CP Training Hub 2023 Conference

Paula has dedicated her life to campaigning for equality of Health and Social Care for Intellectually Disabled and or Autistic people.  She is an ambassador for several charities and organisations. In 2018, Paula successfully launched a parliamentary petition asking for doctors and nurses in England to receive mandatory training in Learning disability and Autism awareness. As a direct consequence Government announced that Health and Social Care Staff would receive The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training in Learning Disability and Autism

Louise has spent 25 years of her nursing career supporting primary care. Working full time in general practice for seventeen of those years, she was one of the first general practice nurses in the North of England in 2014 to pioneer shared medical appointments supporting communities living with long term conditions to access high quality nursing care. This integrative model still operational today has supported evidence-based health outcomes enabling nurses to create peer- led learning in public health and long-term conditions in partnership with patients’ families and carers.

Jessica Randall-Carrick works as a GP in Peterborough and Co-ordinates the Deep End Network across C&P and the East of England region. Jessica is passionate about improving the health & wellbeing of those in the most challenging socio-economic circumstances and seeks to connect with others to collaborate and advocate for such individuals & communities.  She seeks to ensure that systems and processes ensure good quality, equitable, person-centred clinical care. https://www.deependeastofengland.co.uk/

‘Climate Change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century’ – Lancet. Dr Rebecca Davis, Chair of Greener Practice Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and a local RCGP Net Zero advisor, will be delivering a talk on how healthcare and our environment are interconnected.

Heather is a former general practice nurse and director of primary care, who uses asset based community development to innovate and co-produce solutions with local people. She founded BreathChamps CIC: a social enterprise offering social prescribing solutions for adults and children with asthma. In 2018 Heather won the Sue Pembrey Award for person and community centred care and has also received the Open University Business School Alumnus Award for her ‘Outstanding Contribution to Society’. “Today’s Primary Care Networks have a role in engaging and empowering their communities to tackle health inequalities and support long term conditions. But how do primary care teams do this when they feel so overwhelmed?”

Tom is a GP with a special interest in Men’s Health. He is keen on looking at ‘Real World’ ways of improving the management of Men’s Health issues in the current system pressures. Tom’s session will provide a Review of the management of Lower Urinary Tracts Symptoms in Men, Erectile Dysfunction, PSA testing and other Mens’ Health Presentations in Primary Care.

Craig works mainly across Hertfordshire, and responds solo to both time-critical and lower acuity calls. As part of that role he is trained in the telephone triage of 999 calls, rotates into Primary Care, and is undertaking his independent prescribing course.  He is also an Associate Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, an ALS instructor and an Instructor for the BASICS Pre-Hospital Emergency Course that many AHPs and military personnel undertake prior to working in events or mass gatherings, as well as extensive event medicine experience.

Jan Gower has spent the past 22 years working as a practice nurse and advanced nurse practitioner as well as working in a commissioning role and in higher education. She previously worked as a haematology nurse, a midwife and has spent time in research and healthcare journalism. She is currently the Nurse Lead for the GPN Fellowship Scheme at the Training Hub.

Jan’s interests lie in all long-term conditions but particularly feels that hypertension and lipid management are areas that all nurses in general practice should be able to manage and/or advise on as not disease entities in themselves,  but risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Jenny works 6 sessions a week as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in a large teaching Practice, in a team of ANPs alongside General Practitioners, trainee GPs, Allied Health Professionals and a team of nurses. She has a real passion for patient-centred health prevention and runs training within the practice, for local clinicians as well as at National conferences and has also set up and led on group consultations within our PCN working with trained facilitators. Locally Jenny is the AHP and nurse lead for the Training Hub and has various national roles, sitting on NHS England Advanced Clinical Practice group and regional HEE general practice nurse network. She also represents the Royal College of GPs as their AHP/Nurse Champion where she is seeking to raise the profile of AHPs and GP Nurses and promote high quality training and development of these roles within Primary Care.

Kelly has led the charge on social prescriber link workers and personalised care since launching the service 4 years ago ahead of the NHS funded ARRS roles. She leads the personalised care team at the PCN and holds a reduced case load of patients herself. She also sits on the Advisory board of NALW helping to influence national policy and was East of East regional Champion for 2 years.

Kelly has worked alongside the clinical team to establish Group consultations, taking on the role of Lead facilitator, recruiting and training new clinicians and facilitators, and expanding the programme’s scope of practice. The programme has recently been asked to contribute to the Group consult research being carried out by the University of Oxford.

Gill qualified from Imperial College London in 2008 and completed her GP training in Somerset before joining Granta. She is Womens Health lead with a specialist interest in Menopause but enjoys all aspects of General Practice. Gill is kept busy outside of work with two young children and a very cheeky golden retriever.

Chris Acourt is a Police officer serving with Cambridgeshire for over 22 years, covering a variety of roles from uniform response to CID. He has been specialising in Modern Slavery investigations for around 8 years, during which time he has encountered and protected numerous victims and successfully convicted a number of individuals for Modern Slavery crimes.

Louise qualified as a registered Children’s Nurse in 2004 with a BSc Children’s nursing from Coventry University. She has worked in general paediatrics, oncology, haematology, children’s emergency medicine, allergy and respiratory services. Louise was the Senior children’s research nurse on the Learning early about peanut allergy research study between 2009 to 2016. Louise has 7 years experience as a senior children’s asthma nurse specialist. She is currently seconded into Cambridgeshire community services as a Children and Young People’s asthma specialist, working in the most high risk areas for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough for children with asthma. Louise has a Certificate of Advanced Study in Asthma, Allergy and advanced clinical assessment. Louise has a wealth of experience in asthma, allergy and lung function testing, allergy testing, food challenges and the management of chronic and acute asthma and anaphylaxis. Louise has a special interest in the treatment optismisation, health education and symptom management of Asthma.

I trained at Guy’s Hospital and have worked at a number of acute trusts before specialising in cardiology at Kettering General Hospital (KGH) from 2002. I was appointed as the  first HF Nurse Specialist at KGH in 2008, developing the HF service alongside the HF clinical lead. I moved to NW Anglia FT in 2020 and have been involved locally and regionally with HF service development, now leading the HF Nurse service. I work with my team delivering both inpatient and outpatient services.

Since 2012 to present I have been a member of the National HF Audit Domain Expert Group at NICOR. I have previously  been a visiting lecturer at DeMontfort and Northampton Universities.

I am passionate about developing equality of services for HF patients, ensuring they receive the latest evidence-based therapy  and helping them to live well. I am keen to engender a passion for HF in other HCP’s.

Hannah is a hybrid nurse working in both primary and secondary care settings. She qualified from Anglia Ruskin University in 2020 with a first-degree qualification in Adult Nursing. Further training includes, Level 7 Fundamentals of Practice Nursing from Anglia Ruskin University 2020, Level 6 Enhancing Asthma Care in Professional Practice from University of Hertfordshire 2021, Level 7 Tissue Viability and Wound Management from University of Huddersfield 2022

Hannah works as a Practice Nurse for Granta Shelford and a Surgical Site Infection & Tissue Viability Nurse for The Royal Papworth hospital.

Clinical interests include acute and complex wound care, such as, leg ulcers, pressure ulcers and surgical site complications. Hannah’s personal interests include dressmaking