19th South West Public Health Development School
Integration and Collaboration
Imperial Hotel, Torquay 22-23 September 2015
Tuesday 22 September
SPEAKERS AND WORKSHOP LEADERS - BIOGRAPHIES
Plenary speakers
Opening session
Maggie Rae, DPH Wiltshire
Maggie Rae is a Corporate Director at Wiltshire Council. Maggie has statutory responsibility for services delivering Adult Social Care and Public Health together with responsibility for Housing, Communities and Public Protection. Maggie is also the Director of Wiltshire Public Health and continues to work closely with GP colleagues across the Clinical Commissioning Group and Wiltshire, supporting them on public health issues.
Maggie has spent her career developing and exercising her passion to lead improvement of the public’s health. Her previous roles have included Director of Public Health at NHS Wiltshire where she played a pivotal role in the transformation of Wiltshire as a health community. During this time she has led the development of ‘a single version of the truth’- a partnership Joint Strategic Assessment of the county’s needs; an assessment tool to help guide decisions on the commissioning of services for Wiltshire.
Maggie is the council’s corporate lead for emergency planning and is a local leader in the delivery of public protection and resilience. Maggie is the Deputy Chair of the Wiltshire and Swindon Local Resilience Forum with the executive lead for training and development as well as the Co-Chair of Local Health Resilience Partnership.
Maggie was previously Head of Health Local Delivery and Health Inequalities at the Department of Health. She has also acted as the UK Representative on the European Expert Working Group on Health Inequalities.
Maggie is the South West Board member for the Faculty of Public Health, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and Head of School of Public Health, Severn Postgraduate Medical Education.
Kelechi Nnoaham, DPH Plymouth
Kelechi is currently the Director of Public Health at Plymouth City Council. Prior to this Kelechi was the Service Director for Public Health at Bristol City Council.
Kelechi has a background in clinical medicine. His career has taken him to consultancy in public health in Berkshire focusing on health protection and public health intelligence, whilst providing public health training to specialty trainees and Foundation Year 2 doctors.
Having completed a DPhil in Public Health (Women’s Health) at the University of Oxford in 2011, Kelechi continues to undertake research in:
Predictive modelling of UK fiscal policy and chronic diseases (‘fat taxes’ and health)
Secondary research synthesis
As President and co-founder of the Public Health Foundation of Nigeria, Kelechi’s international voluntary work includes designing and delivering capacity building projects for public health in Nigeria.
Natalie Field. Interim DPH North Somerset
Natalie is currently the Interim Director of Public Health at North Somerset Council. She was previously the Deputy Director of Public Health at South Gloucestershire Council.
Ayo Oyinloye, Training Programme Director, Consultant in Public Health, Swindon Borough Council
Ayo is a 1999 medical graduate of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. He has Masters of Science Degree in Epidemiology from the same University in 2002. He also has a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Liverpool and is a member of the Faculty of Public Health. He currently works as a Consultant in Public Health at Swindon Borough Council with responsibility for Health Protection; Emergency Planning Resilience and Response; Sexual Health and training of Public Health specialty trainees in public health.
Ayo is also the Training Programme Director of the South West Public Health Training Programme.
Morning plenary
Paul Mears
Paul has been Chief Executive Officer at Yeovil NHS Trust since May 2012 where he has been leading the development of new models of care across the local health system. Prior to joining Yeovil Paul was Chief Operating Officer at South Devon Healthcare and Director of Operations for Torbay Care Trust leading integrated community health and social care services. Paul joined the NHS through the Gateway to Leadership Programme from the private sector having had a previous career with Eurostar and British Airways.
Afternoon plenary
Laura Nicholas
Laura is a highly experienced NHS Director with a flair for achieving results through service improvement and performance management, grounded in 22 years of strategic and operational management. She is influential with clinicians and executives right across health communities and organisational boundaries. She is a highly competent communicator who is able to deliver in a complex, politicised and ambiguous environment with a reputation for managing resistance to change through building positive relationships.
Laura is currently the Director of Operations and Assurance for NHS England South West. Laura has held various roles within the NHS which include Commissioning, Planned Care working on the QIPP programme, working with NHS South West, the NHS Modernisation Agency and the Department of Health.
Workshop leaders
1a Paul Maisey
Paul is a Director, Consultant and Trainer specialising in leadership development and people management, with thirty years of various senior roles. He has made enough mistakes to be called ‘experienced’. He now works with organisations as diverse as FTSE 100’s, small charities, NHS and HM Prisons. Paul enjoys running (see you at the Cardiff half??) and discworld novels.
1b Paul Crocker ACMA, CGMA, MAAT.
Paul lives in Torbay, Devon, he has previously worked in the Private sector and Local Authorities, but the bulk of his career has been within the NHS.
He is currently the Assistant Director of Continuous Improvement, at South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (SDHFT).
A qualified Chartered Management Accountant, Paul's main specialities are Business Improvement, Performance Management, Project Management & Implementation, Management Accounting, and Financial Training for Non-Financial staff.
Paul runs a very popular NHS Improvement and Financial training course at SDHFT. This has also been run at Torbay Care Trust, West Midlands HFMA (Healthcare Finance Management Association), South West HFMA and Public Health England.
He has also previously contributed to business improvement articles for the HFMA and also contributed to Technical reports submitted to the Treasury by the HFMA Technical group.
Paul is currently involved in supporting efficiency improvement projects designed to improve Patient Quality and efficiency. This includes the role out "Lean" management methodologies, within South Devon Healthcare. (This process is successfully used within many industries and is already helping South Devon to empower all employees to influence change by looking at opportunities to improve the quality of care and improve efficiency within the area they work.)
Debbie Stark
Debbie is the Deputy Centre Director, Public Health England South West. Debbie was previously the Director of Public Health in Torbay Council before joining Public Health England.
1c Yoav Ben-Shlomo
Yoav Ben-Shlomo is Prof. of Clinical Epidemiology at University of Bristol, having qualified in Medicine with an intercalated BSc in psychology from St. George's Hospital Medical School. His research spans an eclectic range of topics from life course epidemiology, neurodegenerative disorders, use of diagnostic and prognostic tests and equitable access to health care. He leads the "Equity, appropriateness and sustainability" theme in the NIHR funded CLAHRCwest (Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for the West Country). He also co-leads with Prof. Martin White the equity Work package of the ageing well theme in the School of Public Health Research. He has always believed that Public Health practitioners can and should undertake real world evaluations with the help and support of academic colleagues when necessary.
Matt Egan
Matt Egan is a Senior Lecturer at the School for Public Health Research @ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (SPHR@L). His current research interests include conducting evaluations of community control and regeneration interventions, local government alcohol policies and understanding policymakers' utilisation of evidence. The work involves co-producing evidence with local and national practitioners and producing research outputs relevant to decision-making.
Elizabeth McGill
Elizabeth McGill is a Research Fellow in Local Policy Evaluation at the School for Public Health Research @ LSHTM (SPHR@L). Her current research interests include conducting evaluations of local government alcohol policies and understanding policymakers' utilisation of evidence. She is particularly interested in co-producing evidence with local practitioners and producing research outputs relevant to local-level decision makers.
2a Charles Beck
Charles is a Consultant Epidemiologist with Public Health England but also a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Community Medicine, University of Bristol.
Li Chin
Teh Li Chin is a Consultant in Infection and Medical Microbiology at the North Bristol NHS Trust.
2b Angela Raffle
Dr Angela Raffle qualified in Medicine in 1980, worked as a junior doctor in England and overseas, before specialising in Public Health. She became a national figure in the
UK’s work on improving screening programmes and services for cancer. In 2010 she undertook one of the first Consultant in Public Health roles in England dedicated solely to the issues of climate change and resource depletion, working as a partner to Bristol City Council. Her work focused on aligning the health and sustainability agendas in relation to food, transport and urban planning. She has been active in the Bristol Green Capital movement since it was conceived in 2007 and helped set up the Bristol Food Policy Council of which she is now vice chair. She is also Chair of the Trustees for ‘the Community Farm’ a member-owned community supported agriculture project, and is a director of Transition Bristol. Angela holds an Honorary Senior Lecturer post at the University of Bristol and is a member of the Sustainability Steering Group for North Bristol NHS Trust.
2c Same as for 1C
WEDNESDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER
SPEAKERS AND WORKSHOP LEADERS - BIOGRAPHIES
Plenary speakers
Charlotte Moar
Charlotte Moar has held Finance Director/Deputy Chief Executive positions in the NHS for almost twenty years at Cardiff & Vale University Health Board, South Central SHA, NHS England, Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust, Wiltshire PCT and Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust. She is currently seconded to Welsh Government as Programme Director of the NHS Wales Finance Academy which brings together public and private sector organisations through research, teaching and innovation to improve finance across the NHS in Wales.
Question Time
Maggie Rae – see opening session notes
Caroline Dimond
Caroline is currently the Interim Director of Public Health at Torbay Council.
Professor Selena Gray
Selena is a public health academic who works at University of West of England and currently also holds a position as Deputy Postgraduate Dean in Severn PGME, Health Education South West.
She has a long commitment to professional development in public health, and is currently a member of the Board of UKPHR and Chair of the UKPHR Education Committee. She is on the Board of Accreditation for APHEA (Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation), and in the past has held roles as Registrar of the UK Faculty of Public Health and Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Health.
She is currently Associate Editor for the Journal of Transport and Health and Public Health Reviews.
She is Co-Director of the Bristol Health Partner APPHLE HIT, and Capacity Development Lead for CLAHRC West.
Mark Pietroni
Mark is currently the Director of Public Health at South Gloucestershire Council.
Workshop leaders
3a Frances Chinemana
Frances is currently the Associate Director Public Health in Wiltshire Council. Frances has a lot of experience working with the Public Health environment.
3b Richard Kimberlee
Richard graduated with a first class Sociology/Psychology BA honours degree from Lancaster University in 1983. His MSc. Politics (Distinction) was gained from UWE in 1996, followed by a PHd in 2000. He has taught at Liverpool (John Moores) University, Bradford University and Bath Spa University. His current research interests include evaluating complex community and health interventions. This evaluative work includes analysis of SRB, Big Lottery, NRSI, Sport England and EDF programmes. He has worked with a plethora of third sector organizations in the UK and across Europe to develop the capacity of the sector to profile their work. He has many years experience of both quantitative and qualitative methods and in recent years he has undertaken SROI analyses of a broad range community initiatives including community transport, LinkAge, Thomas Pocklington Trust, Healthy Living Centres and Social Prescribing. He recently reported to Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group on social prescribing activity across the city and made policy recommendations on sustaining and expanding holistic social prescribing practice.
3c Judy Curson
Judy is an experienced leader who has led and developed teams in local and national organisations.. A doctor with functional expertise in both public health and workforce strategy, she operates effectively at the clinical/managerial interface; successfully leading through change and uncertainty. Judy assimilates information rapidly, making incisive analysis from complex and conflicting data and intelligence. She has well developed listening, questioning, coaching and facilitation skills.
Nicola Wong
Nicola is currently Executive Officer at Public Health England
4a Allan Clarke
Allan is currently the News and Information Officer at Wiltshire Council
4b Deborah Haynes
Debbie is currently Consultant in Public Health (Designate) at Wiltshire Council
DI Gavin Webb, DS Aled Jones, Dan Masters
Gavin is a Detective Inspector. Regional Cyber Crime Unit - part of the Regional Organised Crime Unit - a collaboration of the five forces within the south west. From Gloucestershire police, previously working with serious and complex crime, major crime and sexual offences. Aled Jones - Detective Sergeant - as above Regional Unit. Previously of Avon and Somerset Police with broad range of investigative experience to include the above. Dan Masters - working towards his BSc in computer forensics in cyber security with Bournemouth and presently working within the RCCU as a Cyber Crime Investigator.
4c Ayo Oyinloye, Consultant in Public Health, Swindon Borough Council
(see opening session notes)