Speakers Biographies

Cllr Tony Goldson

Tony is Chairman of Health and Wellbeing Board and Cabinet Member for Health.

He is a dual registered nurse with experience in working in the public and private sector. Tony has specialised in HIV and sexually transmitted diseases and drug and alcohol abuse. He has worked in many countries around the world, providing training and specialist knowledge around HIV. Tony holds a teaching qualification in sexual health and other allied subjects. He managed the Diana Princess of Wales treatment centre for drug & alcohol addiction, plus custodial contracts for drug & alcohol services around England. He is a qualified counsellor in bereavement and HIV and has worked within the domestic violence arena.

Cllr Colin Noble Colin was first elected Leader of the Council in May 2015 and has been a Suffolk County Councillor since 2006. Colin has served in the county’s cabinet for most of the subsequent nine years, firstly as cabinet member for adult and community services (2009-2013), during which time he secured a £60million private-sector investment in new, state-of-the-art care homes, and then with responsibility for finance (2013-14), where he oversaw the initial development of major savings programmes.

Colin is also a district councillor in Forest Heath, where he served as chairman of the Council’s Performance and Audit Scrutiny Committee. At national level he is Local Government Regional Conservative Peer. He is also the County Council Network Spokesperson for Health and Social Care.

Colin is dedicated to representing residents and helping them with issues that affect their lives and communities. Colin passionately believes in small government and keeping council-tax rises as low as possible.

James Kelly

James Kelly, 85, is a Woodbridge resident who is a keen regular at parkrun. In 2015, he marked his 100th parkrun at the increasingly popular event at Chantry Park. James has been running for some time, and joined the parkrun event following its launch in 2012.

Speaking of his achievement in 2015, James said: ““It’s quite humbling to think I might be an inspiration to other people – so many middle-aged people say ‘I

hope I am doing what you are doing when I am 80,’ which is very flattering.”

Anna Crispe

Anna Crispe holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, and an MSc in Public Health and Health Economics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She worked initially as a management consultant for McKinsey and Company, and then saw the light and joined the NHS in 1998. She has worked as a senior NHS manager in several large teaching hospitals, and in commissioning and in primary care. She joined Public Health Suffolk in 2015, and is now the Head of Knowledge and Intelligence for Public Health and Children and Young People’s Services at . Anna is passionate about using data and evidence to inform strategy and decision making, and has been working with many colleagues across Suffolk to build an evidence base looking at Suffolk in 20 years’ time, some of which you will hear about today. Anna has been fortunate enough to live in Suffolk for the last 10 years, and, when not crunching numbers, she enjoys horse-riding and being beaten at Monopoly by her 8-year-old son.

Louise Lafortune

Dr Louise Lafortune is a Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health. She is the Scientific Coordinator of the Ageing Well Programme for the NIHR School for Public Health Research and the Dementia Frailty and End of Life Care Theme for the CLAHRC East of England. She oversees the strategic, dissemination and engagement activities for both programmes. Her research focuses on the development and evaluation of preventive interventions for older people with complex needs, specifically frailty and dementia. She leads a programme of evidence reviews on community based preventive interventions for older people, and a data linkage project aimed at describing how frail older adults navigate the health and social care systems. She also co-led the piloting of an evaluation tool for Age-Friendly City and Community initiatives.

Patricia Schofield

Pat is Deputy Dean for Research & Income Generation and a Professor of Nursing. She is an active research professor leading a number of grants around pain and ageing and or dementia. She has recently completed three major programmes of research around pain in older adults. These include a cross council programme of research under the LLHW banner which is Designing and Developing Strategies for the Self-Management of Chronic Pain (EOPIC). The second project is New technologies to support older people at home: maximising personal and social interaction funded by dot.rural; the third project is an EU funded programme Pain Assessment in Patients with Impaired Cognition, especially Dementia. She has also completed a local study funded by HIEC looking at education of staff to improve the management of pain in adults with dementia within an acute trust and a study looking at the use of the iPhone for pain assessment in dementia and a study looking at peer education for older adults. Now, she is working on an SBRI funded project looking at the use of chatbot technology for self-management of chronic pain based upon her earlier work. In total Pat has been awarded over £2.5m in research funding. She has over 200 peer reviewed publications and many books in the area. She has recently been awarded an honorary European Diploma in Pain Medicine for her contribution to education and she has been invited to lead the work for the European Year Against Pain in Vulnerable Adults. Pat still works with older adults in helping to shape her research and she is patron to the Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Pensioner Forum.

Natalie Turner

Natalie Turner is Senior Programme Manager (Localities), for the Centre for Ageing Better, an independent charitable foundation working to create a society in which everyone enjoys a good later life. Part of the government’s ‘What Works’ network, Ageing Better promotes the better use of evidence to bring about change.

Natalie joined Ageing Better in September 2016 from AARP where she was a Senior Policy Advisor responsible for identifying and translating international best practice in health, care and liveable communities for a United States context. She held responsibility for a number of AARP’s global relationships and was part of the team leading the US network of Age-friendly Communities. With over 20 years’ experience in health and community sector delivery, including Programme Manager for Age UK London, Natalie is helping to build and further develop Ageing Better’s partnerships with localities, including its partnership with Greater Manchester and Leeds. Natalie also oversees the centre’s work with the UK Network of Age-friendly Communities.

Sian Lockwood

Sian Lockwood is a graduate of Oxford University with a Masters in Social Work Studies. She worked in a wide range of statutory and voluntary sector organisations in the UK and Africa before becoming the Chief Executive of a charity in the north of England, which provided a variety of community and family based services including Shared Lives. The charity grew and diversified under her leadership, extending its reach to cover more than eight local authority areas and increasing its turnover fifteen-fold.

Sian was elected Chair of NAAPS UK (now Shared Lives Plus) in 2002. In this role, she worked closely with UK governments to promote the value of very small localised services, and ensured that legislative and regulatory requirements were appropriate and did not place unnecessary barriers in the way of people establishing and delivering local small-scale enterprises. She continued and extended this work when she was appointed as the charity’s first Chief Executive in July 2004 and was instrumental in securing recognition by central and local government of the importance of micro social care and health services to the successful transformation of adult social care.

Sian is the first Chief Executive of Community Catalysts; a Community Interest Company launched in January 2010 with the aim of ensuring that people who need some help and support have real choice of high quality local and personalised services. Over the seven years since its launch, Community Catalysts has worked through a range of partners (councils, independent providers and third sector infrastructure organisations) to help local people use their gifts, talents and imagination through social care and health enterprise and ventures that help other local people.

Sian was awarded an OBE for services to social care in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

Rachel Sloane

Rachel Sloane is an experienced conference facilitator having worked for over 25 years with businesses and organisations at events across the country.

A freelance writer and broadcaster, Rachel presents programmes on BBC Radio Suffolk, and writes each month for Suffolk Norfolk Life magazine.

In her 35-year radio career in BBC and independent local radio, Rachel has twice won Medical Journalists Association awards and a BBC Gillard Gold award, for the best interactive programme. Her company, Rachel Sloane Partnerships Ltd, which she runs with her husband Kevin, offers media and presentations skills training workshops.

Before working in the media, Rachel worked in a Suffolk NHS hospital as a nursery nurse. In her spare time, she runs Community Choir, which she set up five years ago, and is Hon. Publicity Officer for the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust. A keen traveller, Rachel lectures on cruise ships and annually visits Thailand, where her younger son and his family live.