Hospital at Night biographies
Dr Yasmin Ahmed-Little
CMO clinical adviser, NHS North West
Yasmin Ahmed-Little is currently CMO clinical adviser to NHS North West, and led a team of seven junior doctors on an ambitious project (awarded NHS North West Project of the Year 2008) to implement EWTD targets one year ahead across NHS North West, North West and Mersey Deaneries. She graduated from Manchester Medical School in June 2000 and joined the North West Regional Action Team shortly after completing her house-jobs. She has since led on issues relating to junior doctors’ hours and working lives, implementing New Deal and WTD 2004, and now working towards full EWTD 48 hour compliance. Yasmin is a member of the Working Time Directive Programme Delivery Board and was recently elected to the BAMMbino Board. She has completed a Masters in Health Services Management, and is due to start her ST1 in Public Health in August 2009.
Gerry Bolger
Senior project manager, Hospital at Night, Skills for Health - Workforce Projects Team
Gerry Bolger is senior project manager with the Workforce Projects Team, leading the Hospital at Night programme across England and project director for Hospital at Night with the London Deanery.
Gerry is a registered nurse with over 20 years experience and has a wide ranging career ranging from frontline clinical, management, NHS trust board and more recently Strategic Health Authority experience in London. His clinical background includes working in emergency care and he has worked for almost five years as a clinical night nurse practitioner ‘doing the HaN job’. He is also a qualified in-flight nurse. He holds a range of qualifications including a Masters in Health Management from City University, London as well as a number of postgraduate certificates. Gerry is also an accredited project management practitioner with the National School of Government, UK.
He has worked on the Hospital at Night project since 2005. Professionally he is active within the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) of the UK as one of the two London Council members on the RCN’s UK national governing council.
In his spare time he holds a UK private pilot’s licence and regularly flies in both the UK and France.
Maura Buchanan
President, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
Maura Buchanan has been an active member of the RCN for many years. She served on the RCN Council as chair of Congress from 1998-2002 and deputy president from 2002 to 2006. In October 2006 she was elected RCN president.
Maura began her nursing career graduating with a BA RGN from Glasgow College of Technology (now Caledonia University) followed by two years working as a research assistant at Glasgow University.
Currently, Maura is the senior nurse / nursing quality manager of the busy, acute Private Patient Unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Maura’s speciality is neurosurgery and she has worked in this area in Glasgow, London and Oxford. Her particular interests are health, law and ethics.
Dr Kevin Cleary
Medical director, National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)
Dr Kevin Cleary joined the NPSA as medical director in July 2007. Since graduating from the Otago School of Medicine New Zealand he has worked as a psychiatrist and a clinical director in the NHS. Recently, he worked closely with the Department of Health to develop a secure inpatient unit for adolescents in West London. He continues to work one day a week as a consultant child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist.
Dr John Coakley
Medical director, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dr John Coakley trained in medicine at Liverpool University, qualifying in 1980. He then worked in and around Merseyside as a physician for nine years, during which time he completed his MD. He then obtained one of the first ever national training posts in intensive care medicine in London. He returned briefly to Merseyside to train in respiratory medicine until his appointment as a consultant in intensive care medicine at St Bartholomew’s and Homerton Hospitals in 1992.
In addition to his duties in intensive care medicine, he was clinical tutor at Homerton Hospital from 1995 to 1998, and was then appointed medical director in 1998. He reluctantly reduced his clinical intensive care commitments by resigning from Barts in September 2004.
Dr Darren Cousins
GUM SpR / North West Deanery Medical Leadership Programme
Dr Darren Cousins is currently working at Manchester Royal Infirmary as a GUM SpR and is also on the North West Deanery Medical Leadership Programme. He has returned to his Sexual Health and HIV training programme, and used the previous year with NHS North West’s EWTD team as a medical advisor to take the opportunity to develop management skills. Having worked as a junior doctor in the NHS in the last five years, he has experienced many changes that have taken place in how junior doctors work and learn to become modern day NHS consultants.
Dr Patricia Hamilton
President, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)
Dr Patricia Hamilton was previously vice president for training and assessment and prior to that honorary secretary of the RCPCH.
She is also consultant and senior lecturer in neonatal paediatrics at St George’s Hospital Medical School, London. She qualified from the University of Bristol and trained in paediatrics in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford and Vancouver.
She is an active clinician in neonatology, continuing regular on call duties during her presidency, and her research interests have included the pathophysiology of birth asphyxia. She has been a medical director at St George’s Hospital.
She has been closely involved in developing new training programmes and teaching and assessment methods, and in working to make MMC appropriate for paediatrics.
Dr Hamilton has chaired many College committees and working parties including those that produced training packages in child protection and child mental health. She is currently chair of the steering group of the Clinical Engagement in Medical Leadership project run by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the National Institute for Innovation and Improvement. This is developing curricula in clinical management and leadership for medical undergraduates and postgraduates.
She sits on the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and several of its Education and Training Committees. She is also a board member of PMETB and is active on its training and visits committees.
She is co-chair of the London Children’s Clinical Pathways group.
Professor Elisabeth Paice
Dean director, Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education for London
Professor Elisabeth Paice’s role involves commissioning, managing and quality controlling postgraduate training for over 8,500 doctors and dentists. She was born in Washington DC, brought up in Canada, and studied medicine first at Trinity College Dublin, and later at Westminster Medical School. She was the originator of the Hospital at Night concept; developed the ‘Point of View Surveys’; chaired PMETB working parties on Generic Standards and the National Trainee Survey and has published variously including on doctors in difficulty; workplace bullying; women in medicine. She has been chair of COPMeD (Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans) since July 2006.
Miss Wendy Reid
Clinical lead, Hospital at Night
Wendy is clinical lead for Hospital at Night; chair of the clinical advisors WTD group; postgraduate dean, London; consultant gynaecologist, Royal Free Hospital, London; elected member of RCOG council; lead postgraduate dean for general surgery, plastic surgery and paediatrics. Wendy is actively involved in both clinical and educational roles with new ways of working.
Elaine Taylor-Whilde
Customer and policy manager, The NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care
Elaine is an experienced physiotherapist and is currently working for The Information Centre for Health and Social Care supporting the implementation of the Next Stage Review and working on the Clinical Quality Metrics and other national clinical programmes eg the evaluation of Hospital at Night. Elaine specialises in service design and informatics having completed numerous national programmes within healthcare in the private, public and voluntary sectors. She has maintained an up to date clinical knowledge by practicing part time and continuing to work with the Royal Colleges and Allied Healthcare Professionals nationally.
Elaine is a former non-executive director of Selby and York PCT (now NHS North Yorkshire and York), where she was chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Mental Health Appeal Tribunal panels.
Dr Claire Wilkin
Clinical lead for Hospital at Night project, Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH), Melbourne, Australia
Dr Claire Wilkin is an advanced trainee in general paediatrics and paediatric emergency medicine and currently works as the chief medical registrar at the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne, Australia. Dr Wilkin has worked across a number of medical systems throughout her training including within the UK and Africa and has an interest in both medical education and change management. Dr Wilkin is the appointed clinical lead for the Hospital at Night project within RCH.
Juliet Pellegrini
Intestinal / liver transplant coordinator, Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH), Melbourne, Australia
Juliet Pellegrini has been nursing at the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne for the past 10 years with the majority of this time spent working in the Intensive Care Unit. She has a postgraduate degree in critical care and Masters of Nursing. Juliet was involved in the introduction of the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) liaison nurse role and worked in the post for three years. For the last 12 months she has been working in the liver / intestinal transplant nurse coordinator role and is now involved in the introduction of the Hospital at Night programme at the RCH.
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