Respect Conference 2018

Professor Jonathan Wyllie
President
Resuscitation Council (UK)

Jonathan Wyllie has been a consultant neonatologist at The James Cook University Hospital since 1994 and was clinical director of neonatology until May 2017. He is Professor of Neonatology and Paediatrics at Durham University. He has a long-standing interest in resuscitation and neonatal haemodynamics as well as an interest in paediatric ...

Dr Zoë Fritz
Consultant Physician
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Zoë is a Consultant Physician at Cambridge University Hospitals and a Wellcome Fellow in Bioethics, based between Warwick and Cambridge Universities. She became interested in the possible negative effects of DNACPR orders while working as a Registrar in Acute Medicine and Intensive Care, and has conducted research on the use, ethics, and ...

Catherine Baldock
Head of Resuscitation and Clinical Skills
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire

Catherine Baldock has recently been seconded to the Resuscitation Council (UK), part-time for 12 months, to project manage the implementation of ReSPECT. Catherine led the implementation of this process across Coventry and Warwickshire and has been using ReSPECT for the past 12 months. Catherine has a background in nursing, education and ...

Dr Maelie Swanwick
Consultant in Palliative Medicine
Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Maelie Swanwick has been a Palliative Medicine Consultant in Derby since 2001. As the East Midlands Strategic Clinical Network End of Life Care Specialist Lead she heard many complaints about the numerous DNACPR forms used across the region including inadequate advance care planning and decision making, poor adherence to local policies and the ...

Dr David Pitcher
Executive Committee Member
RC (UK) President 2012-2015

David has been a member of the Executive Committee since 1998 and was Honorary Secretary 2003-2010, Vice Chairman 2010–2012, President 2012–2015 and Vice President 2015–2016. He has contributed to serial revisions of guidelines and Advanced Life Support (ALS) course materials and to writing and editing several of the RC ...

Jacqueline Joyce
Associate Workforce Transformation Manager
Health Education England Kent Surrey & Sussex

Jacqueline is the Health Education England (KSS) lead for End of Life Care & Maternity Safety and is currently working on a QI EoL programme with the KSS AHSN testing co-produced multiorganisation solutions in the Sussex & East Surrey STP. Her focus is on the education and training needs around healthcare innovation and workforce ...

Cathryn James
Clinical Support Manager
Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE)

Cathryn James started working for Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) in 1981, originally as an ambulance cadet and becoming a qualified Paramedic in 1987. She is seconded from YAS to AACE three days per week, clinically supporting the National Ambulance Medical Directors Group (NASMeD) and the ongoing development of the UK Ambulance Services ...

Professor Matthew Cripps
Director of Sustainable Healthcare
NHS England

Professor Matthew Cripps BA MA CPFA created and developed the RightCare approach and embedded NHS RightCare as a national programme in NHS England, active in every local health economy, with a focus on population healthcare improvement to deliver the best care to patients. He now leads on spreading the concepts of population healthcare, optimal ...

Dr Libby Morris
Vice chair
The PRSB

Libby has been a GP principal since completing specialist training after medical school. She also works as a Clinical Advisor for Primary Care in the eHealth Division of the Scottish Government. She has been a GP informatician for many years representing practices on the RCGP Health Informatics Group and the joint GPIT group for the UK. She is ...

Dr Juliet Spiller
Consultant in Palliative Medicine
Marie Curie Hospice Edinburgh

Dr Juliet Spiller is a consultant in Palliative medicine working at the Marie Curie Hospice in Edinburgh. An interest in supporting good practice in decision-making, documentation and communication of Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) decisions came from leading local policy work in NHS Lothian in 2006. This became ...

Dr Peter-Marc Fortune
Consultant in paediatric intensive care and Associate Head
Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital

Peter-Marc Fortune was an Executive Committee member of Resus Council from 2008-12 and was re-elected in 2015. He is currently Associate Head of Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital where he is a consultant in paediatric intensive care. He has held the position of Director of Resuscitation & Simulation Services for Central Manchester ...

Dr Lynsey Fielden
Consultant Geriatrician
NHS Forth Valley

Dr. Fielden graduated MbChB and BMSc (Hons)in Molecular and Cellular Pathology from the University of Dundee in 2002. She is dually accredited in Geriatric Medicine and General (Internal ) Medicine and trained in the West of Scotland. Lynsey has been working in NHS Forth Valley, Central Scotland since 2013 as a Consultant ...

Dr Caroline Stirling
Clinical Director, End of Life Care
NHS England

Caroline has been a Palliative Medicine consultant within the Camden, Islington ELiPSe and UCLH & HCA Pallliative Care Service since 2005, and was Clinical Lead of the Service from 2007 until 2015. Her areas of interest include the pharmacological management of neuropathic pain, symptom control and communication with teenagers and young ...

Helen Findlay
Patient Representative
RC (UK) ReSPECT Strategic Steering Group

I am a patient representative on the RC (UK) ReSPECT Strategic Steering Group. I am passionate about improving palliative and end of life care for everyone in all settings following the experience of caring for my parents towards the end of their lives. My mother lived with dementia for 10 years and my father had Motor Neurone Disease and died ...

Liz Kiernan
Named Nurse for Adult Safeguarding
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (Coventry)

I qualified as a general nurse in 1997 and in my early career worked in Orthopaedics and General Medicine. With a keen interest in the care of the Older Person I studied Gerontology for a BSc and Mental Health and Dementia at MSc level. Following a decade as a Ward Manager I became a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Older people and 3 years ...

Dr Claud Regnard
Honorary Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine & Member
ReSPECT Working Group

Born in London of French parents, he sensibly studied medicine in Scotland. His first choice of surgery was based solely on his ability to rebuild the engine and gearbox on a Morris 1100 and was not his best career choice. Whilst training in general practice he came across a hospice but was advised that there was little to learn ...

Mr and Mrs Daniel
Patient Advocates
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Don Redding
Director of Policy
National Voices

Don Redding is Director of Policy for National Voices, the coalition of national health and social care charities working to bring service user voice into policy making in England. He has led National Voices’ work on integrated care, including the production of five ‘narratives’ demonstrating what people themselves want from ...

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