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For the hc2d blog, we're amassing a team of professionals from all aspects of healthcare delivery. They include experts in a range of specialties and functions - from HR to mental health - and are drawn from both the NHS and private sector. I'm sure they will each introduce themselves as they begin blogging and a full gallery - with biographical information - will appear on this page very shortly. However, we still have some spaces left! If you are a healthcare professional who fancies the idea of blogging but hasn't got the time to do it properly, why not join our team? All you need to do is be able to write, be passionate about your profession and commit to a short entry every three weeks or so - not at all onerous. If this is you then we'd love to hear from you. Get in touch in the first instance by emailing bloggers@hc2d.co.uk |
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Chris May Director Mayden Health |
Chris May is the Director of Mayden Health, a company specialising in providing consultancy and web development services to the health sector. Originally from a manufacturing background, he held a senior fellowship at Cambridge University where he specialised in project and information management before moving into the NHS. Chris has concentrated on the health service for the past sixteen years. Chris has a wealth of expertise in supporting planning and business development projects in health, whether strategic or clinical reviews, resource planning or business cases. He has a particular interest in developing analytical models and, with Mayden Health, he is now pursuing his main interest in bringing this experience to the web and making it more widely available across the NHS. Chris is the founder and editorial director of Healthcare Today and hc2d. | |
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Sue Knights Assistant Editor Healthcare Today |
Sue Knights is Assistant Editor of Healthcare Today. Her background includes experience in academia, business and health. Having studied the interaction of science, health and society at Postgraduate level, Sue went on to develop her own network marketing business for a number of years before returning to health to complete a Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Studies and Nursing. She has since held senior posts with Macmillan, the NHS Information Authority, Commission for Health Improvement and National Cancer Peer Review Programme. Now, with Healthcare Today and hc2d, Sue combines her background in health, passion for writing and experience in content development of web based health information systems. | |
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Andrew Simpson Director of Planning South West London & St George's Mental Health NHS Trust |
Andrew Simpson is Director of Planning at South West London & St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. After completing a degree in social and political sciences at Cambridge University, Andrew began working in mental health services, firstly as a day care worker in a local authority day centre and then as a manager with a voluntary sector residential and day care provider. From 1990 to 1994, he was Director of Mind in Wales, prior to joining the former Pathfinder NHS Trust as a service manager. Following a spell in management consultancy, where he specialised in mental health, he took up his current position. He is a founder member of Sound Minds, the mental health and arts group based in Battersea. |
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Colin Jervis Director of Healthcare and Public Sector Consulting Kinetic Consulting |
Colin Jervis is Director of healthcare consulting at Kinetic Consulting and has led a number of large IT projects in health, including two major Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programmes in the NHS. He is currently the interim Director of IT at University College Hospitals NHS Trust, London. His first EPR programme was in 1991 at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. This was followed by a second programme at the Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals in Reading, as part of a major change and rebuilding programme. The ideas coming out of these projects were used by the developing National Programme for IT (NPfIT) - now part of NHS Connecting for Health, reputedly the world's biggest IT project with a headline spend of more than £6bn over ten years. Colin also publishes FutureHealthIT.com, one of the leading healthcare IT blogs where he indulges his fascination for gadgets, technology and IT innovations in healthcare. | |
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Sarah Jackson Han Communications Director Radio Free Asia, Washington DC |
Sarah Jackson-Han has covered international news with a focus on East Asia since 1990, as a correspondent for Agence France-Presse, an editor at National Public Radio online, and as communications director since 2001 at Radio Free Asia, the nonprofit international broadcaster. She holds honors degrees from Dartmouth College and Cambridge University and lives with her family in the suburbs of Washington, DC. She shares her passion for East Asia with interests in health and psychology. | |
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Monique Davisson Specialist Registrar in Virology Bristol |
Born in South Africa, Monique studied at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School and is currently a Specialist Registrar in Virology and Genitourinary Medicine/HIV in Bristol. With a special interest in HIV and viral hepatitis, Monique is passionate about giving a voice to the voiceless, particularly those affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa. She is the founder and executive trustee of iThemba AIDS Foundation, a HIV charity supporting grass roots community-based responses in sub-Saharan Africa. | |
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Hilde Hjelmeland Ahmedzai Information Researcher Academic Supportive Care Unit, University of Sheffield |
Hilde is an Information Researcher in the Academic Supportive Care Unit at the University of Sheffield. Initially intending to become a sociologist, she spent 4 years studying for a degree in Social Science at the University of Bergen, Norway, before changing direction and completing a nursing degree in 1983. She found her niche early within cancer care and spent 10 years working for the Norwegian Cancer Society, the majority of the time as Assistant Regional Manager for cancer information and support services in the western health region of Norway. She moved to England in 1997 and has since been based at the University of Sheffield. Her main work interest centres on the role of information and communication technology in improving information, support, education and involvement for patients and carers. Hilde was instrumental in developing - and is currently running - the following websites: www.piesforcancer.info and www.riprap.org.uk | |
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Elisabeth Buggins Chair NHS West Midlands |
After professional training as a health services manager, Elisabeth left the NHS to look after three children with a variety of special needs. She worked with the voluntary sector on local, National and European projects interfacing with Health Services and assists boards and multi-agency partnerships to develop their strategic thinking. For nearly six years Elisabeth chaired an NHS Trust providing community, mental health and learning disability services. During that time she was West Midlands Regional Lead for the NHS Confederation, chaired the national Communications Policy Committee and represented the NHS on the West Midlands Regional Assembly. She then moved on to Chair Birmingham and the Black Country Strategic Health Authority, delivering the shortest waiting times in the country, sound finances and recognised innovation. Now Chairman of NHS West Midlands, and non-executive director for the National Blood & Transplant Authority and Simplyhealth, her ambition is to make health services more responsive to patients and more satisfying for staff. |
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Bernadette Devine Healthcare Consultant |
Bernadette has facilitated and delivered service transformation across many healthcare disciplines in many settings in the UK, Europe and internationally. She is an experienced Healthcare Commission reviewer and recently held the post of senior risk manager with Guys and St Thomas' Foundation Hospital. With over 25 years of health sector experience in organisational change and risk management, Bernadette also has additional expertise in nursing, psychotherapy and coaching in which she has gained an international profile - and retains a private practice in these areas working out of London and Brighton and specialising in trauma management for both individuals and organisations. She currently works independently providing a range of business development and research services to healthcare clients and frequently is invited to speak at Conferences at home and abroad. | |
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William Gray Freelance Writer |
Will started off his career as a pure scientist; completing a first degree in Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield. He then went on to complete professional training and further study with a Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Studies and later a Master in Medical Sciences from the University of Sheffield. He gained clinical experience in neurosciences working in neurosurgical high dependency and intensive care before successfully achieving an appointment with the Royal College of Nursing, as research and development fellow, working in the Department for Quality Improvement. Will was also honorary fellow of the National Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Supportive Care and visiting research fellow at the University of York. He developed a national profile leading on the development of NICE guidance and is author of the guideline on the Management of Pressure Ulcers in Primary and Secondary Care (NICE, 2005). Will has developed skills in systematic review and critical appraisal and the utilisation of systematic reviews in guideline development; presenting on the subject at the Cochrane Colloquium in Melbourne Australia, 2005. A recent NHS stint took Will to a large city PCT where he worked as manager for service improvement and reform with particular charge for developing independent sector provision. Will has recently changed career directions and is pursuing a long interest in media and health and is particularly interested in how television shapes audience perception of health and health related issues and how television effects audience decision making about health and health related issues. Amongst other things Will is a devoted parent of two and a freelance writer. | |
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