NHS England South Central Medical Directorate Conference ‘Excellence through Innovation and Leadership’ th Wednesday 7 June 2017
Speaker and Session Chair profiles
Speaker profiles (alphabetical)
Dr Sanjay Agrawal Consultant Respiratory Physician, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester
Dr Sanjay Agrawal is a Consultant in Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester and is Chair of the BTS Tobacco Specialist Advisory Group.
In 2016 the British Thoracic Society undertook the first comprehensive UK wide smoking cessation audit in hospitals, providing valuable new data on the treatment of sick smokers and smoking cessation services in the UK.
Dr Shahed Ahmad Medical Director, NHS England South Central
Shahed is the Responsible Officer for the 3200 NHS GPs in South Central. Appointed to the Medical Director role in August 2016, Shahed is also the NHS England South Central director lead for the Controlled Drugs Accountable Officer function and Clinical Programmes and Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Networks and Senate.
Shahed trained at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London. He obtained his MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and did his leadership training at the London Business School. Shahed’s training in public health included working at the Kings Fund and CDSC Colindale.
Shahed is an experienced NHS Director, performing director posts in PCTs since 2002. Shahed was the lead director in his PCT for Fitness for Purpose and producing the Commissioning Strategy Plan. Shahed has benefitted in his career from the advice and mentoring of others and has a strong commitment to workforce and leadership training. He has taken innovative approaches, including negotiating for an NHS team to be trained as Six Sigma green belts (free of charge) by a major car manufacturer. At the time of public health transition to local government, Shahed led on a leadership development programme for Public Health Consultants in London.
In 2008, Shahed led for London on the rollout of Vascular Risk Assessment, and London achieved the fastest rollout in the country. He led for London ADPH on the London Cancer Board and Primary Care Transformation Board. Shahed chaired the London Hypertension Leadership Group and is a member of the PHE national Blood Pressure System Leadership Board.
Shahed’s passion is to improve the health outcomes of the populations he serves. In both Newham and Enfield, he led evidence based programmes that led to reduction in mortality and improvements in life expectancy which were amongst the fastest in the region.
Dominique Allwood Senior Improvement Fellow, Health Foundation and Consultant in Public Health Medicine
Dominique is a Senior Improvement Fellow at the Heath Foundation leading aspects of the Q initiative. She also works part time in NHS organisations supporting quality improvement and capability development.
Dominique has been working as a doctor in the NHS for 13 years and is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine. She is passionate about quality improvement, clinical leadership and development. Dominique was named one of HSJ’s Rising Stars in 2015.
Monique Audifferen Thames Valley Cancer Alliance Manager
Monique is the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance Manager. Monique joined the NHS in 2008 as a Service Development Manager before taking on the role of Offender Health Commissioning Manager. She has extensive experience in service development, and programme and strategic change management having worked in both the public and private sectors.
In her current role of Cancer Alliance Manager she is responsible for planning, developing and implementing an evidence-based programme of improvements using new approaches to service delivery that are meaningful and more accessible to cancer patients and/or their carers across Thames Valley.
Monique believes an important aspect to her role is ensuring the relationships; clinical engagement and patient participation that have been developed and maintained over many years by the former Cancer Network are sustained and enhanced.
Dr Berge Balian GP Medical Director, Symphony Healthcare Services
Dr Berge Balian qualified from St Thomas's Hospital medical school (London) in 1990 and completed the GP training scheme based around Yeovil District Hospital (YDH) in 1995. He has been a full time GP at Crewkerne Health Centre in Somerset for the past 21 years.
Dr Balian has held a number of leadership roles during his career, including being a member of the Somerset LMC for the past 21 years with four year periods as Chair and Vice Chair, three years as Associate Medical Director for Primary Care at Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and chairing the Symphony Programme Board (the South Somerset PACS Vanguard project) for the first 18 months.
He is currently Medical Director of Symphony Healthcare Services, a Primary Care organisation established by YDH Foundation Trust, into which an increasing number of GP practices are integrating. He continues to work two days per week in his GP practice and remains an LMC representative for his local area.
Dr Barbara Barrie GP and End of Life Network Lead, Thames Valley SCN
Barbara graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 MBChB; MRCGP 1994; Diploma in Palliative Medicine (Cardiff) 2005. She worked as a GP for 20 years, and is currently a Partner at Pangbourne Medical Practice.
She previously worked as Hospital Practitioner at Duchess of Kent House in Reading and as GP with Special Interest (Palliative Medicine) at West Berks Community Hospital. She is currently working with Berks West CCGs Federation Steering Group and has been End of Life Lead since 2008. She is also a Macmillan GP Facilitator for Berkshire since 2011 and Thames Valley SCN EOL Lead (Generalist) since Jan 2014.
Elizabeth Beech Prescribing Advisor and National Project Lead - Healthcare Acquired Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance, NHS Improvement, NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG
Elizabeth Beech trained as a pharmacist and has worked in variety of organisations throughout the NHS, in many different clinical roles including academia and research. Elizabeth is currently seconded to the Patient Safety team in NHS Improvement as a national project lead (England) for Antimicrobial Resistance.
She also works for NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG as a prescribing advisor, where she also leads AMR, AKI and safer care culture work programmes. This includes ToDipOrNotToDip, a QI programme to improve the management of UTI in care homes which now has a growing community of interest managed via Slack. She is proud to be part of the Q community.
Jonathan Berry Policy Development Lead, Person Centred Care, NHS England
Jonathan Berry joined NHS England’s Person Centred Care team in November 2015 where he leads on policy development with regard to Health Literacy and Shared Decision Making.
Prior to this he worked in the national voluntary sector for an organisation which specialises in delivering Health Literacy programmes in deprived communities, raising practitioner awareness about the impacts of low health literacy, user testing health information with people who have lower levels of health literacy and lobbying policy makers to ensure that health literacy is central to health and other government policies.
He has an extensive health background which includes developing and project managing the
development of the national Health Literacy Programme, Skilled for Health, on behalf of the Department of Health and the Department for Education. Before that, he worked in the NHS for 10 years where, among other things, he set up the PALS service and the Expert Patient Programme. His background is in policy development, implementing policy, partnership working, quality improvement, change management, project management, training and advocacy. He has an MA in Applied Health Studies and was recently trained in Mental Health First Aid.
Dr Jonathan Bickford GP, Broadmoor Hospital
I have been a GP in Oxford since 2001. A longstanding interest in mental health led to a position at Littlemore Mental Health Centre addressing the physical health of inpatients. From 2015 I commenced a similar role at Broadmoor Hospital and from last year I became the clinical lead for physical health for West London Mental Health NHS Trust.
Patients who experience mental ill health have significantly higher rates of morbidity and mortality than the wider population, typically dying in their 50s and 60s. This is one of the greatest health inequalities that exists within the NHS. My work at the frontline to address this lies within forensic settings as this population has particular challenges accessing a dedicated physical health service. However it is my view that reducing the inequality more widely requires developments in education, commissioning, research and innovation.
The opportunity to vary my career and to address an area in which I feel passionately promotes my resilience at a time of challenge for primary care. Not that we should need to seek empowerment, my role further shows how GPs have a vital role in various settings of service provision.
Dr William Bird MBE GP in Reading, Chief Executive and Founder of Intelligent Health
Dr William Bird MBE is a family GP and founder and CEO of Intelligent Health. His schemes have got over two million people more active and he is passionate in getting the NHS to use physical activity as a treatment.
He founded Intelligent Health to provide ways to integrate physical activity into health and wellbeing, from Green Gyms and GP training to helping develop whole city physical activity strategies engaging both adults and children. Through Intelligent Health, William has helped develop physical activity strategies and inspired communities across the UK, Europe and worldwide to become physically active through expertly delivered, gamified campaigns.
William is a member of PA Strategy Board for PH England and advises WHO and PH Wales. He is co- editor of the Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health, and BBC Wildlife magazine recently voted him one of UK’s top 30 influential conservationists.
In 2010 William was awarded the MBE by The Queen for services to promote physical activity and health.
Gemma Brown Workforce Lead, Widening Participation, Thames Valley HEE
Gemma Brown trained as an occupational therapist in 1987 and once qualified, she specialised in working with clients in the community physical disability field in Buckinghamshire. She was a professional advisor for occupational therapy, leading on the learning environment and professional standards. In 2008 she moved into the education team in Aylesbury PCT, leading on the placement of and high standards of education for pre-registration students of all disciplines across the Trust, expanding that role into the lead for continuing professional development.
In 2014, Gemma joined Health Education England as a quality manager and is currently working as workforce lead for widening participation and apprenticeships. She has a particular interest in the
education and development of the support worker staff across the system and how their role can be utilised across health and social care to provide better care for patients.
Dr Jane Bywater Palliative Consultant and End of Life Network Lead, Thames Valley SCN
Jane qualified from the Royal Free School of Medicine. She recently moved to work as a Consultant in Palliative Medicine for Sue Ryder Care, working across West Berkshire, South Oxfordshire and South Bucks. She has past experience working both for the NHS and charitable sector at Consultant level and has held two Medical Director roles. She has a strong interest in community based services and was instrumental in setting up a Hospice at Home service in North Hampshire.
She has provided a palliative care service for patients with cancer and non-malignant conditions in all her workplaces, developing services specifically for patients with motor neurone disease and dementia. She was a founder member of Daisy's Dream children's bereavement service and her
special interests include transitional care of young adults and the psychological needs of patients and
their families. Her current work focuses on the palliative care needs of patients in the community, exploring effective methods of working alongside primary care. She has a strong interest in creative ways to deliver education for staff delivering care to this patient population.
Dr Zameel Cader Consultant Neurologist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT Clinical Director, Mental Health Network Thames Valley SCN
Zameel is Consultant Neurologist at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Associate Professor in Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Headache Centre.
He is joint lead for a €56m flagship public-private partnership, aiming to develop stem cells from patients as a new platform for drug discovery in neurological disorders.
Zameel is joint Clinical Director with Dr Rob Bale, of the Thames Valley Mental Health Strategic Clinical Network.
James Carter Senior Network Manager, NHS England
James is a Senior Network Manager within the Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Network. His focus is on scoping and supporting the prevention-at-scale agenda across the Thames Valley and wider across South Central.
He is one of the chief organisers of this conference and is working hard to promote the outputs, talks and messages from today through the SCN work programmes and other innovative channels, such as an emerging webinar programme accessible to all.
Dr Aarti Chapman Associate Director, Strategic Clinical Networks Thames Valley, NHS England
Aarti Chapman is Associate Director of Strategic Clinical Networks and Senate in Thames Valley, holding this post since the NHS reorganisation of April 2013. Prior to this, she has worked in the NHS for seven years, both in the Strategic Health Authority and at Oxford University Hospitals Trust. She started life as an academic having completed a DPhil in Molecular Biology at the University of Oxford on gene mapping for cancer genes (among others) on the X chromosome.
Following a postdoctoral position, she moved in to innovation management and spent a number of years at Isis Innovation, the University of Oxford’s intellectual arm. Her portfolio comprised a range of biomedical patents, including a number in the cancer field. She also has an MBA from Imperial College, London and has worked as a freelance consultant for a number of years with clients from the
private sector, the NHS and academia.
Dr David Church Academy of Medical Sciences Clinician Scientist Fellow, Oxford Centre for Cancer Gene Research, University of Oxford Honorary Consultant Medical Oncologist, Oxford Cancer Centre
Dr David Church trained in Medical Oncology in Bristol before moving to Oxford, where he obtained his DPhil and completed his training as an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer. Since 2014 he has been an Academy of Medical Sciences Clinician Scientist Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Cancer Gene Research, University of Oxford, and an Honorary Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Oxford Cancer Centre.
His research focuses on the interaction between tumours and the host immune system, with particular focus on those with an elevated mutational load as a consequence of defective DNA
polymerase proofreading or loss of DNA mismatch repair function. More broadly he is interested in the identification and clinical implementation of novel biomarkers in colorectal and endometrial cancers. He co-leads the Genomics England 100K Genomes Project endometrial cancer sub-domain.
Professor Alf Collins Clinical Advisor for Person Centred Care and Integrated Personal Commissioning, NHS England
Alf Collins is a doctor, commissioner, researcher and national policy advisor in person-centred care. He is a visiting professor at Coventry University and has honorary fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of General Practitioners for his work in person-centred care.
He has researched and published widely on self management support, shared decision making, care planning, co-production, patient activation and patient engagement.
Dr Collins has worked with others to develop a number of measures of person-centred care, including the ‘clinician support for patient activation measure’.
Victoria Collins Safety Improvement Practice Educator, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Victoria Collins is a graduate in Air Transport Engineering BEng (Hons) and a licenced aircraft engineer with a Master’s degree in Air Safety Management. Following a 16 year career in aviation in various roles across engineering, safety, risk & quality, with responsibilities which included implementing airline integrated Quality & Safety Management Systems, Victoria joined the NHS in 2015.
Since taking on the role of Safety Improvement Practice Educator, Victoria has worked on the establishment of the Gloucestershire Safety & Quality Improvement Academy including the development and delivery of the Quality Improvement education pathway. Victoria has undertaken the IHI Improvement Advisor programme with the Institute of Health Care Improvement (IHI), is part of a team working to improve upper GI Cancer wait times and is a member of the Q initiative.
Dr Dave Evans Chief Executive, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
I qualified from Newcastle University in 1978 and trained in Obstetrics & Gynaecology in the Northern Region, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Simpson’s Maternity Pavillion. I spent a year as Wyeth Research Fellow at the MRC Human Reproduction & Growth Unit in Newcastle. I have been a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust for 28 years and involved in Medical Management for over 20 years having served for 8 years as Clinical Director and 12 as Medical Director.
My work has included developing major service change & reconfigurations, clinical leadership, consultant recruitment methods, clinical governance, clinical standards and patient safety. I was an NCAS assessor for 12 years and a member of the assessor training team for seven years.
I was a member of and trainer for the RCOG Invited Reviews Team and Revalidation lead for its UK Board. This led me to become the Chief Executive at Northumbria NHS FT in November 2015.
Douglas Findlay Patient Leader
Douglas takes an active role in public and patient involvement, engagement and experience around the health and social care agenda. He is a Patient Leader at his local hospital and is involved with a number of primary and community based health organisations in and around Reading.
Douglas works alongside a wide range of different organisations across the Thames Valley, where he takes part in regional health policy discussions concerning NHS and social care services, academic health research and workforce development. At a national level, Douglas consults with a number of academic and public bodies where he contributes to health research and health policy development.
Professor Gary Ford Chief Executive of the Oxford Academic Health Science Network, Visiting Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Oxford University and Consultant Stroke Physician at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Ford is Chief Executive of the Oxford Academic Health Science Network and a Consultant Stroke Physician at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. He graduated from Cambridge University and held a Clinical Pharmacology Fellowship at Stanford University. He returned to the UK and established a comprehensive stroke service in Newcastle in 1992. He has been involved in many service innovations in UK stroke care in the last 20 years.
He developed the first thrombolysis protocol for acute stroke in England. He chaired the Emergency Response working group of the English Stroke Strategy. He developed the Face Arm Speech Test (FAST) now used to increase public and professional awareness of stroke. In 2005 he was appointed Director of the National Institute for Health Research Stroke Research Network and awarded a CBE in
the 2013 New Year Honours List for services to research in stroke medicine.
Nigel Foster Director of Finance and Performance, Berkshire East CCGs
Nigel is Director of Finance & Performance for three CCGs in East Berkshire and has been working in the NHS since 2002, originally with Wokingham PCT and then NHS Berkshire West where he held a variety of senior finance roles. From March 2012 he led the formation of Central Southern Commissioning Support Unit (CSCSU) and became their Chief Finance Officer. He joined the CCGs in East Berkshire in November 2013.
Nigel is a CIPFA qualified accountant who started his career with Oxfordshire County Council before a spell in the private sector working for the business process outsourcing firm Liberata, where amongst other things he managed a pan-European shared service centre for a subsidiary of ICI. He is now heavily involved in working with colleagues across the Frimley Health and Care STP area, and also leads the ‘Connected Care’ IT interoperability project in East Berkshire which is enabling the sharing of patient records between primary, secondary and social care.
Rebecca Furlong Network Manager for Children and Maternity Thames Valley SCN
Becky Furlong has over 20 years’ experience in the NHS. She qualified as a nurse in 1994 and has spent a significant proportion of this as a Haematology and Chemotherapy nurse. Becky worked within the Thames Valley Cancer Network as Network Lead Chemotherapy Nurse and Project Manager focusing on key national pieces of work and working strategically across Thames Valley. Becky has worked within the TVSCN Children and Maternity Network for four years and has been Network Manager for the Children and Maternity Strategic Clinical Network for three years.
Becky has the responsibility of developing a comprehensive programme which reflects the national
priorities for Children and Maternity as well as local service demand and provision. Becky is passionate about ensuring that any work undertaken within the SCN drives forward improvements in the quality and safety of care for women and their families.
Dr Matthew Gibson Consultant Interventional Radiologist and Clinical Lead for Vascular Services at the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Trust
Matthew has been a Consultant Interventional Radiologist at the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Trust for 20 years. He has extensive experience in vascular and non-vascular interventional radiology (including angioplasty, stenting, embolization, DVT therapy and aneurysm repair).
He has served on the Thames Valley Vascular Network committee for several years helping implement the reorganisation of the region’s vascular services.
Dr Rob Greville-Heygate GP and Clinical Chief Information Officer, Wiltshire CCG
Having studied medicine at The University of Leeds, Robert went on to work at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Eastbourne District Hospital, Canterbury District Health Board (Christchurch, New Zealand) and qualified in Poole as a GP in 2012.
Robert has always had a passion for health informatics and its utilisation to optimise patient care. During his Wessex Deanery GP Fellowship he gained a Postgraduate Certificate in Health Informatics at the University College of London. Following this, Robert continued to work as a GP in Wiltshire, but also founded Ardens Health Informatics.
Ardens is a Clinical Decision Support Tool built on SystmOne which: • Gives clinicians easy access to the latest evidence-based resources & also supports practice resilience. • Promotes standardised best practice, use of local pathways, medicines management & patient safety. • Improves efficiency & upskills the workforce which maximises savings and frees up valuable resources. • Supports working at scale, new models of care and accurate service evaluation.
Ardens are now the leading provider of SystemOne templates and reports used by over 500 GP practices across England. Ardens have also been working with numerous CCGs, RCGP, BMA, Wessex LMC, Vanguards and Prisons too. For more information, please see www.ardens.org.uk.
Dr Georgina Hall Consultant Paediatric Haematologist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Georgina W Hall was the first Consultant Paediatric Haematologist appointed in Oxford in 1999 as part of the fledgling paediatric oncology service, which now consists of three oncologists, three haematologists, an associate specialist and both ward and day care teams. The service manages 80- 100 new children/adolescents with cancer each year and the haematologists manage patients from across the region.
In 2015 a paediatric haemophilia service was established in the children’s hospital, separate from the adult centre at the Churchill Hospital with a dedicated specialist team of eight. Having trained and worked in general medicine in London and Geneva, Dr Hall undertook her doctoral research in Oxford at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular medicine in 1991 before starting her haematology specialist
training in London in 1994 and sub specializing in paediatric haematology in 1996 at Great Ormond Street & the Royal Free Hospital, with a period of training in neonatal haematology at Yorkhill in Glasgow.
Dr Hall has led on the establishment of the Teenage and Young Adults Cancer Service in Oxford since 2008 and has a particular interest in lymphoma particularly Hodgkin Lymphoma, leads on clinical trials and research & is PI for 10 different trials. She is also clinical programme director for Stem Cell services.
Beverley Harden Allied Health Professions Lead, Health Education England and Clinical Associate-New Care Models, NHS England
Beverley works as the Health Education England lead for the Allied Health Professions, Associate Director for multiprofessional Education and Quality across the South for Health Education England and as a National Advisor to the New Care Models Team at NHS England.
As a physiotherapist, Beverley has worked extensively as an expert clinician in respiratory failure, non- invasive ventilation and rehabilitation and as leader of complex, cross sector, multiprofessional services. She has undertaken a variety of clinical leadership roles at local, regional and national level and is skilled in workforce transformation and organisational development. Beverley leads the HEE national, cross system, person centred care workforce development work stream.
Dr Jenny Harries Regional Director for the South of England, Public Health England
Jenny is Public Health England’s Regional Director for the South of England and Deputy Medical Director for Health Protection. After graduating from Birmingham in pharmacology and medicine, she worked in hospital and public health posts in the UK and overseas. She held posts in strategic healthcare and specialised service commissioning in Wales and has been Director of Public Health in Monmouthshire, Swindon and Norfolk. From 2008 to her present role, she served on the Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation and was a member of the Expert Advisory Group on the NHS Constitution. Her regional role includes membership of the South Region STP Board.
More recently Jenny was a Director lead for PHE’s Ebola Screening and Zika programmes and she now regularly provides cross government public health support for international infectious disease management, emergency response and global health security matters. This includes leading PHE’s work on compliance with International Health Regulations in the UK Overseas Territories and the development of a joint NHSE/PHE national pathway for managing High Consequence Infectious Disease. Jenny holds formal postgraduate qualifications in health economics, strategic commissioning and business administration and is also PHE’s Executive Gender Balance Champion.
Jane Herve TVSCN Clinical Director of Maternity Head of Midwifery, Oxford University Hospitals
Jane qualified initially as a nurse following her training at Charing Cross Hospital and then moved to Kingston to train as a midwife.
She has worked in a number of hospitals, working as a community midwife, delivery suite coordinator and manager and fetal medicine lead midwife. She has been a Head of Midwifery for 17 years in a number of organisations.
Jane is the Clinical Director for Maternity in the Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Network, a role she finds very stimulating as it provides a different dimension to her role in the acute setting.
Jonathan Higman Director of Strategic Development, Yeovil District Hospital
Jonathan started his role as the Director of Strategic Development at Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in June 2015. Previous to this Jonathan was the Director of Urgent Care and Long Term Conditions and Director of Operations at the Trust.
More recently Jonathan has been involved with the development of the Symphony Programme in South Somerset, particularly planning how the hospital’s services need to be redesigned to support the integration of care between the hospital and local primary care practices. The Symphony Programme is a national exemplar as part of NHS England’s Vanguard programme and has attracted national attention for its innovative approach to new care models and the development of a new
Accountable Care Organisation model.
Jonathan graduated from the University of Reading in 1993 and has 17 years’ experience working in a variety of roles in both hospitals and service planning across the NHS in the South West and South East of England.
Dr Kathy Hoffmann Bucks CCGs Diabetes Clinical Lead
Kathy is a part time salaried GP currently working as Diabetes Clinical Lead for Bucks CCGs and one of the RCGPs Care and Support Planning Champions.
Previously a partner in Camden, NW London, during which time she held the posts of PCG Chair of North Camden and then Medical Director of Camden PCT.
Kathy was awarded Honorary RCP status whilst in Camden in recognition of her work on primary/secondary care interface issues.
Dr Christos Ioannou Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Christos Ioannou is a Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Oxford. Dr Ioannou was admitted as a member at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2008 and was awarded the RCOG Prize Medal. In 2013 he completed his doctoral thesis and was awarded a DPhil at the University of Oxford for his research in fetal growth and maternal vitamin D insufficiency.
He has authored several peer reviewed publications and book chapters in the fields of prenatal and 3D ultrasound, fetal growth and skeletal development. He has received distinctions for scientific presentations in national and international meetings. He is a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the British Maternal Fetal Medicine Society.
Dr Ioannou has extensive experience in prenatal ultrasound for singleton and multiple pregnancies. He specialises in the diagnosis and management of prenatal conditions affecting the baby’s growth and development. He regularly undertakes prenatal diagnostic procedures and therapeutic fetal interventions.
Professor Susan Jebb OBE Professor of Diet and Population Health, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College
Susan Jebb is Professor of Diet and Population Health in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. She leads a research team conducting trials to test the effect of interventions to lose weight and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, focusing on approaches suitable for use in routine care settings. Susan also has a particular interest in how scientific evidence on diet is translated into policy and practice.
She was an advisor to the English Department of Health on obesity and food policy for eight years, during which time she chaired the cross-government Expert Advisory Group on obesity and the Public Health Responsibility Deal Food Network. Susan is now a member of the Public Health England Obesity Programme Board and one of the Chairs of the NICE Public Health Advisory Committees.
Suzanne Jones Personal Health Budgets Senior Manager for the End of Life Pathway, NHS England
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, she became a clinical member of North Devon PCT’s Professional Executive Committee, and a year later Head of Physiotherapy.
In 2005, she moved into commissioning, with a portfolio covering older people and continuing healthcare. From 2009-14, 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.
Dr Matt Kearney National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, NHS England National Clinical Advisor, Public Health England and General Practitioner, Castlefields Runcorn
Dr Matt Kearney is a GP in Runcorn and National Clinical Director for CVD Prevention. He has been working for both NHS England and Public Health England since 2013, supporting programmes to improve primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. In particular, he has focused on building primary care leadership to champion earlier detection and improved management of conditions such as hypertension, atrial fibrillation, type 2 diabetes and raised cholesterol, and in exploring ways in which the third sector, local authorities and other partners can help the NHS to get serious about prevention.
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 graduated in Medicine from the University of Birmingham and obtained a Master's Degree in Public Health from the University of Liverpool in 2003. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Sir Bruce Keogh Medical Director, NHS England
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.
Dr Morag King Clinical Adviser for RCGP
Dr Morag King is a retired GP who graduated from Edinburgh in 1976, and subsequently spent 30 years as a partner in a semirural dispensing practice in Cambridgeshire. She has always had an interest in both personal and practice development and was in the first 100 to achieve RCGP Fellowship by Assessment.
Her practice was the first in England to gain a second Quality Practice Award. Since retirement, she has been working with the RCGP Special Measures Team, supporting practices who have been put in
special measures by CQC. She has also been involved with a pilot in Birmingham supporting vulnerable practices and is starting resilience work in North London.
Dr Bernadette Lavery Thames Valley Cancer Alliance Clinical Lead
Bernadette is the Clinical Director for the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance and Consultant Oncologist at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust by profession. She started in medical school at Glasgow University, completing preclinical training then detoured into science and an honours degree in Immunology from Glasgow in 1979.
Bernadette moved to Oxford University for clinical training, taking a medical degree from there in 1982. She ‘fell’ into oncology by chance, loved the mix of work and the people she found herself working with and has remained in oncology since with specialist training in Oxford.
Having had a long term interest in management with a wish to extend her skills and believing that clinicians all have a responsibility to be competent managers in their own practice, Bernadette is absolutely committed to the need to have an informed clinical voice in senior levels of healthcare management. This led her to undertake management training on a part time basis culminating in gaining an MBA (Health Executive) from Keele University in 1999.
When not at work, she is likely to be found ‘mucking about with horses’, looking after the rather numerous cats at home, skiing, playing the piano and frequently enjoying good food and wine with friends.
Dr Hein Le Roux GP and Deputy Clinical Chair, Gloucestershire CCG
Hein le Roux is a GP who is also the Deputy Chair of Gloucestershire CCG with responsibility for dementia and Primary Care Patient Safety Lead for the West of England AHSN.
He brings his experience in patient safety and quality improvement to his clinical areas of responsibility and is particularly interested in systems and process thinking.
Dr Patrick Lintott Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Patrick Lintott is a vascular consultant surgeon. He qualified in 1991 and trained in vascular surgery in London and Oxford before being appointed in Buckinghamshire NHS Trust in 2003. He now works in Oxford and Bucks as part of the Thames Valley Network.
Previously DME at Bucks, he is currently Head of the Thames Valley Postgraduate School of Surgery, a member of the core surgical SAC and co-authors surgical curricula for the Joint Colleges.
Dr Marion Lynch Deputy Medical Director STP Workforce Lead NHS England South Central
For 25 years Marion has been an NHS clinical leader in quality improvement, workforce development, patient leadership and innovation in education. Her doctorate combined these themes and her current work with the NHSE SC transformation team ensures that this research and expertise is used to improve the quality of care.
Marion balances her work as a senior leader with the NHSSC team with her advisor role with the NHS Leadership Academy, with her clinical work in dementia care and with her health related arts and
drama work across the U.K.
Maggie MacIsaac Chief Executive, Hampshire CCG Partnership
Maggie MacIsaac is the Chief Executive of the partnership of four CCGs in Hampshire, which was formed on 1 April 2017. The partnership brings together Fareham & Gosport CCG, North Hampshire CCG, North East Hampshire & Farnham CCG and South Eastern Hampshire CCG. Maggie is also the lead Chief Executive for the North East Hampshire and Farnham Vanguard, the programme through which local NHS providers, commissioners and local authorities are working together to introduce a new model of care.
Maggie joined the NHS as a graduate nurse. After completing the NHS national management training scheme, Maggie worked in many sectors of the NHS in senior roles – locally and regionally – acquiring considerable experience in the value of strong partnerships. Most recently, and prior to her role as
Chief Executive, Maggie has been the Chief Officer of North East Hampshire and Farnham Clinical Commissioning Group since July 2012.
Maggie is passionate about working with partners to improve healthcare for patients, carers and communities. The vanguard programme has involved local people and local clinicians from primary care, community care, mental health, acute care and social care working together to improve services.
Professor Rebecca Malby Professor in Health Systems Innovation, London South Bank University
Becky is a Professor in Health Systems Innovation at London South Bank University, where she leads the Health Systems Innovation Lab, providing change management support to systems change work; leadership programmes for emerging leaders, network leaders and citizen leaders; and catalysing spread through our international network. She has a track record in systems innovation, organisational change and leadership development in the UK and Internationally, and in leading networks. Her experience is an unusual combination of leader, manager, researcher, change agent and entrepreneur. She is known to be an energetic and enthusiastic leader of change and a forward thinker.
She is currently an advisor to the Kings Fund/Health Foundation Readiness for Change Programme, and on the Advisory Board of The Bromley By Bow Unleashing Health Communities Programme, the Scaling up Shared Lives in Healthcare Programme Implementation Group, the Health Foundation Shared Haemodialysis Care Programme, and the European Cancer Concord. Becky is a nominator for the Ashoka network. Becky is a Visiting Fellow at Stellenbosch University School of Public Leadership (South Africa) where she supports the Innovation Hub. She has recently published Malby B, Anderson Wallace M. 2016. Networks in Healthcare. Managing Complex Relationships. Emerald.
Karen Maskell Patient Leader Bracknell and Ascot CCG
Hello my name is Karen Maskell, and I wear several public & patient hats in the Health & Care arena. I had a 23 year career in the pharmaceutical industry - first in Finance as Credit Manager, where the NHS was our largest customer, then in major computer system implementations and service outsourcing project roles and finally in IT as a Finance and Customer Service Business Analyst and Change Manager.
I’m an expert patient by virtue of living with Hereditary Angioedema, a rare long term condition, and have been a frequent user of many services including many visits to A&E often via blue light ambulance.
I am also very proud to be the first recipient Patient Leader Award for Thames Valley & Wessex Leadership Academy for creating and implementing the HealthMakers, which was run as pilot in Bracknell & Ascot CCG and is now successfully hosted by Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust and being rolled out over East Berkshire as part of the Frimley STP and being considered in Berkshire and other areas.
Julie McCann Controlled Drugs Accountable Officer, NHS England
Julie has worked for NHS England since 2013 as a pharmacy lead, Controlled Drugs Accountable Officer and subsequently the Medication Safety Officer. She started her career in community pharmacy, working across a variety of community settings from large multiple pharmacy chains to small independent companies.
This was followed by a number of years working as a practice support pharmacist before moving into more commissioning, professional performance and governance focused roles. Her main interests are patient safety, learning from incidents and professional standards.
Dr Nithya Nanda GP Partner, Slough CCG Diabetes & Cardiology Lead and East Berkshire Diabetes Lead
Dr Nanda is currently a practising General Practitioner in Farnham Road Practice, Slough, East Berkshire. He graduated from Undergraduate Medical School in 2000 from Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore, India. He has undertaken various general medical specialty training in Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS trust during the years 2001-06 during which he developed particular specialty interest in cardiology and diabetes and moved over to general practice.
He has been working as a GP with specialist interest in cardiology and diabetes since 2008. He is currently the Clinical Lead for Cardiology and Diabetes in East Berkshire and has been instrumental in bringing about significant changes in service redesign consequent to which there is promising success in Slough and East Berkshire’s diabetes outcomes.
Hannah Oatley Clinical Innovation Adoption Manager, Oxford Academic Health Science Network
Before joining Oxford AHSN in November 2015, Hannah Oatley worked for 14 years as a senior manager in the acute sector, performing both operational and strategic roles. She has significant experience of working with clinical teams to identify opportunities and implement changes across a system.
Hannah leads the Oxford AHSN Atrial Fibrillation Programme, working with commissioners and clinicians to devise and implement initiatives and innovations that aim to reduce the number of AF related strokes across our region.
Dr Jane O’Grady Director of Public Health, Buckinghamshire
Dr Jane O’Grady is currently the Director of Public Health in Buckinghamshire County Council. She qualified in medicine and then completed specialist training in pathology before moving to a career in public health.
During her public health career she has worked in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and for the National Screening Committee and has served as a standing member on one of the national NICE Quality Standards Advisory Committees.
She was Director of Public Health in Buckinghamshire PCT from 2006 until the national transfer of Public Health to local authorities in 2013. Prior to that she was Director of Public Health for Vale of Aylesbury PCT.
Dr Chris Packham DM FRCP FRCGP FFPH Associate Medical Director, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS FT
Chris has been Associate Medical Director for the last six years; his roles include medical management issues, physical healthcare in mental health and forensic/secure services including oversight of GP activity across the Trust, smoke free, audit, Trust work on Population healthcare and prevention, effectiveness, electronic records, and GP commissioner liaison. He has recently taken up the role of Chief Clinical Information Officer for the Trust. He has been a practicing GP for 33 years, and continues to work in inner-city Nottingham. A Public Health Specialist for 21 years, he was Executive Director of Public Health in Nottingham for 10 years until 2012 (and Vice President of the UK Association of DPHs 2008-12).
He chairs the Health Services Committee of the UK Faculty of Public Health. He is committed to promoting the value of Healthcare Public Health to assist NHS commissioning – crucial to the success of the 5 year Forward View and STPs. He is a member of a national network of public health specialists working in NHS Provider Trusts supporting the development of Trust Population Healthcare strategies. He is Vice-Chair of Public Health Advisory Committee A at NICE and an Honorary Professor of Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine, Nottingham University.
Sian Rees Director of Patient and Public Involvement, Engagement and Experience Oxford AHSN
Sian leads on Patient and Public Involvement, Engagement and Experience for the Oxford Academic Health Science Network. She also carries out research on experiences of health and healthcare at the University of Oxford. Sian has a background in public health medicine with over a decade of policy development experience at the Department of Health. Prior to this, she was the Director of Mental Health on the board of North Mersey Community and Mental Health Trust in Liverpool with responsibility for six clinical directorates.
Whilst there she instigated work to develop new models of service delivery for homeless people with mental illness, in local prisons and for community mental health care. In previous posts she has worked as a public health advisor to commissioning teams at local and national level and worked in
health promotion.
Throughout her career Sian has endeavoured to hear what matters most to those she is working with and to incorporate this into action - whether listening to patients in clinic, engaging with local service users to hear how they feel about the care they are getting, or hearing the devastating impact of suicide on a family. This has proved to be a repeatedly humbling experience, easy in theory but hard in practice.
Ellen Rule Director of Transformation and Service Redesign, Gloucestershire CCG
As Director of Transformation for Gloucestershire CCG and the STP Programme Director for Gloucestershire, Ellen has a strategic role to transform and redesign services to ensure they are fit for the future. Her team uses a clinical programme approach to commissioning, which provides a transparent framework and clear methods for understanding what matters to the population and to patients.
It involves redesigning patient pathways, focussing on prevention, integrated person-centred pathways and independent living. It also drives clinical changes informed by best practice, opportunities for change and innovative thinking. Integral to Ellen’s role is working closely with
colleagues across the health and social care community and listening to what is important to patients and the public.
Ellen has worked for the NHS since 2003, holding a variety of senior positions in commissioning and provider organisations spanning service redesign, assurance, contracting, operational management and strategic planning roles. She holds a Masters in Health Economics and Policy, and currently sits on two national committees for NICE. Prior to working in the NHS Ellen was a civil servant in the Cabinet Office, and has also worked in the private sector in the financial services industry.
Dr Anant Sachdev Lead Cancer GP, East Berkshire
Dr Anant Sachdev is a full-time GP, Cancer Lead & Specialist in End of Life and Palliative Medicine in Berkshire, and the Clinical Cancer Lead for the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance on Prevention and Early Diagnosis. He is involved with the clinical management in primary care of patients working with secondary care and the local hospice, plus strategy and guidelines locally and within the Cancer Alliance and Federated Clinical Commissioning Groups.
He has worked with the Macmillan, CRUK and NHS England on various programmes including Cancer Masterclasses, National Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiatives in Cancer, and the current “Be Clear on Cancer” programme.
“I am driven by the firm ethos of ‘making a difference’ and ‘do things that make the heart sing’ as life is too short… And am constantly learning from patients, colleagues, friends and others alike!”
Sangeeta Saran Associate Director Planned Care and Slough CCG
Sangeeta trained as a Pharmacist and completed MSC clinical Pharmacy in 2002. She worked in community pharmacy before taking up a role with PCT to deliver pharmaceutical advice to practices and community services. In this role she changed the delivery and focus of pharmaceutical advice and created a greater ownership at practice level of prescribing decisions and consideration of application of evidence base to make prescribing decisions at a patient and population level.
She then moved into a commissioning role as Lead for practice Based commissioning across Berkshire East. Sangeeta then moved into an Operations role, heading up Slough CCG since its inception. Slough CCG built a reputation of being innovative commissioners and was the first CCG to set up extended GP
service at evening and weekends as the first wave Prime Ministers Challenge Fund. Sangeeta now work as an associate director for planed care across Berkshire East and is operational lead for Slough CCG.. In her current role she leads on CVD, Diabetes, Cancer and Neurology commissioning.
Additionally she leads on improving commissioning on pathways in planned care including referral management and adoption of e referral in primary care.
Dr Knut Schroeder General Practitioner, Centre for Academic Primary Care University of Bristol
Knut founded social enterprise Expert Self Care in 2012 because he believed people needed easier, quicker and more convenient access to reliable health information. Knut is passionate about improving people’s knowledge about health and supporting them in making informed decisions through mobile technology. It is with great pride that he watched his social enterprise become NHS England Information Standard certified and launch its first product, a health information mobile app for students and young people, in 2016.
Before founding Expert Self Care, Knut was a GP Partner, Quality Improvement Lead and GP Trainer at the Concord Medical Centre in Bristol. In that role, he helped the practice achieve the Royal College of General Practitioners’ Quality Practice Award twice and was Practice Lead for developing the clinical
modules of the NHS Productive General Practice Programme. Prior to that, he was a Consultant Senior Lecturer in General Practice at the University of Bristol, conducting general practice based research and leading parts of the undergraduate teaching curriculum . Knut is a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and continues to enjoy his clinical work as a Portfolio GP in Bristol. Contact him via email ([email protected]) and twitter (@DrKnut).
Claire Scott Care and Support Planning Co-Ordinator, Berkshire West Claire Scott is a Diabetes Specialist Nurse based in Berkshire West. She is the Care Planning Lead for the four CCGs responsible for training and facilitating implementation of Care Planning for Diabetes and now other long term conditions in primary care.
Claire is a member of the Thames Valley Expert Hub supporting the implementation of Patient Centered Care across the Thames Valley in conjunction with Thames Valley SCN. She is also an accredited Year Of Care National Trainer.
Andrew Seaton Director of Safety, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Andrew Seaton, RN, BSc Nursing (Hons), LLB Law (Hons) is the Trust Lead for Safety and improvement and clinical governance as well as the Director of the Gloucestershire Safety & Quality Improvement Academy. He is actively involved at different levels in improvement, from strategic planning and development of the annual plan, supervision and teaching and hands on improvement projects.
In the past seven years Andrew has helped deliver a range of successful improvement projects with key clinicians to include VTE, Think Glucose, COPD, Sepsis, AKI, fall prevention, Emergency Laparotomy. He has also developed a programme of engaging staff in improvement projects which brought together teams to deliver local improvement. This has now matured into the Gloucestershire
Academy which links education with real prioritised improvement projects with long term project and educational supervision.
Andrew has participated in a number of national safety and quality improvement programmes, including the Leadership in Patient Safety Programme by NHS Innovation, the South West Quality & Safety Initiative with SHA\IHI and multiple learning events with the IHI. Andrew is also a member of the founding cohort of the Q initiative.
Dr Chetal Sheth GP Partner in Salisbury, Vice Chair (Sarum) Wiltshire CCG and CEO Wilcodoc Ltd
I qualified as a GP in 2008, moving straight into partnership. I am constantly reviewing ways of working/improving healthcare/innovating locally.
The newly qualified GP Programme is a simple solution to difficult problem – GP recruitment and future leadership. I am passionate about general practice and want to see it survive into the future.
Ed Sideso Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Mr Sideso was appointed as a Consultant Vascular & Endovascular surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital and the Thames Valley Vascular Network in 2012. He is also an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Oxford as well as an examiner at the Oxford University Medical School. Mr Sideso qualified from the University of London in 1999 and undertook higher surgical training in Oxford. He undertook research on carotid disease at the University of Oxford and following this underwent endovascular training in Germany, with a brief period in the Cleveland Clinic USA for complex endovascular techniques.
Mr Sideso practises exclusively as a vascular and endovascular surgeon and offers the full repertoire of vascular treatment for arterial and venous disease. He has been involved in the development of the Thames Valley Vascular Network and has been an integral part of the network for the past five years. He is the Clinical Lead for vascular surgery at the Oxford University Hospital Foundation Trust and provides vascular services in both Oxford and Berkshire.
Dr Don Sinclair Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Associate Director of Public Health England’s South East Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service.
Dr Don Sinclair is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Associate Director of Public Health England’s South East Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service. This provides information to assist local authorities and partners in their planning for Health Improvement.
Don is particularly interested in inequalities, including risk factors and health outcomes, and his team has been highlighting these across the South East. He also works on PHE’s Health Profiles Programme, which produces information to support Health and Wellbeing Boards.
Don was a PCT Director of Public Health in East Berkshire and has experience of the real-life challenges faced by local authorities and the NHS in improving the health of their populations.
Dr Ljuba Stirzaker Deputy Medical Director, NHS England South Central
Ljuba has trained and worked in medicine in Oxfordshire for most of her professional life. She did several junior hospital posts, before training in Public Health Medicine (PHM). She worked as a Consultant in PHM in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, later becoming a Director of Public Health for North Oxfordshire.
After several NHS reorganisations, she joined NHS England in 2013, as a Clinical Strategy lead and Deputy Medical Director.
For the last three years she has headed the Performance and Concerns team, which works in line with the NHS Performers Lists Regulations. The focus of this work is on patient safety, but supporting professionals is also very important to her team.
Dr Simon Stockill Clinical Champion Royal College of General Practitioners
Dr Simon Stockill grew up in Yorkshire, before studying medicine at Imperial College London and University College London. After qualifying as a GP he worked as a lecturer in general practice at Imperial College, London, served on the Board of Westminster Primary Care Trust and was an elected member of Westminster City Council. He has a postgraduate degree in public health from the University of York, was Clinical Chair of NHS Leeds Primary Care Trust before becoming Medical Director of NHS Leeds West Clinical Commissioning Group.
He was a founder of the Leeds Institute of Quality Healthcare and takes a specialist interest in quality improvement and clinical leadership. He became RCGP Co-Clinical Champion for QI Ready in 2016.
Simon spent over 10 years as a GP in Leeds. In April 2016 he moved to a new practice near Whitby in order to remove any conflicts of interest, as the CCG took over responsibility for commissioning primary care medical services.
Rebecca Tyrell Workforce Transformation Lead, NHS England South Central and Thames Valley Health Education England
I joined NHSE South Central in 2014 as a Quality Improvement Manager in the Nursing and Quality Directorate, to lead a project on improving patient safety in Primary Care. I latterly led the NHSESC response to CQC inspections of GP and Dental practices, working with practices in special measures.
I previously had a clinical career for over 20 years as an AHP working in Oxfordshire, with a keen interest for quality improvement, training and development.
Emily van de Venter Acting Consultant in Public Health, Gloucestershire County Council
Emily van de Venter has been working in Public Health for ten years. She studied Neuroscience at the University of Bristol and gained a Masters in Public Health from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2012. With a background as a Public Health Analyst she has recently qualified as a Consultant in Public Health.
As part of her current responsibilities with Gloucestershire County Council, Emily plays a lead role in supporting the implementation and development of the local Sustainability and Transformation Plan which has a strong focus on prevention. She is working to ensure initiatives are evidence based and to develop a culture of evaluation to maximise the impact of service improvements, improve population health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
Dr Emma Vaux Q Fellow, Consultant Nephrologist & General Physician, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Emma Vaux is a Consultant Nephrologist and Physician at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. She was awarded a research doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2001. She leads the Royal College Physicians (RCP) quality improvement (QI) programme ‘Learning to Make a Difference’ and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Quality Improvement: Training for Better Outcomes work on how to embed QI training in medical training. She is a Generation Q Fellow with The Health Foundation and a founding Q member.
Other roles include RCP Censor, Specialty Advisor with the Care Quality Commission, NCAS Lead Assessor, RCP Invited Service Review Team, Renal Lead Oxford Academic Health Science Network and Patient Safety Collaborative and Editorial Board Future Hospitals Journal and QI4U. Recent roles have included Programme Director QI, RBFT, CEO Patient Safety Federation, Associate Medical Director of the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board, lead for Core Medical Training and CT1 national recruitment.
Professor Martin Vernon National Clinical Director for Older People and Person Centred Integrated Care at NHS England
Martin qualified in 1988 in Manchester. 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 2016 Martin was appointed National Clinical Director for Older People and Person Centred Integrated Care at NHS England.
Dr Robert Walton GP in Oxford and Clinical Professor of Primary Medical Care, Blizard Institute
Robert is a GP in Oxford where he was Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology and is now Professor of General Medical Practice at Warwick University. His research interests include novel ways of delivering primary health care.
He holds an NIHR Programme grant on expanding the role of the pharmacist in primary care with particular reference to smoking cessation services.
He was successful in a bid for an NIHR in practice Fellowship to research the use of smartphone
games in health promotion and was made an NIHR Senior Investigator in 2016.
Professor Bee Wee National Clinical Director for End of Life Care for NHS England.
Bee is Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Sir Michael Sobell House, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Professor at University of Oxford, where she is also the Associate Director of Clinical Studies and Fellow of Harris Manchester College.
Originally from Malaysia, Bee qualified from Trinity College Dublin in 1988, trained in general practice in Dublin and 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 and Chair of the Topic Expert Group for the NICE Quality Standard for End of Life Care (2011).
Bee is also a Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University and University of Worcester, and Honorary Professor at Sichuan University, China. 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.
Vince Weldon Associate Director of IM&T, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Vince Weldon has been Associate Director of IM&T at South Central Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust for the past ten years. During this time he has represented the service in a number of initiatives with stakeholder trusts and commissioners from across the Trusts wide geographic area, and on national groups involved in 111, 999, mapping and digital communications.
Other than a brief seven year ‘holiday’ in local government around the turn of the century he has been working in the NHS since 1983. Despite being battle scarred from over thirty years of new initiatives and false dawns he remains excited by the potential benefits that the digital agenda can bring to healthcare across the country.
Dr Kate Wheeler MB BS FRCPCH Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Head of Service, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
I have been a Consultant Paediatric Oncologist in Oxford and clinical lead for our Thames Valley Children’s Cancer Network for nearly 20 years. During this time there have been many exciting new developments in both the treatments and management strategies of patients. As a result outcomes for children with cancer have improved over the past 20 years.
Oxford is the Principal Treatment Centre for children with cancer in the Thames Valley and our patients are managed using a shared care model of practice with our referring hospitals. At a national level I have been involved in strategic groups including the NCRI Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Clinical Studies Group and have been the chair of the national NCRI neuroblastoma group as well as being a member of the NHS England’s Children’s Cancer CRG.
Dan White Senior Clinical Pharmacist, BABCP CBT Psychotherapist, Oxford AHSN Clinical Support, Oxford Health NHS FT
Dan White is a specialist mental health pharmacist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. He joined the Trust pharmacy department in 2003. In 2012 Dan became a British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapist (BABCP) accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist. He is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) therapist and clinical supervisor for the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre/University of Oxford. In 2017 Dan received an MSc (with distinction) in CBT at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford and is currently a DPhil candidate at Kellogg College, University of Oxford.
He is also a Clinical Support Officer at the Oxford Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) where he works as part of the Medicines Optimisation Clinical Network (MOCN). His research concerns the use of CBT techniques by routine healthcare professionals when discussing medication in order to enhance medicines optimisation. As part of the MOCN portfolio of projects, he has just finished delivering a course to over 100 Healthcare professionals in the Thames Valley region in the use of these techniques having received funding from Health Education England–Thames Valley.
Maggie Woods Deputy Director of Leadership and Organisation Development, NHS Thames Valley and Wessex Leadership Academy Associate GP Dean, NHS Health Education Thames Valley
Maggie has worked within the NHS, in hospitals, in primary care and in education for her whole career. Starting her career clinically, Maggie now works as a medical educator and as a leadership and organisational development practitioner. Maggie is also an executive coach, a team coach and a mentor. Maggie has worked with individuals, with teams and with boards both nationally and internationally. Maggie has been responsible for the development and facilitation of unique and innovative leadership development programmes, for example a national leadership programme for Health and Social Care Staff and a new placed based programme within an STP footprint.
Maggie has a passion for improving the quality of care by developing individuals and teams. During her career Maggie has worked with and for some exceptional teams and leaders, seeing the
difference that these people have made to patients and carers experiences have made Maggie committed to supporting and developing staff.
Session Chair profiles
Stuart Bell CBE Chief Executive, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Stuart Bell joined Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust as Chief Executive in October 2012 and had previously been the Chief Executive of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust since it was formed in 1999. After reading Modern History at the University of Oxford, Stuart joined the NHS in 1982, and held senior planning and service management roles in acute teaching and general hospitals.
He then worked for six years at a regional level where he had responsibility for organisational development and performance management. In 1996 he was seconded to the Department of Health as Head of NHS Performance. He is an Honorary Fellow of King’s College London and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has been a Trustee of the Picker Institute (Europe) for several years, and became Chairman in 2013. In 2008 he was awarded the CBE for services to healthcare.
Dr Andy Ciercierski Chair, North and West Reading CCG
Dr Andy Ciecierski obtained his MBBS (London) in 1991. He has been a GP Partner at Emmer Green Surgery since 1999, where he started a ‘GP with a special interest’ ENT Clinic in 2001. He was the Chair of Caversham PBC Group from 2009-2011.
He became Deputy Lead of the newly formed North & West Reading CCG from 2011, becoming Chair in 2015. He is the Clinical Lead for Urgent Care for the Berkshire West Federation of CCGs.
In addition he is the Clinical Lead on the SCAS 999 Contract across the Thames Valley. Andy is also a Junior Coach at Reading Rowing Club which takes up most of his weekends.
Neil Dardis Chief Executive, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Neil has been chief executive at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust since April 2015, having joined as Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer in 2013. During his time he has led a rapid transformation of the quality of care, staff engagement, and the development of sustainable service strategies for the Trust.
Prior to joining BHT, Neil was Director of Operations at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust where he led their operational turnaround and acute reconfiguration of services including a £17m maternity development and the consolidation of surgical services. Neil has also held a number of service management roles at the Royal Free London NHS Trust and Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust.
Neil graduated from Durham University with a degree in history, has a diploma in health service
management and has studied at the London Business School and Cambridge University Judge Business School. He has also been a member of the NHS Top Leaders Programme and worked with the Kings Fund on system leadership.
Neil chairs the Oxford Academic Health Science Network’s clinical innovation and adoption group, the Healthy Bucks Leaders Group, as well as the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West’s STP workforce group. He also sits as part of the NHS Improvement Chief Executive Advisory Panel.
Ann Donkin Sustainability and Transformation Plan Programme Director, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire Berkshire West STP
Ann has 20 years’ experience operating at Board and Cabinet level in NHS and Local Authority commissioning and provider organisations and has worked in both the private and public health and care sectors for over 30 years at national, regional and local level. Prior to coming in to the South Central region to support the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Sustainability and Transformation Partnership she was Chief Officer of South Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
Ann has an Executive MBA with Distinction and is a Member through Distinction of the Faculty of Public Health. She gained postgraduate executive educational development at Oxford Said Business School on one of their globally recognised Advanced Leadership & Management Development
programmes.
Ann is also a Norfolk Healthwatch Board Member, a Non-Executive Director of Norfolk Educational Services (NES), a limited company of the TEN Group of Norfolk Academies and an accredited Volunteer for Nelson’s Journey, a charity supporting bereaved children.
Julian Emms Chief Executive, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Julian was appointed CEO of Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in 2012.
He has overseen the successful transformation into a Foundation Trust, the integration with community health services and the Trust’s latest CQC rating of ‘good’.
Professor Joe Harrison Chief Executive, Milton Keynes University Hospital
Joe joined Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in February 2013, an acute hospital serving a population of 300,000 employing over 4,000 staff. Joe was previously Chief Executive at Bedford Hospital before this.
Joe has 25 years’ experience of working in acute hospitals, including senior director roles in big teaching hospitals and several district general hospitals. Joe’s focus is on improving patient services and ensuring clinical care is delivered appropriately and in the right place.
Joe is a board member of the Oxford Academic Health Science Network (AHSN), Chair of the Clinical Research Network for Thames Valley and sits on a number of committees with the University of Buckingham.
Dr Adrian Hayter GP and Clinical Chair of Windsor Ascot and Maidenhead Clinical Commissioning Group
Dr Hayter has been a GP in the Windsor area for nearly 20 years and a Clinical Commissioning Chair for Windsor Ascot and Maidenhead CCG since April 2013. He has previously supported the Primary Care Commissioning agenda in roles relating to older age care and represented health on local older age partnership boards in PCGs and PCTs as well as supporting local Falls Initiatives in East Berkshire.
He continues to provide GP services for patients of his practice and has in the past contributed to the development of a local out of hours GP service as a Medical Director. He is currently involved as CCG Clinical Chair representing the South Central Region for NHSCC Board and supports the work of
the Thames Valley Local Training and Education Board and on the Thames Valley Oversight committee
of the Strategic Clinical Network. His overall passion is to effect change by working as a Collaborative Leader building communities with a healthier future.
Dr Peter Jenkins Chair, Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Peter qualified from St Mary’s Hospital, London, in 1975 and was a GP in Avon Valley Practice for more than 30 years. In the past he was a GP Trainer and GP Tutor for the City of Salisbury and remains a GP Appraiser.
A Board Member and Clinical Governance Lead for South Wiltshire Primary Care Trust, Peter was also the Medical Adviser and named GP for safeguarding children for Wiltshire CCG from 2013 to 2015, before taking up the Chairmanship in July of that year.
He is now leading the vision and planning strategy for the integration of health and care services with Wiltshire Council. A Fellow of the RCGP, Peter is also a keen fisherman and (an unlikely) guitar player and vocalist.
Thalia Jervis Chief Executive Healthwatch Buckinghamshire
Thalia joined Healthwatch Bucks in 2017, following three years at Network Rail where her role focused on strategic transformation and programme management.
She has worked as part of the public sector including time with the Prison Service and the Foreign Office, and then with a large variety of public and private sector organisations as part of a large management consultancy.
John Lisle Accountable Officer, Berkshire East CCGs
John graduated in Natural Sciences and undertook research in virology before moving to a commercial career in the pharmaceutical industry, initially with AstraZeneca, then with GSK where he was UK National Business Director, and more recently as CEO of two medicines/devices companies.
He joined the NHS as a non-Executive Director with Buckinghamshire PCT, and was Deputy Accountable Officer of Chiltern CCG before moving to his current role as Accountable Officer for the East Berkshire CCGs.
Steve McManus Chief Executive Officer, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Steve joined the Trust in January 2017. He began his career in the NHS in 1987 as a registered nurse. He completed his BA Hons in healthcare studies at Oxford Brookes University followed by a postgraduate certificate in evidence based healthcare from Oxford University. In 2002 he moved into management as a general manager at Radcliffe Infirmary and completed an MBA with Nottingham University Business School in 2006. Steve then joined University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, as a Divisional Director of Operations and subsequently as Chief Operating Officer. As a member of the executive team, he led the Trust through the process to gain foundation trust status.
In 2012 Steve took up post as Chief Operation Officer at Imperial College Healthcare and was
appointed Deputy Chief Executive in 2014. During this period Steve has also been Chair of the NHS Providers Chief Operating Officer network and was selected as part of the first cohort on the national Aspiring Chief Executive Programme. During 2016 Steve moved from Imperial to take up the position of Managing Director at Basildon and Thurrock University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust before taking up the role of CEO for Royal Berkshire Hospital in Jan 2017.
Richard Mumford Acting GP Dean, Thames Valley, Health Education England
Richard is the Acting GP Dean for Health Education England, working across the Thames Valley. Richard worked in the East Midlands in what was then the East Midlands Deanery and came to Oxford in 2008 as a training programme director in Banbury and then a little later as an Associate Dean for Reading & Newbury. Richard’s main areas of interest is medical education (currently Associate Honorary Lecturer at DeMontfort University), the quality management of primary care and providing support to trainees who are struggling to get to grips with the fundamentals of the GP consultation.
He runs monthly consultations skills sessions for GP trainees. Uniquely, Richard comes from a non- medically trained background having spent his early career working as a nurse and his mid-career working in general management in secondary care. He has worked in the arena of primary care
education for the last 13 years.
Dr Jim O’Donnell Clinical Chair NHS Slough CCG
Dr O’Donnell qualified at the National University of Ireland, Galway in June 1978 and completed his General Practice training in Portsmouth in 1982. He worked in tertiary referral medicine in Baghdad, Iraq from 1984 to 1988 followed by a cardiology research post in the UK at Wexham Park Hospital involving the first use of thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction. He then returned to full time general practice in Slough and had a key interest in clinical governance and education in primary care.
From 2006 he was involved in commissioning and in 2007 became the Slough Locality Lead. In 2008 he became Chairman of the Clinical Executive Committee at Berkshire East PCT. He worked with the NHS Commissioning Board in drawing up plans for the Commissioning Assembly, later NHSCC. He served as Chair of Slough CCG since its authorisation, and has led on innovation and service improvement from diabetes, stroke, and patient access.
In 2014, Slough was the first area to deliver seven day working in general practice as part of PMCF, and this continues as GP access. He has worked closely with Slough Borough Council to significantly reduce deprivation and championed RightCare as the approach in selecting health commissioning priorities.
Dr Will Orr Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust
Will Orr qualified at The Royal London then trained in Cardiology at Guys, Reading & Oxford. He was a BHF Junior Research Fellow in Oxford and undertook an Interventional Fellowship at Green Lane in Auckland, NZ before taking up his current post in 2002 as Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading.
Between 2005 and 2016 he was Clinical Director for South Central Cardiovascular Network, then Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Network. Will was Cardiology Training Programme Director for Oxford Deanery and a member of the Specialist Advisory Council for Cardiology from 2011-16. He has been Care Group Director for Urgent Care at the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust since April 2016.
Lou Patten Accountable Officer, NHS Aylesbury Vale and NHS Chiltern CCGs
Louise trained as a nurse at Southampton University Hospitals and as a District Nurse in Buckinghamshire. She has worked as Assistant Director of Nursing for a Community Provider whilst undertaking a degree in Health Science at the University of Leicester. She moved into commissioning as a Director of Primary Care and has held a PCT Deputy Chief Executive and Board Nurse position.
After her year’s sabbatical taking an MBA, she worked for a commercial healthcare organisation, returning to the NHS a year later to support a local GP Provider company and then into commissioning as the CEO of the local practice based commissioning group in north Buckinghamshire and later the CCG. She was appointed the Accountable Officer across the federated Buckinghamshire CCGs in July 2016. Outside work, Louise is a keen open water swimmer, successfully completing
various British lakes, the Hellespont and a relay channel swim with her family.
Dr Kathy Pritchard-Jones Chief Medical Officer for the University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Cancer Collaborative
Kathy Pritchard-Jones is chief medical officer for the University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Cancer Collaborative, part of the national cancer vanguard within NHS England’s new care models programme. The UCLH Cancer Collaborative serves a population of 3.5 million in North and East London and West Essex with eight acute hospitals and three specialist hospitals working in partnership as an integrated cancer system.
She is also the Cancer Programme Director for UCL Partners Academic Health Science Network. Since 2010, in these various roles, she has led redesign of whole pathways of cancer care in partnership with patients, primary care, public health and the voluntary sector, to improve clinical outcomes, patient experience of care and access to clinical trials and innovation. She works closely with commissioners and academic collaborators to develop the means to evaluate outcomes of whole
pathways of care and understand the impact of these changes on local health economies.
She is also Professor of Paediatric Oncology at UCL Institute of Child Health and a consultant oncologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She is chief investigator for the national clinical trial in childhood renal tumours and heads the translational research laboratory focussed on biomarker evaluation in this setting.
Dr Sarah Roberts Diabetes Clinical Lead, Thames Valley SCN
Dr Sarah Roberts is a diabetes consultant at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough and Thames Valley Cardiovascular Strategic Clinical Network Diabetes Lead. Sarah is particularly interested in improving outcomes for people with diabetes. Sarah previously worked at Dorset County Hospital (2009-15) and within 2 years led the diabetes foot team to successfully reduce lower limb amputations by 52%.
In 2012, proposed and led a Hypoglycaemia Awareness Week initiative, which improved identification of hypoglycaemia and appropriate treatment in inpatients with diabetes. NHS Diabetes and Diabetes UK, subsequently adopted and championed annual national Hypoglycaemia Awareness Week in England. Whilst working in Dorset, Sarah was seconded to Department of Health as Diabetes Policy lead for nine months and was subsequently Wessex Cardiovascular Strategic Clinical Network diabetes lead (2013-15).
Kate Shields Regional Director of Specialised Commissioning, NHS England
Kate Shields is currently Regional Director of Specialised Commissioning for the South of England. She has held previous roles as a Director in commissioning organisations and in an Acute Trust. She started her career in the NHS as a Registered General Nurse and a Registered Mental Health Nurse.
She has a Public Health background and is passionate about ensuring care is centred around people who use services. Her ambition is to be part of a health and social care system that uses the available resources to target funding at the most vulnerable and to design care which helps people to be cared for as near to their homes as possible.
Nerissa Vaughan Chief Executive, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Swindon, Wiltshire
Nerissa has been the Trust’s Chief Executive for nearly six years. Keen to integrate health services, she joined the Trust in October 2011 following the acquisition of Wiltshire Community Services. She has been working closely with partners in Wiltshire to develop innovative organisational structures that help deliver seamless care.
She joined the NHS as a graduate management trainee in 1991 and has worked mainly in the hospital sector since then, holding a variety of roles including Director of Operations, Director of Planning and Chief Executive.