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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU
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Samson trained and
qualified as a registered nurse in Nigeria in 1977. He worked in different
organisations in Nigeria as an
Orthopaedic nurse and resigned from his post as a Chief Nursing Officer in the
year 2000.
He moved to New Zealand where he worked as a Cardiothoracic Nurse in Green lane Hospital, Auckland from where he moved to Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore in January 2002.
He attended London South Bank University, where he obtained
a BSc (Hons.) Professional nursing, (Orthopaedics), in 2008.
He is currently a Charge nurse,
Orthopaedics, at North West London Hospitals NHS trust.
Dame Christine was
appointed Chief Nursing Officer in October 2004 and is the Director General
within the Department of Health
for Professional Leadership (including Allied Health Professions) and for
Children, Families and Maternity.
She is also the lead director for Reducing Health Associated Infections and the
Cleaner Hospitals Programme. She was awarded an Honorary
Professorship in Nursing by Thames Valley University in 1997 and is the Pro Chancellor at the University.
She has
been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Northumbria
and Sheffield Hallam. She is also a Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute and a Trustee of Marie Curie
Cancer Care.
Christine was awarded
a CBE in 2002 and a DBE in June 2008.
Matt is currently a Senior Charge Nurse
within the Accident & Emergency Department at the Luton & Dunstable NHS Foundation Trust. After
graduating in 2000 with a Diploma of Higher Education in Adult nursing he worked on a spinal injuries
unit before making the transition to Accident Service at Barnet General Hospital.
He joined the Luton
& Dunstable in 2003 and went to complete a BSc in Children’s Nursing in 2005.
Keen to improve his
understanding in training he undertook a nine-month secondment as the Resuscitation Officer within his trust
and is a qualified European Paediatric Life Support instructor, teaching at many different trusts in the East of
England.
Matt enrolled
into the MSc 'leadership in healthcare' programme to help in his own personal
development as a nurse-leader in
the NHS and to increase his knowledge of the qualities that a leader can bring
both to the workplace and into his
personal life.
Professor Chris Johns has a background
in Nursing. His research interests lie in reflective practice, the application of complementary therapies
within the NHS, clinical managerial and leadership issues and medical assessment.
Anne has many years experience as an occupational therapist
in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. She spent the early stages
of her career in paediatrics and even ventured beyond the NHS to spend 3 years
as a mobility therapist for the
charity WhizzKidz.
As this involved extensive travelling
over central and eastern England, family commitments finally persuaded her to return to the NHS for a year as a
lecturer practitioner.
This post
was split between Children’s Services in Bedfordshire and the University of Northampton.
Although Anne has now left paediatrics
behind she has recently been privileged to be able to join a group of therapists who make an annual visit to
the orphanages in Romania to support wheelchair provision to children in this country.
Anne now works for the Rehabilitation and Enablement Team
managing a small team of therapists who provide services to four rehabilitation units within the
Bedfordshire PCT.
With the
numerous changes and challenges
currently facing these units Anne sees transformational leadership as an
integral component to her role and
she enrolled on the Masters ‘Leadership in Healthcare’ programme to gain a
greater understanding and
awareness of how to facilitate this leadership style.
Juliet
is the Lead Nurse for Infection Control and Tissue Viability at Bedford
Hospital NHS Trust. She has been a
nurse in acute settings in the UK for over 20 years and specialised in
infection control for the last ten.
She is keen to use innovative ways of developing nursing and
healthcare. Juliet has a passionate interest in the transferability of both healthcare skills and
micro-organisms.
She looks for opportunities to use her other interests, such as art and music, in her
work and only wishes there was a way of incorporating snorkelling in the Indian Ocean into the NHS.
Deborah McBeal has worked in NHS
administration across a number of secondary care teaching hospitals since 1986, moving into NHS management
in 1994.
Deborah then decided she
wanted to work in primary care to
enable early intervention in preventing ill health and took up post as Practice
Business Manager for a Luton GP
practice in 1999, before commencing in post as Head of Primary Care
Commissioning for NHS Luton in
February 2009.
Dr Gerry McSorley is the Head of Board
Level Development at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement with special interest in
transformational change and leadership and organisational development. He was Director of CHILL
between August 2005 and December 2007 and has held a number of Chief Executive posts in English NHS
Trusts over a 17 year period.
Most recently he was Chief Executive at Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust. He
is a past Honorary President of the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM), the largest
professional association of healthcare managers in the UK.
A past member of the NHS Confederation National Council,
member of the NHS Employers Assembly and the shadow NHS Staff Council he has over 30 years experience in
healthcare management.
He is a Fellow of the IHM. His doctoral thesis was on Chief Executive Leadership
behaviour and its relationship to organisational behaviour, having studied at Henley Management College/Brunel
University.
Gerald qualified as a state registered dietician in 1996,
having completed his training at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London.
He went on to practice as a hospital based dietician
providing a dietetic service to
inpatients with various nutritionally related conditions.
In 1999, he revaluated his practice and felt the need to
specialize in diabetes management and secured a senior position at Guy’s Teaching Hospital in London.
After 2 years of diabetes care he
became concerned about patients
who were not engaging with healthcare services and focused his directions
towards community dietetics.
His preoccupation with
inequalities in health gave him a more public health focus and he decided to serve the more
disadvantaged in the community. In 2004, he secured a dietetic community position in Milton Keynes General Hospital and began to
specialize in high risk groups and obesity management.
In 2009 a newly developed position for a deputy dietetic manager
materialized in Milton Keynes and
he was offered the post in April 2009.
As a condition of the offer he was advised to undertake an MSc, he chose Leadership in
Healthcare with the vision of becoming a ‘transformational’ leader.
Tongesai Rugara graduated with a Diploma
of higher education in Adult nursing in Feb 2005. He went on to work in the coronary care unit at
Wycombe hospital.
He continued to advance his studies and later on graduated with a BA Hons (acute and
critical care. Presently he is still working at the same hospital as a cardiac nurse.
My name is
Tendayi Suriya and I am currently working as a cardiac nurse. I qualified to be a staff nurse in Feb 2004, and have been working on the
CCU for nearly 6years.
In these
years I have done courses and training
ranging from in house to outside hospital training, with aspects relating to my
work area.
In 2008, I obtained BA Hons in Acute and Critical
Care. Despite the workload within
my area of practice I can say I have
thoroughly enjoyed being part of the cardiac team, even though I feel it's now
time for a change in my career.
Being one of the senior nurses on CCU,
I take part in mentoring students and preceptoring newly qualified nurses, which I have
discovered really requires a leader who has the passion and commitment to their job, as I do.
The change
which I implemented within my area of practice was change from office based
handover to bedside handover.
Jacky
Vincent is a Registered Nurse in Learning Disabilities, having qualified in the
early 1990s.
Jacky has worked in
the voluntary sector and the county council, where she was employed as a Senior
Nurse to the Community Nurses
across Hertfordshire.
Jacky has since been working as a Lead
Nurse in Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust for 4 years.
Initially as a part time secondment,
before working full time as Lead Nurse for the Acute Services.
Jacky is now employed as Lead Nurse for
the Learning Disability and Forensic Services in the Trust, providing clinical leadership to the nursing staff
and services.
