimmune diseases across the East
Midlands.

Peter’s career path is unique for a secondary care doctor, having started
training and working in General Practice. In this setting he rapidly became
aware of the challenges faced by people living with Rheumatic and
Musculoskeletal Diseases and saw him pursue a new career in Rheumatology. It
also led to him undertaking research demonstrating a significant unmet
educational need among doctors training in Primary Care.

Since 2013 he has chaired the NHS England Clinical Reference Group for
Specialised Rheumatology. This team has worked tirelessly to raise the national
profile of the needs of people living with rare rheumatic and musculoskeletal
diseases, their access to high-cost treatments, and the delivery of their care
in coordinated networks.

He brings this experience, and his unique understanding and perspective of
Primary Care, to his current role as President of the British Society for
Rheumatology.




EMMA LATIMER



Emma Latimer is the Chief Officer for NHS Hull CCG.

She has worked in the NHS for 25 years in a range of settings which include the
ambulance service, hospitals and health authority, but predominantly as a
commissioner.

Emma has led NHS Hull CCG for three years and is passionate about improving
local health outcomes by working with patients and other partners to create a
healthier Hull.

She is Programme Sponsor for the Hull 2020 programme – a partnership of nine
organisations committed to transforming the way public services work to enable
the people of Hull to improve their own health and wellbeing and to achieve
their aspirations for the future.




CHRIS LAYFIELD



Chris Layfield has a BA (Hons) in Youth and Community Studies and is a Teenage
Cancer Trust funded Youth Support Coordinator at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle
upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.




JENNIFER LAYTON



Jennifer Layton is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and also a Fellow of
the National Institute of Mental Health.

She works with the Derbyshire Autism Partnership Board as a member with lived
experience, to help shape the work being done locally for people on the
spectrum.

Jennifer also works with Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust to train and
raise awareness of Autism amongst their staff and is beginning a MSc of Mental
Health Recovery and Social Inclusion in September 2017.

She also volunteers for Derby Museums Trust as a co-producer. As well as
training to be a Peer Leader, she is also a member of the Derbyshire Personal
Health Budget Peer Network and is working towards becoming a member of the NHS
England’s Co-production Group.

Peers Leaders play a vital role in helping to co-produce key NHS personalisation
programmes, such as Integrated Personal Commissioning and Personal Health
Budgets, by providing the essential ‘lived experience’ perspective.




GP DR HEIN LE ROUX



Hein is a GP Partner at Churchdown Practice in Gloucester and has recently taken
up a role as Deputy Medical Director for NHS England South West as well as being
the One Gloucestershire ICS Quality Improvement Clinical Lead. Previously he was
the Deputy Clinical Chair for Gloucestershire CCG where he led on ageing well,
dementia and end of life amongst other things. He also had a role as the
Population Health Management Champion for Gloucester City where he also
co-chaired the Gloucester City Integrated Locality Partnership and previously
sat on the Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing Board.

Hein has developed a passion for improving the quality of healthcare experienced
by service users and achieved through collaborative working. He has benefited
from his experiences of working in several different health care systems
including Australia.




SARAH LEACH



Sarah Leach is the Personal Health Budget Implementation Manager for Warrington
Clinical Commissioning Group.

She is responsible for ensuring the personalisation agenda is delivered as one
of the key ambitions of the Five Year Forward View – transforming the way in
which the NHS empowers patients. This includes leading the expansion of personal
health budgets, the delivery of the individualised commissioning, and developing
and implementing new models of delivering patient choice and control including
in end of life care, mental health and wheelchair services.




DR JONATHAN LEACH



Dr (Colonel Retired) Jonathan Leach is a GP in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, and
chair of the NHS England Armed Forces and their Families Clinical Reference
Group.

Dr Leach served for 25 years in the Army including 17 years overseas.




CAROLINE LECKO



Caroline Lecko is Patient Safety Lead at NHS England.

Caroline has led on nutrition and patient safety since joining the National
Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) in 2006 and has subsequently transferred to the
patient safety team within the NHS England. Caroline currently leads on projects
related to nutrition and hydration, pressure ulcer prevention and primary care.

Since 2006, Caroline has worked on a range of national and international
projects to raise awareness of the importance of good nutritional care to
prevent avoidable harm to patients and service users.

These projects have included the development of the Hydration Best Practice Tool
for Healthcare, the 10 Key Characteristics of Nutritional Care Factsheets and
the Dysphagia Diet Food Descriptors.

Caroline has used her interest in social movement methodology to design and
deliver two national Nutrition and Hydration Patient Safety focused weeks and is
currently working the National Association of Care Catering and Hospital
Caterers Association on the plans for Nutrition and Hydration Week 2014.

Caroline has also been involved in many national policy and advisory groups
including the development of the Care Quality Commissions Outcome 5 ‘Meeting
Nutritional Needs’ standards, Department of Health Nutrition Action Plan,
Parliamentary Hydration Forum and recently the Malnutrition Task Force.




LYNNETTE LEE



Lynnette supports the NHS England Sustainable Improvement teams, with their
social media campaigns and digital communications.

Recently she has promoted the Improvement Fundamentals, and the Developing
Effective Networks for Change and Improvement; both are online courses. In
previous roles, she has supported the Long Term Conditions and Learning
Disabilities programmes.




RUTH LEE



Ruth Lee is a community learning disability nurse for Northumberland Tyne and
Wear NHS Foundation Trust.

She has worked with adults with a learning disability, autism or both who
present with behaviours that are considered challenging for six years.

Ruth works with people and their circle of support to use positive behaviour
support (PBS). PBS helps us to understand the reasons behind a person’s
behaviour.

Her overall aim is to help improve the quality of life of people with a learning
disability, autism or both.




HELEN LEE



Helen Lee is a qualified nurse with experience of working in both acute and
community settings.

She is currently on secondment with NHS England and NHS Improvement leading the
#AlwaysEvents ® programme.

Always Events are those aspects of care that are so important to people using
services, their families and carers that they should always occur at every
interaction with healthcare professionals and the health care delivery system.

Helen is passionate about people being at the heart of everything we do, quality
improvement and co-producing improvements and Always Events are a fantastic way
to bring these three things to life.

Follow Helen on Twitter: @helenlee321_lee




LUCILLE LEGIEWICZ



Lucille is the national lead for the Workforce, Learning Disability and Autism
Team.

Having worked in the NHS for over 24 years Lucille has held a wide variety of
roles across the health sector most recently within NHS England and Improvement
as the National Workforce Lead for the Learning Disability and Autism Programme.
Lucille has worked in collaboration with autistic people and people with a
learning disability, their families and carers in addition to a variety of
health and care partners to agree and progress our workforce priorities. Lucille
is passionate about fair, diverse and inclusive workforce approaches and
actively promotes and encourages coproduction.




SIOBHAN LENDZIONOWKSI



Siobhan Lendzionowksi is a Leadership Support Manager for Patient Experience
within the National Patient Experience Team, which is part of the Nursing
Directorate.

She has previously worked for Leeds Community Health NHS Trust; Yorkshire and
Humber SHA, Leeds PCT; ran a community health development charity in Leeds for
five years; worked in local government homelessness hostels; a domestic violence
department and the private sector.

Siobhan left nursing in 1991.

Her career highlights include setting up a new domestic violence organisation
that still runs today.

She has also implemented a patient experience and engagement assurance framework
across 65 services.

Other highlights include successfully managing a £500,000 friends and family
pathfinder programme of work in a region and successfully producing a nutrition
and hydration commissioning guidance document with a group of national experts,
CCG commissioners and NHS Colleagues whom were a fragmented group with different
opinions and are now working successfully together to make major changes to
commissioning.




BELINDA LENNOX



Belinda Lennox is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry,
University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the Early
Intervention in Psychosis service for Oxford Health NHS FT. She has been a
consultant in EIP services for 10 years. Her interests are in discovering the
causes of, and developing more effective treatments for, those with psychosis
and in implementing those discoveries into clinical practice. She is Deputy
Director for the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for
Leadership in Applied Health Research for Oxford, and Clinical Director for NIHR
Clinical Research Network: Thames Valley and South Midlands.




DR HELEN LEONARD



Dr Helen Leonard is a Consultant in Paediatric Neurodisability at Great North
Children’s Hospital.

She is also an Associate Lecturer at Newcastle University, a member of NHS
England’s Strategic Coproduction Group and a mother of three, one of whom,
Matthew, is a young adult with severe, complex disabilities.

Helen has worked in the NHS since 1993 and has received services from health or
social care since Matthew was born in 2000.

The experience with Matthew has influenced her life personally and
professionally, including spending two years setting up a paediatric services
overseas, as well as being a passionate advocate for families with disabled
children.




VAUGHAN LEWIS



Dr Vaughan Lewis FRCPCH: Regional Medical Director, higher level Responsible
Officer and Chief Clinical Information Officer | NHS England (South East).

Vaughan trained in Oxford, Bristol and Australia. He was a consultant
paediatrician in Exeter from 2002 to 2015 during which time he held clinical
management roles including Trust Medical Director and Chair of the South West
Clinical Senate. In 2015, he was appointed as the NHS South Regional Medical
Director for Specialised Commissioning.

As South East Regional Medical Director his roles include providing clinical
leadership and support to NHS organisations and system leaders across the South
East including Cancer Alliances, Academic Health Science Networks, Integrated
Care Systems, Clinical Networks and Senates as well all NHS provider
organisations.

The Regional Medical Director is also the higher level Responsible Officer. This
is an important assurance role, ensuring, on behalf of NHS England, that doctors
working in any setting in the region are supported to comply with GMC
requirements for medical revalidation.

Vaughan is also the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) and will be
working with the regional digital team to deliver a wide-ranging programme to
upgrade technology and digitally enabled care across the NHS as set out in the
Long Term Plan




GERAINT LEWIS



Geraint Lewis is the Chief Data Officer at NHS England and an Honorary Clinical
Senior Lecturer at University College London. He trained in medicine at the
University of Cambridge and holds a Masters degree in Public Health from the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Geraint began his career in
acute and emergency medicine, working at hospitals in the UK and Australia over
an 11-year period.

After completing his higher specialist training in public health medicine, he
was appointed Senior Fellow of the Nuffield Trust (an independent health policy
think-tank), then as Senior Director for Clinical Outcomes and Analytics at
Walgreens in Chicago, before returning to the UK to take up his current post.

A fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians of London and the UK Faculty of
Public Health, Geraint is the lead author of the postgraduate textbook Mastering
Public Health and has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles in journals in
including Health Affairs, JAMA, Milbank Quarterly and the BMJ. Geraint was a
2007 Harkness Fellow in New York, during which time he received the National
Directors’ Award at the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs. In 2008 he was the
“overall winner” of the Guardian Newspaper’s public service awards. In 2011, he
was awarded the Bradshaw Lectureship of the Royal College of Physicians of
London. Previous recipients include Sir Liam Donaldson, Dame Sheila Sherlock,
and Sir Magdi Yacoub. More recently, he has served as an external adviser to the
World Bank, and he leads the Care Model Design work-stream of NHS England’s New
Care Models Programme.




DAWN LIBURD



Dawn Liburd works for NHS England.




TOM LINDLEY



Interim Deputy Director – Strategy and Business Development Airedale NHS
Foundation Trust.
Tom launched his NHS career with a number of roles as a mental health nurse,
before joining the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme. After roles working
for Rotherham, Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust; NHS England; and
the Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network, he joined Airedale NHS
Foundation Trust earlier this year and is closely involved in advancing the
potential of its expanding range of telemedicine services.

The Foundation Trust has the lead role in the Airedale and Partners vanguard,
which is using telemedicine in more than 200 care homes to help reduce GP
call-outs and unnecessary hospital admissions for a cohort of more than 7,000
residents.




PROFESSOR NICK LINKER



Professor Nick Linker is National Clinical Director for Heart Disease, NHS
England, Chair of the Cardiac Services Clinical Reference Group, consultant
cardiologist at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Professor
at Teesside University. He leads on the implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan
for heart disease and development of heart disease policy for Specialised
Commissioning. He is clinical lead for the Cardiac Pathways Improvement
Programme and has responsibility for the national cardiac registries.

He trained in Manchester Royal Infirmary and St George’s Hospital, London and
was appointed as a consultant cardiologist with an interest in cardiac
electrophysiology in 1998. His clinical practice is focused on arrhythmia and
syncope management and cardiac implantable electronic devices.

Professor Linker was President of the British Heart Rhythm Society and Honorary
Secretary of the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS). He was integral in
developing UK standards for cardiac implantable electronic devices,
electrophysiology and lead extraction and developed guidelines on MR scanning in
patients with cardiac devices, peri-operative management of cardiac devices and
end of life care pathways for cardiac device patients.




LIZ FENTON



Liz Fenton (MSc, BSC (Hons), RN, QN) joined Health Education England in July
2015 and become HEE’s Deputy Chief Nurse in October 2017.

Having completed nurse training at Kings College Hospital, London, Liz qualified
as a Registered Nurse in 1981 and subsequently held a number of clinical and
leadership roles in both acute and community settings including at board level.
Liz was awarded the title Queens Nurse in 2017. Passionate about quality
improvement Liz works with the Care Quality Commission as a Specialist Advisor
and is an elected member of the Community Hospitals Association leadership team.

Liz also acts as a surveyor for national and international peer accreditation,
benchmarking services against best practice. Liz has chaired the Leading Change,
Adding Value (LCAV) Capacity and Capability Task and Finish Group on behalf of
the LCAV Partnership Board, to develop this learning tool which aims to support
all nursing, midwifery and care staff to identify and address unwarranted
variation in practice.




CARMEL LLOYD



Head of Education and Learning, The Royal College of Midwives.

Carmel’s remit is to shape and support the delivery of the RCM strategy and
professional activity for education and learning for members of the College. She
also takes the lead on advising internal and external stakeholders on regulatory
matters and midwifery regulation. She has been working with all four UK
countries on the development of their employer-led models of supervision for
midwives and co-ordinating the development of the key principles for the
education and training of those undertaking the role that will replace the
supervisor of midwives.

Carmel joined the RCM in February 2014 from the Nursing and Midwifery Council
where she was the Standards Development Manager, in this capacity she led the
review of the Midwives Rules and Standards published in 2012. Previously she was
the Acting Head of Midwifery at the NMC and prior to that Lecturer, Programme &
Curriculum Development Lead, Midwifery & Women’s Heath Studies at Kings College,
University of London.

She has extensive experience in healthcare policy and regulation, standards
development, education and curriculum development, midwifery practice and the
supervision of midwives. She is frequently invited to speak at regional and
national conferences.




DR STEVE LLOYD



Dr Steve Lloyd sponsors the NHS England Task and Finish group on CCG Governance.
He has been a GP principal in north east Derbyshire for 15 years and prior to
this was a maxillofacial surgeon. He is Chair of NHS Hardwick CCG, regional
clinical lead on the EMAS urgent and emergency ambulance contract and clinical
lead for the National Ambulance Commissioners Group. He is also a sessional
operational clinical lead for Derbyshire Health United OOH provider and in the
EMAS operations centre and a council member for East Midlands Clinical Senate.

Steve Lloyd is a member of the NHS Commissioning Assembly and has been involved
in a number of Working Groups, including on direct commissioning and Urgent and
Emergency Care.

Outside of medicine, he was until recently a senior RAF reserve officer. He is a
trustee, medical adviser and a chief expeditions leader for British Exploring
Society at the Royal Geographical Society.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and Member of
the Royal College of GPs.




DR JILL LOADER



Jill Loader has recently been appointed as Assistant Head of Primary Care
Commissioning (Pharmacy) for NHS England from her post as Regional Pharmacist,
NHS England South.

She has been leading work nationally on making the best use of pharmacy to
support pressure on the urgent and emergency care system and has published
materials to support local commissioners to use pharmacy more effectively.

Jill worked previously with the NHS Commissioning Board Transition Team as
Strategic Adviser – Pharmacy Commissioning to develop proposals with
stakeholders for the commissioning of pharmaceutical services in England.

Previously, Jill was Associate Director for Medicines Management in NHS South
West for six years and also held posts in Strategic Health Authorities in the
Midlands and South West.

Jill has worked on many national groups, including the Steering Group of the
Royal Pharmaceutical Society to develop Principles for Medicines Optimisation
and the Pharmacy and Public Health Forum Task Group, looking at identifying how
and where community pharmacies sit in the emerging primary, community, and
secondary care and public health systems.

She is particularly interested in patient safety and has worked on local
projects with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and on patient safety in
partnership with the pharmaceutical industry. Jill has worked in strategic roles
in the NHS for the past 15 years and has a background working in professional
leadership roles, performance management, commissioning organisations, community
services, general practice and hospital pharmacy.




DR JOSÉ GARCIA LOBERA



Dr José Garcia Lobera moved from Spain in 2003 and has worked as qualified GP in
Southend for the last 15 years at the Pall Mall Surgery in Leigh –on-sea. José
is the Chairman for NHS Southend Clinical Commissioning Group CCG and Clinical
Lead for Prescribing and GP Clinical Lead for Mental Health and Learning
Disability.




VANESSA LODGE



Vanessa Lodge RGN, BSc (Hons), MA is NHS England’s Director of Nursing for North
Central and East London.

Vanessa qualified in 1983 as a general nurse, and worked for 15 years clinically
in acute hospital settings, with particular interest and training in cardiac
nursing.

This was followed by roles in Senior Nurse Management, general management and
commissioning roles; including a period of time working for the NHS
modernisation agency as part of the national team to embed redesign principles
in health services.

Vanessa moved to London in 2009 to work for Tower Hamlets PCT in quality and
clinical governance. Over the following years the role broadened and the PCT
worked in a cluster arrangement with inner and outer North East London PCTs
until the reorganisation of health service commissioning arrangements in March
2013.

Her current role of includes within its portfolio adult and child safeguarding
as well as continuing health care across London.

Vanessa represents London on the national forum for NHS England and has a
particular interest in Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), where she represents
health services on the Metropolitan Police Steering Group, and chairs the London
and NHS England groups.




CAROLINE LOMAX



Caroline is a General Practice Nurse, working at Castleton Health Centre in
Rochdale, Lancashire.

She is currently in the process of completing a leadership programme with GP
excellence with the NHS England and NHS Improvement CARE (Connected, Authentic,
Resilient, Empowered) Leadership and Resilience Programme, as well as
undertaking a Quality Improvement Project to evolve and improve population
health.




ROSIE LOVETT



Rosie Lovett is the Head of the Medicines Repurposing Programme> at NHS England.
She completed a PhD in Psychology at the University of York and post-doctoral
research at University College London, before joining the Technology Appraisals
and Science Policy and Research teams at the National Institute for Health and
Care Excellence (NICE).




DR ANNA LOWE



Dr Anna Lowe is Cancer Implementation Manager for the Allied Health Professions
(AHPs) at NHS England. This involves supporting the role of AHPs in helping to
deliver the national cancer strategy and raising the profile of the contribution
of AHPs to cancer care.

Alongside this, Anna is a Physical Activity Clinical Champion at Public Health
England.

Anna is a physiotherapist and has had previous roles in higher education,
research and clinical practice.




DR FINOLA LYNCH



Dr Finola Lynch is a Shropshire GP and the Clinical Vice Chair of Shropshire
CCG. She leads on frailty and Shropshire’s transformation programme, Shropshire
Care Closer to Home.




VICKY LYONS



Vicky Lyons is Head of Workforce Development, Health Education North West London
(HEENWL).

Vicky has 18 years’ experience working in a variety of roles within the NHS and
currently works as the Head of Workforce Development at HEENWL responsible for a
wide portfolio of workforce planning activities and transformation initiatives.
She has also lead the pan London workforce planning team for Health Education
England as part of a shared service providing support to the planning and
commissioning responsibilities of London’s LETB’s.

Prior to this, Vicky worked for 14 years working in senior HR roles at East
London NHS Foundation Trust. More recently she worked as the Assistant Director
of Workforce and Development with responsibility for the ESR/Workforce
functions, Recruitment, bank and Training and Development teams.




YORYOS (GEORGIOS) LYRATZOPOULOS



Yoryos (Georgios) Lyratzopoulos is Reader in Cancer Epidemiology at UCL, and
Cancer Research UK Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellow. Beyond studying
variation in cancer diagnosis and other outcomes, he has a substantive research
interest in population studies of cancer patient experience. He has acted as an
academic adviser to NHS England for the CPES surveys.




IAIN MACBEATH



Iain MacBeath is Strategic Director of Health and Wellbeing at Bradford
Metropolitan District Council.

Previously Iain was Director of Health and Community Services for Hertfordshire
County Council with responsibility for adult social care, integration with NHS
services and adult learning.

Iain started work as a civil servant for the Benefits Agency (as was). He then
worked for social services in his home town of Barnsley in both children’s and
adult’s services. After moving to Hertfordshire in 1999, he spent five years
working for the Probation Service, returned to social services for London
Borough of Barnet and became Assistant Director of Adult Care Services for
Hertfordshire in 2008. He became director in 2013.

Iain sits on the national Executive Committee of the Association of Directors of
Adult Social Services and is secretary and vice-chair of the eastern region
branch. He has served as a governor for West Herts College and volunteers with
the Samaritans.

Follow Iain on Twitter: @IainMacbeath.




HENRY MACE



Henry Mace is Professional Development Lead at the National Osteoporosis
Society.

He is responsible for the implementation and project management of various
clinical projects which primarily support health professionals working in the
field of osteoporosis and fragility fractures.

Before joining the National Osteoporosis Society, Henry worked for NHS Bristol
as a Health Promotion Specialist, and was responsible for contributing to the
development, implementation and evaluation of Public Health work programmes on
particular topics such as smoking cessation, obesity, physical activity and
sexual health.

Henry has worked in the private leisure industry, specifically focusing on the
commissioning and delivery of NHS and local authority health services.




PROFESSOR CAROLINE MACEWEN



Professor Caroline MacEwen, MD, FRCOphth, FRCS
Chair, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
Caroline (Carrie) MacEwen is Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and
immediate past President of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

She is ophthalmology clinical co-lead for the Getting It Right First Time
(GIRFT) project, a member of the Right Care Clinical Advisory Group and chaired
the Elective Care Transformation Ophthalmology Working Group.

She is Ophthalmology Specialty Adviser to the Scottish Government and leads the
National Ophthalmology Workstream in Scotland and is a member of the Scottish
National Access Collaborative.

She has published more than 150 papers, written or edited 3 textbooks and
written 17 book chapters. Carrie is an Associate Postgraduate Dean in the East
of Scotland.




DR STEPHANIE MACHIN



Dr Stephanie Machin is a GP at the Robin Hood Health Centre in Sutton.

She is originally from Newcastle upon Tyne, where she graduated medical school
in 2010. After completing her foundation training posts at Chelsea and
Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and then London North West Healthcare NHS
Trust, she joined the St Helier GP Vocational Training Scheme in 2012.

Stephanie qualified as a GP in 2015 and stayed on at her training GP practice in
Sutton, where she is now a salaried GP. She has a special interest in care of
the elderly and mental health, and is the practice lead for palliative care.




ANN MACKAY MBE



Ann Mackay MBE is Director of Policy, for the Care England charity.

Ann has worked in the independent social care sector for over 25 years having
started her career as a manager in the NHS.

Care England is a registered charity which represents charitable and commercial
care providers meeting a wide range of care and support needs for adults in care
home, homecare, housing and community-based settings.

Care England members also deliver specialist care home services such as
rehabilitation, respite, palliative care and mental health services.

Ann’s work aims to ensure members have up to date information and that their
views are represented in the development and implementation of health and social
care policy.

Ann was awarded the MBE for services to social care in 2010.




DR ARVIND MADAN



Dr Arvind Madan was appointed as NHS England’s Director of Primary Care in
October 2015 with view to him providing clinical leadership for the
transformation of primary care provision.

Arvind is a practicing GP based at the Hurley Group, a large multi-site general
practice and urgent care provider. He retains this regular clinical commitment
looking after patients in East London.

Arvind has a strong track record of using new technology and redesigned ways of
working across care boundaries to improve outcomes and deliver better value for
money.




CHRIS MAIR



Chris Mair is a former regional newspaper editor. He joined the ‘Better
Together’ initiative launched by NHS South Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning
Group to see if his background in journalism could be of benefit. Retired, he
has relocated back to the UK, having lived in France for five years and is
acutely aware of the range of pressures the NHS is under; A&E in particular, but
also the need to better integrate local health services. A volunteer within the
media team at the 2012 Paralympic Games, he currently runs a weekly drop-in for
people looking for support with job hunting and also co-hosts a computer course
for beginners.




DR VINCENT MAK



Dr Vincent Mak was a Consultant Physician in Respiratory and Critical Care
Medicine and Clinical Director for Emergency Services at North West London
Hospitals Trust from 1994 to 2013. He was also the Clinical Director of the
Outer North West London Integrated Care Programme, and then the Whole Systems
Integrated Care Programme Board for North West London, the largest Integrated
Care project in the UK.

He took up his current role as a Consultant Physician in Respiratory Integrated
Care at Imperial College Healthcare Trust so that he could dedicate more time to
developing new models of person centred collaborative care. He now leads a
multidisciplinary team bridging many care providers to manage chronic
respiratory disease from early diagnosis and prevention, through to advanced
care. He is also the NW London Regional Advisor for the Royal College of
Physicians.




OLI MANSELL



Oli Mansell (far right) is Policy Coordinator in the Policy Support Unit team,
based in the Commissioning Strategy Directorate.

He serves as the inaugural co-chair of the LGBT+ Staff Network alongside Siobhán
Clibbens.

Prior to joining NHS England, he spent seven years as a higher education
administrator and manager for the University of Leeds. Oli has been a volunteer
member of a patient assurance group at Leeds North CCG, and is currently
volunteering once a week at the A&E of St James’s Hospital in Leeds.




GISELE MARINHO



Gisele Marinho is a clinical psychologist with the Redbridge IAPT service in
North East London where she has worked since 2011.

She hails from Portugal, but was born in Beira, Mozambique and is of Indian Goan
descent, coming to the UK in 1994 and living in London ever since.

Gisele started working in mental health in the NHS as a Nursing Assistant in an
acute psychiatric ward in 2003. From 2003 – 2004 she was an assistant
psychologist in a rehabilitation unit for people with severe and enduring mental
health problems, before becoming a graduate primary care mental health worker.
From 2007 she worked for three years as a trainee clinical psychologist before
becoming a clinical psychologist. She worked as a clinical psychologist in
2010-11 in two community recovery teams in Redbridge providing psychological
assessments and therapy to clients with severe and complex mental health
difficulties and working in a multidisciplinary team.




HELEN MARIOTT



Helen Marriott has been the Allied Health Professions (AHP) Medicines Project
Lead at NHS England since October 2013, leading the extension of non-medical
prescribing and access to medicines for several allied health professions.

Since joining NHS England, Helen has also acted into the position of Deputy
Chief Allied Health Profession Officer for seven months.

Before joining NHS England, Helen was the Allied Health Professions Lead and
Strategic Workforce Development Manager for Health Education East Midlands,
providing professional advice and strategic leadership to the 12 allied health
professions. Prior to this role, Helen was the East Midlands Strategic Health
Authority AHP lead and a physiotherapy clinical specialist within Rheumatology.

Helen is a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, and sits on the
Education Committee. She is also a Health and Care Professions Council Partner
and physiotherapy panel member at fitness-to-practice hearings.

Helen graduated in Physiotherapy from Sheffield Hallam University and also has a
Master’s Degree in Healthcare Leadership.




DONAL MARKEY



Donal Markey is the new Regional Lead for Dentistry, Optometry and Pharmacy for
NHS England (London). He has responsibility for the strategic commissioning of
NHS services across all community pharmacies, dental practices and community
optometry practices in the capital.

He also leads on the commissioning of all acute, community and urgent care
dental services within the London region.

In addition, Donal works within the London NHS transformation programme, the
Healthy London Partnership as the Pharmaceutical Advisor supporting the Children
and Young People programme.

He is also part of the Asthma Clinical Leadership Group Donal still practices as
a community pharmacist in Berkshire.




FIONA MARLEY



Fiona Marley heads up the Highly Specialised Commissioning Team in NHS England
and has worked for the NHS since 1991 in a number of roles, including in primary
care and health improvement.

Fiona’s team commissions over 80 highly specialised services, which are
typically delivered in small numbers of expert centres. The portfolio includes a
number of transplant services, services for patients with rare cancers and
services for patients who have rare diseases. Commissioning services in this way
ensures that patients have: excellent clinical outcomes; equitable access to
services regardless of where they live; and access to clinical trials. In 2021,
Fiona commissioned the service to deliver onasemnogene abeparvovec for Spinal
Muscular Atrophy.




DANIEL MARSDEN



Daniel Marsden is currently a Practice Development Nurse for people with
learning disabilities at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation NHS Trust.

He supports staff with developing their skills at providing their expertise to
people with learning disabilities. This includes delivering training, policy
development, project management, clinical leadership, facilitation, research and
audit.

Daniel is a keen runner, and joint treasurer of a football team, husband and
father of two.




DR RACHEL MARSDEN



Dr Rachel Marsden is a first five GP from Sheffield working as a salaried GP
near the Derbyshire border. She is also involved in undergraduate teaching and
out of hours provision and has been the clinical support fellow for sepsis at
the Royal College of General Practitioners since April 2017.




SHELLEY MARSH



Shelley Marsh is an educator and parent with an interest in making care
accessible.




SARAH-JANE MARSH



Sarah-Jane Marsh is Chief Executive Officer of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s
Hospital and chairs both the NHS England Maternity Transformation, and the
Children and Young People Transformation programmes.

She joined the NHS via the Graduate Management Scheme, holding various roles in
primary and secondary care and at the Department of Health, before promotion to
Director of Planning and Productivity at Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust.

Appointed Chief Operating Officer at Birmingham Children’s Hospital in December
2007 and Chief Executive Officer in March 2009, the hospital has been under her
leadership for almost eight years and was named ‘Provider Trust of the Year’ by
the Health Service Journal in 2015.

In 2015, Sarah-Jane took on the additional role of Chief Executive of Birmingham
Women’s Hospital, before going on to integrate the two hospitals in February
2017 to create Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust – the
first of its kind in Europe.

She also led the development of an innovative new mental health partnership for
0-25 year olds in the city – Forward Thinking Birmingham – another UK first.

Sarah-Jane chairs the NHS England Maternity Transformation Programme Board,
which aims to make maternity care across England safer, and give women greater
control and choice, as well as the Children and Young People Transformation
Programme Board, which brings together partners across health, care and
education to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people.

Her passions are exceeding the expectations of patients and families and making
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital the very best place to work and be
cared for.




CLAIRE MARSHALL



Claire Marshall is Experience of Care Lead in the Patient Experience Team at NHS
England. She is responsible for leading the experience of care work for people
living with frailty, the NHS Cancer Programme and other workstreams.

Claire joined NHS England in August 2017 on a secondment when she led the
national Always Events programme. Before that she was Head of Patient Experience
at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. She has spent her 25-year career as a
Physiotherapist.




ALISON MARSHALL



Alison Marshall has worked for NHS East Lancashire CCG as a medicines management
care home technician for the last 10 years. She is currently participating in
NHS England’s Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes programme.

Qualifying as a pharmacy technician in 1987, Alison’s early career started in
community pharmacy. In 1992 she began working in secondary care, where she
undertook technical responsibilities at ward level, gaining experience in the
different specialities on the wards. She qualified as a prescription accuracy
checker in 2008. In 2011 Alison graduated with a FdSc degree in Medicines
Management and Pharmacy Services at Huddersfield University with a distinction
and was winner of the Chancellor’s Prize.




JEREMY MARTIN



Jeremy is the Programme Director for the Symphony Programme, which is
introducing new integrated models of care for the 150,000 population of South
Somerset through collaboration between primary care, NHS organisations, the
local authority and voluntary sector. In the four years of the programme’s life
it has expanded from a project focused on people with the most complex needs, to
include the health and social care needs of the whole population. It is one of
the nine PACS Vanguard sites.

Prior to becoming Programme Director, Jeremy was Director of Planning and
Performance at Yeovil Hospital, where he led on strategy, planning, performance,
communications, IT and corporate governance.

Through his career Jeremy has held a wide variety of roles in NHS organisations
and the Department of Health in Somerset and London, including policy
development, commissioning, operational management, business development,
service improvement and performance management.




MAHIBEN MARUTHAPPU



Dr Mahiben Maruthappu is a practicing doctor and Senior Fellow to the CEO of NHS
England. He advises on NHS England’s innovation, technology and prevention
portfolio, co-founding the NHS Innovation Accelerator and the NHS Diabetes
Prevention Programme.

He has advised a range of organisations, from start-ups to multilaterals,
including the Swiss government and the Experiment Fund and the WHO.

Mahiben has a strong interest in research with over 80 peer-reviewed
publications and 50 academic awards. His work has been featured by BBC News and
the international press.

He is Chairman of the UK Medical Students’ Association (UKMSA), and has written
three medical books. Mahiben was educated at Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard
universities and was the first person from British healthcare to be included in
Forbes’ 30 under 30.




ALEX MASSEY



Alex Massey is Senior policy and campaigns adviser at the Neurological Alliance.
He has previously worked as a policy adviser at ACEVO, the charity leaders’
network, and as a Research Fellow for education at the think-tank Policy
Exchange.




JOHN MATTHEWS



Dr John Matthews is Senior Partner and a GP Trainer in Park Road Medical
Practice, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear where he has worked for the past twenty two
years.

He led the setting up of CareFirst which is a co-operative of 18 GP practices in
North Tyneside that work together to improve the care of patients, which has now
gone on to merge with another group of practices to form a larger federation.

John is currently Chair of NHS North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group which
was authorised without conditions.

In this role he sits on the North Tyneside Health and Wellbeing Board which
existed in shadow form for two years prior to April 2013. In these two years he
chaired the Alternatives to Hospital Admission Partnership Board which focused
on promoting integrated care and successfully reducing in-hospital admissions
through improved community based urgent care.




GABRIELLE MATHEWS



Gabrielle is a member of the NHS Youth Forum and has consulted on the NHS Long
Term Plan, with the APPG on Young People’s Health and various other system
transformation projects. She also works as a Young Technical Advisor at the WHO
Collaborating Centre for Public Health Nursing and Midwifery, which has a focus
on maternal and child health.

She is the former Chair of the Young Persons’ Advisory Group at Birmingham
Children’s Hospital (2015-2019) and has recently become a member of my NHS
Assembly, advising the NHS England and Improvement board on their implementation
of the Long Term Plan.

Through these roles and her own healthcare journey, she has developed a keen
interest in children and young people’s experiences of care; particularly when
transitioning between services, giving consent, receiving difficult news and in
safeguarding proceedings.

Gabrielle is a third year medical student at Imperial College School of Medicine
(ICSM), which affords her another perspective on the NHS. She sits on the ICSM
student Union as Vice-Chair of Welfare. Through this and other volunteer roles,
she became a #iwill Ambassador at StepUpToServe in 2018.




PETE MATUSZOWICZ



Pete Matuszowicz has a background in engineering, education and training.

In 1983, at the age of thirty, he suffered a traumatic upper limb amputation
while living in the Bahamas. As a result he lost his job and had to rebuild his
life. Instead of returning to England he moved to the United States, continued
to travel with his work and pursued a master’s degree in Educational Leadership

Pete has presented internationally at various professional development
conferences and taught in higher education where his work has been well
received. He has a successful leadership record in education and SME business
management.

After losing his arm, Pete followed early advice that… “From now on he must work
with his head, not his hands”, successfully developing and delivering
leadership, life skills and self-management training for corporate,
manufacturing, academic, correctional and rehabilitation environments.

Pete has developed self-management for the UK public and private corporate
sectors in the form of Manage-Able™, a programme that synthesises these past
successes, including that of personal experience.




PAUL MAUBACH



Paul Maubach is Chief Executive of Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group and has
overall responsibility for ensuring it meet the needs of Dudley patients, CCG
employees, the taxpayer, the wider CCG membership and partnerships, and the law
and statute within which the CCG operates.

He has worked in the NHS for over 25 years and is a qualified accountant, with a
degree in mathematics from Warwick University and a master’s degree in
leadership and organisational development from Birmingham University.




GAIL MAUND



Gail Maund is a mum of two young children who she describes as ” the most
important people in my life”.

She lives in Hampshire with her partner Jason. They enjoy family outings and
holidays. Gail and Jason enjoy socialising and eating out when they can.




DR ELAINE MAXWELL



Dr Elaine Maxwell is Clinical Adviser at the National Institute for Health
Research (NIHR) Dissemination Centre, working to provide clear, accessible,
actionable summaries of research that helps decision making in health and social
care.

Elaine has previously worked as an Associate Professor and prior to that as an
executive director of Nursing and a non-executive director of a number of NHS
Trusts in England.




DAME RUTH MAY



Ruth enjoyed national appointments with NHS Improvement and Monitor, as well as
regional and trust leadership roles, before becoming the Chief Nursing Officer
(CNO) for England in January 2019.

In June 2022, as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Honours, Ruth was awarded
a DBE for her services to nursing, midwifery and the NHS since she started her
nurse training in 1985. Upon receiving her Damehood, Ruth recognised the
expertise of nursing and midwifery colleagues in caring for people at every
stage of their lives and the vital role that the professions and care staff
played during the pandemic. Ruth has led the nursing, midwifery and care
professions’ response to COVID-19 in England and led collaborative work with UK
CNO colleagues, the NMC and trade unions to ensure agreement and consistent
messaging on key issues.

She is passionate about nurturing the next generation of NHS nursing and
midwifery leaders and encouraging professional development opportunities. This
includes advocating for improved mental health awareness, championing volunteer
activity to support the frontline workforce, and she is a vocal supporter of the
WRES agenda and increased diversity across the NHS.

Proud mum to her wonderful daughter, Ruth is a great believer in a healthy
professional and home life balance for all.

Find Ruth on Twitter @CNOEngland / #teamCNO.




PETER MCCABE



Peter McCabe has been the Chief Executive of Headway – the brain injury
association since November 2001. He has 36 years’ experience in the voluntary
sector; Chief Executive of QUIT (the smoking cessation charity), held a variety
of posts at SCOPE, Relate (the marriage guidance charity) and the YMCA. He has
30 years’ experience as a local councillor. Has served as a Cabinet Member for
Adult Social Services, Mayor of Merton, Chair of the Health Scrutiny Committee,
Chair of the Standards and General Purposes Committee and in a variety of other
posts.




HUGH MCCAUGHEY



Hugh McCaughey is National Director of Improvement in the new NHS Executive
group.

Hugh helps ensure NHS providers and local systems are equipped to deliver
world-class universal healthcare on a sustainable basis.

He oversees the delivery of high impact support to the NHS to help reduce
unwarranted clinical variation, improve quality and access, and ensure the most
effective and efficient use of resources.

Hugh started in this role on 1 April 2019; previously, he was the Chief
Executive of South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland from
2009, where he made quality improvement a key strategy.

He is a member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and is a founding
member of the Health Improvement Alliance Europe and the UK Improvement
Alliance. He is Chair of the Ulster Rugby Academy and a former coach, player and
manager.




JOE MCCREA



During 2013-14, Joe McCrea combined roles as Social Media Lead for NHS Change
Day – the single largest improvement event in the NHS – and Head of Engagement
for Tameside Listens, the biggest patient and stakeholder listening exercise in
Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s history.

This gave him a unique insight into current contrasting challenges and
priorities from frontline and national perspectives.

He is a course tutor for the NHS Leadership Academy’s ‘Nye Bevan Leadership
Programme’ and has designed social media strategies for the NHS Confederation
and a leading UK local authority.

He has Board level experience in Non-Executive, Cabinet Ministerial Adviser,
Parliamentary, Top 5 Consultancy and Senior Civil Service roles. He is a former
Special Adviser at the Department of Health, Prime Minister’s Adviser in 10
Downing Street and a member of Cabinet Office Senior Management Team.

A communications pioneer for over two decades, he won numerous innovation awards
in 1999 for designing and leading implementation of the world’s first
Government-wide integrated policy, strategy and online communities network – the
Knowledge Network – years before social media became pervasive.

One of his proudest moments came in 2001, when a word he first coined in 1994
while inventing the Labour Party’s Rapid Rebuttal operation officially entered
the English language in the new edition of the Oxford English Dictionary:
“Pre-buttal” (noun) – a pre-emptive response to an anticipated attack.




DAVID MCCULLOUGH



Royal Voluntary Service Chief Executive.




DR IAN MCDERMOTT



Ian Qualified in Leeds in 1989 and started work as a GP in Leeds in 1997.

Ian Developed an interest in diabetes and started working for specialist
diabetes service in Leeds from 2003.

Ian now works for both for the hospital trust and community trust in a
specialist diabetes service role and he is currently Leeds CCG clinical Lead for
Diabetes, and before that worked for previous CCGs and PCTs in Leeds since 2003.




DR ANDREW MCDONALD



Dr Andrew McDonald is a writer and a campaigner. He was born in 1962 and spent
most of his career as a civil servant, initially working in the National
Archives and, subsequently, in the Cabinet Office and Ministry of Justice. His
last executive role was as Chief Executive of the Independent Parliamentary
Standards Authority, the regulator established to tackle MPs’ expenses crisis.
He took medical retirement in 2014. Andrew’s work as a campaigner has primarily
concerned the rights of patients and of disabled people. This work has been
sparked by his own diagnosis with Parkinson’s (2007) and prostate cancer (2010).
Andrew was chair of the pan-disability charity Scope from 2014 to 2019,
overseeing the development of its radical new strategy and reforming its
governance. He has spoken publicly about his experience of disability, including
the shortcomings of the benefits system. Andrew has chaired the patient advocacy
group Chapter 2 since 2015. This has concerned itself with improving the quality
of communications with patients. This has been an important theme for Andrew for
the last decade. He lectured on this in 2014 and 2016, writing the report The
Long and Winding Road, which argued that investment in the communication skills
of healthcare professionals was likely to save costs and improve the patient
experience. Since 2017 he has been working with NHS England on implementation of
these ideas. He is convenor of the Chapter Two Group.




SARAH MCDONALD



Sarah McDonald is Sarcoma UK’s Director of Research and Policy.

With more than twenty years of experience working within the NHS, research, and
health sectors, she works actively alongside partner organisations including the
Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC), The National Cancer Research
Institute (NCRI), National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS).




JOANNE MCDONNELL



A published writer and book reviewer with a Masters in Research in Health
Sciences, Joanne is Senior Nurse for Mental Health in the Nursing and Midwifery
Team at NHS England.

She has won several national awards including Health Writer of the Year and
Dementia Care Manager of the Year. She has also starred in numerous promotional
nursing films and has been a regular contributor to various national media such
as Radio 4.

A member of the Expert Advisory Board for RCN Mental Health Practice, Joanne has
extensive experience of presenting at local, national and international
conferences. She is currently undertaking a second Masters degree in Healthcare
Leadership.




DANNY MCDONNELL



Danny McDonnell is a Strategy Programme Manager with NHS England and leads on
engagement and spread for the Healthy New Towns programme.

He has a background in Public Health but also spent four years at the Royal
College of Physicians in improving stroke services. Prior to NHS England, Danny
worked for two years in Malawi, Southern Africa on a number of international
development projects.




FRANK MCGHEE



Frank McGhee has worked for over 30 years in children’s services, with senior
management roles in the NHS and Local Government.

He is currently Director of Integrated Commissioning for children and young
people working across Southern Derbyshire CCG and Derby City Council. This
includes leading the Future in Mind programme and is seconded to NHS England on
a part-time basis as the National Transformation Advisor.

He started his career working directly with young people and remains focused on
wanting to see significant impact from the Future in Mind programme.




PAULA MCGOWAN



Paula McGowan grew up in Liverpool and is married to Tom McGowan who is a
squadron leader in the Royal Air Force.

She has three children.

Following the untimely death of her youngest child Oliver, Paula has dedicated
her life to campaigning for better health care for people who have autism and
learning disabilities.

She is passionate that all doctors and nurses should receive mandatory training
in autism and learning disability awareness.

Paula has recently moved to Australia with her husband but her campaigning
continues to go from strength to strength. She attends health care conferences
and has done several talks about what happened to Oliver.

Follow Paula on Twitter: @PaulaMc007




OMARI MCKOY



Omari McKoy is a Site Delivery Lead in the National Elective Care Transformation
Programme, and Programme Lead for EyesWise.

Omari has worked across the NHS in both providers and in commissioning in range
of roles delivering strategic and transformational change programmes. Omari is
an alumnus of the Ready Now Programme and the NHS graduate management training
scheme.




SEAN MCLAUGHLIN



Sean McLaughlin has been Director of Housing and Adult Social Services,
Islington Council since 2008. His main interests are delivering new homes and
maximum choice and control to customers through effective partnership working,
particularly with housing providers, emergency services and the NHS. He leads on
Transforming Care for London Directors of Adult Social Services, and is joint
chair of the national ADASS Learning Disability network.




JOE MCMANNERS



Joe is a GP partner at a large practice in Oxford. He was Clinical Chair of
Oxfordshire CCG 2014-2018, focusing on Primary Care sustainability, health
inequalities and out of hospital integration.

Was previously Locality Clinical Director for Oxford City. He was vice chair of
Oxfordshire Health and Wellbeing Board during the term as CCG Chair.

He also was a Councillor on Oxford City Council 2006-2013, and again from May
2018. He was executive board member for housing 2009-2012.




DAVID MCNALLY



David McNally has been Head of Experience of Care with NHS England’s Patient
Experience Team since 2013 and is a member of the Co-production Model Steering
Group. He worked previously in an SHA, a PCT, Adult Social Care and the
voluntary sector.

Last year he led a project to find out what impact patient leaders can have on
improving experience of care and has been invited by the French National
Authority for Health to talk about the project at a seminar in Paris in November
with along with Steve Sharples who is a Patient Leader.

In April David co-designed and co-led a round table on Patient Leadership with
patient leaders, the King’s Fund and the Leadership Academy and next year will
be running a session on ‘Patients as partners in the business of improving
experience’ at The Beryl Institute Patient Experience Conference in Denver with
Mark Doughty from The King’s Fund.

He is a member of the Researcher-Led Panel, National Institute for Health
Research, Health Services and Delivery Research programme and an Honorary Senior
Lecturer at the University of Manchester, Medical School.




RUPERT MCSHANE



Rupert McShane is a consultant old age psychiatrist at Oxford Health NHS
Foundation Trust. He works with the Academic Health Science Network to help get
dementia-related innovations into practice, with the NIHR Clinical Research
Network to help get the evidence about what works, and with the Cochrane
collaboration to help assess and combine all the evidence that is gathered.




MARTIN MCSHANE



Dr Martin McShane was previously National Clinical Director for Long Term
Conditions, since the publication of these blogs he has left NHS England.




NAOMI MCVEY



Naomi McVey is Head of Programmes for the Chief Allied Health Professions (AHP)
Officer at NHS England.

She is responsible for overseeing the national programme on implementing AHPs
into Action, the framework for the 14 allied health professions in England;
working closely with other arm’s length bodies and a range of national and local
stakeholders.

She is also a NICE Fellow, focusing on supporting AHPs to understand, engage
with and implement NICE guidance.

As a physiotherapist, Naomi specialised in rehabilitation for older people, and
worked in range of clinical and managerial roles in the NHS before moving to
improvement and transformation in roles at NICE and Health Education England.




PAUL MEARS



Paul Mears joined Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as Chief
Executive in May 2012. Paul was previously Chief Operating Officer at South
Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust where he was responsible for leading
operational services in Torbay Hospital. He also has considerable experience of
working in community services having been Director of Operations at Torbay Care
Trust where he was responsible for integrating community health and social care
services in one of the leading examples of integrated care in the UK.




PROFESSOR GRAHAM MEDLEY



Professor Graham Medley is Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling at the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

He joined the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in April 2015. He
is a member of the Neglected Tropical Disease Modelling Consortium and the SPEAK
India Consortium, and is currently the director of CMMID.

Graham’s overall interest is the transmission dynamics of infectious disease,
and he has published on many different pathogens and hosts. He is particularly
interested in understanding how interventions are and should be designed to
control infectious disease, and how models relate to policy development. The
interaction of transmission with societal and political processes is of
particular interest to me, and the focus of my work on HIV/AIDS.

He is on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science, on an expert group in the
Infected Blood Inquiry, and chair of SPI-M, and currently attending SAGE as part
of the UK COVID-19 response.




PRITTI MEHTA



Pritti Mehta is Head of Personalised Care for the North region, working with
Integrated Care Systems and Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships to
support the delivery of personalised care, empowering people and communities to
take greater responsibility and control of their own health and wellbeing.

Pritti is passionate about systems leadership, self-care, diversity and
inclusion. She believes in walking the walk!

Pritti joined NHS England in 2013 and has worked across strategy and delivery.
She supported the development of the Five Year Froward View and led the
commissioning of the Realising the Value programme, setting the national agenda
and context for self-care. More recently, she led the Empowering People and
Communities Workstream of the New Care Models programme, where her team worked
intensively with 15 new care models to support the implementation and spread of
self-care.

Pritti’s also a recent graduate of the Nye Bevan leadership programme for
aspiring directors and is part of the NHS England’s Black, Asian and Minority
Ethnic Group talent management programme.

Pritti has 12 years’ experience in the voluntary sector, across RNIB, Action on
Hearing Loss and Genetic Alliance UK, where she led and supported the
development and delivery of national strategies to improve health and care
services and support for a range of groups.

Pritti is a scientist by background, holding a Ph.D. and post-doctoral training
in Developmental and Molecular Genetics.

Follow Pritti @pritti_mehta




SONAL MEHTA



Sonal Mehta is a primary care pharmacist with NHS Milton Keynes CCG.

She started her professional life as a community pharmacist where she gained a
breadth of experience across different populations, providing advice and
delivering public health services.

Since starting at Milton Keynes CCG in 2012, her main role has been to provide
medicines and prescribing support to several GP surgeries. She has also been
involved in a number of local initiatives such as updating and rebranding the
community pharmacy minor ailments scheme, MK Pharmacy First, contributed to
pathway design in order to bring children’s care close to home and been involved
in the development of primary care multidisciplinary teams.

Sonal is a passionate advocate for self-care and the benefits it can bring to
individuals and communities.




MICHELLE MELLO



Michelle Mello RN, BSc (Hons), MSc is Deputy Director, Nurse Lead, Personalised
Care Group, NHS England and NHS Improvement

She is a nurse with over 30 years’ experience of working in the NHS in a variety
of roles. This has included clinical, management, educational, commissioning,
strategic and executive level posts.

Clinical roles included working in hospital and in the community as a health
visitor and diabetes specialist nurse. Michelle also worked in a senior academic
post at Warwick Diabetes Care, University of Warwick.

For the last nine years Michelle has held national roles in NHS England working
with the Chief Nursing Officer and latterly the Personalised Care Group.

She is a Florence Nightingale Foundation Scholar and Queens Nursing Institute
Fellow
Follow Michelle on Twitter: @MSHMello




DR PETER MELTON



Dr Peter Melton is Clinical Chief Officer of North East Lincolnshire Clinical
Commissioning Group as well as Co-Chair of the NHS Commissioning Assembly.

He led the establishment of North East Lincolnshire PCT in April 2000 and was
appointed PEC Chair. He chaired the National PEC Chair networks hosted by
NATPACT and NHS Networks.

He was appointed Chief Executive in 2010 to North East Lincolnshire CTP and
appointed CCO for North East Lincolnshire CCG in April 2012.




DR GAIL MIFLIN



Dr Gail Miflin is Medical and Research Director at NHS Blood and Transplant. She
joined the organisation in 2010 and became a Director in 2016. Previously she
was a Consultant Haematologist at hospitals and NHS Trusts, specialising in
treating patients with red cell disorders.




ANDREW MILLAR



Andrew Millar is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist at the North
Middlesex University Hospital where he is the Lead Clinician for Upper GI
Cancer, Viral Hepatitis Service and Endoscopy Training.

Andrew led the development the use of Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Centres
whilst in post as the London Cancer Hepato-biliary and Pancreatic Pathway
Director and has since been appointed as Clinical Lead for Multidisciplinary
Diagnostic Centres for the UCLH Cancer Collaborative.




ADAM MILLICAN-SLATER



Adam started his career as a statistician in the Department of Health working on
a range of areas including patient experience, workforce and the 18 week target.
He has since moved into more general roles in NHS England and Improvement,
though maintains an interest in the role of analytics in driving improvement in
the health and care system. He currently works in the Population Health
Management Support team in NHS England and Improvement.




MATTHEW MILLS



Matthew Mills is Lead Specialist Speech and Language Therapist at the Gender
Identity Clinic, London where he has worked since 2009.

He is a National Advisor in Transgender Voice for the Royal College of Speech
and Language Therapists.

He originally trained as a professional actor and singer at Guildhall School of
Music & Drama and worked in theatre, film and television for 15 years.

He is a lecturer in voice at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama and in
speech and language therapy at the University of Greenwich. He is also a council
member of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists.




TRUDY MILLS



Trudy Mills began her career as a nurse/midwife in 1988 and her roles within the
NHS have included several commissioning posts across local authorities, clinical
commissioning groups and NHS England.

She provides overall leadership for Children and Family Health Surrey and is
overseeing the ongoing transformation of its services, which are delivered by
partners CSH Surrey, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and
First Community Health.

Trudy is also the executive strategy lead for women and children’s services
within Surrey Heartlands STP, providing executive and strategic support to
change management programmes including a single system midwifery management
structure across three acute trusts and the standardisation of care pathways for
paediatric services.




KATE MILTON



Kate Milton is the Experience of Care Lead for Staff Experience at NHS England.

Kate has over 30 years’ experience in HR, equality and human rights, and staff
experience, predominantly in the public sector.

She was appointed to NHS England as part of the equality and health inequalities
team in May 2013, moving into her current role as Experience of Care Lead for
Staff Experience in May last year. She leads a programme to drive improved
outcomes and experiences for patients through improving staff experiences of
care.

Outside of work Kate is member of the Local Governing Board at Callington
Community College in Cornwall. She has been a governor since October 2012, and
was appointed Chair in January 2017




ED MITCHELL



Ed Mitchell is a junior doctor training in psychiatry, and currently one of Sir
Bruce Keogh’s clinical fellows, working in Domain 2 (Enhancing the quality of
life for people with long term conditions). He has a particular interest in
integrating physical and mental health. Before studying medicine on the graduate
entry course at Oxford, he was a Fulbright fellow at Harvard University and a
junior research fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford.




DR SARAH MITCHELL



Dr Sarah Mitchell is the West Midlands Generalist Clinical Lead for Palliative
and End of Life Care at NHS England. In this role and as a Birmingham GP, Sarah
is committed to working with all to support the local action challenge of the
‘Ambitions’ framework. A champion of excellent palliative and end of life care
for people of all ages, Sarah also co-chairs the West Midlands Paediatric
Palliative Care Network and is exploring palliative care for children as her PhD
at Warwick.




DR ANDY MITCHELL



Dr Mitchell qualified from Guys Hospital in 1980 and was appointed to his first
consultant post as a general paediatrician in 1990.

His early years were spent in the Armed Services. As Joint Service Clinical
Director he was responsible for widely distributed paediatric services, and for
world wide intensive care retrieval of sick children. He remains a civilian
adviser to the Defence Medical Services. In 1995 he was appointed as consultant
paediatrician and clinical director in Basingstoke, and continued in clinical
management roles for ten years.

He contributed to the development of an integrated service for children with
expansion of specialist care into the community and consultant delivered
ambulatory services, recognised by the Modernisation Agency as the ‘Total
Approach’. In 1997 he established the Central South Coast Paediatric Intensive
Care network and subsequently chaired through seven years of development. He has
been clinical lead for the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Maternity and Children’s
Network, worked with the DH on collaborative policy development, and both the MA
and CSIP as a national clinical network lead offering advice to SHAs and PCTs on
network development. He has undertaken many service reviews, and has been
appointed as a member of the National Clinical Advisory Team. In 2006 he
accepted a new challenge as Associate Medical Director at Great Ormond Street,
during which time he facilitated the London children’s pathway group as part of
the NHS Next Steps review. He has co-chaired the London Clinical Advisory Group,
and co-directed the Healthcare for London Children’s project.

In April 2009 he was appointed Medical Director, NHS London. He has been closely
involved with the reconfiguration of stroke, trauma, cardiovascular pathology
and specialist paediatric services, and has recently launched a programme of
change designed to introduce seven day and 24/7 services. He leads on service
quality across London, and has significant experience of supporting failing
organizations. He established and chairs London’s Clinical Senate. In September
2012, The National Commissioning Board appointed Dr Mitchell to be the Regional
Medical Director for London. He also continues with his part time general
paediatric practice.




DR RAJ MITRA



Dr Raj Mitra has been a GP in Lambeth since 1995 and is a clinical member of the
Governing Body at NHS Lambeth CCG.

His specialist interests are mental health, dementia, cancer and end of life
care, and patient engagement.




JOANNE MOHAMMED



Joanne is the Ward Manager on an Acute Respiratory Ward at East Lancashire
Hospitals and has been in post for 8 years

She qualified as a nurse in 1998, starting her career in orthopaedics and
general medicine, working in hospitals across Lancashire.

She has spent most of her time in secondary care and prior to her current role
has specialised in acute medicine, respiratory, diabetes and medicine for older
people.




EMMA MOIR



Emma Moir is the Greener NHS Deputy Director for Operations and Delivery. She
works in partnership with the Greener NHS Team and Workstream leads including
Estates and Facilities, Travel and Transport, Supply Chain, Medicines and Food
to focus on the commitment to deliver a world-class net zero emission health
service.

Emma joined NHS England in 2021, with over twenty years’ experience of high
profile project delivery across government departments including BEIS, DEFRA,
HMRC and Ministry of Justice. She is a qualified lawyer, having spent the
earlier part of her career working in the court service.




PETER MOLYNEUX



Peter Molyneux is Chair of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

He has a particular interest in the importance of diversity to good decision
making.

Peter is a Visiting Fellow at the John Madejski Centre for Reputation Management
at Henley Business School, a Board Member of Recovery Focus and a Stonewall
Ambassador. He is writing in a personal capacity.




DR DAWN MOODY



Associate National Clinical Director for Older People and Integrated
Person-Centred Care for NHS England.

Dr Dawn Moody is a GP in Derbyshire who has a special interest in frailty and
person-centred systems of care. She has worked with commissioners, providers and
in research in this area and holds an MSc in Geriatric Medicine. Dawn’s current
portfolio includes her directorship of Fusion48 being the Clinical Director for
Health Education England (East Midlands) Nottinghamshire Frailty Toolkit and
Training Programme. She is also Frailty Lead for the West Midlands Primary Care
Workforce and Improved Patient Access Plan, Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund Wave
2 Scheme.

Dawn’s previous roles have included Clinical Associate (Frailty and Complex
Care) at North Staffordshire CCG and Medical Director North Staffordshire
Community Healthcare. She has been a Partner in General Practice for 16 years
and GPSI Geriatric Medicine and intermediate care.




SAM MOODY



Sam Moody is a student nurse and St John Ambulance volunteer.




PROFESSOR RAMANI MOONESINGHE



Professor Ramani Moonesinghe is Professor of peri-operative medicine at
University College London. She trained in medicine, anaesthesia and critical
care in London and works clinically at University College Hospital. She is
Director of the national Health Services Research Centre at the Royal College of
Anaesthetists and head of her research department at UCL; her research focuses
on health services research, improvement based research and clinical trials in
perioperative and critical care in the UK and overseas.




DR PHIL MOORE



Dr Phil Moore, Deputy Chair (Clinical) at NHS Kingston CCG, is a long-standing
GP, a GP trainer and honorary teaching fellow at Imperial College.

Locally he is CCG lead on education and training, appraisal, cardiovascular
services and mental health. He is leading on the development of mental health
services in primary care across London as a member of the London Specialist
Clinical Network for mental health.

Nationally he is on the Board of NHS Clinical Commissioners and chairs the
Mental Health Commissioners’ Network.

Phil is a trustee and chair of a variety of charities and voluntary
organisations, a GP trainer and honorary teaching fellow at Imperial College and
a Visiting Fellow in Healthcare Management at the University of Surrey. He
frequently speaks and chairs at national conferences.




LISA MOORE



Lisa Moore, 43, is a South African born mother of twins Georgia and Harrison,
aged 12. She has lived in London for the past 20 years and works in
communications.




DR JIM MOORE FRCP EDIN



Dr Moore is currently President of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society.

He studied medicine in Edinburgh before moving to Gloucestershire to work as a
GP principal. He has an interest in cardiology and cardiovascular disease,
particularly those aspects that are relevant to primary care.

Dr Moore was involved in the development of the community-based Gloucestershire
Heart Failure service where he continues to work as a GP with a special interest
(GPwSI).

He was a member of The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Chronic Heart Failure Guideline committee (2018), was on the Board of the
British Society for Heart Failure (from 2008 until recently) and is a member of
the National Heart Failure Audit Domain Expert Group.

He has provided cardiovascular clinical support to local commissioning
organisations over two decades and more recently to emerging cardiac networks in
the South-West. He is a Clinical Lead for the National Cardiac Pathways
Implementation Programme and provides support for the National Cardiovascular
Prevention Programme.

Dr Moore is the Primary Care Lead for the West of England Integrated Cardiac
Clinical Network.




MIKE MORGAN



Mike Morgan is the National Clinical Director for Respiratory Services in
England.

He is a consultant respiratory physician at the Department of Respiratory
Medicine, Allergy and Thoracic Surgery at the University Hospitals of Leicester
NHS Trust at Glenfield Hospital and Honorary Professor at the University of
Leicester.

His career interests have included the assessment and management of respiratory
disability, particularly in COPD and he has over 20 years’ experience of
clinical management in developing and leading the respiratory services in
Leicester.

Mike is a past President and Chairman of the British Thoracic Society and editor
of Chronic Respiratory Disease.




ROB MORIARTY



Rob lives in Leeds and has over two decades lived experience with a high-level
spinal cord injury, self-managing his 24-hour care through a range of
personalisation schemes. Rob actively participates in service user involvement
at a number of local universities, sharing his experiences of working with and
receiving support from the health and social care sector. He’s been a member of
the NHS England Personalised Care Strategic Co-production Group and Lived
Experience team since September 2017.




JESS MORLEY



Jess Morley is a tech adviser to the Department of Health and Social Care
specifically focused on policy relating to the use of data-driven health and
care technology. She is also an MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute and
a Research Assistant at the Digital Ethics Lab.




CAROLYN MORRICE



Carolyn Morrice trained at Glasgow Royal Infirmary before moving south and
specialising in vascular and surgical nursing.

She was Deputy Director of Nursing for Mid-Essex Hospitals before joining
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in 2013 as Assistant Chief Nurse in the
Critical Care Division, becoming the Trust’s Chief Nurse in 2014.

Carolyn is passionate about patient safety and providing integrated care,
putting the individual at the heart of healthcare. The Trust was one of the
first integrated hospital and community care providers, and is one of eight
vanguard Integrated Care Systems in the country.

Carolyn is the professional lead for nursing, midwifery and Allied Health
Professionals and is the Executive Lead for quality, patient safety and
safeguarding.




SHELAGH MORRIS



Shelagh Morris is Deputy Chief Allied Health Professions Officer for NHS
England.

She is responsible for a number of workstreams including improving adult
rehabilitation services, extending prescribing/supply, and administration
medicines mechanisms to a wider range of healthcare professions to support
improved clinical outcomes and service redesign.

Shelagh trained as an occupational therapist at The Liverpool School of
Occupational Therapy. As part of her continuing professional development she
gained a BA and an MBA from the Open University

Her first posts were in mental health as the move to community based services
was gathering momentum and then in social services as part of team establishing
a community rehabilitation centre.

Shelagh joined the Department of Health on 1 April 2003. She was previously
Director of Allied Health Professions within an acute trust and prior to that,
Rehabilitation co-ordinator within a community trust.

Shelagh joined NHS England as Deputy Chief Allied Health Professions Officer on
1 April 2013.

She was awarded the OBE in the 2012 New Year’s Honours.




HELEN MORRISON



Helen Morrison took on the role of National VTE Prevention Programme Manager in
January 2012 having previously been involved in the implementation of the South
West Strategic Health Authority VTE prevention initiative as project manager.

Helen graduated from the University of Wales College Cardiff with a degree in
Biochemistry and worked in industry for ten years before moving into healthcare
consultancy. She has worked at director level supporting the delivery of a
number of programmes for NHS South of England and has now moved to NHS England,
who host the National VTE Prevention Programme under the leadership of Dr Mike
Durkin, Director of Patient Safety.




ROBIN MORRISON



Robin Morrison is Chair of Engaging Communities Staffordshire. Before this he
was Chief Executive of Blanenau Gwent County Borough Council in South Wales,
where he led the transformation of social care and worked closely with health
colleagues on improving a wide range of services to facilitate the council’s
Independent Living Strategy.




DANNY MORTIMER



Danny Mortimer is the chief executive of NHS Employers, a post he has held since
November 2014.

NHS Employers is the voice of employers across the English NHS, and leads work
relating to workforce policy and practice.
Danny also serves as deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation, of which
NHS Employers is part.

He first worked in healthcare as a porter and a CSV care assistant before
becoming a management trainee in Stoke-on-Trent. He worked for the NHS in Bath
and Brighton before taking up his first director post in West Sussex. He then
worked in executive roles in hospitals in Hertfordshire and Nottingham before
joining NHS Employers.

Danny is a chartered fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and
Development, a trustee of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion and
the NHS Retirement Fellowship, and chairs the Cavendish Coalition of social care
and health organisations.

Twitter: @NHSE_Danny




LAUREN MOSELY



Lauren Mosely joined the NHS England Patient Safety Domain in 2013 where she
works as Patient Safety Systems and Liaison Manager, contributing to a wide
variety of programmes.

She is also responsible for the development of national policy associated with
the management of Serious Incidents and, more recently, working with the NHS
England Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) team to support the development of the
NHS England Strategy and work plan to address UK AMR priority areas.

Lauren has a Masters in pharmaceutical science and previously worked as a
medicines safety coordinator at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, where she
worked to deliver projects to improve the safe prescribing and administration of
medicines.




DR ANTHEA MOWAT



Dr Anthea Mowat is Chair of the BMA Representative Body, one of three elected
Chief Officers, and is the lead for Equality and Inclusion, as well as for
Education, Training and Workforce.

She is an associate specialist in anaesthesia and chronic pain management at
Pilgrim Hospital, Boston, which is part of United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust
(ULHT).
Born in Newcastle, she completed her medical training in Aberdeen, and her
anaesthetic training in Aberdeen and Inverness.

Anthea has been Involved in SAS Grade representation locally since 1993 and
nationally since 2002.
She was Chair of the Trust Local Negotiating Committee 2007-2014 and Trust SAS
Clinical Tutor since 2009, looking after 190 SAS staff.

She is a member of the AAGBI SAS committee and was honoured to be awarded AAGBI
Pask Certificate in 2009, and BMA Association Medal in 2010.
Anthea lectures nationally on appraisal, on job planning and on SAS issues.




TAPAS MUKHERJEE



Tapas Mukherjee, 35, studied at Manchester University. He initially trained as
an acute medicine and icu registrar at East Midlands (Acute) and UCLH (Icu).

It was on rotation at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester that he rewrote asthma
guidelines and was awarded British Thoracic Society Prize for Respiratory
Education as his work doubled the numbers of staff using guidelines.
Tapas received funding from NHS England Regional Innovation Fund to develop ‘The
Inhaler Song’. In 2015, he was awarded the NHS England Innovation Acorn Award.

This year he was awarded the role Clinical Entrepreneur at NHS England.




ROWAN MUNSON



Rowan is committed to making sure young people are heard in healthcare issues.
For six years he has represented young people, locally at the district and
county councils, Patient Participation Groups & his Clinical Commissioning
Group, including founding Surrey’s youth representation platform.

He says his interest in health issues started after he was ping-ponged through
several departments, in several organisations.

After the publication of the Chief Medical Officer’s “Prevention Pays – Our
Children Deserve Better” report, he took up the mandate to ensure that services
meet the needs of young people.

He is looking forward to helping put young patients at the heart of services for
children and young people.




CAROL MUNT



In 1982 Carol Munt was a passenger involved in a road traffic accident in
France, resulting in a fractured skull, brain haemorrhage and coma. On return to
the UK she was diagnosed with Narcolepsy & Cataplexy as a result of the trauma.

She is passionate about Co-Production and Patient & Public Involvement.

She is an Honorary Lecturer & Doubleday Affiliate at Manchester Medical School.

Carol was recently adopted onto the NHS Always Events Advisory Group; is an
active member of HQIP Service User Network, NIHR-NHSE Patient Experience Team,
Kent & Medway STP Patient & Public Advisory Group and Workforce programme,
DeepMind Health Users Group, Rosamund Snow community and also a member of the Q
community.

A qualified nurse, Carol has also been a successful business woman, and a Parish
Council Chair. She has been a reader for the Talking Newspaper for the Blind
since the 1970s.

She lives in Tunbridge Wells and lists travel and photography among her hobbies.

Her regular tweets about health-related news are @muntma.




CLAIRE MURDOCH



Claire Murdoch is NHS England’s National Mental Health Director.

She has been a registered mental health nurse for 34 years, and joined NHS
England in April 2016.

She is also Chief Executive of Central and North West London NHS Foundation
Trust. With a wealth of clinical and leadership experience she is leading
delivery of the national mental health programme.




RACHEL MURPHY



Rachel leads the transformation programme of all patient facing, self-care and
prevention activities within the Paperless 2020 Programme in the NHS, a £270m
digital transformation of all patient facing services across the NHS. She is a
confident and dynamic leader with technical prowess, proven business acumen, and
an exceptional record defining and executing strategy at top level to deliver
change, improve performance and ensure first-class digital/technology services
and solutions for blue-chip organisations across multiple sectors.




ALISTAIR MURRAY



Alistair Murray, Chief Pharmacist at Echo, is a seasoned healthcare professional
with over 20 years’ experience with community and digital pharmacy, third-level
education and the NHS. He completed his pharmacy training at Boots and spent 15
years as a pharmacist working in community pharmacies and GP surgeries before
joining the founding team of Echo in 2015. He is an honorary lecturer at UCL and
the University of Nottingham, the latter where he received his masters in
pharmacy.




ROB MUSIC



Rob Music is Chief Executive of Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust.

He joined the organisation in September 2008. The charity has seen positive
change including income increasing by over 600%, developing new support services
and a wide range of popular health information.

It has also implemented a major rebrand and run high profile awareness
campaigns. Additionally the charity has built positive relationships with key
funders, media, policy and health influencers and Rob sits on a number of
influential committees.

This year the charity was named a winner of a GSK Impact Award, run in
partnership with The King’s Fund that recognises outstanding work of health care
charities.




LUCIE MUSSETT



Lucie leads the project to develop the new Patient Safety Incident Management
System, and acts as the Product Owner on the digital agile team. She has a
background in health policy, and has been part of the national patient safety
team since 2013.




MARTIN MYERS



Martin Myers, Consultant Clinical Scientist and Laboratory Director of Clinical
Biochemistry, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.




DR YASARA NAHEED



Dr Yasara Naheed is a GP partner at Thursby Surgery, Burnley, and Clinical
Director for Burnley East Primary Care Network. She has practiced at Thursby
Surgery since 2004 following her GP training.

Yas has lived in Nelson for over 40 years. Living and working in the area means
she has a strong connection and understanding of the needs and challenges facing
her patients. She recognises the value and importance of community and community
assets and networks and this has influenced both her practice and her
development of Population Health Management which she has led for the Burnley
East Primary Care Network in partnership with her GP colleagues and other
partners.

Prior to this Yas co-led a groundbreaking partnership between the local GP
practices, primary schools, police and local youth theatre to help build
resilience and confidence for young people. Her particular interests are mental
health, women’s health and diabetes. She has also been involved in training of
medical students and foundation doctors at the practice. In her spare time she
enjoys playing badminton and watching football.




DR HABIB NAQVI



Dr Habib Naqvi has a background in equality and diversity policy, public health,
and health psychology. Habib is the Policy Lead for the NHS Workforce Race
Equality Standard and is leading on the inclusion of the WRES within national
policy levers.

Before joining NHS England in 2013, Habib worked on the development of national
equality and diversity policy at the Department of Health, where he led on the
development of the Equality Delivery System for the NHS and took the lead for
coordinating the health sector’s response to the Ministerial review of the
Equality Duty.

Habib has experience in academia and research, including holding a strong
portfolio of healthcare research.

He currently reverse mentors NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens.




VICCIE NELSON



Viccie Nelson, Programme Director, Sutton Homes of Care.

Originally from Australia, Viccie worked as a Physiotherapist before moving to
the UK in 1996. She worked clinically as a physiotherapist predominantly in
older people’s rehabilitation in acute and community settings, as well as
developing expertise as a moving and handling adviser. She went on to manage
clinical teams before working at a senior manager level within acute and
community service organisations in London, moving across into commissioning as
Assistant Director of Commissioning at Sutton and Merton PCT.

Following the birth of her second child, Viccie undertook a number of project
roles within CCGs, Local Authorities and the Royal Marsden Hospital – Community
Services Division. More recently, she worked for NHS England – London region on
a pan-London programme to transform community services. She’s also been involved
with the Healthy London Partnership.

As a local resident she is aware of the various challenges facing Sutton, and
her clinical background ensures that she remains patient focused whilst working
to meet national and local strategic challenges.




TOM NEWBOUND



Tom Newbound is Deputy Programme Director for NHS England’s Diabetes Programme.

He has worked on the NHS Diabetes Programme, a partnership between NHS England,
Diabetes UK and Public Health England, since 2014.

The first years on the programme were spent leading implementation of the NHS
Diabetes Prevention Programme across England, which is now the first Type 2
diabetes prevention programme in the world to have full national coverage.

Previously Tom worked in the National Institute for Health Research, initially
in Guys and St Thomas’ and then nationally in workforce development.




DR PENNY NEWMAN



Dr Penny Newman is an NHS England NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow (NIA) and
former community Trust Medical Director, Director of Public Health and GP.

Her work on health coach training was first developed in Suffolk with
psychologist and coach, Dr Andrew McDowell, initially funded by a Regional
Innovation Fund and Health Education England, and subsequently selected onto the
NIA programme.

The NIA is an NHS England initiative delivered in partnership with the country’s
15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), hosted by UCLPartners. It supports
delivery of the Five Year Forward View by accelerating uptake of high impact
innovations for patient, population and NHS staff benefit, and providing real
time practical insights on spread to inform national strategy. For more
information visit www.nhsaccelerator.com

Penny has worked across the NHS and all sectors on pathway redesign, workforce
and new models of care, is an executive coach and has published seminal reports
on gender equality, most recently with UN Women.




MARY NEWSOME



Mary Newsome has three sons and lives on the South Pennines and is a country
girl at heart.

She has brought up her boys on her own for almost 17 years and throughout that
time has worked for the Department of Health, NHS Employers, and the DWP, as
well as for herself.

She currently temps for NHS England but is applying for permanent jobs with the
service.

She has a busy life and likes to get out and about, meet friends for a meal or
go to the theatre, music, art exhibitions or whatever’s on.

She is passionate about her charity work with Journeys of Hope.

She has a passion for writing, likes doing yoga and going for walks. Her
ambition is to live by the sea writing.




LENKA NOVAKOVA



Lenka Novakova is a Deaf advisor working for a national Deaf mental health
service based in South West London and St. George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

Lenka previously worked in deaf education and then went on to work as a child
mental health worker at the National Deaf CAMHS Corner House inpatient unit.

In her current role, she focuses on promoting the importance of deaf culturally
and linguistically affirmative provision across the NHS and other mental health
care providers.

A strong believer in empowerment and positive thinking, Lenka encourages Deaf
service users to be actively involved in ongoing service development through
quality improvement and innovation projects.

The field of mental health drives her to continuously develop her current role
so that she can achieve the maximum impact and influence on provision for both
service users and other medical and non-medical professionals.




CAROL NUTKINS



Carol Nutkins became a Community Navigator in October 2014 when the service was
first introduced in West Herts. She is employed by POhWER, a partner of the
Hospital and Community Navigator Service, and currently seconded to Herts
Valleys CCG High Intensity Users service.




KALU NWAKA



Kalu Nwaka is a Senior Policy and Implementation manager in the National
Elective Care Transformation Programme, High Impact Intervention team, where he
is the FCP workstream lead.

Kalu has worked in a range of roles across different NHS organisations.

He worked as a Programme Manager in a pathology service consolidation across two
of the biggest NHS Trusts, realising significant cost savings from streamlined
processes and reducing waste in the system.




LUKE O’SHEA



Luke O’Shea is Head of Integrated Personal Commissioning and Person Centred Care
for NHS England.

He has previously worked in national policy and strategy roles at the Department
of Health and as a commissioner in a local authority and the NHS.

Prior to that he worked in a range of government departments including leading
work on early year services at the Prime Minister’s strategy unit, as a private
secretary to a children’s minister and leading cross government working on
ageing.

He describes as his proudest achievements his “modest role at the inception of
Family Nurse Partnership in the UK and of my work on ageing”.




JOE O’GRADY



Joe O’Grady began his 32-year career in Health and Social Care as a nursing
auxiliary and completed his training as an RMN in 1989.

He is currently on secondment for 2018-19 to formulate an equality governance
framework and service for the Cheshire and Merseyside region, and has been the
Equality and Diversity Manager at the Countess of Chester Hospital since 2011.

Joe increased recruitment of stakeholders from across the protected
characteristics into equality sub groups, the equality governance framework and
joint working initiatives. He implemented a robust equality analysis toolkit and
recruited over 40 Equality Local Champions, who received accredited E&D
training. In addition, Joe co-facilitated International Day Against Homophobia
and Transphobia (IDAHOT), Chester PRIDE and other events in partnership with
third sector organisations.

He launched the Trust’s inaugural Carers Strategy to support Patients and Staff
who are Carers. Joe has also helped the Trust to achieve one of the highest
equality performance ratings under both the Equality Delivery System 2 and
Workforce Race Equality Standard frameworks and to meet the Accessible
Information Standard, Disability Confident Employer and NAVAJO LGBTI Charter
Marks.

His Trust has been a pilot site for both the Workforce Disability Equality
Standard and the NHS Sexual Orientation Monitoring Standard and is a Partner
Alumni for Diversity and Inclusion with NHS Employers.

Joe won the national NHS Leadership Academy Award for Inclusive Leadership in
2015 and national Diversity Champion award for Public Sector in 2017, in the
Excellence In Diversity Awards.




PETER O’REILLY



Peter O’Reilly originally joined Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service
(GMFRS) on 1 March 2011 as Director of Prevention and Protection after serving
for 21 years with Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service. On 1 April 2015 he
was appointed to the role of County Fire Officer and Chief Executive and in June
2016 was awarded the Queens Fire Service Medal (QFSM).

He served in Belfast for most of his career as a Firefighter, Junior Officer and
District Commander, before moving to Ballymena as an Assistant Area Commander.
He became the Area Commander for Northern Area Command in 2009.

Currently Peter holds the Strategic Lead role for Health within the Chief Fire
Officers Association (CFOA). Successes include the agreement and signing of a
Joint Consensus Statement with NHS, PHE, LGA, and Age UK which has resulted in
UK Fire Services delivering Safe and Well visits to those most vulnerable in
communities. Separately, with the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
(AACE), he has signed a similar statement aligning the strategic intent for
support to emergency medical incidents.

Since joining Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service Peter has overseen the
complete restructuring of the Prevention and Protection Directorate and aligned
the Service with the Public Service Reform agenda in Greater Manchester. On 15
September 2015 Peter lead GMFRS to become the first Fire Service in the United
Kingdom to assist its local ambulance service, by making available all of its
firefighters, in responding to cardiac arrests.




DR SHELAGH O’RIORDAN



Dr Shelagh O’Riordan is a Consultant Community Geriatrician at Kent Community
Health NHS Foundation Trust and Professional Adviser to the Community Services
team at NHS England. She is also Clinical Director for Frailty in East Kent.

She was a Consultant Geriatrician in East Kent Hospitals NHS University Trust
for fourteen years before moving into community services. She was the Chair of
the Community Geriatrics Special Interest group at the British Geriatrics
Society between 2019 and 2022.

During the pandemic Shelagh developed a ‘hospital at home’ service, working with
the urgent community response teams to allow real alternatives to hospital
admission for people at home and in care homes. In her role as Professional
Adviser to NHS England, Shelagh is supporting the work building on the
commitments in the NHS Long Term Plan to support older people to stay well and
live independently as long as possible and to provide care closer to home,
reducing avoidable hospital admissions.

@jupiterhouse1 @NHSEnglandCHS




ALISON O’SULLIVAN



Alison began her career as a social worker assistant in inner-city Derby in
1973, trained at Bradford University, qualifying in 1978 and then worked in
Bradford for many years. She was fortunate to have experience working with all
groups of people and in many different parts of this diverse district. As she
moved into senior roles in social services, partnership working became a strong
feature and she was seconded as joint commissioner for older people with the
Area Health Authority as well as holding assistant director roles for adults.
Alison was director of social services for Bradford for four years and left in
2006 to go as director for children and young people to Kirklees. She retired
from this role in April 2016.

Alison was active in the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS)
from its inception supporting regional work to share best practice and drive
improvement. She represented Yorkshire and Humberside on the National Council
for ADCS and was elected vice president in 2014 becoming president for the year
from April 2015. This was a huge privilege and enabled her to engage in national
policy shaping and give advice on behalf of directors of children’s services to
government departments and others. She has a long track record of engagement in
national policy work from the Marmot Review in 2008 to Future in Mind in 2016.

Alison has acted as a champion for children at a local and national level with
particular emphasis on empowering children to directly influence policy and
practice. Alison pressed for better support for care leavers and mental health
of young people as specific issues during her Presidential year. Since
retirement Alison has been a member of the advisory board for the Children’s
Commissioner, Co-Chair and support to the Expert Group improving mental health
for children in care, together with advice and consultancy roles.




TYLER O’SULLIVAN



Tyler O’Sullivan is a Strategy analyst within the Strategy Group at NHS England,
leading work on the Learning Disability Employment programme.




NENE OBIBI-MORDI



Nene Obibi-Mordi, RGN, is workstream lead for the EyesWise – 100 Voices
Campaign, part of the Elective Care Transformation Programme. Nene has years of
practical experience of personalised care and system leadership, working in
integrated teams across health and social care systems.

Nene’s passion for improved health outcomes in the community is well established
and includes organising and executing medical missions for diabetes and high
blood pressure in underserved communities in Africa; regular participation in
Race For Life Cancer Research UK, and going bald for Meningitis UK, as a
Meningitis survivor.

Today, she pioneers as a creative writer and a social blogger writing on health
improvement, life encounters, fitness and wellbeing. PRINCE2 certified,
experienced in coaching and facilitating local health teams to enact change
which impact on patient experience and outcomes. She is a well-honed public
speaker, skilled in Change Management, Clinical Operations and a registered
Nurse.




JANE OBONYO



Jane Obonyo is a volunteer with Black Health Agency Skyline.




SIR JOHN OLDHAM



Adj Professor Institute of Global Health Imperial College.

Sir John Oldham qualified at Manchester Medical School in 1978 and worked in
various teaching hospitals, culminating as a GP trainee in inner city
Manchester, before becoming a partner in a general practice.

Until recently he was National Clinical Lead for Quality and Productivity at the
Department of Health He is also a member of the National Quality Board for the
NHS in England, which sets the strategic direction for quality and safety in the
NHS and the priorities for NICE. He has recently been appointed as Chair of an
Independent Commission on Whole Person Care.




DEBORAH OLUBIYI



Deborah is a Global Health graduate from King’s College London and recently
featured on the new BBC2 Documentary series ‘The Big Hospital Experiment’ as a
Clinical Volunteer.

A passionate social action advocate, she founded an Alumni Association for her
former secondary school that has connected over 500 current pupils to the
school’s Alumni community.

Aside from her interests in social action and education, Deborah has a strong
desire to engage in global social justice issues which she has further explored
through roles at The Commonwealth, Houses of Parliament, Public Health England
and the Department of International Development UK.

In 2018, she was featured in Future Leaders, an annual publication which
profiles 100 of the UK’s most outstanding African and African Caribbean students
and new graduates.




DR KILALI OMINU-EVBOTA



Dr Kilali Ominu-Evbota is Consultant paediatrician with special interest in
haematology, Oncology and Allergy. She did her specialist training at Royal
London Hospital, Great Ormond Street hospital and other hospitals across London.
She has over 15 years of paediatric experience.
She is an expert in paediatric conditions with a special interest in ‘lumps and
bumps’, haematology – Sickle cell anaemia, Oncology and Allergy. She has a keen
interest in medical law and recently completed a masters degree in medical law
and ethics.

She is the Paediatric governance lead at Basildon hospital, Mid and South Essex
NHS trust and the Co-lead of the Paediatric Haematology Oncology service. She is
also a Medical examiner for the trust. Apart from looking after patients she is
passionate about teaching.

She loves a morning jog, enjoys singing and is part of a gospel choir. She is a
loving mother to a twin boy and girl.




ANDRZEI (ANDI) ORLOWSKI



Andi Orlowski is a health economist and leads the business intelligence function
at Imperial College Health Partners which supports the North West London
Sustainability and Transformation Partnership.

He is particularly interested in population health analytics especially the
concept of impactibility modelling and finding those people most amenable to an
intervention.

Andi is also a Senior Advisor for NHS England on Population Health Management in
the Operations and Information Directorate. He works with STPs and ICSs across
the country advising and working with them on population health management.




MARINA OTLEY



Marina Otley is the Clinical Audit Specialist at Nottingham CityCare
Partnership, a Social Enterprise provider of NHS Community Services. Her role is
to support staff in undertaking projects to improve quality of care and support
NICE guidance implementation. She is also the Joint Chair of the East Midlands
Clinical Audit Support Network, one of 15 regional networks that bring together
people in clinical audit, effectiveness and quality improvement roles to share
learning and good practice. Marina has worked for the NHS for 15 years in roles
relating to clinical audit, effectiveness, governance and quality in primary,
community and acute care organisations.




RUTH OWEN, OBE



Ruth Owen OBE is Chief Executive of Whizz-Kidz, the national charity for
disabled children and young people. Since 2004, she has led the charity to
become the biggest provider of powered and lightweight manual wheelchairs for
disabled children outside the NHS. A wheelchair user from the age of seven, Ruth
believes passionately in the importance of independent mobility in a child’s
life.




DR BOLA OWOLABI



Dr Bola Owolabi MB BS DFFP MRCGP MSc is Director – Health Inequalities at NHS
England. She works as a General Practitioner in the Midlands.

Bola has particular interests in reducing health inequalities through Integrated
Care Models, Service Transformation and using data & insights for Quality
Improvement.

Bola has held various leadership roles at local, system and national levels. She
was until recently, National Specialty Advisor for Older People and Integrated
Person Centred-Care at NHS England where she led the Anticipatory Care
Workstream of the National Ageing Well Programme. She has worked with teams
across NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care as part of the
Covid-19 pandemic response.

She is an alumnus of Ashridge Executive Education/Hult International Business
School and holds a Masters degree with distinction in Leadership (Quality
Improvement).

She holds an NHS Leadership Academy Award in Executive Healthcare Leadership for
Clinicians.

Bola is a Generation Q Fellow of the Health Foundation, an independent charity
committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK.




AARON OXFORD



Aaron Oxford is a Learning Disability Network Manager in the engagement team
with NHS England, a job he started in August 2015. Aaron was born with a rare
genetic mild disability called Kabuki Syndrome that affects one in 32,000 births
worldwide and is autistic.




DR RUPERT PAGE



Rupert trained in London and has worked across the South and South West. His
research area was the application of MRI to neurological disease. He was
appointed as a consultant neurologist to setup an epilepsy service for Dorset in
2008. He has been involved in computing and technology for a long time and his
first “Hello World” experience was in 1982. He is part of Cohort 1 of the NHS
Digital Academy.




CALLY PALMER



Cally Palmer is NHS England’s National Cancer Director leading the
implementation of the NHS Cancer Taskforce’s five year strategy for cancer care
improvement, as well as new cancer Vanguards using outcomes-based commissioning
to redesign care and the patient experience.

She is also Chief Executive of The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,
and retains this role while seconded to NHS England.




JAMES PALMER



James Palmer has been Medical Director for Specialised Services since NHS
England’s inception in 2013. He is a member of NHS England’s Specialised
Commissioning National Team. He is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Plymouth
Hospitals NHS Trust.




SUNITA PANDYA



Sunita Pandya is currently Director of Arts Administration at the Southbank
Centre, a role she took up in 2018.

Having read history at the University of Bristol, Sunita set up her own
production company which produced work regularly with Bristol Old Vic, in
Edinburgh and across the Southwest for six years.

After university, Sunita worked at the Orange Tree Theatre ahead of attending
Drama School London to study theatre and TV directing. Upon graduating, Sunita
joined the National Theatre before moving to Battersea Arts Centre where she
programmed and delivered festivals such as the ground-breaking One-on-One
Festival, the annual Scratch Festival and a UK tour with Blind Summit Puppet
company.

From there, Sunita worked at Sadler’s Wells as Project Manager before moving to
WildWorks as Executive Director. Here Sunita produced WildWorks’ projects for
two years.




JILL PARKER



Jill Parker is the senior policy advisor for the Voluntary Organisations
Disability Group and leads on STOMP in social care.

Much of her work involves supporting social care providers to implement STOMP in
a way that makes sense in their organisation and achieves the best possible
outcomes for the people they support.




JESS PARKHOUSE



Jess is a third year student Nurse, Kingston University.




LYDIA PARKHURST



Lydia Parkhurst is a geography student at Hull University.




KEVIN PARRY



Kevin Parry is a Programme Director at NHS Digital and specialises in portfolio
risk and assurance on digital transformation and data programmes.

He has worked in both private and public sector roles leading teams to deliver
or advise on transformation at scale. He is a fellow of APM, the chartered body
for project professionals, an Oxford University Business Alumnus and a guest
lecturer at the University of Manchester on the MSc course in Management of
Projects.

Kevin is passionate about NHS technology making a positive difference to social
care and health outcomes, as well as improving the working lives of health and
care professionals through better information and data.




EMMA PASCALE BLAKEY



Emma Pascale Blakey is a registered nurse working in the Endoscopy department at
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In addition, she is a Chief
Sustainability Officer’s Clinical Fellow.

The Chief Sustainability Officer’s Clinical Fellow scheme offers clinicians with
a passion for sustainability a unique opportunity to develop their leadership
skills and positively impact the healthcare system’s green agenda.




JOSEPH PASCOE



Joseph Pascoe is currently studying A-level maths, physics, chemistry, and
English literature at sixth form.

He is using his personal experiences with mental health issues to help the North
East London Foundation Trust (NELFT) Youth Council and working with the
Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Service.




SONNY PATNAIK



Sonny Patnaik is a member of the New Care Models team working within the
Harnessing Technology workstream as a project manager. He has a specific
interest in supporting vanguards to understand and deliver the interoperability
and information sharing agenda that will enable the delivery of better care
services. This includes working with organisations who are looking to ensure
that the end-of-life preferences of an individual are visible to those who are
involved in their care via the IT systems that they use.




LOUISE PATTEN



Louise Patten is a registered nurse and Chief Officer for Aylesbury Vale CCG in
Buckinghamshire.
She moved from District Nursing into management, initially as Assistant Director
of Nursing then as commissioner for Primary Care and later Deputy Chief
Executive & Board Nurse of a PCT.

After a year’s sabbatical doing an MBA, she worked as Director of Service Design
for a commercial healthcare organisation then as CEO of the PBC group United
Commissioning LLP, overseeing the transition to Aylesbury Vale CCG.




LIAM PAUL



Liam Paul is a Policy Manager in the System Transformation Group, now helping
Accountable Care Systems (ACS) to design, test and implement system control
totals and new payment mechanisms.

Prior to this he co-authored the Enhanced Health in Care Homes framework and
worked with vanguards, STPs and accountable care systems to help them implement
it.

Before joining the NHS, Liam supported councils to implement the Care Act 2014
and worked on health and social care improvement for the Local Government
Association.




NICOLA PAYNE



Nicola Payne worked as a carer before joining the NHS in 2013 as a community
nurse with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. She started in the
role of senior staff nurse for care homes in January 2016 and joined NEMS in May
2017.

She is involved in a number of projects across Nottinghamshire and works in
collaboration with the local authority.

In her current post of independent care sector programme lead, her role is to
scope the Midlands and East area to understand what the workforce development
needs are in relation to the implementation of the Enhanced Health in Care Homes
framework.




DR DAVID PAYNTON



David Paynton qualified in 1975 going into General Practice in 1981. He was a
full time GP in Bath Lodge Practice, Southampton before stepping into the
corporate world of the PCT in 2005.

As a full time principle, he was a past chair of the Wessex Faculty of the RCGP,
chaired a local Multifund, an Out of Hours Cooperative as well as being a
founder member of the GP Wessex Educational Trust and was a past GP tutor.

Moving into the PCT as Chair of the Professional Executive, he became interim
director of provider (community) services before moving into a Commissioning
role before leaving in 2010.

He has continued in part time clinical practice and is still working in an inner
city practice in Southampton.

He was appointed as National Clinical Lead for the RCGP Centre for Commissioning
in 2012 and is also the clinical lead for Out of Hospital care for Southampton
CCG piloting self-management.

He was nominated as a Fellow of the RCGP in 1994, took a business degree in 2005
at Solent University and was awarded an MBE in 2009 for services to health care.




LUKE PEACHEY



Luke Peachey is the Emergency Planning Manager for University Hospitals Coventry
and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust. He is responsible for developing and
maintaining strategic plans for preventing and responding to a vast number of
emergencies. Luke is also responsible for reducing the impact of patients and
the overall Trust during the response and recovery from emergencies.

His initial career was spent working as a Senior Charge Nurse for 12 years in
the Emergency Department, alongside ten years with West Midlands Ambulance
Service and two years with West Midlands Care Team.

Luke is fortunate to be able to utilise his clinical experience within his
current role and uses this to understand how different services operates while
planning for emergencies and the impact this could potentially cause.




SUSIE PEACHEY



Susie Peachey is Improvement Manager for NHS England’s Sustainable Improvement
Team (Transforming Care).
Susie is currently working in the team supporting 48 Transforming Care
Partnerships to deliver their plans for changing how care and support is
delivered, to help people with a learning disability, autism or both, live the
lives they want.
Susie worked as part of the long term conditions team last year delivering
bespoke service improvement support to CCG teams to enable them to transform
services. She is also an accredited trainer for large scale change improvement
methodology and has presented at numerous conferences and delivered coaching in
quality improvement techniques to NHS consultants and managers.




DAVID PEARSON CBE



David has been the Director of Social Services/ Director of Adult Social Care in
Nottinghamshire since 2005.

During David’s time as Director the Adult Social Care Department has one of the
best performing authorities in the country with a number of services and
initiatives recognised for their innovation and excellence. These include the
national Audit Office report on support available to adults with Asperger’s and
the development of micro providers to provide adult social care.

David has overseen the successful introduction of personal budgets to all
service users in receipt of community based services. The County Council is one
of the top performing authorities in the country on provision of personal
budgets and direct payments.

David also has responsibility for Public Health and the County Council Trading
Standards, Community safety, the Registration service and Emergency Planning. He
has been the Deputy Chief Executive since 2008.

David was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list in June 2016 for
services to adult social care.




DR GALE PEARSON



Dr Gale Pearson has been an intensive care consultant at Birmingham Children’s
Hospital since 1995 and was involved in the preparation of the policy document
on paediatric intensive care ‘A Framework for the Future’. He is a former
chairperson of the Paediatric Intensive Care Society and was involved in setting
up the national audit PICANet. He was also a former National Director of
Confidential Enquiries in Children at The Centre for Maternal and Child
Enquiries (CMACE). Dr Pearson is the current Chair of the National Clinical
Reference Group on Paediatric Intensive Care at NHS England.




DR BEN PEARSON



Following a zoology degree at Durham University Ben qualified in medicine at
Kings College London in 1993. He worked in London, Lincoln and Nottingham,
training in geriatric and general (internal) medicine, taking up his consultant
post at Derby in 2004. For ten years Ben led the development of acute medical
services, introducing consultant led front door assessment and ambulatory care
services from 2006. He now works in community geriatrics and as Divisional
Medical Director for Integrated Care. Ben has over six years of Board level
experience with the Mansfield & Ashfield and Newark & Sherwood CCG Governing
Body as their secondary care doctor and in August 2013 was appointed to the East
Midlands Clinical Senate Council.




DR NINA PEARSON



Dr Nina Pearson has been a GP for 31 years and is currently a part-time partner
with Lea Vale Medical Group, a practice of 24,000 patients over three sites in
Luton.

Nina has held a number of clinical leadership roles throughout her career and
has been Chair of Luton Clinical Commissioning Group since April 2013. During
this time she has led Luton CCG to a position of maturity with a health and
social care economy which is meeting the NHS constitutional standards but still
facing a significant financial sustainability challenge.

Since June 2017 she has been the GP Lead for the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton
Keynes Shadow Integrated Care System, developing primary care as the cornerstone
of population health using the primary care home model.




MARK PERKINS



Mark became Head of Strategic Category Management at NHS England and NHS
Improvement in April 2020, as part of the Commercial Medicines Directorate’s
Medicines Value Team. He has 15 years’ experience within the NHS of working
collaboratively with industry to design and deliver innovative, world class and
award-winning, commercial deals to help improve clinical outcomes and value for
the NHS. Prior to joining the NHS, Mark held executive level commercial and
operational roles within the private sector.




KAREN PERRING



Karen Perring is the Lead Nurse for the Yorkshire and Humber Paediatric Critical
Care Operational Delivery Network (Y&H PCCODN). She qualified as a general nurse
in 1992 and subsequently specialised in paediatrics gaining her RN (Child) in
1994. Karen has spent the majority of her career working in the field of
Paediatric Intensive Care in both Newcastle and Leeds. She also spent 4 years
working as a Senior Transport Nurse with the Yorkshire and Humber Infant and
Children’s Transport Service (Embrace).

Karen spent a two year secondment as Network educator for the Y&H PCCODN prior
to being appointed as Lead Nurse in August 2015. She is an instructor for APLS
and is involved in the Network multi-professional simulation days offered to all
hospitals within her region.

She is a member of the Paediatric Intensive Care Society (PICS) and regularly
attends the PICS Managers Group Meetings.

Karen’s role as Lead Nurse involves projects including Surge & Escalation,
guideline development, Long Term Ventilation, High Dependency Audit and Service
Evaluation. She works closely with other networks including adult critical care,
trauma, neonates, children’s congenital cardiac and paediatric neurosciences.

Throughout her time in the network she has worked hard to develop effective
working relationships with provider units and to give professional support and
advice, promoting best practice in the care of the critically ill child.




PAULINE PHILIP



National Director for Emergency and Elective Care.

Pauline has been the National Director of Urgent and Emergency Care since
December 2015, acting on behalf of both NHS England and NHS Improvement. Prior
to this she was Chief Executive of Luton and Dunstable University Hospital
Foundation Trust.

A nurse by background, Pauline has previously also worked for the World Health
Organisation, has an international track record in patient safety, and has led
the successful performance of Luton’s hospital services for a number of years.




EDDY PHILLIPS



Eddy Phillips is a network manager in the Learning Disability and Autism
Engagement Team at NHS England and NHS Improvement. His pronouns are he/him or
they/them.

Outside of their day job, Eddy is the trans and nonbinary lead for the NHS
England and NHS Improvement LGBT+ staff network and they also work as an
engagement officer for TransLeeds. They are also a Trans Pride Leeds committee
member.

Eddy campaigns for trans rights and for autistic rights.




KELLY PHIZACKLEA



Kelly Phizacklea is the 200th peer leader to complete the Peer Leadership
Development programme. Kelly has helped to improve and develop neonatal and
maternity services through her lived experience of using neonatal intensive care
following a complex pregnancy with her daughter.

Kelly is now embarking on completing the peer leader facilitator role, to
continue to champion the voice of lived experience and expert by experience.




CAROLYN PIPER



Carolyn Piper is North Central London STP’s Programme Manager for Dementia.

Over the past few months she has been working with NHS England to identify,
evaluate and share best practice in dementia and older people’s mental health
care in North Central London.

Carolyn works with providers, commissioners, clinicians, people living with
dementia, carers and the voluntary sector across the STP.




SALLY PLUMB



Sally Plumb is a Case Manager in Complex Rehabilitation in the South West.

She is a Registered Nurse with 27 years’ experience of working with complex
neurological and long term conditions ranging through critical care,
rehabilitation, community and neuro- palliative care.

This breadth of experience has been invaluable in achieving collegiate and
networking pathways across multiple care providers in all case management posts
that she has previously held.

She has a Masters in Health Policy, has published papers within stroke
rehabilitation journals and MS Society publications, and has lectured throughout
the South West Peninsula and South East London in previous regional posts. Sally
is committed to ensuring the patient receives good quality, effective
rehabilitation to optimise their potential.




CHRIS POINTON



Chris Pointon is the widower of the inspiring Dr Kate Granger MBE and Co-founder
of the #hellomynameis campaign of which he remains the Global Campaign
Ambassador

‘Play the cards in life you’ve been dealt’ were words that Kate and I lived by
and we certainly lived life to the full every day, even before her terminal
cancer diagnosis.

Our lives were turned upside down around 6 and a half years ago when Kate was
diagnosed with terminal cancer whilst we were holidaying in California.

From that point we crammed a huge amount into Kate’s time on this planet. Along
the way we raised over £340,000 for good causes, travelled the world, met many
celebrities and royalty and started a global campaign that improves patient care
through the basic message of introductions entitled #hellomynameis. Kate’s
legacy is huge and her name will live on forever through her legacy and various
awards named in her honour.




CAROLINE POLLINGTON



Caroline is Lead Nurse for Sutton Homes of Care.

Caroline graduated from Southampton University as a nurse in 2001, following
undergraduate study in anatomy and biology. Her career to date has been within
acute neurosciences, both neurology and neurosurgery, having performed a variety
of roles, including ward-based junior, senior nurse, clinical nurse specialist
and departmental staff educational lead.

Caroline’s joint passions for neurosciences and education led to post-graduate
qualifications in these areas, and she is a NMC-registered nurse teacher. She
recently completed a Darzi fellowship, which has enhanced her leadership
capabilities.

Caroline believes in individual empowerment to achieve greatness and that, by
giving health professionals the right skills, knowledge and support, they can
have a huge impact on both individuals and systems.




CAROLINE POOLE



Caroline Poole is the Deputy Clinical Director and Professional Head of Allied
Health Professions.

Over 20 years Caroline has developed a broad portfolio of experience within
healthcare, having held clinical, managerial and strategic leadership positions
across community and acute services and in commissioning.

Her passion is for improving the experience and outcomes for patients, carers,
staff and systems.

She joined NHS Improvement in 2017, firstly leading a portfolio to develop AHP
Leadership and more recently working with NHS Trusts to improve care whilst
building improvement capacity and capability.

Caroline is a registered speech and language therapist and qualified coach.

Follow Caroline on Twitter: @CarolineNhs




MARTYN PORTER



Mr Martyn Porter is the National Joint Registry’s medical director and
vice-chairman, appointed by the Department for Health from 1 February 2014.

Mr Porter is a practicing consultant orthopaedic surgeon based at Wrightington
Hospital, Lancashire, a past-President of the British Orthopaedic Association
(BOA) and immediate past-President of the International Society of Arthroplasty
Registers (ISAR).

Martyn has published many papers on the outcomes of various different types of
joint replacement and techniques. He is a keen teacher and has lectured on many
courses and conference, both in the United Kingdom and abroad.




JEREMY PORTEUS



Until 2011, Jeremy was the National Programme Lead for Housing at the Department
of Health (DH) and responsible for its £227 million Extra Care Housing capital
investment fund.

Since leaving the DH, Jeremy has established the highly-respected Housing LIN.
He is a member of the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia Health and Social
Care Champion’s Group and is also Chair of the Homes and Communities Agency’s
Vulnerable and Older People’s Advisory Group (the government social housing
investment body in England). He is the author of the All Party Parliamentary
Group on Housing and Care for Older People’s inquiry reports, ‘Living Well at
Home’ and ‘Housing our Ageing Population: Plan for Implementation (HAPPI2)’. He
was recently engaged again by the APPG as Secretariat to write the new HAPPI3
inquiry report, Housing our Ageing Population: Positive Ideas, which looked into
the future use of technology to support independent living. This was launched in
June 2016.

Jeremy is also a Fellow of the NIHR Social Services Care Research team and a
member of their Impact Working Group.

Twitter: @HousingLIN




JOHN POWELL



John Powell MBE, Associate of the Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) .

A social worker by profession, John worked in local authority children and adult
social care for 36 years before retiring from his Corporate Director role in
August 2016.
John’s lived experience as a carer and a social care professional was honoured
in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2018, when he was awarded an MBE for his
services to vulnerable people.

National ADASS Policy Lead for End of Life Care means that his Champion role is
an active one and compliments his passion for ensuring that Dignity in Care
underpins a quality service delivery and positive outcomes for all. John has
been representing ADASS on the NHSE/I Programme Board for EOLC since its
inception. John has also been chairing the ADASS EOLC leads network meeting
since 2014.




PROFESSOR STEPHEN H POWIS



Stephen Powis is the National Medical Director of NHS England and Professor of
Renal Medicine at University College London.

Previously he was Medical Director (and latterly Group Chief Medical Officer) of
the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust from 2006 to 2018. Professor Powis
was also a member of the governing body of Merton Clinical Commissioning Group
for five years and a Director of Healthcare Services Laboratories LLP.

He is a past Chairman of the Association of UK Universities (AUKUH) Medical
Directors Group and has been a member of numerous national committees and
working groups, including the Department of Health Strategic Education Funding
Expert Group. He is a past non-executive director of the North Middlesex
University Hospital NHS Trust, including a period of eight months as acting
chairman.

He is a past chairman of the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board
(JRCPTB) Specialty Advisory Committee (SAC) for Renal Medicine and a former
board member of Medical Education England. He was Director of Postgraduate
Medical and Dental Education for UCLPartners from 2010-13. He is a past
treasurer and trustee of the British Transplantation Society and a former member
of the UK Transplant Kidney Pancreas Advisory Group.

He has also served as a member of the Renal Association Executive Committee. He
was Editor of the journal Nephron Clinical Practice from 2003 to 2008. In 2017
he became the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the journal BMJ Leader. He has been a
trustee of several charities, including the Royal Free Charity and the
Healthcare Management Trust.




PETER PRATT



Peter Pratt has worked as a specialist pharmacist in psychiatry for over 35
years.

Prior to joining NHS England and NHS Improvement, he was the Chief Pharmacist at
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust. He has extensive
experience of psychopharmacology and pharmacy practice in mental health
throughout the UK.

He is a former Chairman and a Fellow of The College of Mental Health
Pharmacists, a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and a former
executive board member of the National Association of Psychiatric Units.

In addition to his national role, Peter has helped shape the national guidance
for medicines use in mental health through his membership of several NICE
clinical guideline development groups including schizophrenia, the management of
violence and psychosis with substance misuse.




DR MIKE PRENTICE



Dr Mike Prentice is interim Medical Director (North) in NHS England.

He trained as a GP in the North East and was a partner in a large practice in
Gateshead for 15 years before moving into full time medical management. He has a
wide range of experience including in public health; as director of a GP
co-operative; a governor of a Foundation Trust and has held a range of NHS board
level positions since 1999.

Mike is interested in leadership, informatics, commissioning, and quality
improvement. He is the current chair of the North East Leadership Academy and
independent vice Chair of the Scottish NHS Pension Board.




GRAHAM PRESTWICH



Graham Prestwich is Lay Member NHS England Allied Health Professions (AHP)
Medicines Project Board.




DAVID PROBERT



David took up the position of chief executive at Moorfields in April 2016. He
was the former director of strategic development at University College London
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. David is a past fellow of the Institute for
Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Boston, USA and holds an MBA from the University
of Leicester.




JOE PUSEY



Joe Pusey is an alumni member of the NHS Youth Forum.




GILLIAN RADCLIFFE



Gillian Radcliffe leads communications and engagement work within the Insight
and Feedback Team at NHS England, supporting work primarily on the Friends and
Family Test but also around national surveys and related projects.

Gillian has been a senior communications professional in the public sector for
almost 30 years, with experience in the health, education and criminal justice
sectors.




PROFESSOR MARK RADFORD, BSC (HONS) RGN, PGDIP (ANP), MA (MED ED), PHD, FHEA, DSC
(HON)



Mark Radford is currently Chief Nurse of Health Education England and Deputy
Chief Nursing Officer for England. Mark led the national NHS vaccine workforce
programme, ensuring success in phase one, with the delivery of 15 million
vaccinations. The programme recruited and trained over 250,000 people including
90,000 clinicians and 70,000 volunteers, in a few months, to launch one of
world’s fastest programmes. He also led the deployment of student nurses in the
wave one and two pandemic response, with 71 universities in England.

Mark has led other major NHS, workforce policy and delivery programmes as
National Senior Responsible Officer for domestic supply for the government’s
50,000 nurses manifesto commitment, led the expansion of 5,400 additional places
at universities and 7,700 additional placements in the NHS to support expansion.

Mark qualified as a nurse in 1994 and has previously worked in anaesthetics,
preoperative assessment, perioperative care, critical care and A&E in the UK and
Europe. He was a Consultant Nurse in Perioperative Emergency Care and worked as
an advisor to the Department of Health, the National Confidential Enquiry into
Patient Outcome and Death, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency and The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on a range of
areas including perioperative hypothermia, emergency management and nurse
prescribing.

He is also a Professor of Nursing at Birmingham City University and Coventry
University, with research covering emergency care models, advanced practice,
staffing, risk modelling, clinical decision-making, expertise and sociological
issues in healthcare.

He has published widely on advanced practice nursing and perioperative care. 




AYESHA RAHIM



Ayesha Rahim is a perinatal psychiatrist and CCIO in Lancashire Care NHS
Foundation Trust. She is interested in Quality Improvement, clinical leadership,
and data literacy to inform service development and delivery. She is currently
overseeing the roll out of a major transformation project in her organisation in
the form of a replacement Electronic Patient Record. You can find her on Twitter
@AyeshaRahimCCIO




DR ANNE RAINSBERRY



Dr Anne Rainsberry is the NHS England, Regional Director for London.
She leads the region in its work to improve health across the capital, ensuring
high quality care for every Londoner and working to make London the healthiest
global city in the world.

She oversees £16bn health spend across the capital.

Anne joined NHS England from NHS London where she was Deputy Chief Executive and
an executive member of the Board for 6 years. She has worked in the NHS for 30
years. During this time she has undertaken senior leadership roles at local,
regional and national levels.

Anne has operated at Board level since 1995. She joined the Department of Health
in 2001 as Director of Development for the South East Regional Office and then
moving to lead this agenda across the South of England.




JANE RAMSAY



Jane Ramsay is Chair of the Children and Young People Steering Group at NHS
England and also Chair of the Young Epilepsy Charity, which is a national body
working to support 112,000 children and young people with epilepsy.

She is also a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life which advises
the Prime Minister on ethical standards across the whole of public life in the
UK.

Jane has a wealth of experience from both the NHS, including Chair of Cambridge
University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a primary care trust and local
government where she was a senior lawyer for many years.




SHAHANA RAMSDEN



Shahana Ramsden is Senior Co-Production Lead NHS England and the Coalition for
Collaborative Care (C4CC).

Her 29-year career includes supporting co-production with people who use
services and carers and leading equalities programmes. Prior to her role with
NHS England and C4CC, Shahana worked as a Patient and Public Voice Manager for
NHS England’s Patient Online programme.

Shahana has held roles at director and deputy director level across a number of
national programmes including the Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health
programme and NHS Employer’s Positively Diverse programme.

In the past 12 months, she has graduated from the NHS Leadership Academy’s Nye
Bevan programme with a certificate in Executive Healthcare Leadership, has been
recognised by the Health Service Journal as a BME pioneer and was highlighted as
one of 100 virtual change activists for health and social care through NHS
Improving Quality (The Edge).

Follow Shahana on Twitter @ShahanaRamsden




STEVE RAMSEY



Steve Ramsey was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1966. He’s part of a large close
family; he’s a lifelong Newcastle United fan, and he’s a compulsive gambler.
Steve moved away from his native Geordieland at 18 to work in London. He landed
a job in finance and became quite successful. He got his qualifications and was
promoted to Business Support Manager looking after a £270million company. Steve
then moved to the Midlands and worked for Warwickshire County Council until July
2017 when he had his last bet – and had to face a number of harsh realities.




LISA RAMSEY



Lisa is the Service User Voice Policy Manager for Maternity at NHS England. This
currently involves engaging and facilitating local women, providers and
commissioners to form Maternity Voice Partnerships (MVPs) within their Local
Maternity Systems. MVPs are multi-disciplinary teams that work together to
review and co-produce services with women and their families. Lisa is developing
a toolkit for MVPs to use called 15 Steps for Maternity, which will is a simple
took for listening to women and seeing services through their eyes.

Lisa also chairs Reading MVP and is a founding committee member of National
Maternity Voices. This committee supports MVPs nationally to listen well to
women and their families about their maternity care experiences, especially
seldom heard women, so that future services can be shaped around them:
www.nationalmaternityvoices.org.uk.




SUZANNE RASTRICK



Suzanne qualified as an Occupational Therapist from Oxford. She began her career
in the acute hospital sector, specialising in orthotics, moving to practice in
community services where she gained her first general management role.

Suzanne was the first Allied Health Professional (AHP) to hold a substantive
Director of Nursing post in both providing and commissioning organisations. She
became the Chief Executive of a Primary Care Trust, where a particular highlight
was having leadership responsibility for delivering health resilience and health
‘blue light’ services during the Olympic sailing events held in Dorset in 2012.
She subsequently gained authorisation for a large Clinical Commissioning Group,
before moving to her current post with NHS England.

She was appointed as Chief Allied Health Professions Officer for England in
September 2014.

Her vision to utilise crowdsourcing in the development of the strategy AHPs into
Action (NHS England, 2017) has been recognised as ground breaking in policy
development.

Since her mid-twenties Suzanne has held non-executive portfolios outside of the
NHS, including audit committee chair roles, predominantly in the housing and the
charitable sector.

Follow Suzanne on Twitter: @SuzanneRastrick




KATIE RATCLIFFE



Katie Ratcliffe is a health policy and programme manager, with 12 years’
experience in central government roles in the UK, South East Asia, and the
Middle East.

Completing her Masters in Health Policy from Imperial College in 2012, she has
brought to the Maternity and Women’s’ Health team in NHS England a combination
of programme management skills and broad policy knowledge which is supporting
the transformation of maternity services across England.

In her spare time, Katie is a keen traveller, follows politics and social
affairs and enjoys swimming and Pilates.




PROFESSOR SIMON RAY



Professor Simon Ray, President of the British Cardiovascular Society, 2018-2021.

Simon graduated from Bristol University in Pharmacology in 1980 and in Medicine
in 1983. After HO jobs in Bristol and medical SHO and registrar jobs in Glasgow
and Edinburgh he completed his MD as a BHF funded research fellow with Prof
Henry Dargie in Glasgow.

He continued cardiology training at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle before
moving to CTC Liverpool as a senior registrar in 1992. From 1994-95 Simon was an
interventional cardiology fellow in Vancouver BC with Ian Penn, Chris Buller and
Donald Ricci before appointment as consultant cardiologist at Wythenshawe
Hospital in 1995.

His clinical and research interests have focussed around valve disease, PFO,
cardiac involvement in neuromuscular disease and more recently cardio-oncology.
Simon was clinical director of cardiology at UHSM from 2006-2009, President of
the British Society of Echocardiography 2007-2009, Vice President of the British
Cardiovascular Society for clinical standards from 2010-2013 and President of
the British Heart Valve Society from 2013-2016.

Currently he is joint national lead for Cardiology GIRFT.

Simon was appointed Honorary Professor of Cardiology in 2011.




DR JAMES RAY



Dr James Ray is Emergency Medicine Consultant at Oxford University Hospital NHS
Foundation Trust and Clinical Governance Lead for NHS 111 in Oxfordshire.

His main current interest is to improve the urgent care pathway by making it as
accessible as possible without compromising safety and effectiveness to improve
the patient experience. Also, to spread out the workload across services,
encourage team working throughout providers and continue to develop the
workforce needed for the ever increasing demand.

James is an advocate of all doctors and nurses, from all backgrounds, whether
primary or secondary care, working together with the sole aim of providing the
same goal, to put the patient first. Such idealism, he says, is the key to
success of the National Health Service.




DON REDDING



Don Redding is Director of Policy for National Voices, the coalition of
charities that stands for people being in control of their health and care.

He has led National Voices’ work on integrated care, including the production of
five ‘narratives’ demonstrating what people themselves want from ‘person-centred
coordinated care’. More recently Don was part of the Realising the Value
programme working with NHS England to develop a new articulation of value in
health and care, based on what matters most to people and communities.

A former social care journalist, Don has worked for leading national voluntary
organisations since 1991, and was previously head of policy and communications
for Picker Institute Europe.




ZOË REED



Zoë is Director of Organisation and Community and Freedom to Speak Up Guardian
at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.




LORNA REEVE



Lorna is a YoungMinds activisit.




JOHN REEVE



John Reeve is a Public and Patient Voice member (PPV) of the East of England
Cancer Alliance Board.

The Cancer Alliance board members, represent over six million people with many
different interests within health care. It seeks to collaborate and work
together to transform cancer outcomes and services.

John’s view is that an inclusive patient voice will help inform the development
of future services.




JEN RHODES



Jen Rhodes is a principal clinical psychologist working for Northumberland Tyne
and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.

She has worked in the learning disability community treatment team in Sunderland
for the past eight years.

Jen’s role involves working with people with a learning disability, autism or
both, their families, and carers, to implement positive behavioural support.

She provides training and supervision for direct care staff, families, and other
professionals, and is responsible for making sure the work of the team is high
quality, and is doing the best for the people being served.




PAUL RICE



Paul Rice is the Head of Technology Strategy in the Digital Health team in NHS
England. He leads the team that is instrumental in delivering a digitally
enabled and “paperless” NHS.

For the past two years he has overseen delivery of four major capital funds
worth in excess of £300million that help the NHS build the capability to
introduce integrated digital care records and enable nurses to transform
practice, enabled by technology, to “release time to care”.

Paul was a major contributor to the National Information Board’s roadmap
document, Personalised Health and Care 2020 – published last November – the
first articulation by the health and care system of its commitment to release
the benefits of digital technology, data and intelligence.

He is currently leading one of the key delivery work streams.

Paul was formerly the Director of the Long Term Conditions programme in
Yorkshire and Humber with a particular focus on Telehealth. He has been a
Primary Care Trust Director, a transformation director in the NHS Modernisation
Agency and a policy lead in the Department of Health.

He has published and spoken widely on the challenges and opportunities to
deliver high quality, efficient and effective service models utilising assistive
technology/telehealth/information technology.

Paul holds a first degree in Law and Accounting and a Doctorate in Medical Law
and Bioethics.




SIR MIKE RICHARDS



Professor Sir Mike Richards was a hospital physician for more than 20 years.
After a variety of training posts he was a consultant medical oncologist between
1986 and 1995, and Professor of Palliative Medicine at Guy’s and St. Thomas’
Hospitals between 1995 and 1999.

In 1999 Sir Mike was appointed as the first National Cancer Director at the
Department of Health. In 2007, his role was extended to include end of life
care. He led the development and implementation of the NHS Cancer Plan in 2000,
the Cancer Reform Strategy in 2008 and Improving Outcomes: A strategy for cancer
in 2011.

In July 2012 he was appointed as Director for Reducing Premature Mortality on
the NHS Commissioning Board (now NHS England). In this role he led the
development of a cardiovascular outcomes strategy.

He became CQC’s first Chief Inspector of Hospitals in July 2013 and led the
development and implementation of a new approach to hospital inspection which
assessed services on whether they are safe, caring, effective, responsive and
well-led. Sir Mike will be retiring from this role at the end of July.

Sir Mike was awarded a CBE in 2001 and appointed a Knight Bachelor in 2010




YVONNE RICHARDS



Yvonne Richards is a National Senior Manager for Multispecialty Community
Providers.

She has over 20 years’ experience in the NHS during which she has worked in a
number of commissioning and provider organisations in roles spanning both
strategic and operational management.

These have included Senior Programme Manager, leading a CCG’s authorisation,
Commissioning Manager in a Primary Care Trust, working with a range of
specialist clinicians to develop and redesign services for patients with long
term conditions and Emergency Systems Manager in an Ambulance Service managing
city-wide emergency activity.

Yvonne’s most recent role was Programme Manager for Health & Social Care
Integration in the Birmingham Better Care programme.

She has a particular interest in system redesign and integrated working.

Yvonne began her NHS career working as a GP Receptionist, before moving onto an
acute hospital. She holds a Masters in Healthcare Leadership along with other
post graduate change management qualifications.




DR KEITH RIDGE



Dr Keith Ridge is Chief Pharmaceutical Officer at NHS England where he is head
of profession for the pharmacy professions and the principal advisor on pharmacy
and medicines use.

His role supports the Department of Health, broader Government and Health
Education England.

Keith is the Senior Responsible Officer for reducing inappropriate prescribing
of antimicrobial in the UK AMR Strategy, and leads on issues such as medicines
optimisation, digital medicines, pharmacy educational reform and transforming
pharmacy practice in line with the NHS’s Five Year Forward View.

He is a visiting professor at the Imperial College Medical School.




ANN MARIE RILEY



Ann-Marie Riley is a registered general nurse who has a background in intensive
care nursing, both general and specialty including major injuries, cardiac and
burns. She has held a range of leadership roles including matron for trauma and
orthopaedics, Head Nurse across a wide range of specialties and senior project
nurse for safe staffing. She is currently the Deputy Chief Nurse at Nottingham
University Hospitals and is one of the four people behind the hugely successful
international #EndPJParalysis campaign.

She is currently the Deputy Chief Nurse (strategy) at Nottingham University
Hospital.




DR CHRISTINE RIVERS



Dr Christine Rivers has worked as a lecturer in sociology/social theory, a
mental health social worker and team manager, an equality and human rights lead
for a Mental Health and Community Health NHS Trust, and is now working for NHS
England/Improvement as the Head of the Workforce Disability Equality Standard
(WDES). Christine completed her PhD in 2006; her PhD focussed on LGB people’s
experiences of mental health services.

Christine has extensive knowledge and expertise in the field of equality, with
specialist expertise in disability, mental health and sexual orientation.
Christine has led the WDES and the Implementation team since the WDES was
launched in 2019. She has also led many programmes of work, including setting up
a network for staff with lived experience of mental ill health, leading work to
reach position 32 in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index and leading on a
trust’s Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and action planning. In 2016,
Christine received an Embrace award for her equality work from the National
Health and Social Care BME network.

Christine is passionate about, and committed to making positive change in the
NHS, and finding and using levers to effect change.




WILLIAM ROBERTS



William Roberts is National Lead, Enhanced Health in Care Homes, New Care Models
Programme.

William is an experienced NHS director with a clinical background. As a trained
nurse, he has worked in both hospital and community services and was a Nurse
Specialist in Tuberculosis and HIV.

William’s first management role was running a clinical network and he held a
variety of commissioning and senior leadership roles in the NHS, including roles
in Public Health, Strategy, Corporate Affairs and Planning.

For a number of years, William was a visiting lecturer at City University.
Before joining the New Care Models Team, he was Director for Strategy and
Planning at NHS Camden Clinical Commissioning Group.




AIMEE ROBSON



Aimee Robson is the Deputy Director of Personalised Care (clinical, workforce &
quality) in NHS England and Improvement.

A physiotherapist by profession, Aimee has held clinical, non-clinical, local
and national roles.

Throughout her career, Aimee has championed the use of evidence-based medicine
and quality improvement to deliver and continuously improve optimal and
equitable healthcare for people, populations and systems. Recent work includes
within a national role as Allied Health Profession (AHP) Clinical Advisor at NHS
Improvement and regional implementation role in Getting It Right First Time
(GIRFT) national programme. A data geek at heart and with a love for improvement
science, Aimee is passionate about supporting the healthcare workforce to
demonstrate its transformative value and potential, to patients, services and
organisations.




JACQUI ROCK



Jacqui Rock, Chief Commercial Officer, NHS England.

Jacqui was previously Chief Commercial Officer, Head of Corporate Services and
Transition Director at the UK Health Security Agency. As a member of the NHS
Test and Trace Executive Team, she was a driving force behind dynamic and rapid
innovation and technology development in the supply chain. Jacqui was formerly
director for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation at the Ministry of Defence
and was a member of the Cabinet Office Commercial Function. She joined the UK
government after 30 years in the financial services industry where she held
multiple executive positions in companies including Credit Suisse, JP Morgan,
Barclays and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.




DR DAMIEN ROLAND



Dr Damien Roland is Consultant and Lecturer Paediatric Emergency Medicine,
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

He is one of the core team for NHS Change Day, which used social media to share
thousands of pledges of action.

It was the biggest day of collective action for improvement in the history of
the NHS and won a global challenge for management innovation prize from Harvard
Business Review and McKinsey.

He was also named a top 50 innovator by the HSJ in 2013 and a rising star
earlier this year.

Dr Roland is co-director of QuackApps, which produces bespoke mobile and website
enabled products. These include the Paediatric Observation Priority Score, a
checklist that demonstrates an acuity score (0-16) of acutely ill children using
data that is easy to collect.

Dr Roland is also operational director of the Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Leicester Academic Group, a social enterprise dedicated to improving the care of
ill or injured children.

He also founded Running Horse Group, a network of paediatricians who are
interested in learning the skills required to improve and develop services for
children and young people.




PROFESSOR MARTIN ROSSOR



Martin Rossor is the NIHR National Director for Dementia Research, Professor
Emeritus, and Principal Research Associate at the UCL Queen Square Institute of
Neurology. He has been a leading figure in the field of dementia for over twenty
years.

Following his training in clinical neurology at the National Hospital, Queen
Square, Martin undertook primary research on the neurochemistry of degenerative
dementia at the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit, Cambridge, before being
appointed as Consultant Neurologist at St. Mary’s Hospital London and the
National Hospital in 1986. Martin was appointed as the Chairman of the Division
of Neurology in 2002, after becoming Professor of Clinical Neurology. He
established a specialist cognitive disorders clinic, which acts as a tertiary
referral service for young onset and rare dementias.

Martin’s clinical research interests are in the degenerative dementias,
particularly familial disease, and more recently in general cognitive impairment
in systemic disease and multimorbidity. He established the Queen Square Dementia
Research Centre and has served as the editor of the Journal of Neurology,
Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, President of the Association of British
Neurologists, Director of the NIHR Clinical Research Network for Dementia and
Neurodegenerative diseases (DeNDRoN), and Director of the NIHR Queen Square
Dementia Biomedical Research Unit. As part of the activities of DeNDRoN he
established Join Dementia Research (JDR), a national system for linking patients
and public to research studies.

He has served on numerous advisory boards and is currently a member of the NIHR
Strategy Board, associate member of the World Dementia Council, member of the
2020 Dementia Programme Board, and Chairman of the Senate for the German Centre
for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE).

Martin has authored and co-authored numerous articles and textbooks in dementia
and general neurology. You can find a complete list of his publications using
the following link: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8215-3120




ROSAMOND ROUGHTON



Rosamond Roughton is Director of NHS Commissioning at NHS England.




JON ROUSE



Jon Rouse is Chief Officer for Greater Manchester Health and Social Care
Partnership. Prior to this Jon was Director General for social care, local
government and care partnerships at the Department of Health.




MARTIN ROUTLEDGE



Martin Routledge is NHS England’s Director of the Coalition of Collaborative
Care.

He has worked in public services for 33 years, twenty of them spent working
mostly for and with local government – often leading integrated social care and
health teams and initiatives and incorporating periods of academic work and
teaching in higher education.

From 2002-11, at the Department of Health, Martin played a leading role in the
development of the personalisation agenda initially in social care and then
extending to health.

From 2008-11 he led the national Department of Health Putting People First
initiative.

After leaving the Department Martin led the establishment and was first manager
of the Think Local Act Personal national leadership partnership for
personalisation and was Head of Operations for the charity In Control – which
pioneered personalisation across public services.




JULIE ROYE



Julie Roye is an advanced nurse practitioner at Amersham Vale Training Practice,
Primary Care Nurse Consultant Lewisham and national BME GPN joint lead nurse.




COLIN ROYLE



Colin is a co-founder of Peoplehub CIC – a not for profit organisation made up
of people with lived experience of receiving a personal health budget. Peoplehub
are a strategic partner to NHS England in the implementation of personal health
budgets and Integrated Personal Commissioning and also work with Clinical
Commissioning Groups in setting up local peer networks that enable genuine
collaborative working.

Colin was previously a carer for his father Malcolm for seven years until he
passed away in April last year. Malcolm suffered from a rare form of dementia
and started receiving a personal health budget in 2009.




MANDY RUDCZENKO



Mandy Rudczenko’s varied experience includes 15 years working as a mental health
nurse, adult education tutor, and tutor trainer.

She has been a carer for her son who has Cystic Fibrosis and Immune Deficiency
for 14 years and, as a carer, has become actively involved in:

 * Patient/Public Voice Representative on the Clinical Reference Group for
   Cystic Fibrosis, since June 2013.
 * Member of the People’s Panel for the Future of Health Conference 2014 – as a
   Citizen Journalist and Commentator.
 * Member of the Co-Production Group – The Coalition for Collaborative Care,
   since January 2015.
 * Expert by Experience on the People and Communities Board; one of the ‘Five
   Year Forward View’ boards, since June 2015.
 * Member of the People’s Panel for Expo 2015.

Mandy is a keen writer since a very early age, her portfolio includes: poetry,
plays, published articles about her son’s condition, tweeting, and a blog about
Expo.

Mandy passionately believes in the vision of people having more control over
managing their own health alongside more collaborative equal relationships
between people and health professionals.




ANTHONY RUDD



Tony Rudd is Professor of Stroke Medicine at Kings College London, Consultant
stroke physician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and the National Clinical
Director for Stroke for NHS England and NHS Improvement.

He has run the stroke programme producing national stroke guidelines and the
national stroke audit since 1995.

His research interests are stroke rehabilitation, organisation of care and
quality improvement with over 300 peer reviewed publications.

He was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2013.




DR KATE RYAN



Dr Kate Ryan is presently a Consultant Haematologist at Manchester Royal
Infirmary and has specialist interests in haemoglobinopathies (sickle cell and
thalassaemia), other red cell disorders and general haematology.

Other roles include Chair of the Clinical Reference Group for Haemoglobinopathy
Specialist Commissioning and Chair of NEQAS General Haematology Steering Group.
She was Chair of the General Haematology Task Force of the British Committee for
Standards in Haematology from 2006-2012.

She is interested in the standardisation of care though guidelines and quality
standards and was national joint lead for the adult haemoglobinopathy peer
review programme 2012-2013. She has contributed to UK guidelines in sickle cell
and thalassaemia as well as other haematological disorders




LIZ RYBURN



Liz has been Support Team Manager at Spinal Muscular Atrophy UK (SMA UK) since
May 2011. She has a long professional background in social work and disability
rights/services in both the voluntary and statutory sector in the UK and New
Zealand. She now works on Information Coordination at SMA UK – a patient
group/charity that has been providing information and support and funding and
supporting research-related initiatives since 1985. The charity actively
advocates tor access to treatments and better health and social care with and
for the SMA community.




JOAN SADDLER OBE



Joan Saddler is Associate Director of Patients and Communities at the NHS
Confederation.

She was formerly National Director of Patient and Public Affairs based within
the Patient and Public Engagement and Experience Division at the Department of
Health. Areas of responsibility included NHS and 3rd sector liaison, complaints,
local involvement networks (LINks) and transition to Healthwatch.

As a former PCT Chair and Mental Health trust Non Executive Joan also brings a
governance lens to her work along with her experience as a Chief Executive
within the community and voluntary sector.

Joan was awarded an OBE for services to Health and Diversity in 2007. Her
experience informs her role working with the Chief Executive of NHS England as
Co-Chairs of the NHS Equality and Diversity Council.




DR AZHAR SALEEM



Dr Azhar Saleem is a London GP with an interest in respiratory medicine. He is a
member of the Lambeth CCG Governing Body, responsible for commissioning of
respiratory and long term conditions. He is a founding member of the Integrated
Respiratory Team for Lambeth and Southwark. He is Clinical Lead for the
RightBreathe inhaler resource.




DR HEATHER SALT



Dr Heather Salt (pictured on the right) is Consultant Clinical and Health
Psychologist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and NHS England’s National
Clinical Adviser for IAPT-LTC. Heather has worked for over 25 years in primary
and secondary care services with patients with LTCs. She is accredited by the
British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies as a cognitive
behavioural therapist, supervisor and trainer, and was the IAPT PWP course
director and HI academic supervisor at the University of Reading for the first
three years of the set-up and running of IAPT training courses. More recently,
Heather has been leading the IAPT-LTC team in Oxfordshire which is a wave 1
Early Implementer site. Heather (right) is pictured with Marion Elliot,
Cardiology Liaison Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Oxford University Hospitals
Trust.




ISAAC SAMUELS



Isaac is a member of National Co-production Advisory group, Think Local Act
Personal (TLAP).

He is a co-chair of the working group of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on
Adult Social Care and is a committed community-minded individual working within
the third sector for many years. He works closely with local government and
national charities, the Department of Health and Social Care, and TLAP. His
primary focus is supporting a systematic approach to improve services for the
people who need to access them and ensuring they meet the needs of the
population by embedding communities’ voices at every level.

Isaac’s achievements include:
• Considerable influence and success in terms of reducing the barriers that
people who have impairments, and other seldom heard groups, face by ensuring
that these barriers are explored in an open, honest, reflective way that
supports people to retell their narratives in a way that makes them stronger.
• Sharing his own personal narrative and drawing on the narratives of others to
support this life mission of ensuring that everyone has the same opportunities
regardless of impairment, age and socio-economic backgrounds.
• Supporting a number of important social changes over the years from LGBT+
rights to choice and control and co-production.
• He is currently involved in numerous projects including research, lecturing,
charity work, trusteeship, management and steering group leadership roles with a
number of organisations.

All of this is achievable for Isaac as he receives support from a personal
assistant (PA) through a direct payment, Isaac is passionate about
self-directing his own support and the role that PAs play within the social care
sector.




TOBY SANDERS



Toby Sanders Managing Director (Accountable Officer) – West Leicestershire
Clinical Commissioning Group

Toby Sanders leads the management support team and all aspects of the corporate
running of West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). Toby also has
a collaborative role with the two neighbouring CCGs as the lead director for
East Midlands Ambulance Service, NHS 111, Out-of Hours Services, Arriva, Any
Qualified Provider and Urgent Care Centres. Toby is also the Joint Chair for
Better Care Together – the 5-year transformation strategy for Leicester,
Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) and also chairs the LLR System Resilience Group
and Urgent Care Board.

An experienced Board Director, Toby previously held Deputy Chief Executive roles
with the LLR Primary Care Trust (PCT) Cluster, and Leicester City PCT. Toby has
also worked elsewhere in the NHS in acute hospital and strategic health
authority roles and, before joining the NHS in 2003, worked in local government
and management consultancy.




JAMES SANDERSON



James Sanderson is the Director of Personalised Care at NHS England and NHS
Improvement where he leads on a range of programmes that are supporting people
to have greater choice and control over their health and wellbeing. James also
became the CEO to the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) in 2019
where James leads on creating partnerships, across the arts, health, sports,
leisure, and the natural environment, alongside other aspects of our lives, to
promote health and wellbeing at a national and local level. View the NASP
strategy.

James joined NHS England in November 2015 and was formerly the Chief Executive
and Accounting Officer for the Independent Living Fund (ILF). The ILF was an
arm’s length body of the DWP and supported disabled people across the whole of
the UK to live independent lives through the provision of direct payments
enabling the purchase of personal assistance support.

Prior to joining the ILF in 2002, James had a career in the motor industry
within a number of sales and marketing roles, in both corporate and retail
environments. James is a performing arts graduate with a background in community
theatre.




WENDY SAVIOUR



Wendy Saviour is Managing Director for Nottinghamshire Health and Care
Integrated Care System.

Before this Wendy was the Area Director for Birmingham, Solihull and the Black
Country Area Team and between 2010 and 2012 was the Director of Commissioning
Development for the NHS East Midlands, where she was responsible for ensuring
the development and implementation of new commissioning arrangements across the
East Midlands.

Wendy continues to deliver the NHSE regulatory function for the commissioning
system in Nottinghamshire as part of her role as Managing Director.




VICKY SCOTT



Vicky Scott is Chief Operating Officer at South East London Integrated Care
System supporting the development of integrated working as the SEL system works
towards ICS maturity.
Having started her career in local government, she has held a range of roles in
the NHS working both as a commissioner and a provider, at the regional level
with NHS London and NHS TDA, and nationally in the New Care Models Team.




DANNY SCULTHORPE



Danny Sculthorpe played almost 300 professional rugby league games for Rochdale,
Wigan, Castleford, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Bradford, as well as captaining
England, before a serious spine injury forced him into retirement. Danny
suffered from acute depression but courageously fought back and is now a trustee
of the State of Mind Sport charity.




RICHARD SEAL



Richard Seal is Regional Pharmacist (Midlands and East), for NHS England and NHS
Improvement.

His role includes advising on pharmacy and medicines use, the implementation of
national policy on pharmacy and medicines issues, providing senior professional
leadership for medicines optimisation across the region and working as part of
the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s wider pharmacy leadership team.

He is a member of Public Health England’s English Surveillance Programme for
Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance (ESPAUR) and is responsible for the
Midlands and East Regional Medicines Optimisation Committee’s lead role on
antimicrobial resistance.

Richard is a Fellow of The Royal Pharmaceutical Society and recently completed
his two-year tenure as a Fellow of the National Institute for Health and Care
Excellence (NICE).




DUNCAN SELBIE



Duncan Selbie is Chief Executive, Public Health England

Prior to joining PHE on its formation in 2013, he was Chief Executive of
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, the regional teaching hospital for the
south east of England. From 2003 to 2007 he was the Director General of
Programmes and Performance for the NHS and subsequently the first Director
General of Commissioning. Prior to this, he was Chief Executive of South East
London Strategic Health Authority and before that Chief Executive of the South
West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. He joined the NHS on 1
January 1980.




EMMA SELBY



Emma Selby is a Clinical Nurse Specialist and Digital Lead for North East London
Foundation Trust’s Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Services (EWMHS) in
Essex

She has five years’ experience as a CAMHS, working in services for children
across the North London and Essex area.

Her career highlights include winning the Nursing Times Rising Star Nurse of the
Year in 2014 and creating the My Mind app.




JONATHAN SENKER



Jonathan Senker is Chief Executive of VoiceAbility, a leading national provider
of independent advocacy and peer-led support services.

VoiceAbility supports disabled people and people who face disadvantage to have a
stronger voice, to have their rights respected and to have greater control over
their lives.

Jonathan was the chair of the NICE guideline committee on service design for
people with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges. The committee
published its guidelines earlier this year.




DR NIKLAS SERNING



Dr Niklas Serning is Clinical Director of Off The Record Bristol, is a
counselling psychologist and child psychotherapist. He has worked with children
and young people for several years and in many roles as a counsellor, supervisor
and manager. He teaches psychotherapy, ethics and sexuality at doctoral level,
and also brings extensive experience from managing several United Nations
operations in complex international emergencies.




PROFESSOR LAURA SERRANT



Professor Laura Serrant is Professor of Nursing in the Faculty of Health and
Wellbeing at Sheffield Hallam University, one of only 6 black Professors of
Nursing (out of 262) in the UK. She was also one of the first to qualify as a
nurse with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

She has frequently found herself as the sole voice representing nurses and
minority communities; a position which she has striven to challenge throughout
her career by empowering others to come forward to join her, in a unique call to
‘lift as you climb’. She is one of the 2017 BBC Expert women, Chair of the Chief
Nursing Officer for England’s BME Strategic Advisory group and a 2017 Florence
Nightingale Scholar. She is an ambassador of the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue
and the Equality Challenge Unit Race Equality Charter for Higher Education.

Her work has been recognised with numbers awards and prizes, including Queens
Nurse status and Fellowship of the Queens Nursing Institute to those who have
shown leadership in community nursing. In 2014, she was named as one of the top
50 leaders in the UK by The Health Services Journal in three separate
categories: Inspirational Women in Healthcare, BME Pioneers and Clinical Leader
awards.

Professor Serrant has an extensive experience in national and international
health policy development with particular specialist input on racial and ethnic
inequalities and cultural safety.

In 2010, she was appointed to the UK Prime Minister’s commission for the review
of Nursing and Midwifery by the Department of Health. As a member of the
Independent Advisory Group to the UK government on Black and minority ethnic
issues, she was a key influencer in the development of the first national
strategy for sexual health and HIV for England 2001. In 2015, she lead the work
at NHS England, Nursing Directorate as Head of Evidence and Strategy, evaluating
the three year national nursing strategy and informing development of the new
national approach to work for nurses midwives and care staff in England which
was launched in April 2016.

She is visiting professor at The University of the West Indies, The Faculty of
Health Sciences at Dominica State College and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
Do Sul, Brazil and the Warsaw Medical University, Poland.

She holds an Honorary Doctorate in Education from the University of Abertay,
Dundee, Scotland. She has also served as a Non-executive Director at Heart of
England Foundation Trust and Skills for Health Academy, England.

Follow Professor Laura Serrant on Twitter – @lauraserrant




JANE SHANAHAN



Jane Shanahan has worked for NHS East Lancashire CCG as a medicines management
care home technician for the last five years. She is currently participating in
NHS England’s Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes programme.

Qualifying as a pharmacy technician in 1986, Jane’s early career began in
community pharmacy. She made the transition to secondary care in 1994, gaining
experience in multiple acute hospitals and specialities, qualifying as a
prescription accuracy checker in 2006. Jane became an NVQ assessor in 2013,
supporting pre-registration technicians.




SHANTHI SHANMUGALINGAM



Shanthi Shanmugalingam is a neonatal consultant with a passion for improving
maternal and neonatal care.

She joined the Starlight neonatal team at Barnet Hospital, Royal Free London NHS
Foundation Trust in 2014.

Shanthi is the neonatal representative for the Royal Free Maternity and Neonatal
Health Safety Collaborative team implementing cross-site maternity huddles. She
has been involved in several successful quality improvement initiatives
including the East of England Neuroprotection project and the Royal Free Keeping
Mothers and Babies Together clinical pathway (@MumBaby2gether).

She lives in North London with her husband and two children and believes that
the best thing about 2008 was the return of Cadbury’s Wispa bar.




CARL SHAW



Carl Shaw is one of three learning disability advisers and two learning
disability network advisors working on the learning disability programme and has
been with NHS England for 18 months.

He previously worked as a quality auditor at Dimensions – a charity which
provides personalised social care services for people with learning disabilities
and autism.




PHIL SHELLEY



Philip Shelley – Senior Operational & Policy Manager
Philip was the Chair of the NHS Review of Hospital Food that was announced by
the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. His role at NHS England
covers a range of topics within Soft Facilities Management, including the
leadership of the Food Review recommendations, cleanliness and linen management.
Having served as National Chair of the Hospital Catering Association, he
proactively drives collaboration between fellow organisations such as the
British Dietetic Association, Health Estates and Facilities Management
Association and Malnutrition Task Force, with the aim to strengthen a holistic
approach to catering services for patients, staff and visitors in healthcare. He
has been acknowledged with the Public Sector Catering Award in 2018 and the
Outstanding Service Award in 2020 by the Hospital Catering Association. He is
also an ambassador for Love British Food, Guardians of Grub, and the Spearmark
Hydration Droplet.




KEVIN SHERGOLD



Kevin Shergold has had a long and varied career working in nursing, education
and IT, and still keeps busy in Worcestershire as a disability consultant.

He has the degenerative condition Cervical Myelopathy, which means he is now
quadriplegic and requires permanent ventilation. He passionately believes that
life can still be lived to the full, despite his disability.




JO SHILL



Jo Shill is a Quality Assurance Lead Nurse within NEW Devon CCG. Her current
role focusses on the redesign and implementation of sustainable change in
relation to the application of the NHS Continuing Healthcare Framework locally,
and in the quality assurance of local care home and personal care providers
delivering care to eligible individuals within the CCG footprint.

Jo’s previous roles have included acute service pathway developments and
redesign of community rapid response services. Working jointly with local
partner organisations, Jo has a passion for delivery of equitable services, and
thrives on the challenge of asking ‘why wouldn’t we’ when it comes to embracing
and implementing change.

The project described in this blog was delivered jointly by Jo, her colleague
Chris Morley, the CCG’s Market Development Manager, and Gail Wilson, Deputy
Director of Clinical Services at St Luke’s Hospice. Supported by the wider
Personal Health Budget Team at NHS England and the St Luke’s Clinical Nurse
Specialists, the project explored the particular challenges of delivery of end
of life care in rural areas.

The personalisation agenda is embraced in full within the CCG, who now have
well-established processes for set up and evaluation of individualised support
plans. Working closely with their counterpart local authorities, NEW Devon have
embraced the opportunity of delivery of care in this way, and relish in asking
people ‘what matters to you?’ rather than, ‘what’s the matter with you?’




JOHN SHORT



John Short has been the Chief Executive of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health
NHS Foundation Trust (BSMHFT) since April 2013. He has been at the forefront of
the Trust’s work to improve staff, service user and carer engagement and
demonstrate a real Trustwide focus on service quality.

He began his career as a mental health social worker with local authorities and
worked in a number of different settings, before moving onto mental health
services management in the NHS over twenty years ago. John has worked in a
number of Trusts providing services ranging from inner city to rural services.
He has held a number of posts including Senior Manager Mental Health Services at
the West Midlands Regional Office, Director of Mental Health and Learning
Disability Services in Shropshire, Chief Operating Officer at Cheshire and
Wirral Partnership Foundation Trust and Director Change Programmes and Chief
Operating Officer in Leicestershire. His first CEO post was as interim Chief
Executive of Leicestershire Partnership Trust from 2011 until his appointment in
Birmingham and Solihull.

John has led numerous service and organisational changes in his career,
including steering many mental health services in their move from care in
impersonal large asylums to care that is increasingly community and person
centred and compassionate.




DAVID SHORT



David Short RN, RNMS, MSc, BSc (Hons), Pg Dip (App.Psych) is Nurse
Specialist/Lead Nurse at the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
which is the principal treatment centre for teenage and young adults’ cancer
services within the Northern Strategic Clinical Network.




DR KASHIF SIDDIQUI



Following his graduation from The Royal Free & University College Medical School
in 2005, Kashif’s current position is as GP Principal within a Benfleet medical
practice. In addition, he is also the Chairman and Clinical Lead for Patient and
Public Involvement for NHS Castle Point and Rochford CCG and a GP trainer.




DR BAL SIDHU



Dr Bal Sidhu has been working in General Practice in Nuneaton, Warwickshire
since 1988. He specialises in care for the elderly and owns care homes in local
areas. He has been involved in charity work within the South Asian communities,
including a campaign about drug awareness and the Gujarat Earthquake appeals.

He has a passion for Punjabi music and has written over 80 songs, including
‘Rail Gaddi’ which has been played at Asian parties and events for the last 35
years and featured in the Bend it Like Beckham soundtrack.




JONATHAN SILVERMAN



Jonathan Silverman is Honorary Professor of Academic General Practice at Deakin
University, Australia and was previously Associate Clinical Dean at the School
of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. He has been actively involved in
teaching communication skills since 1988 and in 1999 became Director of
Communication Studies for the undergraduate curriculum in the University of
Cambridge, which involves over 1000 half day small group sessions per year.

He is best known as one of the authors of the Calgary-Cambridge Guides to the
Medical Interview, which provide a framework for describing the medical
interview and establishing a comprehensive set of skills referenced to the
current evidence. He has also co-authored two companion books with Suzanne Kurtz
and Julie Draper, “Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine”
(Radcliffe Publishing Second Edition 2005) and “Skills for Communicating with
Patients” (Radcliffe Publishing Third Edition 2013). In 2005, he founded the UK
Council for Communication Skills Teaching for all 33 UK medical schools and is a
Past-President of EACH: International Association for Communication in
Healthcare. In 2015, he was awarded the Lynn Payer award ‘for outstanding
contributions to the literature on the theory, practice and teaching of
effective health care communication and related skills’ from the American
Academy of Communication in Healthcare.




DR NATALIE SILVEY



Dr Natalie Silvey is a National Medical Director’s Fellow at NHS England.

Natalie graduated from Warwick Medical School in 2010. After undertaking
foundation training in the West Midlands she completed ACCS core training in
anaesthetics.

Natalie is a passionate advocate of the use of social media in medical education
and quality improvement. She co-founded a successful journal club on Twitter,
has been part of the #wedocs leadership team, and has been heavily involved in
NHS Change Day.




SUZANNE SIMPSON



Suzanne Simpson qualified as an occupational therapist in 2004 from Salford
University having completed a Psychology degree at the University of Central
Lancashire prior to this, and completed an MRes at Edge Hill University in 2018.

She has worked predominantly in neurosciences for the past eleven years in a
variety of settings.

Suzanne is employed by The Walton Centre a Neuro Specialist Hospital based in
Liverpool, in a unique role funded by the MND Association aimed at improving the
psychological wellbeing of people living with MND.

She splits her time between this role, acting as the trust lead for Making Every
Contact Count and carrying out her research.

Suzanne was a finalist at the 2018 North West Coast Research and Innovation
Awards in the category ‘Research Student of the Year’ and was recently awarded
an NHS R & D North West HEE/NIHR Pre-Doctoral Bridging Scheme.




ANU SINGH



Anu is Director of Patient & Public Participation and Insight at NHS England.
She takes the lead for NHS England in ensuring that the voice of patients,
service users, carers and the public is at the heart of the way NHS England
works. Central to implementing the Five Year Forward View vision, she is
responsible for taking forward national programmes of work that not only embed
patient and public voice, feedback and insight in the NHS commissioning system,
but also actively promote patient-centred care and approaches to care that make
the most of community and patient participation.

Anu has a long history of leading Personalisation, empowerment, and placing
communities at the heart of decision making. Anu was previously Head of Business
Improvement for Staffordshire County Council where she was responsible for the
commissioning of mental health, social care, community safety and education. For
12 years prior to that she was Head of Development and Improvement at the London
Borough of Harrow and at Birmingham City Council, taking the lead on Place
Shaping, Localisation of services, Community Empowerment and Business
Transformation.

Anu is passionate about the integration of public services around the customer.
She has commissioned the largest integrated Health and Social Care Trust in the
country, and is also a Non-Executive Director and Quality Chair of Whittington
Hospital Integrated Care Trust.




INDERJIT SINGH



Inderjit Singh is Head of Architecture and Cyber Security at NHS England. He
spent seven years with a global management consultancy delivering technology
innovation across financial services, telecoms and retail sectors and the last
13 years in Healthcare firstly as a supplier and now as part of the NHS.

Inderjit is now working on a number of strategic themes at a national level.
This includes leading up the Local Health and Care Records programme in
establishing interoperable local longitudinal care records at circa 2-5m level
populations across England to enable joined up care, population health and
planning of services.

He also works across the national portfolio leading up design authority for
interoperability as well as leading on cyber security for NHS England.

He previously led a portfolio of strategic informatics programmes/ initiatives
including the digital stream of the £20bn Quality, Innovation, Productivity and
Prevention (QIPP) challenge.




GURINDER SINGH



Gurinder Singh is an Independent Pharmacist Prescriber based in Swindon. He also
works as a Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice at University of Reading. In his spare
time, he volunteers with Nishkam SWAT and raises awareness about issues
affecting the Sikh community.




DR JENNIFER SINGH



Having completed a diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology she has a specialist
interest in women’s health and runs a menopause clinic in Buckinghamshire.

She also enjoys and has a special interest in lifestyle medicine as it offers a
more holistic approach to patient care.




JENNIFER SKILLEN



Until recently Jennifer Skillen was the chair of her GP surgery’s patient
participation group in Gloucester, getting involved not just with the surgery,
but in local commissioning.

She is passionate about the NHS and reflecting the patient voice to develop
effective patient-centred planning.

Jennifer enjoys applying the knowledge she gains from studying part-time for a
PhD to a variety of situations, from dealing with her disabled son’s ’therapy’
chickens to helping with the patient views in quality improvement.

She has recently had a paper published by Sage Journals about the kind of simple
analysis techniques that can be used to make sense of FFT feedback. It is
entitled ‘The Friends and Family Test: From card sorts to control charts’.




ROSIE SKRYPAK



Rosie Skrypak is clinical lead occupational therapist and therapy service lead
for the health services for elderly people and rapid response therapy team at
the Royal Free Hospital in London.

Rosie qualified as an occupational therapist 14 years ago, starting her career
at the Royal Free Hospital before working elsewhere in palliative care.

She returned to take up her current role in 2012.

Rosie’s interests are frailty and patient flow and the role that quality
improvement can play in these areas.




ANN SLEE



Ann Slee is NHS England’s Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer
(Medicines).

She is a hospital pharmacist by background and has led various local and
national initiatives around digital medicines and ePrescribing with experience
in the development and deployment of digital technologies. She holds several
honorary academic appointments and was a member of the advisory board for the
Wachter review.

Ann is a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics.




DR. RICHARD SLOAN



Dr. Richard Sloan MBE, MB, BS, BSc, PGC, PhD, FRCGP was a GP in Cheltenham and
then in Airedale, Castleford until he retired in 2005.

He was a trainer, GP tutor, course organiser and Associate Director of
Postgraduate General Practice Education (Yorkshire Deanery).

He worked as education advisor and appraisal lead for the Pontefract and
Castleford and then the Wakefield District NHS Primary Care Trusts from 2004 to
2010. Since retirement he has worked for various organisations and is presently
chair of Healthwatch Wakefield Ltd.




DOMINIC SLOWIE



Dominic Slowie is the National Clinical Director for Learning Disability for NHS
England.

He established and has chaired the North East and Cumbria Learning Disability
Network which was established in 2010 and continues as part of the networks and
senate hosted by Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Area Team. The network
has been responsible for a number of improvements in the care that people with
learning disability receive in a number of healthcare settings.

He is passionate about improving the experiences of health for people with
learning disability and is convinced this can only be done effectively through
health and social care working seamlessly for the people who need their help.

Dominic is a GP by clinical background, qualifying from Newcastle University in
1991, and continues his clinical work three sessions a week.

He was a senior medical tutor at Newcastle University Medical School and
continues to provide a small number of lectures annually using the innovative
approach of ‘Operating Theatre’ a professional theatre company that uses stories
to challenge and change perspectives on health.




WILL SMART



Will Smart is Chief Information Officer (CIO) Health and Care in England.

A joint appointment between NHS England and NHS Improvement, Will is responsible
for providing strategic leadership across the whole of the NHS to ensure that
the opportunities that digital technologies offer are fully exploited to improve
the experience of patients and carers in their interactions with health and
social care; the outcomes for patients; and improved efficiencies in how care is
delivered.

Prior to taking up this role, Will was Chief Information Officer at the Royal
Free London NHS Foundation Trust for six years and. He first worked in the NHS
in Wales and Northern Ireland during his placement year from university, before
taking up an analytics role at St. Mary’s NHS Trust in London on graduation.

In addition to senior roles in the NHS, Will has worked as a management
consultant with major assignments focussing on IT strategy, service
transformation, major IT service and contract reviews and outsourcing.




MELINDA SMITH



Melinda Smith is an Insight Support Manager in the NHS Insight and Feedback team
which oversees major NHS surveys, feedback tools and other social research to
understand patient and staff experience in ways that can be used to drive
continuous improvement in services.




JACKIE SMITH



Jackie Smith was appointed the NMC’s Chief Executive and Registrar in October
2012, having been appointed as acting Chief Executive and Registrar in December
2011.
Jackie joined the NMC as the director of Fitness to Practise (FtP) in August
2010, driving forward improvements to meet the NMC’s goal of safeguarding the
health and wellbeing of the public.
Jackie’s background is in law and she spent many years working for the Crown
Prosecution Service at the Old Bailey and in the Director of Public Prosecutions
Office. Jackie has a Law degree from Wolverhampton University, a qualification
in Six Sigma and a diploma in Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy.
Jackie has extensive experience in healthcare regulation, working for the
General Medical Council (GMC) for over 10 years as an assistant director and
heading up their investigation unit for six years.
Jackie sat on the West Midlands Pathfinder Steering Group, and was a member of
Revalidation Project Group for the London SHA.




DELIA SMITH



Following a background in administration and running a training business with
her late husband, Delia Smith is now a Mencap support worker caring for six
people with a learning disability in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.




DAVID SMITH



Following an early career in finance David entered the voluntary sector in 1995
working in housing and advice before later specialising in mental health
services. Developing a strong vision for good mental healthcare has allowed
David to lead service redesign and develop lasting relationships with public
sector partners that clearly demonstrates the positive impact partnership
working can have.

Holding a Master’s in Charities Resource Management David regularly engages in
public debate on issues such as mental health, charities and leadership.

@david3012




FELICITY SMITH



Felicity Smith is the National Co-ordinator for FaithAction – a national network
of faith-based and community organisations.

She has a strong input into strategic development and oversees programmes and
contracts delivered by the FaithAction network.

Felicity has worked on FaithAction’s Health and Social Care work since 2009, and
as representative for the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance.

She has been a member of the Steering Group for Health and Care Innovation Expo
for the last two years, ensuring the voluntary sector has representation across
all the different elements of the event.




RUBY SMITH



Ruby Smith is Head of Co-design and Improvement.

Ruby Smith is an experienced senior leader in housing, health and social care.
Ruby joined South Yorkshire Housing Association (SYHA) as Head of Co-design and
Improvement in 2013. SYHA is a social landlord with approximately 6,000 homes
across Sheffield. The LiveWell department combines housing, health and care
expertise to provide person-centred, integrated health and housing solutions.
Ruby is part of the senior leadership team at SYHA, leading the Co-Design and
Improvement team to deliver a range of co-designed health integration projects,
including Over2You, Co:Create and Ageing Better. She also works with a range of
organisations, including Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Sheffield
Universities, to facilitate patient and customer involvement in their work.




TONI-MARIE SMITH



Toni-Marie Smith is the Programme Operational Co-ordinator worker for Young
Carers in Focus (YCiF) at The Children’s Society Include Programme.

She works to increase national awareness and support for young carers and their
families and promote whole family working.

During her time with The Children’s Society she has also worked to build
professional partnerships that will lead to early interventions for families to
prevent a child taking on an inappropriate caring role; supported the running of
the National Young Carers Festival and, through consultation with them and other
young carers, helped to ensure young carers’ voices remain central to delivery.

Toni-Marie currently works on the Young Carers in Focus Programme, working with
partners to provide Young Carers Champions with resilience, skills and knowledge
to support them to raise awareness and advocate for change on a National and
Local level. She is also working with the Champions to run a safe social network
for all young carers and to roll out and monitor the Young Carers in Schools
Programme.

Prior to this Toni-Marie gained a BSc (Hons) Psychology with Criminology from
the University of Portsmouth.




DR PETE SMITH



Dr Pete Smith OBE has been a GP for over 20 years in Kingston upon Thames and in
2019 he retired from the practice he set up which has been exemplary in
addressing health inequalities in a deprived area.
Peter was previously Vice Chair of the Association of Independent Multifunds,
helped set up one of the first multifunds and with other colleagues set up
Thamesdoc, the first night rota co-operative in the London area.

He previously edited Guide to the Guidelines, the first collection of national
disease management guidelines, has co-authored guidelines on inflammatory bowel
disease and learning disabilities and has recently edited ‘The Handbook of
Primary Care Trusts’.

He was co-chair of the Self Care Forum between 2016-2019 when he stepped down
for health reasons although he remains on the board.




PAUL SMITH



Paul Smith is director of Foundations, the Department for Communities and Local
Government-funded national body for home improvement agencies and Disabled
Facilities Grants.

Paul joined Foundations in 2015 having previously worked as a senior housing and
care commissioner for Staffordshire County Council.

Prior to this he managed two award-winning home improvement agencies for Telford
& Wrekin Council and Cannock Chase Council. In these roles he set up home
safety, handyperson and health through warmth services as well as a national HIA
means-testing model for disabled facilities grant applicants.

Paul is a qualified building surveyor and member of the Chartered Institute of
Building. His first job was designing and contract-managing adaptations,
including hundreds of level access showers.




ED SMITH



Ed Smith is the Chairman of NHS Improvement, Non-Executive Director for NHS
Property Services, and the Lead Non-Executive Director for the Department for
Transport.

Ed is also the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council at the University of
Birmingham, a Member of the Competition and Markets Authority panel and is a
Member of Council and Treasurer of Chatham House.

He was the former Global Assurance Chief Operating Officer and Strategy Chairman
of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Before retiring he had a successful 30-year
career with PwC, holding many leading board and top client roles in the UK and
globally as a Senior Partner.




SALLY SMITH



Sally has worked in occupational therapy for over 40 years in both acute mental
health settings and paediatrics. She qualified as an Occupational Therapist in
2002, going on to work in adult social care, including as a team leader and
manager.

Two years ago, Sally took up the role as Clinical Commissioner in the
Transforming Community Team at East Riding CCG, with a specific remit for
equipment and wheelchair services. Personalisation, especially personal
wheelchair budgets, are a perfect match for Sally’s background as she has the
clinical skills to understand the issues and the networks to raise the profile.

Sally lives in Beverley, East Yorkshire with her partner and dog Bradley
Wiggins; who, as both her partner and grown-up sons will tell you, comes first
in any pecking order.




DOMINIC SMITHIES



Dom is a member of the NHS Youth Forum. He has a passion about addressing health
inequalities and about embedding health literacy into education.

Dom works for Student Minds, the UK’s student mental health charity, as the
Programmes Manager (Health Inequalities) and also volunteers with Pride in
London in the Community Engagement team.

Prior to his role at Student Minds, Dom was the Community & Wellbeing Sabbatical
Officer at the University of York’s Students’ Union where he represented 18,000
students on all things health & happiness. He prioritised improving mental
health and supporting the liberation networks.




DR ANDY SNELL



Dr Andy Snell is a Public Health Consultant at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation
Trust, a joint appointment with the Local Authority. Andy also works as an A&E
doctor, maintaining his clinical practice in the hospital which provides very
useful insight, whilst maintaining a wider role in global noncommunicable
diseases control, working with WHO in relation to tobacco.




ANDREW SNOWBALL



Andrew Snowball is head of engagement at HSJ.




HARPREET SOOD



Dr Harpreet Sood is currently a Clinical Advisor for the COVID-19 Vaccine
programme, a GP and a board member at Health Education England. Previously he
was Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer and Senior Fellow to the CEO of
NHS England.

In his previous roles Harpreet led on the NHS Digital Academy and worked on the
Global Digital Exemplar programme.

Harpreet trained as a clinical doctor at King’s College London and Imperial
College Business School and practiced as a doctor in East London.

Following this he did a masters degree in public health (MPH) at Harvard
University where he focused on international health policy and co-founded a
digital health start-up.

Post MPH, Harpreet was a Deland Fellow in health policy and management at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a large academic medical centre in Boston.




PROFESSOR JANE SOUTH



Jane South is Professor of Healthy Communities at the Institute for Health &
Wellbeing at Leeds Beckett University, where she leads a research programme on
active citizens, volunteering and community health.

She is currently on secondment as the national adviser on communities working
within the Health Equity and Mental Health team of Public Health England.

Her current programme of work is looking at dissemination and application of
evidence on community engagement, asset-based approaches and social action in
public health.

In her university role, Jane was Director of the Centre for Health Promotion
Research at Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett University) from
2013-16 and has led two National Institute for Health Research studies on lay
and peer interventions.




NICOLA SPENCER



Nicola Spencer joined NHS England in April 2013 and is currently a Programme
Support Manager in the Long Term Conditions (children and adults) Unit.

The unit works to improve the quality of life and end of life care for people
with long term conditions and their carers.

Nicola has a degree in Business and Event Management and a Post Graduate
qualification in Healthcare Leadership. Prior to joining NHS England, she
started her NHS career in an Acute Trust working as a phlebotomist, before
moving into a commissioning role where she worked for over four years within a
service improvement team in Calderdale PCT.




CAROLINE SPRAKE



Dr Caroline Sprake has been a GP for 26 years at Lane End Surgery and is now GP
lead for diabetes for the clinical network for northern England. She has always
had an interest in diabetes and is delighted to see the diabetes prevention
programme be opened up to the whole of the UK.




DR JOAN ST JOHN



Dr Joan St John works with the Law Medical Group Practice, Wembley and
Willesden, within NHS Brent CCG

Joan has been a GP with special interest in diabetes since 2003.

She is the lead for diabetes in a practice in Brent which serves approximately
15,000 people and has around 1,000 patients with diabetes.




DANIELLE STACEY



Danielle Stacey is the current Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Clinical Fellow at
NHS England where she has led on the Integrating NHS Pharmacy and Medicines
Optimisation into STPs/ICSs project.

Prior to this Danielle worked as a hospital pharmacist in the West Midlands and
she is an independent prescriber specialising in infections.

She has recently been appointed Deputy Chief Pharmacist for Medicines
Optimisation at Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust.




JASON STAMP



Jason Stamp is the independent Chair of the Patient and Public Voice Assurance
Group for Specialised Commissioning. He is a lay member and Vice Chair of NHS
Hull Clinical Commissioning Group and is currently Chief Officer of a voluntary
sector support and development charity, working across Yorkshire and the Humber.
Jason has a long history of supporting patient and public involvement on both a
national and local level, with a particular focus on improving outcomes and
patient experience.




DAVID STENSON



David Stenson is a member of Dudley Patient Participation Group (PPG) and took
part in the new care models site visit as a patient representative.




RICHARD STEWART



Richard Stewart is President British Association of Paediatric Surgeons – a role
he has held since July 2018.

He was appointed Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Queen’s Medical Centre in 1992
having trained in The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and Queen’s
University, Belfast.

Previous roles have included Assistant Medical Director Queens Medical Centre
2001-2005 and Regional Professional Advisor to the Royal College of Surgeons for
Paediatric Surgery 2010-2014. He was also Clinical advisor & GPS lead, East
Midlands Specialist Commissioning Group 2010-1012, and the lead for General
Paediatric Surgery, East Midlands Strategic Clinical Network 2013-2015

He was a steering group member and Surgical Lead for NHS England’s ‘Specialised
Surgery in Children Review’ held from December 2016-19.




JOHN STEWART



John Stewart is the Acting Director of Specialised Commissioning at NHS England.
Immediately prior to that he was Director of Clinical Policy and Strategy,
working for Professor Sir Bruce Keogh. Before joining NHS England, John held
various senior roles within the Department of Health and the Cabinet Office for
over twelve years.




CAROLYN STIRLING-YEATMAN




HELEN JAYNE STOKES-LAMPARD



Professor Helen Jayne Stokes-Lampard PhD FRCGP is a British medical academic and
a general practitioner.

She is Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, the UK’s largest
Medical Royal College, representing over 52,000 family doctors across the UK.
She has an interest in women’s health.




HEATHER STONEBANK



Heather Stonebank is Lead Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner for Sheffield
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Service (IAPT), a role in which she
provides clinical leadership for the PWP workforce.

Heather has 11 years’ experience of working in mental health services within
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, working as part of
Sheffield’s drug and alcohol team and on an acute mental health ward.

In October 2016 she was recruited into the Yorkshire and the Humber Clinical
Network, NHS England, on secondment as a Lead PWP Clinical Advisor.

She is also co-chair of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive
Psychotherapies Low Intensity Special Interest Group.

Heather has a keen interest in research to inform guidelines and clinical
practice, is a member of the Northern Practice Research Network and has been
involved in several research studies which have reached publication.




PETULA STOREY



Petula Storey is Head of Volunteering at one of London’s largest and busiest
hospitals, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and has been in this role
since 2015.

The award winning volunteer programme has over 700 volunteers which support
services at multiple sites across South East London and Kent.

Prior to joining the NHS, Petula worked in the voluntary sector for over 15
years, both here and in the USA. There has been an element of volunteering in
all the roles Petula has held during her career, either developing and managing
volunteer-delivered services, or in a strategic capacity, developing and
delivering an organisation’s volunteer strategy.




KIRSTIE STOTT



Kirstie Stott is an NHS Graduate Management Trainee (GMTS) 2012 Cohort. She
originally trained as a registered nurse in 1998 and worked in a nursing
capacity for 14 years.

She started NHS life as an Accident and Emergency nurse in 2001 and went on to
be the youngest national Emergency Care Practitioner for Yorkshire Ambulance
Service working to a senior clinical level.

She is a certified Neuro Linguistic Practitioner after successfully gaining a
place on the INNOV8 Accelerate Programme.

In 2011 she beat off 12,350 applicants to gain a place on the prestigious NHS
GMTS. Her first placement was at Sheffield Teaching Hospital as an Assistant
General Manager working on the integration of two directorates. She then spent 9
weeks working at The Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management developing
business cases and strategy planning where she is now regional lead for the FMLM
steering group in the north.

Her final placement is at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS FT as a strategic
planner leading on the Integrated Business Plan.

Her passions are in equality and diversity in the NHS and understanding and
working towards removing the barriers that stop women and BME staff achieving
senior leadership positions.

She also is currently regional lead for NHS Change Day 2014 Yorkshire and
Humber.

She lives in Sheffield with her partner and 2 children. Outside of work she
enjoys music, and being the best mum and having fun with her 2 boys.




DR GERALDINE STRATHDEE OBE



Dr Geraldine Strathdee, OBE, MRCPsych, is the National Clinical Director for
Mental Health, NHS England, a consultant psychiatrist in Oxleas NHS FT, and
Visiting Professor, Integrated mental health education programme at UCL
Partners.

For over 20 years she has held senior roles in mental health policy, regulation
and clinical management, at national and London regional levels, and advises
internationally on mental health service design and quality improvement, while
working as a practising clinician. She has been involved in transformational
large scale service development programmes, moving services from hospital based,
to 24/7 home care and primary care models, in roles which have included: the
Trust Director of Clinical services in Oxleas NHS FT (2005-2007), Director of
Service development at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and Senior
Lecturer, UMDS ( 1995-1998). She was the National Professional Adviser in mental
health to the Healthcare Commission and the Care Quality Commission (2005-2012).

Her particular commitment is to the translation of policy and best practice
evidence into front line routine clinical practice, empowering service users to
reach their potential, and staff to maximise their time to care. She is
passionate about the development of leadership competencies and using
information to enable informed decision-making.

As London SHA Associate Medical Director (2009-2013), with responsibility for
mental health, she led transformational change through the development of
clinical networks for dementia and primary care mental health CCG leaders,
developed ground breaking commissioning support care pathway profiling
informatics tools, and high impact educational programmes. She was awarded the
prestigious RCpsych Psychiatrist of the Year award in 2012.

Clinically, she has worked in a wide range of primary care, inpatient and
community services, and latterly with people with complex and multiple needs, as
a Consultant Psychiatrist for the Bromley Assertive Community Treatment team in
Oxleas. She is committed to providing services which enable services users to
live in their own homes, develop their own personalised care plans and self
management expertise to achieve recovery, while at the same time working with
community agencies to deliver coordinated, responsive, care pathways.

Service evaluation and research interests: Her teams have won awards for their
use of technology in improving care, using patients as experts in staff training
and leadership awards for new Ways of Working, the redesign of roles. Her
research interests have included the fields of primary care mental health,
evaluation of community services and dual diagnosis. Current research interests
include the evaluation of competency based leadership programmes and clinical
networks to drive transformational improvements, and high impact educational
programmes.




TIM STRAUGHAN



Tim is the Head of Patient Choice which is part of the Personalisation and
Choice Group at NHS England, working within the Commissioning Strategy
Directorate and leading on the development and implementation of new models of
delivering Patient Choice.

Tim joined the team in November 2016, and was formerly Chief Executive and
Accounting Officer for the Health and Social Care Information Centre (now NHS
Digital). Tim is also qualified dentist and chartered accountant and has also
held a number of other national and local senior leadership roles within health
and social care.

You can follow Tim on Twitter @timstraughan.




KEN STRONG



Ken is 79 and retired in 1996 after almost 30 years of working with young
people.

With his wife, Elizabeth, Ken moved back to Bristol to care for his
mother-in-law, who lived until she was 96. By this time Elizabeth had suffered
many years of back pain as a result of an accident, and was registered as
disabled. Her health has deteriorated over the years and Ken is now her main
carer.




CIARAN SUNDSTREM



Ciaran Sundstrem is the Care Model Lead for the Urgent and Emergency Care
Vanguards, and Programme Lead for Urgent and Emergency Care within NHS England.

He has worked in a range of roles within the NHS since starting on the NHS
Graduate Management Training Scheme in 2002, with particular experience in
urgent and emergency care, health protection, health and justice, and substance
misuse.




RUTH SUTHERLAND



Ruth was appointed Chief Executive of Samaritans in August 2015. She initially
trained as a Registered General Nurse but has spent the majority of her career
in public health roles, following a degree in Social Policy from the University
of Warwick and a Master’s degree in Health Promotion from the University of
Ulster. Ruth was the founding Director of the Community Development and Health
Network, a charitable membership network committed to addressing inequalities in
health and wellbeing in Northern Ireland. Prior to joining Samaritans, she was
CEO of Relate and previously held senior executive leadership roles at Rethink,
Alzheimer’s Society and Scope. Ruth is also Co-Chair of the National Suicide
Prevention Alliance, and a volunteer at the Bexley and Dartford branch of
Samaritans. She has been a Trustee of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts since
November 2015.




SEB SWAIN



Seb is 22 yrs old and lives in Chesterfield in Derbyshire, he has an older
brother who is also autistic. Seb enjoys going to his social group, bowling,
playing badminton, listening to K pop music, watching films and spending time
with family.




GRACE SWEENEY



Grace Sweeney is the Senior Manager for Impact, Research and Evaluation within
NHS England’s Sustainable Improvement team and links closely with the
Operational Research and Evaluation (OR&E) team.

She leads a small group of researchers and measurement analysts and has led the
development and operationalisation of an ‘Impact Framework’, the purpose of
which is to capture the full and true value of improvement work in complex
environments like the NHS.

Grace is a health services researcher by background and for the last 10 years
has worked with numerous improvement organisations in a research capacity; she
has a particular interest in using evidence generated from formative evaluation
to improve and refine improvement programmes, so that organisations become
genuinely evidence-based and learning-focussed.




MATTHEW SWINDELLS



Matthew Swindells is NHS England’s National Director: Operations and
Information.

He joined NHS England in May 2016 from the Cerner Group and his role as Senior
Vice President for Population Health and Global Strategy.

Matthew is responsible for national performance of the NHS against the NHS
Constitution Standards, assurance of Clinical Commissioning Groups, achieving a
paperless NHS, information and technology programmes and investment in data.

He has over 25 years’ experience in health care services and has worked in the
Department of Health as a Chief Information Officer and as a Senior Policy
Advisor to the Secretary of State for Health. Prior to this he served as a
Principal Adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office of Public Service Reform.

Matthew began his career at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital in the early 1990s, and
went on to become Director of Clinical Services of Heatherwood and Wexham Park
Hospital and later Chief Executive of the Royal Surrey County Hospital, in the
early 2000s.

He is visiting professor and chair of the advisory committee in the School of
Health Management at the University of Surrey and Member of the Editorial Board
for the Journal of Population Health Management.




STEVE SYLVESTER



Steve Sylvester is Head of Specialised Commissioning (NHS England: Bristol,
North Somerset, Somerset and South Gloucestershire Area Team).

As the head of NHS England’s specialised commissioning team for the South West
Steve is responsible for ensuring all specialised services across the region are
of the highest quality no matter where people receive their care, and that
people will have rapid access to these specialist services when they need them.
However, the team aims to ensure people only spend as much time at a specialised
centre as is necessary by linking well with local services to support as much
care being provided as close to home as possible.

The team also hopes to prevent people from needing specialised care by working
with a variety of partners to promote healthy lifestyle choices and support
people with long term conditions to manage these in ways that reduce avoidable
hospital admissions. In this way Steve and his team aim to commission the right
kind of care at the right time to give people the best chance of great care and
good outcomes.

Steve has a wealth of NHS experience, starting as a volunteer substance misuse
support worker in 1993 and a six year career supporting the rehabilitation of
people with a range of addictions as part of the community mental health team.

Between 2000 and 2003 he worked in a local district hospital supporting service
improvement through service redesign, clinical audit, waiting list management
and patient access. After this he spent six years leading on contracting and
commissioning for a local Primary Care Trust until he joined the South West’s
previous Specialised Commissioning Team as an Associate Director of
Commissioning in 2009 where he supported and guided the team through the NHS’
transition until NHS England came into effect in April 2013.

During this transition period Steve represented the South West on several of the
national Clinical Reference Groups that were tasked with developing the national
services specifications and commissioning policies that are currently being
implemented across England and continues to support NHS England’s development
and success. However, he is keen to ensure that decisions taken by specialised
commissioners in the South West reflect the needs and wishes of local people,
with ‘collaboration and communication’ words that not only reflect what the team
does, but how it does it.




MATT TAGNEY



Matt Tagney is NHS England’s Programme Director for the Maternity Transformation
Programme.

In this role Matt is responsible for bringing together delivery partners and
stakeholders at national, regional and local level to build and deliver a
programme of work that will see the NHS implement The National Maternity Review:
Better Births by 2020/21 making maternity services in England kinder, safer and
more personal.

Matt has led the development and implementation of major health policies at a
national and local level in England and internationally.

He is also a trustee of the Rangoon General Hospital Reinvigoration Charitable
Trust which is supporting the renewal and development of hospitals in Rangoon
and Rakhine, Myanmar.




CHARLES TALLACK



Charles is Head of the NHS Operational Research and Evaluation Unit, part of NHS
England’s Analytical Services.

The team he leads is responsible for the evaluation and wider analysis of a
range of national transformation programmes, including New Care Models,
Integrated Personal Commissioning and Right Care.

The Operational Research and Evaluation Unit applies a mixture of analytical
approaches to national policy and operational issues.




MING TANG



Ming Tang, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, NHS England.

Ming has over 20 years’ experience in managing and delivering large scale change
involving implementation of new operating models in complex and challenging
environments.

She joined the NHS in October 2009, initially leading commissioning support
services in the West Midlands as the Managing Director for Healthcare
Commissioning Services and then as the Managing Director for South Yorkshire and
Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit.

Ming is currently the Chief Data and Analytics Officer for NHS England and is
responsible for strategic development of data and analytics capability across
NHS.




JEREMY TAYLOR



Jeremy Taylor is chief executive of National Voices, the national coalition of
health and care charities for England.

Jeremy acts as a representative, expert advisor, writer, commentator and speaker
on issues that National Voices champions, especially person centred care, and
patient and public engagement.




STEVE TAYLOR



Steve Taylor is Chief Officer of One Rochdale Health and Care and Managing
Director/Chief Officer of Bury & Rochdale Care Organisation (Hospital and
Integrated Care Services), Northern Care Alliance.
He has worked at clinical and managerial levels within the NHS for over 30
years. He trained in Rochdale as a Registered General Nurse in 1987 and went on
to work in A&E departments in Oxford and Manchester. He is also a trained mental
health nurse and has worked in a number of acute mental health settings in the
Manchester area.

In 1998, Steve gained a degree in nursing and went on to obtain an MSc in
strategic leadership in 2002. He has a long-standing interest in healthcare
leadership and has lectured and presented on this topic in the UK, Europe and
USA.

More recently, Steve has led on the successful integration of health, social and
voluntary services within the North Manchester and Heywood, Middleton and
Rochdale communities and believes strongly that integrating services provides a
better experience for patients and families.




DR ROS TAYLOR



Dr Ros Taylor, MBE, is National Director for Hospice Care at Hospice UK the
national charity for hospice care, which represents more than 200 hospice care
organisations across the country.

Dr Taylor joined Hospice UK as National Director for Hospice Care in October
2014 and prior to that was a Trustee at the charity. Her role involves her
driving the clinical agenda for hospice care at a national strategic level and
promoting and supporting excellence in the end of life care sector.

Before working at Hospice UK she was Director of The Hospice of St Francis in
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, which she joined in 1996.

Dr Taylor has more than 20 years’ experience working in palliative care,
including in community, hospital and hospice settings.

She has a special interest in medical education, medical humanities and ‘whole
person care’ and has lectured widely, both nationally and internationally.




ROY TAYLOR



Roy Taylor is Professor of Medicine and Metabolism at Newcastle University and
Consultant at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust. He founded the Newcastle Magnetic
Resonance Centre in 2006 to develop innovative research techniques, and by 2011
he was able to show that excess fat within liver and pancreas caused type 2
diabetes.

The low calorie liquid diet was developed as a research tool to show what was
causing high sugar levels, but it proved so successful that he then tested it as
a treatment for type 2 diabetes. He has written many scientific papers as well
as an easy-read book about life without diabetes.

Professor Taylor also developed the system now used throughout the United
Kingdom for screening for diabetic eye disease, with major reduction in
blindness due to diabetes across the UK.




DR BECKI TAYLOR-SMITH



Dr Becki Taylor-Smith has joined the Chief Sustainability Officers’ Clinical
Fellow scheme for 2021-2. She is a medical doctor, specialising in anaesthesia.
She has an interest in empowering clinicians to make change and engage their
policy makers. She founded and continues to chair the Green Anaesthesia and
Intensive Care Network in the West Midlands (GAIN-WM).

Becki will be working with the Greener NHS team and transformation directorate
to support integrating net zero carbon principles into transformation of care
and helping the NHS to reach its ambitious net zero target.




REBECCA TEMPEST



Rebecca Tempest joined NHS England in October 2015 as a Senior Communications
Officer for the Personal Health Budgets and Integrated Personal Commissioning
teams. Rebecca works alongside the Communications and Network Manager to provide
a range of communications support to the national teams. Rebecca has a
background in project management and communications in the NHS and charity
sectors, and she has previously worked clinically in both primary and secondary
care mental health services.

Neil Francis has over 30 years’ experience working in the public sector. His
current role is as a project manager for NHS Brighton and Hove CCG, responsible
for coordinating personalisation initiatives within the local Better Care
programme. This includes the implementation of Personal Health Budgets.

Michelle Buck has been working for Friends Families and Travellers (FFT) since
January 2010. Michelle is of Irish Traveller heritage through marriage. She is a
founder member of GAIT (Gypsy and Irish Travellers association South East
England) and previously worked as a volunteer caseworker and advocate. Her
current role at FFT is as a health engagement worker – a position funded by
Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group.

Geraldine Desmoulins had a successful career in the private sector before moving
to Brighton and Hove in the 1970s. Geraldine has worked in the voluntary sector
for over 30 years, and in her current role as Chief Officer she has taken The
Fed Centre for Independent Living from a small organisation with 5 staff, to one
with 66 paid staff, over 80 volunteers, delivering a range of projects and
services enabling people to live as independently as possible.




NEIL TESTER



Neil Tester is Director of Policy and Communications at Healthwatch England.

His working life began in journalism and has since taken in communications,
marketing, policy, strategy and public affairs in a range of leadership roles in
networked charities such as Girlguiding UK and Relate, membership organisations
including the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, and in the public sector.

Healthwatch England has statutory powers to ensure the voice of consumers is
strengthened and heard by those who commission, deliver and regulate health and
care services. It supports the network of 152 local Healthwatch across England,
who provide unique insight into people’s experiences of health and social care
issues.

Follow Neil Tester on Twitter: @NTtweeting.




DR AMANDA THOMPSELL



Dr Thompsell was a GP Principal before retraining in psychiatry and becoming an
Old Age Psychiatrist. She has been the Consultant for a multidisciplinary team
supporting care homes with nursing and then an old age liaison service in an
acute hospital before working in inpatient specialist care. She recently
completed 4 years as chair of the Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry at the Royal
College of Psychiatrists. 

She was vice chair of the NICE Guidelines development of medicines management in
care homes and led on the improving care in dementia workstream for the London
Dementia Strategic Clinical leadership group. She was also Clinical Lead for the
dementia workstream of the Modernisation Initiative to improve end of life care
for those with dementia. 

She is also a medical member of the First-Tier tribunal (Mental Health) for the
Ministry of Justice.




CATHERINE THOMPSON



Catherine Thompson is Head of Patient Experience for Acute Services at NHS
England and leads on experience of care in acute trusts, ambulance services,
cancer services, and services for frail older people.

She previously worked at NHS Improvement as a national improvement lead for
acute respiratory services and pulmonary rehabilitation facilitating the
implementation of the COPD and Asthma Outcomes Strategy.

Catherine qualified as a physiotherapist in 1996 and pursued a clinical and
academic career in acute respiratory medicine and critical care.




MIKE THOMPSON



Mike Thompson is Chief Executive of the Association of the British
Pharmaceutical Industry.

Mike took up the position of CEO of the ABPI in March 2016, joining from
GlaxoSmithKline where he was most recently senior vice president of global
commercial strategy and platforms leading teams of experts in areas such as
multi-channel, market research and analytics as well supporting colleagues in
research and development to bring new medicines to launch.

During 20 years with GSK Mike spent seven years as the commercial strategy head
for Europe and before that ten years in the UK company in a variety of senior
sales and marketing roles.

A graduate of The Queen’s College, Oxford, Mike has worked across multiple
sectors including food, drinks, toiletries and Government agencies. He joined
Unilever as a trainee in 1981, leaving in 1995 as Marketing Director in the UK,
to join GSK.




LINDSAY THOMPSON



Lindsay Thompson is a co-founder, CEO and Service Development and Delivery
Manager of B’Me Against Cancer (BMAC).

He led the development and management of various important projects and services
including the Check Tings Out community clinic for prostate cancer risk
assessment and recently on a Cancer Support Advocacy development project called
“Hear for You”.

Lindsay leads a dynamic and innovative team, committed to delivering services
for people in particular but not exclusively from BME and low-income communities
living with or affected by cancer. B’MAC’s core services are, providing and
assisting in the provision of culturally sensitive and appropriate practical
advice, information, advocacy and support.

Lindsay is passionate about addressing cancer inequalities and encouraging
participation by BME community members to participate in genomic medicine
research and clinical trials.




ALEX THOMPSON



Alex is the topic lead in the NHS RightCare pathways programme. He qualified as
a physiotherapist in 2001 from the University of Nottingham. He has worked in
acute and community trusts in a variety of senior clinical and leadership roles,
acquiring an MSc and other post-graduate qualifications. He has developed system
strategy to enable activity and prevention pathways for people with chronic MSK
pain and led implementation of this strategy. He has led other innovative
improvements including virtual clinics and advancing physiotherapy practice. He
has led successful programmes to increase research capability and capacity in
Allied Health Professionals. He is currently undertaking a PhD Fellowship at
Sheffield Hallam University evaluating optimal transitions to activity in people
with MSK pain.




ALEX THOMSON



Alex Thomson is a consultant liaison psychiatrist at Northwick Park Hospital and
clinical network lead for psychological medicine at Central and North West
London NHS Foundation Trust. He was a member of the NHS England Mental Health
Crisis Care Subgroup which developed London’s Section 136 Pathway and Health
Based Place of Safety Specification and is leading the introduction of the
Framework for Routine Outcome Measurement in Liaison Psychiatry at CNWL; James
Hughes is a liaison psychiatry team manager at St Mary’s Hospital; Genevieve
Holt is a clinical fellow in liaison psychiatry at Northwick Park Hospital.




DR EMMA TIFFIN



Dr Emma Tiffin has worked in mental health clinical leadership roles for over 15
years. Most recently she has focused on developing a sustainable integrated
community-based service model for planned and unplanned mental health care. The
model includes a First Response Crisis Mental Health Service with local
sanctuaries and a Primary Service for Mental Health (PRISM) which brings
together specialist mental health (including IAPT), primary care and community
services. She is a national adviser for the NICE programme of work developing a
national community mental health pathway.

Dr Tiffin is a practising GP in Peterborough and has a weekly radio show, Health
Matters, on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. In 2016 she was awarded Health Education
England’s East of England Leadership Award for Service Improvement and
Innovation. The First Response Service won the Positive Practice Mental Health
Award for acute/crisis care last October and in November Dr Tiffin was a
runner-up for GP of the Year at the General Practice Awards. She was awarded
Healthcare Leader of the Year at the 2017 national GP awards.




AMY TINKER



Amy Tinker works as Senior Commissioning Manager for Salford City Council. She
specialises in projects that focus on neuro-diversity and mental health for
children, young people and families.




PETER TINSON



Chief Operating Officer NHS Fylde and Wyre Clinical Commissioning Group.

Peter has extensive commissioning experience across Lancashire and Merseyside
and, prior to his appointment at the clinical commissioning group (CCG), was a
CCG deputy chief officer. He has undertaken a wide range of senior commissioning
roles across primary, community, secondary and tertiary services, including the
successful negotiation of large and complex contracts, and the development of
new primary and community service models and associated capital builds.




SALLY, TOBACCO DEPENDENCY TREATMENT ADVISER



Sally is a Tobacco Dependency Treatment Adviser and has been working at
Rotherham General Hospital, South Yorkshire for two years. She began working as
a healthcare support worker during the peak of the pandemic and now supports
patients and staff to live healthier lives by helping them to stop smoking.




DEBORAH TOMALIN



Deborah took up the role of NHS England Director of Public Health Commissioning
and Operations in April 2019, having worked previously as the Director of
Commissioning in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Local Office of NHS England (South
East Region) which included primary care and public health. Deborah is
responsible for the commissioning and operations of the Section 7a services in
England – screening (cancer and non-cancer), immunisation and Child Health
Information Services. Underpinning successful delivery of all these services is
digital technology and Deborah works very closely with NHSX and NHSD.

Deborah started working for NHS England in April 2013 as Associate Director
South East Coast Strategic Clinical Networks & Clinical Senate creating 4
strategic clinical networks and a clinical senate for Kent, Surrey and Sussex
and then became Director of Commissioning in 2014, which at that time also
covered specialised commissioning.

Prior to NHS England, Deborah spent over 16 years setting up and managing
“clinical networks” in the NHS starting with the Sussex Cancer Network in 1999
and moving by 2010 to directing one team running 14 networks.

Deborah started working in the NHS over 37 years ago training to be a nurse,
completing a BSc in Nursing Studies at St Georges Hospital/Kings College (KQC)
as one of the first nurse graduates, and I then held a variety of nursing posts
in London, moved into clinical research trials and then honed this interest in
research working first at the Royal College of Nursing and then the Nursing
Research Unit at Kings College. In 1992, Deborah moved to Brighton Health Care
to establish a clinical audit function and then clinical risk management systems
with a spell as Assistant Director of Quality.




DR ALISON TONKIN



Dr Alison Tonkin is Head of Higher Education and Access at Stanmore College.

Follow Alison on Twitter: @TonkinAlison.




LAURA TOOLEY



Laura Tooley brings 27 years of healthcare experience to her current NHS England
role of Quality Improvement Programme Lead.

Her deep passion for palliative care and the ‘person in the patient’ was ignited
during her student nurse training in the 1980’s.

Having held many clinical and healthcare leadership roles, including executive
director of a palliative care community interest company, Laura is now relishing
the challenge of working with others to consider the needs of the West Midlands
population as a whole.

An advocate of the power of ‘human’ leadership and mobilising others for change,
Laura is a student of the School for Health and Care Radicals and the Nye Bevan
Programme – Leading Care III, NHS Leadership Academy.




SUE TRANKA



Sue Tranka is the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for Patient Safety and Innovation
at NHS England and Improvement.

Sue has 28 years of experience in nursing and has spent the last 21 years
working in the National Health service. Sue trained as a midwife, registered
general nurse, mental heath and community nurse. Sue’s career spans both
operational and clinical leadership roles. Her passion for patient safety and
quality improvement culminated in her establishing and leading a Critical Care
Outreach team in a North London hospital. Sue‘s nurse consultant and leadership
roles have predominantly focussed in the safety arena. Sue has a strong interest
in quality improvement, human factors and safety systems.

More recently she has held a Board level role as a Chief Nurse in a provider
organisation. Sue currently holds an honorary visiting professor role with
University of Surrey and has established a link with Staffordshire University as
a professional advisor on Human Factors programme.




VICTORIA TREADWAY



Victoria Treadway, MA, MCLIP, has worked in NHS library and knowledge services
since 2004, working alongside healthcare professionals and teams to understand
their knowledge requirements and deliver accessible and responsive library and
knowledge services.

She is currently Knowledge Management Facilitator at NHS RightCare. Victoria is
undertaking research to explore the role of the embedded librarian in supporting
healthcare professionals, patients and families in Critical Care.

Her professional interests include informal networks (such as communities of
practice) and demonstrating the impact of library and knowledge services.




DUNCAN TREE



Duncan Tree is Head of Policy and Performance at Volunteering Matters, the
national volunteering charity with more than 52 years’ experience in developing
and promoting citizen led volunteering initiatives which improve health and care
outcomes.

Volunteers have always been at the heart of person centred, quality health care.
Volunteering Matters (formerly CSV), is committed to demonstrating and promoting
the importance in improving health and care outcomes. Our work and that of our
partners in the volunteer involving sector continues to illustrate the positive
impact of (and the need for investment in) volunteering as an essential element
of our health and care system.




DR ANDREW TRESIDDER



Dr Andrew Tresidder is practitioner health south-west clinical lead, a GP
educator, Somerset clinical commissioning group GP patient safety lead and GP
appraiser.




JOHN TREVAINS



John Trevains is a Mental Health Nurse who joined the NHS England Learning
Disability Programme in July. Prior to this he has held a range of posts across
health and social care settings over a 22 year long career.




MARK TREWIN



Mark Trewin is the Service Manager for Mental Health at Bradford Metropolitan
District Council.

He was co-chair of the local Crisis Care Concordat Implementation Group and
represents social care at the West Yorkshire Mental Health Sustainability and
Transformation Plans Group.

Mark is NHS England’s Social Care and Social Work Expert Advisor and the Joint
Special Interest Group Lead for Social Care and Social Work with the Positive
Practice Collaborative for Mental Health. Follow Mark on Twitter at @markybt.




MATT TULL



Matt Tull is a 26 year old with Type 1 diabetes, who was diagnosed just after
his twelfth birthday. He works for a social enterprise in Hackney and lives in
Brixton in South London.




KAREN TURNER



Karen Turner was appointed Director of Mental Health for NHS England in July
2015 to provide leadership and oversight of mental health in the NHS – a
priority for NHS England. Before this she worked for over 30 years in health:
her career has included time in hospitals, health and local authorities, regions
and the Department of Health where she worked in the Teenage Pregnancy Unit and
on children’s and mental health policy.




LIESJE TURNER



Liesje Turner is an HR professional with 21 years of experience in the public
and private sector, spanning national and international industries including
engineering, oil and gas and health, police and local authority.

She joined UHMBT in May 2017 on a two-year secondment as the Assistant Director
of Workforce, to enhance professional and leadership development. Her role
covers three main areas:

o Inclusion and diversity – leading the Trusts inclusion work from a workforce
perspective
o Staff survey – preparing for and appropriately responding to the survey ,
making improvements to our approach and developing better alignment between
staff survey and the people strategy
o Behavioural Standards Framework (BSF) – taking forward the internally
developed approach (developed by staff for staff), adopted as the Trust-wide
initiative to facilitate cultural transformation journey

Her previous roles have included Equality and Inclusion Lead, Head of HR
Business Partnering, Workforce Planning Lead and Expatriate Liaison Advisor.

Recent contributions to the inclusion agenda have included hosting the inaugural
NHS Employers Equality Partners Alumni event; the co-ordination of a BME
conference in March 2018 headlined by Yvonne Coghill OBE; the achievement of
being placed 8th in the UK’s Top 50 most inclusive employers; guest speaker at
the 2017/18 NHS Employers Equality Partners Programme; the co-ordination and
delivery of a multi-agency conference as part of EQW 2018 which focussed on
Homelessness, Dementia and Intersectionality.




IAIN UPTON



Iain Upton is a Patient Representative on the Integrated Urgent Care Workforce
Development Programme.

He served as an Officer in the Royal Navy for 34 years before his medical
discharge in 2015 following naso-pharyngeal cancer. Significant
radiotherapy-induced nerve damage leaving Iain unable to speak, see, or swallow
properly.

He joined the Navy at 17, trained as an engineer and worked across an enviable
array of employment fields – systems engineering at sea to workforce and
resource planning.

Despite his recent disabilities, Iain injects the patient perspective into all
levels of healthcare. Passionate about communication, he has also set up his own
business to train presentation skills, as well as speaking himself wherever he
can to whoever will listen.




PROFESSOR JONATHAN VALABHJI



Professor Jonathan Valabhji is National Clinical Director for Diabetes and
Obesity at NHS England. He is Consultant Diabetologist at Imperial College
Healthcare NHS Trust and Professor of Practice (Diabetes) at Imperial College
London. As well as a practicing clinician and researcher, he established and
leads the NHS England Diabetes and Obesity Programmes, with a broad portfolio of
national work streams focusing on lifestyle interventions, clinical care, and
technological support for diabetes self-management.

As National Clinical Director, he has led rapid translation of high-quality
diabetes research into national policy and practice and has established models
for evaluation to assess translational impact. He successfully made the case
for, and led implementation of, the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, the NHS
flagship prevention programme. By 2018 England became the first country to
achieve universal population coverage with an evidence-based Type 2 diabetes
prevention programme, with over one million people now referred in, and latest
evidence suggesting reduced Type 2 diabetes incidence in both programme
participants and at population level associated with programme implementation.
He qualified in 1990 from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, London, and
in 2019 was awarded OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List for services to
diabetes and obesity care.




ROLAND VALORI



Roland Valori qualified as a doctor in 1976. He has been a Consultant
Gastroenterologist in Gloucestershire since 1993. He has had an interest in
achieving better value for money of health care services for 20 years. In 1999
he wrote an MSc thesis on implementing best care across the primary/secondary
care interface

Roland was National Clinical Director for Endoscopy from 2003 to 2013. In
recognition of impact he was awarded ‘NHS Change Leader of the Year’ in the
first National NHS Leadership Awards (2009). He was the National Clinical
Advisor to the English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme from 2006 to 2013.

In 2011 Roland was appointed Clinical Director for Service Accreditation in the
Royal College of Physicians of London. He currently leads the Clinical Services
Accreditation Alliance, a coalition of medical and other health professional
organisations developing a strategy for more widespread accreditation of
clinical services.

Roland has been a user of MSK services on several occasions during the last 11
years.




DR ROBERT VARNAM



Dr Robert Varnam PhD MSc MRCGP is the Head of General Practice Development at
NHS England and a GP in a large inner city practice in Rusholme, Manchester.

Robert has been involved in leading service improvement and clinical governance
within his practice, in the local area and nationally. He previously held roles
in the PCT and practice based commissioning group, and was clinical lead for
practice accreditation at the Royal College of General Practitioners.

His research work at the University of Manchester covered both epidemiological
and sociological approaches to understanding quality and patient safety in
primary care. He was involved in introducing new research governance procedures
at the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre.

At the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, Robert was involved in the
establishment of novel development programmes for primary care staff, to build
practices’ ability to improve safety, quality and productivity.

Robert co-chaired the NHS Future Forum’s work on integrated care. He has been
involved in the development of clinically led commissioning, including
frameworks for authorising and supporting CCGs. He helped to establish the Royal
College of GPs’ Centre for Commissioning and the NHS Institute’s development
programmes for CCGs, and created NHS Improving Quality’s transformational change
programme. He has provided advice on large scale change for policymakers and
healthcare leaders from Birmingham to British Columbia.

Robert joined NHS England in 2013, with responsibility for developing policies
and programmes to promote, support and sustain innovation and improvement in
general practice. His aim is to make it easier for practices to make care more
proactive and coordinated, holistic and person-centred, with fast and responsive
access, effective health promotion and consistently high quality.




PAUL VAUGHAN



Paul works with NHS England as Director of Nursing, Transformation. Currently,
the focus of his role is on general practice nursing and the delivery of the GPN
Ten Point Plan. Paul also leads a national initiative on the perception of
nursing and midwifery.

Paul was a Regional Director with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Leading
and managing RCN services in the West Midlands, Paul worked with key
stakeholders to ensure the needs of RCN members within the region were met and
the interests of nurses, HCAs and nursing were promoted and protected.

Engaging members in the work of the RCN was a key focus for Paul. Through his
conception and delivery of the Local Learning Event Programme (branch
engagement) and the Cultural Ambassadors Programme (addressing concerns of BME
members with the disciplinary and grievance process) the region gained a
reputation for listening to members and working with them to deliver positive
change.

Paul has also been the RCN’s HCA Adviser, offering advice to HCAs, Assistant
Practitioners (AP) and employers on issues relating to the employment and
development of these roles. He also made a significant contribution to the
development of the HCA role in general practice through his role as the National
Project Manager with the Working in Partnership Programmes (WiPP), Health Care
Assistant Initiative.

Last year, Paul completed a Masters in Management with the University of
Liverpool and his dissertation focused on the factors that enable nursing staff
to raise concerns in their workplace.




LUCY VERASAMY



Lucy Verasamy is a meteorologist and weather presenter.

She started her career at Meteogroup, Europe’s biggest private weather company,
where she stayed for five years before joining Sky’s breakfast show Sunrise.

In 2010, Lucy then joined ITV’s Breakfast programme before moving to cover the
weather for ITV news and News at Ten where she is a regular on our TV screens.




PROFESSOR MARTIN J VERNON



Professor Martin Vernon was appointed National Clinical Director for Older
People and Person Centred Integrated Care at NHS England in 2016.

He qualified in 1988 in Manchester and following training in the North West he
moved to East London to train in Geriatric Medicine where he also acquired an MA
in Medical Ethics and Law from King’s College. He returned to Manchester in 1999
to take up post as Consultant Geriatrician building community geriatrics
services in South Manchester.

Martin was Associate Medical Director for NHS Manchester in 2010 and more
recently Clinical Champion for frail older people and integrated care In Greater
Manchester. He has been the British Geriatrics Society Champion for End of Life
Care for five years and was a standing member of the NICE Indicators Committee.

In 2015 Martin moved to Central Manchester where he is Consultant Geriatrician
and Associate Head of Division for Medicine and Community Services. He also
holds Honorary Academic Posts at Manchester and Salford Universities and was
appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Chester in 2016.

In 2017 he became Chair of the NHS England Hospital to Home Programme Board and
is working on National Frailty Care with NHS Improvement.




RUSSELL VINER



Russell Viner, President of the RCPCH since March 2018, is Professor of
Adolescent Health at the UCL Institute of Child Health in London and a
paediatrician and adolescent physician working with young people with diabetes
at University College Hospital. He directs the Department of Health Obesity
Policy Research Unit.

Russell set up the first Adolescent Medicine service in the UK and went on to
become the UK’s first Professor of Adolescent Health, helping lead a new focus
on adolescent healthcare in the UK and Europe. He has acted as an advisor on
adolescent health and obesity for the Departments of Health and for Education in
England and for the World Health Organisation and Unicef internationally.

His research focuses on population health, policy and health services for
children and young people, with a particular focus on obesity. He has published
over 200 peer reviewed papers and is currently named on research grants with a
collective value of more than £20 million.

Russell Viner has significant ‘hands-on’ experience within the NHS, having been
Clinical Director in a busy teaching hospital and clinical director for children
and young people for the NHS across London, responsible for leading healthcare
strategy for London’s two million children and young people.




PARDEEP VIRDI



Pardeep Virdi is a high intensity therapist working in Redbridge Improving
Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service in Essex.

He began his career as a teacher in 1992 before starting to train part time in
mental health and stress management in 1999.
From 2009 – 2011 he studied part-time for an MSc in Applied Positive psychology,
and in 2012 – 2014 for an MSc in Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioural
therapy.

Pardeep worked voluntarily for mental health charities to gain experience in
mental health before in 2015 securing role as high intensity therapist via KSA
route at Redbridge IAPT service and started working towards BABCP accreditation
which he gained in 2018.

He says his career highlights always include seeing people become the best
versions of themselves, whether this is a teacher delivering an outstanding
lesson, a student gaining the grades they need for the next stage of their
career or a service user who has overcome their emotional challenges.




EMMA WADEY



Emma Wadey RN MH, Head of Mental Health Nursing, NHS England and NHS
Improvement.

Emma is a mental health nurse with over 20 years’ experience across a wide range
of health, emergency care and criminal justice settings. Maintaining clinical
practice throughout her career has always been a priority and Emma continues to
work as a consultant nurse in a local psychiatric liaison service. With lived
experience of the impact of suicide she has focused her clinical work on the
treatment of complex trauma, self-harm and suicidality.

An early adopter of recovery-based approaches to suicidal behaviours, Emma
co-produced teaching packages on how to support and treat those with suicidality
and helped develop the first ever suicide prevention app, StayAlive. More
recently she contributed to the development of the competency framework for
self-harm and suicide as part of the expert advisory group, is a national
clinical adviser for the Mental Health Service Improvement Programme and
clinical lead for the National Nurse Retention Programme.

In the throes of a mid-life crisis Emma took up marathon running and is pursing
completion of all six of the Abbots World Major Marathon series. With four
completed already she is taking 2020 as a year off to build some speed!




JENNIE WALKER



Jennie Walker joined NHS England in March 2016 and is currently the Assistant
Head of Patient Choice in the Personalisation and Choice Group.

Jennie is the lead on the Maternity Choice and Personalisation Pioneers who are
focused on widening choice across CCG boundaries and deepening choice by
providing opportunities for new providers; empowering women to take control
through Personal Maternity Care Budgets (PMCBs); and enabling women to make
decisions about the care that they receive.

Jennie is a solicitor with experience working with personalisation in social
care through her previous role at the Independent Living Fund. She also has a
Masters in Public Administration.




ALAN WALKER



Alan Walker is Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the
University of Sheffield. Previously Director of the 10 year UK research
programme The New Dynamics of Ageing and several major European collaborations
on ageing.




SARAH WALKER



Sarah Walker has worked at the Westongrove Partnership, a forward thinking,
three site, Primary Care Home and training practice in Buckinghamshire, for 15
years.

She started out as practice administration manager for Bedgrove Surgery in 2006,
before taking on the role of operations manager and becoming Operations and
Development Manager in 2017.

Sarah has worked with NHS England on the development of the calculating quality
reporting service (CQRS), as well as various projects within the local clinical
commissioning group. She is also chair of the local managers’ group, a member of
the Bucks CCG Integrated Team steering group and a trustee of the Friends of
Bedgrove Surgery.




KATIE WALKIN



Katie Walkin joined NHS England in April 2014 and is currently a Project
Delivery Manager in the Long Term Conditions (children and adults) Unit, working
to improve the quality of life and end of life care for people with long term
conditions and their carers.

She is taking a lead on healthy ageing and fire health projects. Katie has led
on co-producing NHS England’s ‘A practical guide to healthy ageing’ and has been
a part of the long term conditions engagement strategy.

The first six years of her working life began in McDonalds where she ran a £1.7
million per annum restaurant for the company.

Katie has a degree in Psychology and a Post Graduate Certificate in Mental
Health Law.

She started her NHS career in a Mental Health Trust and worked for four and a
half years as a Mental Health Act Manager, having the responsibility for the
execution of all duties and acts carried out by the Trust in relation to the
Mental Health Act (1983), including ensuring that the grounds for detaining
patients were valid and legal in protecting patient rights.




ED WALLER



Ed Waller is the Director for Primary Care Strategy and NHS Contracts, leading
for NHS England and NHS Improvement on GP contract arrangements.




JEREMY WALSH



Jeremy Walsh was appointed SLP Director in January 2018, having previously
worked at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust as Head of
Service Delivery for forensic, specialist and national services, and CAMHS.

He is a qualified social worker and holds a Doctorate in Social Work, with a
research specialism in the relationships between mental health professionals and
carers, family and friends.

Jeremy has led a wide range of mental health and social care services within
local authorities and the NHS.

As SLP Director he leads work across programmes including Forensic, CAMHS and
Complex Care.




KEVIN WALSH



Kevin Walsh has been an active Rotarian since 1991 and had the “Journey of a
Lifetime” as District Governor for Rotary in Cumbria & Lancashire in 2013/14.
One of 530 Governors around the world he was proud to have been given the
opportunity to support Rotarians and Clubs doing good in their local and
international communities.

Between 2014 and 2017 Kevin project managed a Rotary Foundation Global Grant
providing capital investment for First Response activity in Cumbria &
Lancashire. Equipment was provided for Mountain Rescue Teams and over 35
Community Public Access Defibrillators were installed.

Community Health Melas were also successfully introduced in Carlisle and
Carnforth. It is this personal interest and practical experience that has found
him involved in a range of Health & Wellbeing activities in North Cumbria.

Kevin also uses his Vocational skills as a Trustee of Age UK Carlisle and Eden,
as Chairman of the Carlisle Dementia Action Alliance and as a Trustee of the
Cumbria Community Foundation and Chairman of the Grants panel.




CATHERINE WALSHE



Catherine Walshe is Professor of Palliative Care at the International
Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University.

Catherine has a background in palliative care nursing, working in the NHS for
many years, including haematology at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, HIV
care for Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, and then a number
of community roles in District Nursing in Brighton and Hove, and as a Community
Macmillan Nurse in Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust.

Her research draws from this practice background, exploring ways of providing
palliative care more effectively.

Catherine is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Palliative Medicine, and a board
member of the European Association of Palliative Care. She tweets as @cewalshe




SAM WARD



Sam Ward is the Director of Commissioned Services for Royal Voluntary Service,
one of the country’s largest volunteering organisations.

She provides the strategic direction for service provision supporting people to
age well and for the charity’s work within the NHS, supporting those in critical
life events.

Sam is also responsible for our Services Welfare work, a legacy service which
provides much needed help to young personnel in Britain’s Armed Forces.
Since joining the charity in 2000, Sam has had a number of roles at the charity
from managing projects for community development and change to overseeing
portfolios within the charity’s hospital retail estate.




HARRIET WARD



Harriet Ward has worked in Trusts across South East England since joining the
NHS through the Graduate Management Training Scheme in 2010, and has been in
Paediatrics since 2014.

Her role as the South East England Paediatric Network Manager is to work with Dr
Marilyn McDougall, Clinical Director, to design and deliver the network
programme.

This includes developing the strategy and deciding on the individual work areas
the network will focus on. Together they are recruiting the programme team and
ensuring patient and parent voices are captured.




DR BRUCE WARNER



Dr Bruce Warner, Deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England, works closely
with the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer on the strategic and operational
development of medicines policy for NHS England.

Prior to this post, Bruce worked as Deputy Director of Patient Safety at the
National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) and in NHS England where he led on the
strategy for patient safety improvement and headed up the patient safety advice
and guidance function.

Bruce has worked in most sectors of pharmacy including community, hospital,
academia and at a PCG/T. He is also a visiting Professor of Pharmacy Practice at
the University of Huddersfield.




SCOTT WATKIN



Scott Watkin works for SeeAbility as a Senior Learning Disabilities Advisor and
is a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire working with the
learning disability nurses. Since October 2015 Scott has also been co-chair of
the Transforming Care Assurance Board to help reduce the number of people with a
learning disability staying in hospital.

Scott won the making a difference award at the national learning disabilities
awards in 2017 and represents organisations and professionals on the
representative body for Learning Disability England.




VICKI WATSON



Vicki Watson is a Specialist Public Health Dietician, with The Nutrition Team,
Nottingham CityCare Partnership.




DR NIGEL WATSON



Dr Nigel Watson MBBS FRCGP is Managing Partner in a large practice in the New
Forest and been a GP for 30 years. Chair of the New Forest MCP and joint CEO of
Hampshire MCP, New Forest MCP covers a population of 110,000 and has 11
practices. Hampshire now has 17 localities and covers a population of close to
1,000,000.

Chief Executive Wessex LMCs, the LMC represents 3000 GPs working in 500
practices in Bath & NE Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Swindon and
Wiltshire.

Hampshire and Isle of White representative on the BMA’s General Practitioner
Committee. Member of the Board of Health Education WESSEX LMCs. Member of the
Board of the Wessex Clinical Senate. Member of the National Advisory Committee
of the Voluntary MCP Contract.




CHRISTIE WATSON



Writer Christie Watson was a registered nurse for twenty years. She spent much
of her career in paediatric intensive care in large London teaching hospitals
before becoming a resuscitation officer, which involved teaching and clinical
work on hospital-wide crash teams.

Christie now writes full time. Her first novel, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, won the
Costa First Novel Award and her second novel, Where Women Are Kings was also
published to international critical acclaim. Her latest work, The Language Of
Kindness is non-fiction and explores her life as a nurse. Christie’s books have
been translated into twenty languages. She is based in London and is working on
new non-fiction as well as a television series about nursing.




LOUISE WATSON



Louise joined the new care models programme in 2015 as the national lead for the
multi-speciality community provider (MCP) care model.

In June 2017, she became the Director of the new care models programme and is
leading on the implementation of the new care models outlined in the NHS Five
Year Forward View.

Louise has over 20 years’ experience working in the NHS. During that time she
has held Board level roles spanning both health commissioners and providers.




DR NICK WATTS



Dr Nick Watts is the Chief Sustainability Officer of the NHS, responsible for
its commitment to deliver a world-class net zero emission health service. Based
in London, he leads the Greener NHS team across the country, which focuses on
improving the health of patients and the public through a robust and accelerated
response to climate change and the broader sustainability agenda.

Nick is a medical doctor licensed in Australia and the UK, and has trained
population health and public policy. He is a Member by Distinction of the Royal
College of Physicians’ Faculty of Public Health, and an Honorary Associate
Professor of University College London’s Institute for Global Health.

Prior to the National Health Service, Nick worked internationally as the
Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown and the Lancet Commission on Health
and Climate Change, a collaboration of UN agencies and academic centres across
the world. He has also focused on engaging the health profession on the links
between public health and climate change, having founded both the Global Climate
and Health Alliance and the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change.




ANDY WEAVER



Andy is the Assistant Head of Analysis in the Chief Data and Analytics Officer
directorate of NHS England.

Andy has worked in analytical roles across various sectors and organisations for
over 20 years. He joined NHS England in 2017 undertaking modelling, data
development, analytical and evaluation work, much of it aligned to national
programmes. This has included supporting initiatives on Diabetes, Cardio
Vascular Disease and Respiratory Disease framed by the NHS Long Term Plan, and
more recently with the Personalised Care and Healthcare Inequalities Improvement
programmes. During COVID – as with many colleagues – his focus turned to the
NHS’s pandemic response, leading analysis of the association between diabetes
and COVID mortality and establishing the NHS Volunteer Responder scheme




DAVID WEBB



David Webb is the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England, having previously
been Chief Pharmacist and Clinical Director for Pharmacy and Medicines
Optimisation at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. He is a member of NHS
England Medical Directorate’s senior management team, the UK Government Chief
Medical Officer’s senior clinical group, Head of the Pharmacy Professions in
England and the principal advisor on pharmacy and medicines use in the NHS,
which includes supporting the Department of Health and Social Care. 




SAM WEBB



Sam Webb has shared his experiences of living with Type 1 diabetes to mark World
Diabetes Day.




JO WEBSTER



Jo Webster joined Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) as Chief Officer
in 2012 when the CCGs were established following the Health and Social Care Act
in 2012, replacing Primary Care Trusts. Before then she worked at Doncaster
Central PCT fulfilling various leadership roles, including commissioning cancer
services. Other leadership roles include working in a senior leadership role for
Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority.

In her current role, Jo is responsible for the CCG’s planning and commissioning
of health services for Wakefield. In January 2018, she also became Strategic
Lead for Health and Care Transformation and Integration for Wakefield Council.
This gives her overall responsibility for integrating health and care
commissioning for the whole of the district.

Jo is a member of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership
System Executive Leadership Group who work together across all health care
sectors to transform and improve services for the 2.6million people living in
this large area.

Passionate about delivering quality care closer to home; Jo has initiated award
winning programmes of work such as ‘Connecting Care Wakefield’ which has
received national recognition for innovative partnership working and piloting
new initiatives with care homes.

With a background in front line care services, Jo’s ultimate goal is to make
sure everyone in Wakefield, West Yorkshire and Harrogate has a great start in
life, and receives the support they need to stay healthy and live longer.

Jo is married, has two grown up daughters and very proud to live and work in
Yorkshire.




ROB WEBSTER



Rob joined South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as Chief
Executive in May 2016 and is responsible for leading the organisation and its
4,600 staff. Rob is also the Lead Chief Executive for West Yorkshire & Harrogate
Health and Care Partnership; this sees him bringing together West Yorkshire
health and care leaders, organisations and communities to develop local plans
for improved health, care and finances.

He has worked in healthcare since 1990, taking on national leadership roles in
the NHS Confederation and the Department of Health on policy, transformation and
delivery. He has also been a Director for both the Prime Minister’s Delivery
Unit in the Cabinet Office and a national public/private partnership.

Rob has been a successful Chief Executive in the NHS, running commissioning
organisations and providers of NHS services. He has chaired formal Cancer,
Primary Care, Community Trust and Learning Disability Networks. He has a history
of effective partnership working and a strong commitment to system leadership.

Rob is a visiting Professor at Leeds Beckett University and was proud to be made
a Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute in 2014. In May 2016, he became an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Follow Rob
@nhs_robw




PROFESSOR BRIAN J WEBSTER-HENDERSON



Brian Webster-Henderson is the Pro Vice Chancellor (Health) at the University of
Cumbria and a Professor of Nursing. He is the Chair of the Council of Deans of
Health UK, the organisation that represents all 85 Universities across the UK
who deliver nursing, midwifery and allied health education and research. Brian
is both a mental health and an adult nurse and went straight into nursing from
leaving school. He is an adjunct Professor at the John Hopkins University
Baltimore and a frequent speaker to national and international audiences. Brian
holds degrees in politics, advanced practice and education and has worked in
several Universities across the UK in a range of leadership positions.




PROFESSOR BEE WEE



Professor Bee Wee CBE, National Clinical Director for End of Life Care, NHS
England and NHS Improvement.

Bee is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Sobell House and Katharine House
Hospice, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Associate
Professor at University of Oxford, where she is also a Fellow of Harris
Manchester College.

Originally from Malaysia, Bee qualified from Trinity College Dublin in 1988,
trained in general practice in Dublin, then moved into palliative medicine in
Ireland, Hong Kong and the UK. She was Consultant/Senior Lecturer at Countess
Mountbatten House, Southampton (1995-2003), where she became Deputy Director of
Education, School of Medicine at the University. She was President of the
Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland (2010-13),
National Clinical Lead for e-ELCA, a DH-commissioned e-learning programme for
end of life care, now hosted by Health Education England, and Chair of the Topic
Expert Group for the NICE Quality Standard for End of Life Care (2011). She
enjoys cooking and allotment gardening for relaxation.

Bee is Honorary Professor at Sichuan University, China, and holds an Honorary
Doctorate of Science at Oxford Brookes University. As NCD, she led the
Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People and is co-chair of the National
Partnership for Palliative and End of Life Care which was responsible for
publishing the ‘Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: a national
framework for local action’ in 2015. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New
Year’s Honours list in 2020 for services to palliative and end of life care.




KAREN WEEKS



Karen Weeks is the creator ElderWellness.net, a resource for seniors who wish to
keep their minds, bodies, and spirits well.




DAN WELLINGS



Dan Wellings leads NHS England’s Insight and Feedback Team, which oversees how
the NHS collects experience and outcome data from patients, including national
surveys such as CPES. Prior to joining NHS England, Dan was Head of Public
Health Research at Ipsos MORI, working in the Social Research Institute. Dan has
a Masters in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine and is a Senior Associate of the Nuffield Trust.




CHRISSIE WELLINGTON



Chrissie Wellington OBE is Global Head of Health and Wellbeing for Parkrun and
is also four-time Ironman World Champion.

Chrissie was awarded a first-class degree by the University of Birmingham (BsC
Geography) and a Distinction from the University of Manchester (MA Econ
Development Studies).

Prior to becoming a professional athlete in 2007, she worked for the British
Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) as a
policy adviser on international development and also managed water and
sanitation projects in Nepal.

She published her Sunday Times Best Selling autobiography, A Life Without
Limits, in 2012, and To the Finish Line: A World Champion Triathlete’s Guide to
Your Perfect Race, in 2017.

Chrissie was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the
2010 Birthday Honours and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in
the 2016 New Year Honours for services to sport and charity.




LILLIE WENZEL



Lillie Wenzel joined The King’s Fund as a Fellow in the policy team in August
2014. Her work at the Fund has included a joint project with the Health
Foundation on a transformation fund for the NHS, and the development of
integrated commissioning options to build on the work of the Barker Commission
on the future of health and social care. Lillie is currently working on a
project exploring the impact of financial pressures in the NHS on patients’
access to quality care.

Before joining the Fund Lillie worked in the health team within
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ advisory practice, where she supported NHS organisations
on a range of assignments including public procurement projects, organisational
and commercial change and strategy development projects. While at PwC, Lillie
spent 18 months on a secondment to the Department of Health’s NHS Group where
she worked on provider policy.




JACOB WEST



Jacob West is a national lead for NHS England’s New Care Models team. Jacob’s
background is in public policy and health management. Prior to joining NHS
England, he was strategy director at King’s College Hospital. From 2003 to 2010
Jacob worked in a number of roles at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit,
ultimately as acting director. He advised two Prime Ministers on public policy
in a range of areas including health, criminal justice, and education. He has
also worked as a senior policy advisor to the Premier in Queensland, Australia.
Jacob was 2014-15 Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice at the
Harvard School of Public Health and remains an advisor to the Harvard Global
Health Institute.




DR JO WHALEY



Jo Whaley (she, her, they) is the Senior Public Engagement Manager for Learning
Disability and Autism in NHS England and Improvement.

She leads the Learning Disability and Autism Engagement team, in the Public
Participation team. They work closely with the Learning Disability and Autism
programme. The team aims to support the health system listen to, and work with,
people with a learning disability and autistic people in order to reduce health
inequalities. Find out more about the work of the Learning Disability and Autism
Engagement team:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/learning-disabilities/about/get-involved/

Until 2015, Jo worked in the voluntary and community sector, linking policy
makers and commissioners with charities in health and social care. She is also a
trustee at Skills for People in Newcastle. Jo is passionate about equality and
diversity and her career focuses on health equality.




DR EMMA WHICHER



Dr Emma Whicher has worked for South West & St George’s Mental Health Trust as a
consultant psychiatrist in addictions since 2006 and was appointed as Medical
Director in 2012.

She has held a number of specialist roles in the community drug and alcohol
teams in Richmond and Kingston, as well as working in the Rowan and Heather
patient wards at Springfield University Hospital.

Emma studied medicine at Cambridge University and St Mary’s Imperial College,
London.

She worked as a junior doctor in Australia and was a psychiatry trainee in Leeds
before moving to the Trust.

As Medical Director her focus is the quality of care delivered to service users
and their families, she is also the Trust’s Responsible Officer for the
revalidation doctors. Her clinical practice remains within the Trust’s addiction
services.

She is also the Clinical Lead for Healthy London Partnership’s Mental Health
Crisis Care Programme.




JACQUIE WHITE



Jacquie White is NHS England’s Director of System Development for Primary Care
and System Transformation.

She has over 15 years’ experience of working in and supporting health and social
care teams to improve the quality of services for and with their local
population.

Having started her career in fund holding in a small rural general practice,
Jacquie has worked across the public sector at a local, regional and national
level.

She has significant experience of both commissioning and provider development
and of supporting teams to integrate care across organisational boundaries.




THOMAS WHITELAW



Thomas Whitelaw is the UK Project Engagement Lead – Dementia Carer Voices.

For five years he was a full-time carer for his late mother, Joan, who had
Vascular Dementia, and in 2011 Tommy undertook a walk around Scotland’s towns
and cities to collect hundreds of life story letters detailing the experiences
of individuals caring for a loved one living with dementia.

Since then, he has engaged with thousands of carers through his ‘Tommy on Tour’
blog and as UK Project Engagement Lead with the Health and Social Care
Alliance’s Dementia Carer Voices Project, conducting frequent talks to health
and social care professionals and carer organisations across Scotland, to raise
awareness of the impact of dementia on families and the importance of empowering
carers in carrying out their difficult but vital role.

Tommy’s passion for his work and the Dementia Carer Voices Project has not gone
unnoticed. He was the winner of the ‘Age Scotland Jess Barrow Award’ in 2013;
Finalist Campaigner of the year 2013 for ‘The Herald Scottish Politician of the
Year Awards’, won the NHSGGC Chairman’s Ambassador Award 2013 and in 2015, Tommy
was awarded the ‘British Citizen’s Medal for Services to Healthcare’ in
recognition of his work to raise awareness of dementia and promote a fuller
understanding of the carer journey.

Tommy was shortlisted as a finalist for the Kate Granger awards 2016 and
received an Honorary Master of the Open University for Health, Social Care,
Education and Policy making influence.

Groups and boards Tommy represents the project and the ALLIANCE on are: Fair for
all Board Member North Ayrshire Council, Girvan Community Hospital Dementia
Friendly Steering Group Member, Member of Scottish Government Dementia Strategy
2016-2019 Expert Advisory Group and NHS Education Scotland Promoting Excellence
Dementia Programme Board Member.




ANDY WHITFIELD



Dr Andy Whitfield is Chair and Clinical Lead of NHS North East Hampshire and
Farnham Clinical Commissioning Group.

He has been a GP for 24 years after completing his medical degree at Sheffield
University in 1985. Andy was initially a partner in a GP training practice in
Surrey before leaving in 2004 to take over a GP practice in Farnborough,
Hampshire.

He has been involved in commissioning of one form or another since the existence
of primary care groups around 14 years ago.

Andy is passionate about ensuring patients have access to the most appropriate
care in the most appropriate place.




RICHARD WHITTINGTON



Richard Whittington joined LOCSU as assistant director, commissioning, in June
2016 from the NHS and was appointed as chief operating officer in November 2016.

He is an experienced CCG director and acute trust director with extensive
commissioning and service redesign experience. He led the initial commissioning
of primary care ophthalmic service across a range of South East London primary
care trusts and clinical commissioning groups.

Richard has worked in and across all healthcare and care sectors and has
expertise in service change, organisational change and commissioning service
delivery. Throughout his career, Richard has delivered real service change with
measurable patient benefits and, as such, has a proven record of delivery across
QIPP programmes.




DR ADRIAN WHITTINGTON



Adrian is the National Clinical Lead for the Psychological Professions at NHS
England and Health Education England. In this role, Adrian provides professional
leadership and advice across the national NHS teams aimed at maximising the
impact of the psychological professions for the public, and delivering the
ambitions of the NHS Long Term Plan. Adrian is a Consultant Clinical
Psychologist. He is passionate about making the NHS more psychological,
including increasing access to evidence-based psychological interventions and
therapies. Adrian also Co-chairs the Psychological Professions Network England
Board. Adrian is a clinical specialist in psychological therapy for
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Adrian has written and co-edited books on
anxiety, CBT, and clinical psychology.

LinkedIn – Adrian Whittington

Twitter – @ASWhittington




MATT WHITTY



Matt Whitty, Chief Executive of the Accelerated Access Collaborative and
Director of Innovation, Research and Life Sciences, NHS England.

Matt Whitty leads the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC), a collaboration
committed to getting the best new innovations to patients faster. The AAC set
national strategic priorities and co-ordinate work to support the UK to be the
best place in the world to discover, develop, test, trial, launch and adopt new
treatments and technologies.




LUCY WILKINSON



Lucy leads on equality and human rights for the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
including the Human Rights Approach which embeds equality and human rights
throughout CQC’s regulation of health and adult social care services.

Lucy also leads on equality and human rights strategy, such as Equality
Objectives. Previously, Lucy worked for CQC and Commission for Social Care
Inspection (CSCI) leading national reviews of safeguarding, health care in care
homes and the CSCI “Equality matters” publications covering race, disability,
sexual orientation and gender reassignment. Prior to this, Lucy worked for
Oxfam, Refugee Action and Shelter and, more recently, was the chief officer at
Leeds Involvement Project – an organisation enabling people using health and
social care services to influence service commissioning and development
including through reference groups and local and national user-led research.

In a voluntary capacity, Lucy has been active in equality groups and campaigns
especially in relation to the rights of women, disabled people and LGB people.
Lucy is a practicing Buddhist.




PROFESSOR EM WILKINSON-BRICE



Professor Em Wilkinson-Brice qualified as a nurse in 1992 in Exeter.

She then worked in Oxford, specialising in cardiology and high dependency care,
and a firm interest in facilities management later resulted in Em taking the
post of Director of Nursing and Facilities at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust, before coming back to Exeter in July 2010.

During her time at the RD&E, Em has undertaken numerous roles alongside the
Chief Nurse role, including leading the Trust’s five year Transformation
Programme to deliver a new model of care in partnership with local agencies.

In recognition of the close working partnership between the Trust and Plymouth
University, Em was appointed Associate Professor Faculty of Health and Human
Sciences. She was in the first cohort of the national NHS Leadership Academy
Aspiring Chief Executive programme, completing it in February 2017.




PROFESSOR KEITH WILLETT



Professor Keith Willett is the Director for Acute Care to NHS England and is the
Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the University of Oxford. An NHS
consultant surgeon for 24 years he has extensive experience of trauma care,
driving service transformation and healthcare management.  He has taught surgery
and leadership extensively across the NHS and internationally.

In 2003 he founded the Kadoorie Centre for Critical Care Research and Education
focusing on the treatment of critically ill and injured patients. This year
IMPS, a children’s safety charity he launched, celebrated 20 years and over
250,000 children trained in risk awareness, first aid and life support.

He was the co-founder of the unique 24-hour consultant-resident Oxford Trauma
Service at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford in 1994. Building on that
model, in 2009 he was appointed the first National Clinical Director for Trauma
Care to the Department of Health and was charged with developing and
implementing government policy across the NHS to radically improve the care of
older people with fragility hip fractures and to establish Regional Trauma
Networks and Major Trauma Centres. By 2012 both re-organisations and care
pathways were successfully in place and are now credited with marked improvement
in patient care and survival.

In his current role, he has the national medical oversight of acute NHS services
ranging from pre-hospital and ambulance services, emergency departments, urgent
surgery, acute medicine, children’s and maternity, armed forces, and health and
justice services and national major incidents. He is now leading the
transformation of the urgent and emergency care services across the NHS in
England.

He was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New
Years Honour’s List in 2016 for services to the NHS.  On receiving this honour
he said “I have been exceptionally privileged to build a career as part of the
collective commitment of so many dedicated individuals and friends who are our
NHS”.




DR MARK WILLIAMS



Dr Mark Williams is a GP in rural Staffordshire, a New Models of Care Clinical
Associate and a Clinical Director for a mental health trust.

He grew up in Staffordshire, studied in Manchester and returned to Staffordshire
to complete his studies and training.

Mark, who is married with two children, previously worked for the two Northern
Staffordshire CCGs before leaving and then becoming a co-founder of a GP
federation of 87 practices serving almost 500,000 patients.

He is driven by a desire to promote patient centred, clinician led and
relationship based health care that benefits communities.




JESSICA WILLIAMS



Jessica Williams joined Tameside and Glossop CCG in September 2015 to drive
health and social care integration as Programme Director for Care Together.

In September 2017, she also took on responsibility for the commissioning of
health services across Tameside and Glossop. Jessica leads on the design of
integrated, place based models of care to drive up healthy life expectancy,
reduce inequalities and improve the overall experience of the health and social
care system.

Jessica joined the NHS in 1991 and has extensive director experience in acute,
mental health and research organisations, as well as the Greater Manchester
Health and Social Care Partnership where she set up and led the primary care
transformation team.

Jessica continues to support the GM Partnership as the Director of Commissioning
lead for Primary Care and Chair of the GM Directors of Commissioning group.




HELEN WILLIAMS



National Specialty Adviser for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at NHS England
and NHS Improvement.

Helen Williams has worked as a CVD specialist pharmacist for the past 25 years
in hospital, community and primary care settings. She has spearheaded a wide
range of activities across South London and beyond to improve the care of
patients with or at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). She leads on the
development and implementation of consensus evidence-based guidance for use
across South London’s 12 CCGs and 7 acute trusts, covering a population of
3.6million and supporting local practitioners through education and training,
guideline implementation, clinical audit, service development and provision of
virtual or face to face clinics. For the past three years she has provided
clinical advice to inform the delivery of local and national AF AHSN programmes
to optimise the detection and management of AF with the aim of reducing
AF-related stroke. She developed the pharmacist-led virtual clinic model to
optimise uptake of anticoagulation in AF in Lambeth and Southwark CCGs, which is
now being spreads nationally through the NHSE AF demonstrator programme. Helen
has supported the commissioning and delivery of CVD new models of care to
address the CVD ABCs, – AF, blood pressure and cholesterol.




MARK WILLIAMS



Mark Williams is a keynote speaker, author (Daddy Blues) and international
campaigner. He founded International Fathers Mental Health Day and the
#Howareyoudad campaign.

Mark has spoken on television and radio stations around the world and works with
Dr Jane Hanley, publishing co-authored articles on Fathers Mental Health
together.

He was awarded Inspirational father of the year and local hero at the Pride of
Britain Awards in 2012 and was invited to meet the Royal Family on World Mental
Health Day in 2016.

Twitter: @markwilliamsFMH




SUSIE WILLIAMS



Susie Williams is currently studying her final year of A Levels at Frome College
and applying to University to study Medicine.

She is passionate about healthcare being of a high quality everywhere and for
everyone, and believes there is a different way to address illness and disease
that is based on prevention and living vitally.

She is a lifeguard, swimming instructor, blogger and hospital volunteer and
hosts a regular Patient Participation Group at her local medical practice,
through which young people can voice their experiences and ideas on their
healthcare.

She is a member of the NHS England Youth Forum made up of 25 young people from
all over the country, who have a passion for improving health services for young
people.




PROFESSOR NORMAN WILLIAMS



Consultant colorectal surgeon Professor Norman Williams became College President
in July 2011. He is Professor of Surgery and Director of Innovation at the
Academic Surgical Unit of Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine
and Dentistry and National Centre for Bowel Research and Surgical Innovation.

His main clinical interests are sphincter preservation and reconstructive
surgery, and his scientific interests are concentrated on GI motility and
anorectal physiology.

Professor Williams was elected as a Council Member and Trustee of the College in
2005; chaired the Research and Academic Board and the Invited Review Mechanism;
and was Lead for the National Fellowship Scheme.

Prior to being elected as College President, he was President of the Society of
Academic & Research Surgery and President of the Ileostomy & Internal Pouch
Support Group, the national patient charity.

Professor Williams has also been Chairman of the UKCCCR committee on Colorectal
Cancer, President of European Digestive Surgery, President of The International
Surgical Group and Vice Chairman of The British Journal of Surgery.

Professor Williams is joint editor of Bailey and Love’s Short Practice of
Surgery, co-author of Surgery of the Anus, Rectum and Colon, and is a founding
trustee and Chairman of Bowel & Cancer Research.

He was a Fulbright Scholar (1980-82), and was awarded the Patey Prize of the SRS
(1978), the Moynihan Travelling Fellowship (1985), the Society of Authors Prize
(Jointly 1995) the Nessim Habif Prize, University of Geneva (1995), the Galen
Medal of the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries (2003) and the Cutler’s Surgical
Prize (2011).

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal College of
Physicians, and is an Honorary Fellow of The American Surgical Association, the
German Society of General and Visceral Surgery, the American Society of Colon
and Rectal Surgeons, the Brazilian College of Surgeons and the Society of
General Surgeons of Peru.

In 2011 he gave the prestigious Hunterian Oration at the College, and in 2013 he
will become an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgery.




DR JANET WILLIAMSON



Dr Janet Williamson is Director of National Improvement Programmes for NHS
Improving Quality. NHS Improving Quality brings together the improvement
expertise for healthcare, working on large scale change and is part of NHS
England, Medical Directorate. Janet works closely with policy leaders,
Department of Health, public health England, National Clinical Directors for NHS
England, clinical networks, commissioning, and providers of healthcare services.

With over 25 years’ experience of managing both clinical and non-clinical
services across the NHS, Janet has also been involved in and led a number of
large improvement programmes, including total quality management, business
process re-engineering and the Cancer Services Collaborative ‘Improvement
Partnership’, which was instrumental in reducing GP referral to cancer treatment
waiting times from nine months to two.

Between 2007 and 2013, Janet was National Director, NHS Improvement, a national
team renowned for its experience and expertise in practical service improvement
which has redesigned clinical pathways in cancer, diagnostics, heart, lung and
stroke. It demonstrates some of the most leading edge work in England, helping
to improve patient experience and outcomes. Much of its work provides the
foundation for NHS Improving Quality.

In 2012, NHS Improvement under Janet’s leadership, was officially recognised as
one of The Sunday Times 100 best places to work in the not for profit sector.

In 2007, she was awarded a professional Doctorate, identifying critical factors
for spreading whole system change in healthcare. This drew on over four years of
learning from change in cancer at a national, network and local team level.




PETER WILLIAMSON



Peter Williamson works in the NHS Insight & Feedback team, which oversees major
NHS surveys, feedback tools and other social research to understand patient and
staff experience in ways that can be used to drive continuous improvement in
services.




MANDA WILLIAMSON



Manda Williamson is the Director of Positive Opportunities for Wellbeing (POW),
a Community Interest Company (CIC) based in Devon.

After a long career working as the Chief Executive of a mental health voluntary
sector organisation, a few years ago Manda set up a social enterprise which aims
to support people to take control of their health and their life.

She is a passionate advocate of personalising care for people with long term
health needs, including people living with mental health concerns..




GILES WILMORE



Giles Wilmore is Director for Patient & Public Voice & Information, NHS England.




DR PETER WILSON



Dr Peter Wilson has been a consultant in paediatric intensive care medicine at
the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust since 2003 and has been
involved in delivering critical care for 15 years.

Peter has been Clinical Director of Southampton Children’s Hospital since 2010
and has created a number of regional networks to improve care and efficiency.

He is immediate past President of the Paediatric Intensive Care Society, a
position that involved creating national standards, implementing national plans
and working with commissioners around issues such as capacity management
especially during winter pressures.

In 2015, Peter took up a post with NHS England delivering paediatric and women’s
specialist services nationally. He is involved in the national reviews of
paediatric intensive care, neonatal intensive care, paediatric surgery and
cardiac surgery.




MATTHEW WINN



Matthew Winn is the NHS England and Improvement Director of Community Health and
Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for the implementation of the Ageing Well
programme in the NHS Long Term Plan.

He is also the Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
and has led the organisation since 2007.

Previously he worked in London in roles in Acute Care, local government and
Primary Care Trusts.




JASON WONG



Deputy Chief Dental Officer England and Dental Partner.




MICHAEL WOOD



Michael Wood has supported NHS organisations to understand the local economic
landscape since November 2015, first as Local Growth Advisor and now Head of
Health Economic Partnerships.

For part of this period, he combined this role at the NHS Confederation with the
post of Deputy Local Growth Consultant for the Higher Education Funding Council
for England (HEFCE). Prior to this he was a senior European policy manager at
the NHS European Office for more than seven years. He has also worked at the
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and for a Member of the European
Parliament in Brussels.




GRAHAM WOODHAM



Graham Woodham is Programme Head for Regulated Professional Workforce at Skills
for Care. He is personally involved in work involving the nursing, social work
and occupational therapy workforce and leads a team which provides support,
information, guidance and resources for employers of these professional groups.
The team is currently working a range of projects supporting nursing in the care
sector including a nurse leader’s programme, return to practice and a statement
of role, knowledge and skills. Graham’s work at a national level involves
advising, influencing and supporting the implementation of a range of strategic
policy initiatives including the development of the Nursing Associate role
working closely with the DHSC and HEE.

In 2016 Graham worked in partnership with NCF (National Care Forum) in producing
a discussion and good practice paper: Stimulating debate on the distinctive
contribution of nurses to adult social care.

Originally trained as a social worker Graham has been involved in a number of
aspects of the recent national social work reform process, including the
development professional standards and the Assessed and Supported Year in
Employment (ASYE) for newly qualified social workers. He was formerly a social
worker and team manager in Community Mental Health Teams in Essex, and was also
mental health and social care training manager with the same authority. His
practice experience included 10 years as an Approved Social Worker (Mental
Health Act), and several years working in the voluntary sector at the beginning
of his career.

Graham also has experience in practice education and mentoring and action
learning facilitation. His management experience includes planning and
implementing organizational change. Since joining Skills for Care Graham held
roles as Regional Development Manager in the South East and Learning Resource
Network Manager in the Eastern region before moving to his current post.




SARAH WOODHOUSE



Sarah joined NHS England’s Personalised Care Group in December 2017 following a
two year career break.

As a Lived Experience Advisor, Sarah’s role involves building awareness of
personal health budgets and Integrated Personal Commissioning, and developing
the evidence base as well as promoting the benefits of peer support. Sarah
supports the management of a personal health budget for her brother Dan, who has
a spinal injury and underlying condition called Morquio Syndrome.

Sarah graduated with a degree in Law and Public Policy and her career has
focused on inclusion and asset-based community development. Sarah has previously
worked for the Department of Work and Pensions and in local government on a
variety of policy and partnership roles covering equality, diversity and
community cohesion and resilience. Most recently Sarah undertook a number of
project management roles, managing a social prescribing project for Groundwork
North East and Cumbria, called Green Activity and working for the North of
England Commissioning Support Unit to develop Stockton-On-Tees’ Integrated
Personal Commissioning demonstrator programme.




DR PENNY WOODS



Dr Penny Woods is Chief Executive of the British Lung Foundation.

Penny, a qualified as a doctor with an MA from Cambridge University and MBA from
INSEAD, has many years’ experience in the healthcare sector working as a
management consultant for clients including governments, multi-national
companies, NHS organisations and private healthcare providers.

She spent seven years in a number of senior roles at BTG plc and, before joining
the BLF, she was chief executive of the Picker Institute Europe.

Penny is passionate about working on behalf of patients, from personal and
family experience of COPD, asthma, obstructive sleep apnoea and motor neurone
disease.

You can follow Penny on Twitter: @blfpenny.




DR SIMON WOODWORTH



Dr Simon Woodworth is a GP at Stockport’s Beech House Medical Practice and prior
to that he was based at Chadfield Medical Practice since 2006. In addition to
his GP role, he is involved with teaching medical students and has a role in
commissioning with Stockport CCG.




PROFESSOR ANTHONY WOOLF



Professor Anthony Woolf is Chair of the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance
(ARMA).

He is Honorary Professor of Rheumatology, University of Exeter Medical School,
and Plymouth Peninsula Medical and Dental College, and Clinical Director of the
NHS National Institute of Health Research Clinical Research Network Southwest
Peninsula.

He is involved in various initiatives to raise awareness of the impact of
musculoskeletal conditions and priority for education, prevention, treatment and
research at a national, European and global level.




DR JAMES WOOLLARD



Dr James Woollard is a Clinical Leadership Fellow with Dr Geraldine Strathdee,
National Clinical Director for Mental Health at NHS England.

During this Fellowship he is also working at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust on a
project to develop a Community Education Network for Looked After Children in
Greenwich.

Prior to the Fellowship he was a Specialty Registrar in Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry on the St Mary’s Rotation, London.

He will be presenting a review of technology based interventions in Child and
Adolescent Mental Health disorders at the 2014 World Congress for the
International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied
Professions in Durban, South Africa.




SARAH WRIGHT



As Specialist Advisor of Quality Improvement in the Improving Quality team
within the national Learning Disability and Autism Programme, Sarah works to
improve the way hospital care is provided to people who have a learning
disability and autistic people.

The work focuses on fewer people in hospital care but for those that are
admitted that the best possible care and treatment is provided, admissions are
for the shortest period of time and in the least restrictive setting. All these
are aims of the Improving Quality team alongside ensuring the voice of those in
hospital is strengthened.

Sarah brings a background of working in operational leadership in NHS providers
focusing on using improvement methodology to maximise the outcomes for those who
need services.




PROFESSOR JOHN YARNOLD



Professor John Yarnold studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School,
University of London.

After several years of postgraduate training in general medicine, radiotherapy
and oncology, he was appointed Senior Lecturer at The Institute of Cancer
Research, London, and Honorary Consultant at The Royal Marsden in 1980, where he
has remained.

His clinical practice and research interests have concentrated on the role of
radiotherapy in breast cancer and he has led 17 randomised clinical trials
testing advances in treatment for cancer patients.

The Royal Marsden, together with its academic partner, the ICR, is the largest
and most comprehensive cancer centre in Europe and the only National Institute
for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre dedicated solely to cancer. It’s
a centre of excellence with an international reputation for ground-breaking
research and pioneering the very latest in cancer treatments and technologies.




ANDRE YEUNG



Andre Yeung works as a Pharmacist Consultant, as a Local Professional Network
Chair at NHS England (Cumbria and the North East) and is Senior Specialist
Advisor at Newcastle City Council Public Health Department.




JOHN YOUNG



Professor John Young was previously National Clinical Director for Integration
and Frail & Elderly Care, since the publication of these blogs he has left NHS
England.




PROFESSOR TONY YOUNG



Tony is a practicing frontline NHS surgeon, Associate Medical Director at the
Mid and South Essex University Hospitals Group, Director of Medical Innovation
at Anglia Ruskin University, and has founded 4 Med-Tech start-ups. He has also
co-founded the £500 million Anglia Ruskin MedTech Campus.

In 2014 he was appointed as National Clinical Director for Innovation at NHS
England and in February 2016 became the first National Clinical Lead for
Innovation. In this role he provides clinical leadership and support in
delivering improved health outcomes in England and drives the uptake of proven
innovations across the NHS, promotes economic growth through innovation and
helps make the NHS the go to place on the planet for medical innovation. In 2015
he founded the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur programme. This has become the world’s
largest entrepreneurial workforce development programme for clinicians and under
the NHS Long Term Plan is set for a major expansion to include intrapreneurs.

In the 2019 New Year’s Honours list Tony was awarded the OBE for services to
clinical leadership.




JACQUELINE YOUNG



Jacqueline Young qualified as a registered nurse in London in 1988 aged 21.

She enjoyed roles on a surgical ward and on a spinal ward before becoming a
District Nurse

At the end of 1996 she took on the challenge of a new role as a community
Parkinson’s Specialist Nurse which was a fairly new concept at the time. She
thoroughly enjoyed this role and over the year developed the post into a small
team of nurses caring for patients locally with Parkinson’s

She stayed in this role for 18 years before moving 2 years ago to her current
role as a Parkinson’s Specialist Nurse in a secondary care setting in Cambridge.




PATIENCE YOUNG



Patience Young is a Clinical Commissioning Lead at NHS Hull CCG and originally
qualified as an Occupational Therapist 25 years ago.

During those 25 years she has worked in both health and social care, most
recently within an acute hospital before she moved into commissioning.



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