Currently the Steering Group consists of the following members. Short biographies of the current members are available by clicking their names.
Dr David Earl - ChairMrs Jane Jackson - Immediate Past Chair
Mrs Christine Collins - Treasurer
Dr John Carlisle - Finance
Mrs Amanda Bassett - Marketing
Mrs Pam Parry - Marketing
Mrs Marie Digner - Membership
Mrs Jenny Bramhall - Website
Mr Lee Wadsworth- Membership Support Officer
Dr Phillip Barclay - Board Member
Dr Nick Lavies - Board Member
Representatives from the following organisations have also been co-opted to the Steering Group:
Mr Mark Emberton (Royal College of Surgeons)
Dr Maria Rollin (Royal College of Anaesthetists)
Ms Gina Behar-Spicer (Royal College of Nursing)
Mrs Madeleine Wang (Patient representative)
Dr Jennifer Warner (NHS Modernisation Agency lead)
Dr David Whitaker (Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland)
BIOGRAPHIES:
Mrs JANE JACKSON SRN MPHIL MCGI
Consultant Nurse
Pre Operative Assessment Clinic
Jane.Jackson@whht.nhs.uk
Tel / Ans / Fax 01727 897 045
Jane is Consultant Nurse in Pre-operative Assessment at West Hertfordshire NHS Trust, UK and is Chair of the Preoperative Association www.pre-op.org.
Jane has considerable experience in the care of the elective surgical patient.
In line with the 18/52 target, has recently designed and introduced one stop POA - that is POA at the decision to admit.
Nationally Jane has worked with colleagues at the University of Southampton to produce CD rom learning tool and book and now is part of an e-learning course at diploma and degree level in the theory of POA. Currently Jane is working with the University of Hertfordshire to develop a series of courses on the practical skills for Pre operative Assessment.
Jane is passionate about pre operative assessment as being an inter- professional partnership in patient care. Optimum patient care is the essence of pre operative assessment and is working with Do Once and Share project for POA, which was launched nationally in September 2007.
Jane Jackson SRN MPhil MCGI
31/08/2007
Mrs Amanda Bassett
Tel: 0871 288 7248
Mobile : 07939038378
Email: Amanda@perigon.org.uk
Amanda has always been passionate about developing the area of peri-operative practice. As a nurse she worked in theatres, anaesthetics and pre operative assessment whilst influencing early best practice groups and engaging with patients to find out how their surgical care could be improved.
In the last five years she led the early development of the NHS Modernisation Agencies National Guidance for Pre-operative Assessment in Day Surgery before creating the vision for the development of the book and CD Rom, Setting a Standard through Learning. This resource was developed by the NHS in partnership with the University of Southampton and has helped the many professionals involved in pre operative assessment improve their practice. More recently Amanda has directed the further development of this book and CD Rom into accredited elearning available on behalf of the NHS via the University of Southampton . Amanda is a founder member of the Preoperative Association and has influenced the area of pre-operative assessment practice through developing relationships with Royal Colleges and Professional Associations. Amanda is a Kings Fund Athena graduate and has published and presented her work at home and aboard. Amanda is an honorary lecturer at Imperial College London and has a particular interest in developing and coaching future pre-operative assessment workforce. In the summer of 2005 Amanda along with a colleague launched a consultancy service ‘Perigon’ designed to support individuals and organisations in further developing their pre surgery practice.
Mrs Pam Parry (SEN. RGN. Dip H Ed. BSc Hons)
Perigon Healthcare Limited
Email – pam@perigon.org.uk Mobile: 07811 353129
Pam qualified as a Enrolled Nurse at Burnley General Hospital in 1983 and having followed the Open Learning Conversion Course, qualified as RGN in 1993. In 1999 she became involved with the first wave of the National Booking Programme and was seconded to work with the Modernisation Agency and the National Pre-operative Assessment Project. During this time Pam contributed to the development of National Good Practice Guidance in pre-operative assessment for both day case and inpatient services. Pam went on to become an experienced Programme Manager for Access, Booking and Choice and led the implementation of Choose and Book across a whole health community.
Her involvement with pre-operative assessment continued through the NHS University and the development of the CD Rom and web based accredited learning modules. Pam supported the initial pilot sites as they developed the curricular and also worked to ensure that organisations were ready to support future learners.
Pam continues to work in partnership with Amanda Bassett and together they launched Perigon Healthcare Limited. Perigon was launched in order to support individuals and organisations in further developing their pre surgery practice, although other areas of Perigon’s expertise include supporting delivery of the 18 week wait, publishing, training and development and innovations in surgical practice.
Dr David Earl
Consultant Anaesthetist
Harrogate District Hospital
Email: earl@btinternet.com
David is the lead consultant anaesthetist for preassessment at Harrogate District Hospital.
After medical school training in Bristol and a few years as a trainee physician in Plymouth, he commenced his anaesthetic training at the Royal London/St Bartholomew's/Homerton Hospitals in London. He continued his training in the southwest around Bristol, also undertaking a period at
the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. It was here that he began to develop a keener interest in the field of preoperative assessment.
Currently he is developing an anaesthetic "optimisation" clinic with a special interest in echocardiography.
Mrs Marie Digner, BSc(Hons), MSc, RGN
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Pre-operative Assessment
Royal Bolton Hospital
E-mail: marie.digner@boltonh-tr.nwest.nhs.uk
Marie started her career as a staff Nurse in General Surgery in 1987 .
Her interest in pre-op assessment was developed through studies undertaken as part of a first degree in the early 1990's. In 1993 her undergraduate dissertation was concerned with exploring the concept of pre-admission assessment for elective Surgical patients. Marie's interest in Surgery and the pre-assessment process continued throughout the 1990's although funding for the service development was not forthcoming.
The latter part of the 1990's saw Marie take up the post of lecturer practitioner ,on a joint appointment between Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust and The Research and Development Support Unit For Evidence Based Practice at the University of Central Lancashire. This role allowed her to develop practice, teach and be involved in research, whilst continuing post graduate studies.
Returning to full time clinical practice at Bolton in 2000 Marie took on the role of Clinical Nurse Specialist, pre-admission Assessment (Trust lead). Since then she has worked with practitioners across different Directorates and professions to standardise protocols, guidelines , processes and documentation for pre-assessment , whilst maintaining a clinical caseload and developing the pre-assessment service. Bolton is the first Hospital in the country to utilise the knowledge and experience of NHS Direct to undertake telephone pre-op assessment.
Marie recently completed an MSc in professional practice (Development and Evaluation), with a qualitative study exploring patient expectations of a pre-admission assessment service.
Her current professional priorities revolve around centralising the Trusts pre-op assessment service and the access booking and choice initiatives.
Mrs Jenny Bramhall RGN, MSc
Tel: 0121 4241376
Mobile: 07970 661630
Email: jenny.bramhall@heartofengland.nhs.uk
Jenny Bramhall was the first appointed Consultant Nurse for Pre Operative Assessment, commencing her role in July 2000 at Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust.
Jenny started her career as an enrolled nurse in 1978 and converted in 1982 she has worked in a variety of specialties, including vascular & GI surgery. As a surgical ward sister, she introduced pre-operative assessment and has developed nurse led services including a short stay unit. Jenny has worked as a Surgical Senior Nurse and prior to her current role, was a Clinical Practice Manager & Operational Manager in a large Teaching Hospital.
The position of Consultant Nurse provides clinical leadership to nurses and other Health Care Professionals working within pre-operative assessment arena. Jenny Developed and Standardised the Trust wide Pre-Operative Assessment Service for all elective inpatients, day surgical patients & Ophthalmology patients. The strategic element of this role is to influence the 'Elective care' agenda within the Trust.
Jenny is a member of the Modernisation Agency Steering Group for Pre-Operative Assessment and was actively involved in producing the National Good Practice Guidance on Pre-Operative Assessment for both Day Surgery & Inpatient Surgery.
Jenny is a Modernisation Agency Associate.
Jenny is passionate that within the role of Consultant Nurse she will be able to practice at a level that has a direct effect to patients, their carers, other healthcare professionals that transcends cross boundary working, to meet patient needs.
Lee Wadsworth RGN MSc V300
Lee qualified as an RGN in 1988. His early years were spent working general medicine for one year, A & E for 5 years and 3 years working in intensive units both in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
In 1998 he was offered the opportunity to train as a Nurse Practitioner and through this develop a Pre-operative assessment service at Macclesfield District General Hospital. This he developed successfully which resulted in a service expansion and the training of further nurse practitioners and support staff. Whilst in post Lee presented at the National Day Surgery conference in 2000 at York about this service and was later published in the Nursing Standard in 2002.
Lee left this post to pursue a career as a freelance clinical trainer in Pre-Operative assessment, Advanced Clinical Skills, ECG Interpretation and Blood results. In 2003 Lee set up his own company with colleague Andrew Smith called A & L Healthcare Consultancy, which provides off-site and on-site training solutions for the NHS, independent sector, primary care staff and the prison service. In addition to this their company provides consultancy services for organisations wanting to develop Pre-operative Assessment services, peri-operative specialist practitioners, surgical care practitioners and rapid response teams.
Lee’s main drive is to promote pre-operative assessment as a dynamic speciality and encourage staff to develop clinical expertise through training and mentorship. He seeks to support staff either through his role as membership support officer for the association or through training events and consultancy.
Lee maintains clinical practice as a Nurse Clinician in General Practice on a part-time basis.
Dr Nick Lavies FRCA
Consultant Anaesthetist and Clinical lead for Pre-assessment
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust
Tel. 01903 285151 nick.lavies@wash.nhs.uk
Nick graduated from the University of Bristol in 1976 and after a variety of junior hospital jobs in the South-West, went to Barts as an anaesthetic registrar.in 1980. Armed with the FFARCS he went to Durban, South Africa in 1982 for a year and then became senior registrar in Leicester in 1985. Whilst there he developed an interest in pain management and spent 6 months as a pain fellow in Adelaide.
In 1990 he went to Worthing as consultant anaesthetist and his interest in pre-operative assessment grew out of local need to improve on the traditional house officer system and promote the role of nurses in pre-assessment. In 2003 he started a joint pre-assessment clinic with a consultant physician Lui Forni to see the pre-operative patient with multiple medical co-morbidities. His current interests are the [Lavies Nick] use of cardio-pulmonary exercise testing in pre-operative assessment and the development of early pre-screening as an aid to achieving waiting time targets.
Nick’s principle role on the board is to promote and develop regional multidisciplinary groups.