Nurse Consultant, Associate Professor and UK Clinical Lead for Nursing (Parkinson’s). Annette has worked in the field of Parkinson’s for many years and as a Nurse Consultant has an active clinical, research and educational role within this area. She qualified as a non‐medical prescriber over 15 years ago and continues to use this skill in day to day clinical practice. She was the non‐medical prescribing lead for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for many years, supporting and developing other non‐medical prescribers. Annette, an Associate Professor with Northumbria University, has lectured on the non‐medical prescribing programme (V300) for over 5 years, and supports prescribing students and the continual development of the V300 programme. Annette was appointed to the national role of Clinical Lead for Nursing within the Parkinson’s UK Excellence Network, as part of the clinical leadership team. This role was developed to support service improvements through education, knowledge exchange and evidence based practice and support the role of the Parkinson’s Nurse across the UK.
Barry Hill MSc Advanced Practice, PGC Academic Practice, BSc (Hons) Intensive Care Nursing, DipHE Adult Nursing, OA Dip Counselling Skills, Registered Nurse (RN). Registered Teacher (NMC RNT/TCH). Senior Fellow (SFHEA), Programme Leader (Senior Lecturer) Adult Nursing, Northumbria University. Clinical and Commissioning Editor for the British Journal of Nursing. Barry is an experienced leader, academic, educator, researcher, and clinical nurse. His current role is director level and as part of the senior leadership team, as ‘Director of Education (Employability)’ for the department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, and Programme Leader (BSc Nursing Sciences). He has a demonstrated history of working within academia particularly in the Higher Education (HE) industry. Barry is a Senior Fellow (SFHEA) and a HEA mentor, Barry is a certified Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP), NMC Registered Nurse (RN), NMC Registered Teacher (TCH), and NMC Registered independent and supplementary prescriber (V300). Barry is skilled in clinical research; clinical education and is passionate about Higher Education, especially Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP), Critical Care, and Non‐Medical Prescribing (NMP), and pharmacology. Barry has been a Nurse leader for more than 15 years and was trained in London’s best teaching hospitals at Imperial college NHS Trust. He is a strong education focused professional, Barry has published books, book chapters and peer reviewed journal articles. Barry is the clinical editor and commissioning editor for the at a glance and advanced practice series within the British Journal of Nursing. Barry is currently a fourth year Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) candidate at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Noreen Kilkenny Noreen qualified as a adult nurse in 2008 from the University of Hertfordshire. She worked as a cardiac and respiratory staff nurse at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital and completed her MSc in Cardio Respiratory Nursing at Imperial College London. Noreen has worked as a Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse specialist in Hertfordshire and in Ireland and Australia as an agency nurse, telephone nurse triage specialist and clinical educator. Noreen commenced her academic career in nurse education in 2014 and works at Northumbria University, Newcastle as a Senior Lecturer. Noreen is currently studying her PhD in patient safety and human factors education.
Louise Lingwood MBA, MA‐Ed, PGDip‐ANP, PGDip‐Ed, APMG, BSc (Hons), RNMH, FHEA Senior Lecturer Mental Health Nursing at Northumbria University at Newcastle. Louise completed her undergraduate mental health nurse education and training at Northumbria University in the year 2000. She has worked extensively across children and young people’s mental health services (CAMHS) since qualifying and has worked as a mental health nurse, project manager and clinical manager within specialist CAMHS across the North East and nationally. Louise has worked clinically within forensic teams, looked after children Teams, primary mental health, CAMHS, National D/deaf CAMHS, autism, eating disorder and learning disability services. She commenced her post at Northumbria University at Newcastle in 2013. She is currently the Programme Lead for Mental Health Nursing and teaches across pre‐registration programmes across all fields. She has a specialist interest in enhancing nurse education, anatomy, parity of esteem, autism and disability. She is involved in a number of research projects and is currently reading for her PhD.
Harriet Minto Senior clinical pharmacist at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. Harriet began her pharmacy career at the University of Huddersfield; following that she completed her pre‐registration year at the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Trust (NUTH) working between the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Freeman Hospital. After qualifying as a pharmacist, she continued to work for NUTH as a rotational pharmacist alongside studying for a Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Sunderland. Over the past few years she has worked in the paediatric respiratory and cystic fibrosis team at the Great North Children’s Hospital and is currently working towards becoming an independent pharmacist prescriber in this area.
Jackie O’Sullivan Specialist Nurse Children and Young Peoples Endocrinology at Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. Jackie trained as a nurse in the QARANC nursing soldiers, civilians and their families in Germany, Aldershot, Woolwich and Hong Kong for 11 years. After leaving the Army in 1992 Jackie worked in general paediatric wards at Gateshead and Newcastle for 10 years. She has always had an interest in endocrine and metabolic processes and became an Endocrine Nurse Specialist at the RVI in 2002, a role she continues to thrive in, speaking regularly at local and national endocrine meetings and within the university to student nurses. She has had a publication in Archives of Disease in Childhood and has worked on research projects in diabetes and endocrinology with local teams.
Dr Claire Pryor MSc Advancing Healthcare Practice, PGC Advanced Practice (Clinical), PGC Teaching and Learning in Professional Practice, NMC Teacher (NMC/TCH), V300 Independent Prescriber, Grad Cert Practice Development, Fellow Higher Education Academy (FHEA) Registered Nurse Adult (RN). Claire Pryor is a senior lecturer in adult nursing at Northumbria University. Claire’s educational interests lie predominantly in nursing care for the older person and she is module lead for non‐medical prescribing. Her teaching activity spans both adult pre and post registration professional development. Claire’s specialist area of interest include delirium and delirium superimposed on dementia, which forms the basis of her PhD research, and integrating physical health and mental healthcare education and service provision. Prior to lecturing, Claire worked in a variety of primary and secondary care settings, including acute medical assessment, critical care, intermediate care and as an older persons nurse practitioner in a mental health setting.
Matthew Robertson BSc (Hons) Operating Department Practice. Graduate Tutor. Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health. Matthew is a registered Operating Department Practitioner with the HCPC. He is also a member of the College of Operating Department Practitioners. Matthew completed his BSc (Hons) at the University of Central Lancashire in Operating Department Practice, where he was able to experience a range of complex surgical specialities. Once qualified, Matthew was employed by Newcastle Hospitals within the Cardiothoracic Surgical Department where he undertook the role of the scrub practitioner, specialising in paediatric and congenital cardiac surgery. He commenced employment at Northumbria University in November 2017 and since then he has developed a specialist interest in Human Factors within the perioperative environment and is completing a PhD on this topic, focussing on staff well‐being and stress management. Recently, Matthew has had several publications regarding ‘the care of the surgical patient’ and has written two book chapters on the use of analgesics in practice and other related pharmacology. Matthew also sits as a registrant panel member for the Health and Care Professionals Tribunal Service and provide expertise on the disciplinary cases that are presented to him and the rest of the panel.
Elaine Robinson Elaine qualified as a children’s nurse in 1996 and worked as a staff nurse in Newcastle upon Tyne. Elaine has worked in care of children in acute and critical settings, moving to a specialist role as part of the children’s immunology team. In 2005 Elaine changed direction and trained as Specialist Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor). This role further developed into community practice teacher. She joined the academic team at Northumbria University in 2017, working across pre‐registration children’s nursing and the Public health community nursing and prescribing programmes. Elaine is now programme lead for the Specialist community public