2020 Nightingale Challenge Nurses and Midwives Global Leadership Development Programme

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Residential Workshop 1, 16th and 17th January 2020 Stormont Hotel, Upper Newtownards Road, BT4 3LP

1 Professor Charlotte McArdle, MSc BSc PGCert RGN – Chief Nursing Officer, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Charlotte McArdle, Chief Nursing officer (CNO) for Northern Ireland is responsible for professional leadership, performance and development of the professions in Northern Ireland, including Allied Health Professionals. In her role Charlotte ensures that standards of practice are developed in pursuit of high quality care and experience that is supported by high quality professional training and development.

Charlotte is department’s policy lead for patient experience, real time user feedback, co-production and nutrition.

Charlotte has undergone a Leadership Development Scholarship focusing on embedding a culture of Safety, Quality and Experience. This includes the development of KPI’s for all service teams. She has a strong commitment to person centred practice and evidencing improved outcomes for people who use health and social care services, particularly regarding safety, quality and experience. Charlotte completed the International Council for Nurses Global Nurse Policy Leadership Programme in Geneva 2017. She is an Honorary Professor at faculty of health science.

Mary Frances Mc Manus, Nursing Officer, Public Health, Department of Health, Northern Ireland RN, RM,HV, BSC (Hons), MSC, MPA, PG Dip HSSM, IHI Improvement Advisor and Florence Nightingale Foundation Scholar 2019 Aspiring Nurse Director.

Mary Frances McManus is a Nursing Officer at the Department of Health with responsibility for Public Health Nursing. Mary Frances has held a range of clinical, managerial and leadership posts throughout her career. She trained as a nurse in the late eighties at the Belfast City , and qualified as a midwife a few years later. She then trained and became a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse in 1996 and worked as a Health Visitor in the Ulster Community and Hospital Trust.

Mary Frances moved into management in 2000 where she held Nurse Manager and Child Health Services Manager positions in the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust.

Mary Frances moved to the Department of Health in 2014 to take up the post as Nursing Officer Public Health. Mary Frances has undertaken a range of leadership programmes throughout her career and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Health and Social Services Management, a Masters Degree in Public Administration and a Master Degree in Health Promotion. Mary Frances interests include reading, walking and undertaking Parkrun.

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Dr Catherine Hannaway DProf. MSc. Cert Ed. PG Dip HSM. RGN, (RM ret.), RHV Hon.MFPH FFNM RCSI Global Health Consultant

Catherine trained in the UK as a Registered Nurse, Midwife and Health Visitor and has worked in senior leadership positions widely across the in England, as well as extensively overseas. She has worked on the set-up of many national and international initiatives, including the first NHS Walk-in Centres, the first Health Promoting Hospital initiative, testing new models of Primary Care, implementing the Chlamydia Screening Programme and the first NHS Improvement Collaboratives.

Working with Lord Nigel Crisp, Baroness Mary Watkins and a global board of renowned international experts, beginning mid 2017 Catherine set-up and then launched the 3-year global campaign Nursing Now, aimed at strengthening Nursing across the world www.nursingnow.org.

As part of the role of Acting Executive Director, Catherine travelled extensively around the world helping countries and organisations to set up national and local Nursing Now initiatives – in particular focussing on leadership development, increasing the capability and leadership skills of young nurses and midwives as well as setting out the framework for the global 2020 Nightingale Challenge. In January 2019 Catherine was invited to launch Nursing Now Pakistan, along with the President of Pakistan and the Director General of the World Health Organisation and has since continued her support to Pakistan as well as travelling to many other countries including the Philippines, Thailand and Myanmar.

Catherine is Programme Director for the 2020 Nightingale Challenge Global Leadership Development Programme in Northern Ireland, and is also working together with lead nurses from Northern Ireland, a global Expert Advisory Groups and Professor Sir Michael Marmot on a report ‘Nurses and Midwives for Health Equity’ commissioned by the World Innovation Summit for Health for 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife.

Catherine has a wealth of experience in designing and delivering whole-systems public health leadership and improvement programmes and working globally with the World Health Organization designing and delivering ‘Health in All Policies’ training around the world. She is a qualified coach, renown for here impactful and inspiring presentation style.

3 Howard Catton CEO, International Council of Nurses

Howard qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1988 and held a variety of nursing posts in England and the United States and worked for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation. He studied Social Policy at Cardiff University (BSc Econ Hons) and Industrial Relations at Warwick University (MA) and then worked as a Personnel and Organisational Change Manager in the National Health Service in the UK.

For 10 years Howard was Head of Policy & International Affairs at the Royal College of Nursing in the UK. His department worked with a wide range of stakeholders on the development and implementation of nursing and health policy both in the UK and overseas. He worked closely with a variety of Government departments and Westminster Parliamentarians on many policy and legislative issues. He has also led and supported many national campaigns and was frequently the RCN spokesperson in range of media. In 2015 he was named in the Health Service Journal top 100 Clinical Leaders list.

Howard has also served as an elected Local Government Councillor in England and for 5 years was a Cabinet member with lead responsibility for corporate and customer services. During this time, he also worked on several Public Health, Community development, safety and wellbeing initiatives.

In April 2016 Howard relocated to Geneva to join the International Council of Nurses as the Director, Nursing, Policy and Programmes. His team led the development of ICN policy and position statements, working closely with WHO and other International Organisations to provide nursing advice on global health challenges and input into formal WHO and UN decision making meetings and processes. His team also co-ordinated ICN Programmes and projects including Leadership development and worked closely with other Non-Government Health Organisations, civil society and private sector organisations. Howard also oversaw the development of scientific programmes for ICN events including Congress. In February 2019 he was appointed new ICN Chief Executive Officer.

Professor Brian Dolan OBE, FFNMRCSI, FRSA, MSc(Oxon), MSc(Nurs), RMN, RGN

Brian Dolan is Director of Health Service 360 which provides 360 appraisals for nurses, doctors, allied health and managers. He works with organisations in New Zealand (he is Director of Service Improvement, Canterbury DHB), Australia and the UK, undertaking leadership development, culture change and whole systems reform. He co-created the TODAY model of change with Lynda Holt, CEO, Health Service 360.

4 Brian is both a psychiatric and general nurse and most of his clinical career was in emergency care. He has also worked as an NHS Executive Director and Clinical Director.

Brian has published over 70 papers and is author/editor of seven books. He holds Masters degrees in Nursing (King’s College, London) and Educational Research Methodology (Oxford University). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Visiting Professor of Nursing, Oxford Institute of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Research (OxINMAHR) and Honorary Professor of Leadership in Healthcare, University of Salford and Fellow by Election of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. In June 2018, he was publicly voted one of the top 20 most influential people in the history of the NHS and was awarded an OBE by HM the Queen in the 2019 New Years Honours List ‘For Services to Nursing and Emergency Care’.

Brian originated the #EndPJparalysis campaign to encourage patients to get up, dressed and moving while in hospital. A 70 day UK-wide campaign last year saw >710,000 hospital patients mobilized and >703,000 dressed and 70+ presentations from the recent Global #EndPJparalysis Summit can be viewed (free) on endPJparalysis.org

Miss Peninah Joselyn Wampamba, RN

Penni recently graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Children’s and Young People’s Nursing and is a practicing Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse. Her passion is global health, especially maternal and infant health.

Spending four weeks on a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Fort Portal on an exchange programme gave Penni the initial exposure to global health that she needed. It served to emphasise the importance of collaborative work between the developed countries and developing countries.

Penni held the title of Miss Uganda UK 2018/19 and is currently a young nurse leader representing Uganda globally. This platform has enabled her to participate in raising the profile of nurses both here in the United Kingdom and back in her home country Uganda, and also to promote health and well-being.

Penni is the secretary of a social enterprise called “EYE HEALTH AFRICA”.

5 Mr Rodney Morton, RMN, Dip. Social Behavioural Sciences, PG Dip HSCM, MBA, IHI Improvement Advisor Graduate, PG Cert Leadership in Healthcare. Executive Director of Nursing and AHP in the Public Health Agency, Northern Ireland

Rodney is currently the Executive Director of Nursing and AHP in the Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland. Previously Rodney held the position of Deputy Chief Nursing Officer with Department of Health.

He was responsible for co-leading the development of 10-15 year road map for Nursing and Midwifery in Northern Ireland, along with providing professional advice on mental health, learning disability and older people nursing services. In addition, he held policy responsibility for Personal, Public, Involvement, and led the development of a new Co-Production Framework for the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Sector.

Rodney has over 33 years’ experience in a range of practice, managerial and leadership roles in CAMHS, Autism, Adult Mental Health, Addictions, Psychological Therapies, Older People, Public Mental Health and Primary Care Services. Rodney also led the development of the Regional ‘You in Mind’ Mental Health Care Pathways Programme, Regional Mental Health and Psychological Therapies Training Programme for Northern Ireland. Rodney is an improvement science enthusiast and has been promoting and building quality Improvement capability across Nursing and AHP Services.

Susan Semple MBE Health Care Coordinator Advanced Nurse, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland

Susan took up her present post in North and West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust, now the (Belfast Health & Social Care Trust) as Health Care Coordinator for the homeless in 1999. She pioneered the first dedicated nurse led health care service in Northern Ireland for those experiencing homelessness and sex working

To fulfil the role and address gaps in health care for these populations Susan undertook post graduate studies including an MSc in Advanced Nursing/Nurse Practitioner Pathway and Independent Nurse Prescribing that would ensure timely interventions and access to medication for those experiencing homelessness.

Susan has undertaken qualitative research to explore how the homeless view their own health and considers inclusion, equality, dignity and respect as important variables when understanding and shaping services for this client group.

Susan feels that it is only when we understand the health perceptions of those experiencing homelessness and challenge systems criteria, can we provide a sound evidence base on which 6 to further develop services that are meaningful, service user friendly and cost effective. Advocacy is a core function of service provision used as a means to empower those experiencing homeless to make informed health choices.

Susan also represents homelessness and health on local statutory and regional strategic groups, contributing actively in shaping policy and procedures to improve services for those experiencing homelessness.

In 2014 the team was awarded the Northern Ireland Health Care Award for their innovation in bringing sexual health screening outside the secondary care arena and reaching a population of sex workers and those experiencing homelessness that fell often fell through the gap in accessing timely services.

Susan has been recognised for her work by the voluntary and statutory Sector organisations and the nursing professions, including the RCN Outstanding Achievement in Nursing, Award. The UK Bevin Award and holds an MBE recognising her services to nursing.

Mrs Brenda Carson (RGN), Senior Lead Nurse for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement, South Eastern HSC Trust

Brenda began her nurse training at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast in 1986 and on qualifying as a RGN took up post in the Downe Hospital in Downpatrick where she worked as a Staff Nurse in various disciplines within the Hospital.

In 2005, Brenda was appointed as Patient Safety Officer within the former Down Lisburn Trust where she led on the development of the Safer Patients Initiative. She has completed the IHI Patient Safety Officer Executive Development Programme in Boston, USA, a Post- Grad certificate in Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management at Leeds University, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Health and Social Care Management at the HSC Leadership Centre and is a Clinical Microsystems Coach trained through Dartmouth Institute, Vermont.

Brenda’s commitment to Patient Safety was recognised in 2007 and again in 2014 when she twice was awarded the Chief Nursing Officers award for Patient Safety at the RCN Nurse of the Year awards in Northern Ireland.

Brenda is currently the Senior Lead Nurse for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement within South Eastern HSC Trust where she leads on a number of improvement programmes, empowering teamwork, driving and developing practice and improving Patient and Client Safety, Quality and Experience throughout the organisation. Brenda completed the IHI Improvement Advisor Programme in 2018 and is now a Faculty member with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston where she teaches on the IHI Improvement Coach Programme.

7 Caroline Lee, Head of Clinical Education Centre, Northern Ireland

Caroline took up post as Head of HSC Clinical Education Centre in January 2017.

Caroline has a wide range of experience and was formerly the Deputy Chief Nurse at the Department of Health, Northern Ireland. Previous to that, she was Deputy Director of Nursing in South Eastern Trust and has also held a number of senior positions in the Royal Victoria Hospital (Pre RPA).

Caroline is a Florence Nightingale Scholar and has a Master’s degree in Health Service Management.

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