AdsFoundation Stakeholder Expert Focus Group
In keeping with our values and as a Community Interest Company we are extremely honoured to have a Stakeholder Focus Group who give us feedback on our work and the benefit of their immense combined expertise and experience.
Meet our Stakeholder Expert Focus Group
Amy Frounks has been a patient and youth voice advocate since 2013, striving to improve representation of less heard groups, particularly children and young people with disabilities and/or health conditions. Some of her roles in participation have included: CAMHS participation, NHS England Youth Forum, Young CDC, RCPCH & Us, Common Room MeFirst training cofacilitator.
Amy recently graduated from University with a Bsc Psycholgy degree and is currently working as a health care assistant in her local hospital. This enables true understanding of patient care from her own direct experiences, being a carer, being a family member, and from being a staff member. In addition Amy has had a strong interest in research and has been working as a co-researcher for Scope, both supporting novel research and evaluating services for disabled adults.
Amy reflects on these roles as being influential in her development and in understanding her own health and social care experiences. More importantly being able to improve experiences of care for others, has provided a focus and purpose through difficult times.
Steve Grimbley BSc Hons, RN -Child, has been a children’s nurse for twenty years. During this time he has worked in general paediatrics, children’s cardiac intensive care and children’s intensive care. Steve is currently working on a general paediatric ward in the south of England. In his spare time Steve volunteers at a steam railway with Daisys Dream, Make A Wish & Rays of Sunshine.
Paul Jebb OStJ MA BSc(Hons) DipHE RN, qualified as a nurse in 1996 and worked in numerous posts within nursing, operational management, and a national role within NHS England.
In December 2016 Paul returned to an NHS Trust and is now Associate Chief Nurse Experience & Engagement at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.
Paul has been involved and led on numerous quality improvement initiatives throughout his career, and has gained several awards and accolades.
Paul is also a member of an NMC Professional Standards advisory panel, and has represented the Royal College of Nursing at local, regional, national and international levels, and is currently a member of the RCN Nurses in Leadership & Management Forum steering group as well as a member of RCNi Editorial Advisory Board.
Paul is also chair of the board of Trustees at Blackpool Carers Centre, and a passionate supporter of Cavell Nurses Trust.
Nusrat Latif is the Chief Executive of Medicine Gov. She comes with a lifetime of engagement with health services as a patient, carer and a professional.
Nusrat has worked in communications and government affairs for over three decades. During this time she’s successfully delivered large-scale conferences, awards and digital #MedLearn campaigns long before the pandemic forced many others to work virtually, for NHS leaders. She has spent many years volunteering to support the NHS and patients, honing what the health system needs from online learning, social and video media.
Nusrat’s aim is to bring healthcare professionals and patients closer to working as one team with mutual respect and increased learning and understanding. Nusrat is often invited to speak, judge awards and teach on topics such as health technology; patient involvement; social media strategy and use by the NHS; medicine prescribing and optimisation – at national and regional NHS and university meetings and conferences. Nusrat was recognised as one of the 70 health tech women leaders for the NHS’s 70th birthday celebrations.
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/medicinegovceo/
Twitter https://twitter.com/NusratMedicine
Linktree https://linktr.ee/NusratLatif
Dr Calvin Moorley RN, PhD is a Professor for Diversity & Social Justice, Adult Nursing Department at London South Bank University, with a background in public health and diversity in care. His research focuses on the interplay of gender, culture ethnicity and health. His secondary education was completed in Trinidad & Tobago his birth nation. Since graduating from the University of Essex as an adult registered nurse, Calvin has followed a clinical/academic career, remaining close to clinical nursing, particularly in the critical care environment, and currently works one shift a week in an inner-city hospital in central London. He supports clinical nursing at the point-of-care through his role as a link lecturer for Barts Health NHS Trust.
Calvin has a keen interest in how health is theorized using social media platforms. He has published widely in nursing and social media and is developing an area on the use of social media to enhance research literacy of nurses. His most recent works include a national study on Health Care Workers susceptibility of Covid19; Knowledge, attitude and beliefs on sex among Black Africans; Psychosexual Experiences of FGM survivors and Experience of Stroke among Caribbean populations in the UK. Calvin is well recognised in the field and this can be seen in his esteem factors which include: Guest Editor for a special issue of Journal of Clinical Nursing on LGBTI Health 2017; the Mary Seacole Prize for Leadership in Nursing 2013/14 by the Royal College of Nursing, and various editorships including Evidence Based Nursing Journal and Journal of Transcultural Nursing. Calvin collaborates nationally and internationally including working with teams in Trinidad, Jamaica and Australia.
Calvin publishes widely in various nursing journals. He further serves the nursing community on various panels such as the Nursing Times Student Nurses awards; Edith Cavell Awards and Health Service Journal awards. A key objective of Calvin’s programme of work is to reduce the gap in health inequalities through developing and improving cultural competence and health literacy.
Publications can be accessed on Google Scholar
Dr. Ruth Northway is Professor of Learning Disabilities, a post she has held for almost 20 years. A learning disability nurse by background she has worked in a range of residential and community settings before moving to work in nurse education. Her key areas of interest relate to the health and well-being of people with learning disabilities, safeguarding and the use of participatory/ inclusive research approaches.
Debs Teale is a mental health campaigner, Trustee of the National Centre for Creative Health and activist promoting people having power and control in their own care and having a voice in what happens to them. She is also keen to promote social prescribing ( Debs hates the name but love the concept) and provide services that are based more in the community we live in rather than a clinical setting. An art class saved Deb’s life and then transformed it beyond any recognition of what it used to be. Debs also has a passion for peer support and creating art from her head.
Lynn Turner RN writes ‘Hello, my name is Lynn and I am delighted to be supporting #AdsFoundation and the inspiring work that Ad’s parents, Zoe and Paul, are continuing to do in his name. Adam was passionate about kindness and making a difference and through his own experiences he definitely knew what leadership qualities were needed to deliver high quality compassionate care. To me, compassionate care, whilst it includes technical competence and skill, it is more importantly, about the way in which care is delivered and how the recipients of care are made to feel. Do they feel listened to? Do they feel heard? Do they feel that what matters to them is as important to the care givers as it is to them? Do they feel safe and how high is the level of trust?
I am a nurse and these things have always been important to me and have been translated into my work in staff development. I am passionate advocate that happy staff equals happy patients and my current role in improving staff experience is about reducing inequalities, enabling staff to thrive, to be their best self and to make a difference for the people they serve.
It is a privilege to support #AdsFoundation, I am inspired by the dignity, integrity and courage that Zoe and Paul show everyday to continue #AdsLegacy, to keep his spirit alive and strive to make a difference for others, despite their own heartache. I didn’t know Adam personally but I am honoured to be a part of continuing what he started.’
Steve Turner began his professional career as a nurse at St George’s hospital in London in 1981, eventually specialising in mental health. He also spent a decade working on hospital clinical systems for the American giant Shared Medical Services Consultant of the US arm of the company.
In 1999 Steve returned to work for the NHS, successfully revamping the Information and Technology department at an NHS Trust prior to a trust merger. A spell in consultancy for a large cancer network followed, by leading two highly successful multi-organisational projects.
In 2002 Steve returned to clinical practice becoming a nurse prescriber in a Mental Health Assertive Outreach Team. In 2008 Steve set up his own company specialising in clinical educational and patient engagement. Steve has since led a successful interdisciplinary, multi-organisational prescribing project in substance misuse, the development of a parent held medicines record for children with complex conditions (which was highly commended by NICE). Together with his Associates, Steve has also successfully piloted, ‘patient-led clinical medicines reviews’. This was presented at the NICE Annual Conference in 2018.
Steve has published several articles on medicines and prescribing and has examples of his work on the NICE Shared Learning Resource. Steve is also an Associate Lecturer at Plymouth University.
John Walsh has worked for twenty five years for the NHS.
John worked with people who are homeless and in the asylum system in Leeds for 22 years. This work was mainly on the streets with homeless people. He also managed the service for several years. As a service it was rated outstanding by the CQC.
John presently work as ODI ( Organisational Development and Improvement )Lead at Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust. This work involves culture change, leadership and systems work.
He is the Freedom to Speak Up Guardian for the Trust and also the Leeds GP Confederation. John co-lead the System Leadership development work in Leeds and works with the West Yorkshire & Harrogate Partnership on health inequalities and personalised care. He sits on the Yorkshire RCGP Faculty. John lead the vanguard work on Speaking Up in Leeds General Practice.
John has been given a number of awards which include Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust Clinician of the Year (2013), The Yorkshire and Humberside Leadership Academy Community Leader of the Year ( 2013 ), Yorkshire Evening Post Community Health award (2015), Yorkshire Evening Post Overall Judges Winner award (2015) and the AdsthePoet award for Compassion in Health (2015). He was awarded in 2015 an honorary doctorate by Leeds Beckett University for city partnership work and work with homeless people. John also received a special award from practice nurses across England for supporting the work of Practice Nursing.
John has delivered teaching at universities in England, Norway and the Czech Republic on inclusion health and person centred approaches.
He has also written blogs and article with patients, carers, academics and clinicians about inclusion, change, human potential and values based work.
George Webster (profile coming soon)
Rob Webster is Lead Chief Executive for the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership [Integrated Care System]. This sees him bringing together West Yorkshire and Harrogate health and care leaders, organisations and communities to deliver ambitious plans for improved health, care and finances for 2.7 million people. Rob is an active member of the NHS Assembly and contributes to a number of national programmes.
Rob has worked in healthcare since 1990, taking on national leadership roles in the Department of Health on policy, transformation and delivery. He has been a director for both the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit in the Cabinet Office and a national public/private partnership. He was Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation between 2014 and 2016, having proven to be a successful Chief Executive in the NHS since 2007, running a number of commissioning organisations and providers of NHS services. He has chaired formal cancer, primary care, community trust and learning disability networks.
Rob is defined by a values based approach to leadership. He is a visiting Professor at Leeds Beckett University and was proud to be made a Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute in 2014. In May 2016, Rob became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. In 2020 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
You can follow Rob on Twitter @NHS_RobW
Thank you to all the Stakeholder Expert Focus Group for all your help, support, time, kindness and expertise.
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