Expert media guide
The Expert Media Guide gives all media access to experts involved with the management of long-term conditions. These experts are speaking at the Managing Long Term Conditions event in Harrogate on the 7th April, 2009.
If you’d like to contact them regarding a media story their areas of expertise and contact details are as follows:
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Bengt Ahgren
Senior Lecturer, Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden -
Heather Ballard
Service Development Manager Long Term Conditions, NHS East of England -
Martin Bontoft
Codesigner, User Research & Design Strategy -
Angie Clegg
Head of Practice & Professional Development, Leeds PCT -
Carole Cochrane
hief Executive, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers -
Dr Frances Cole
GP, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and Pain Management Specialist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals -
Dr David Colin-Thomé
National Director for Primary Care Commissioning & System Management Directorate, Department of Health -
Natasha Curry
Fellow in Health Policy, King's Fund -
Sue Dean
Director, Workforce Projects Team, Skills for Health -
Dr Michael Dixon OBE, F.R.C.G.P
GP, Cullompton, Devon & Chairman, NHS Alliance -
Andrew Donald
Chief Operating Officer, BEN PCT -
Keren Down
Director, The Foundation for Assistive Technology (FAST) -
Dr Malcolm J Fisk
Chair, Telecare Services Association -
Dr Jonathan Fuld
Consultant Physician, Acute & Respiratory Medicine, Cambridge University Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust -
Dr Nick Goodwin
Senior Fellow, King’s Fund & WSD Action Network -
Prof Michael Greco
A/Professor & Director, CFEP-UK Surveys, Innovation Centre, University of Exeter -
Julie Green
Head of Commissioning, Older People and Long Term, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly PCT -
Dr John Hague
Independent Consultant to Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, GP, East of England Clinical Lead for IAPT -
Ed Harding
Integrated Care Network Manager, Department of Health -
Julie Hickey
General Manager, Brixham Health & Social Care, Baywide Enabling Services Team (BEST) -
Vaughn F. Keller MFT EdD
Director, Health Behaviour Laboratory, University of Miami-Humana Health Services Research Center -
Simon Knighton
Chief Executive, Expert Patients Programme Community Interest Company (EPP CIC) -
Prof Bob Lewin
Professor of Rehabilitation, University of York and Director of the BHF Care & Education Research Group -
Geraint Lewis
Visiting Fellow, Nuffield Trust -
Sally Parker
Project Manager, Telehealth, Nottingham City PCT -
Jill Pattenden
Senior Research Fellow, BHF Care & Education Research Group, University of York -
Jeremy Porteus
National Programme Lead, Integrated Care Network, Department of Health -
Dr Sue Roberts
Chair of the Year of Care Programme Board -
Geoff Rollason
Programme Director, Pfizer Health Solutions -
Helen Rollings
Community Matron, Swindon PCT -
Prof Gill Rowlands
Director, Institute of Primary Care and Public Health and Chair, Health Literacy Group UK -
Michael Sobanja
Chief Executive, NHS Alliance -
Dr Geraldine Strathdee
Consultant Psychiatrist and HfL Co Clinical Director for Mental Health Care Pathways & Mental Health Specialist Clinical Adviser, Care Quality Commission -
Johan Taylor
Practice Manager, Marple Cottage Surgery -
Peter Thistlewaite
Director, integratedcare R&D, and Editor, Journal of Integrated Care -
Jim Thomas
rogramme Head, Skills for Care -
Carole Thomson
ommunity Matron, Torbay Care Trust -
Helen Tite
Managing Director of The Core Fitness & Body Studios, Advanced Exercise Specialist -
Warren E. Todd
Executive Director & Founder, International International Disease Management Alliance [IDMA] -
Karen Walker
Divisional Manager, Health Policy Team, Skills for Health
Bengt Åhgren – Senior Lecturer, Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bengt Åhgren earned his PhD in Public Health at the Nordic School of Public Health in Gothenburg. His research interest is in the creation of integrated care with an orientation towards management and organisational issues. He has participated in assignments for the European Commission and several European health care organisations.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Development, management and evaluation of integrated care
Contact details
- Tel: 07860 821 882
Heather Ballard – Service Development Manager Long Term Conditions, NHS East of England
Heather has a background in community nursing and multi disciplinary team management. She has been involved in policy development at a national level, followed by a spell working in the 3rd sector, then strategic development for LTCs at a PCT. She is currently working for NHS EoE with policy lead for LTC.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Personal health budgets in particular, and long-term conditions in general, as being developed in East of England
Contact details
- Tel: 01223 597668 or 07506 739665
Angie Clegg – Head of Practice & Professional Development, Leeds PCT
Angie Clegg is Head of Practice and Professional Development at NHS Leeds. She has an MSc in Advanced Practice and her clinical leadership experience ranges from ward sister to nurse consultant. Angie led Community Matron development in NW Leeds and is committed to high quality care closer to home.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Intermediate Care
- Community Matron Services
- Clinical Leadership
Contact details
- Email: a.clegg@nhs.net
- Email: angie.clegg@NHSLeeds.nhs.uk
Carole Cochrane – Chief Executive, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers
Carole has enjoyed a lengthy and successful career within the voluntary sector. For the past 15 years she has worked to support carers. After a period of Acting Chief Executive, Carole was confirmed in the post in December 2008.
Carole maintains a passion for Community Development and for pioneering new ways of supporting carers.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Anything that affects the lives of carers and those they care for
Contact details
- Email: ccochrane@carers.org
- Tel: 01257 234 070
Dr Francis Cole – GP, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and Pain Management Specialist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals.
Francis is a GP in Huddersfield and CBT therapist since 1994. She runs the multidisciplinary chronic pain rehabilitation service at Bradford Teaching Hospitals and she started in 1996. Francis delivers training courses in CBT techniques for mental health and long-term health condition self management. She is a co-author of the CBT self help guide "Overcoming Chronic Pain".
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Partnerships with patients
- Information resources for patients
- Skilling patients in self management
Contact details
- Email: frcole@btinternet.com
- Tel: 07885 719007
Dr David Colin-Thomé – National Director for Primary Care Commissioning & System Management Directorate, Department of Health
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Department of Health policy
Contact details
- Email: ellen.graham@dh.gsi.gov.uk
Natasha Curry, Fellow in Health Policy, King's Fund
Natasha Curry joined the King's Fund in 2005 and has worked in a number of fields, including long-term conditions, commissioning, and choice. She recently published an evaluation of practice-based commissioning in four PCTs and is also managing the Fund's work on predicting the risk of unplanned admission to hospital.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Predicting risk of admission
- Practice-based commissioning
Contact details
- Email: n.curry@kingsfund.org.uk
Sue Dean, Director, Workforce Projects Team, Skills for Health
Sue joined Skills for Health in April 2008 as part of the NHS National Workforce Projects Workforce Projects Team integration. Prior to that she was at the Greater Manchester WDC where she focused on workforce planning.
She has 15 years project management experience within healthcare at local, regional and national level, in the areas of workforce planning and development, and education contracting.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Workforce planning for long-term conditions
- Capability & capacity building in workforce planning
Contact details
Dr Michael Dixon OBE, F.R.C.G.P.– GP, Cullompton, Devon & Chairman, NHS Alliance
Michael Dixon has been a GP in Cullompton, Devon for 24 years. He has been chair of NHS Alliance, representing primary care, PCTs and practice based commissioners, since 1998. His national roles also include chairing the National Life Check Board and PBC Lead on Lord Darzi’s Advisory Group. He also sits on the National Leadership Network for Health and Social Care and the Medical Leaders Professional Council, He is a Senior Associate of the King's Fund, and Honorary Senior Fellow in Public Policy at HSMC (University of Birmingham).
Other appointments include Visiting Professor to the University of Westminster (Integrated School of Health), Medical Director and Trustee of The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Integrated Health at the Peninsula Medical School.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Long-term conditions in primary care
Contact details
- Tel: 01884 33206
Andrew Donald – Chief Operating Officer, BEN PCT
Andrew Donald is Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive for Birmingham East and North PCT. He has worked in a variety of roles both inside and outside the NHS over the last 30 years. Andrew is responsible for leading the Commissioning and Redesign of services for a population of 440,000 people.
Andrew is responsible for the development of Practice Based Commissioning, Partnership and the development of commissioning of services for people with Long Term Conditions as well as commissioner market development. Andrew has led the introduction of the first telephone based care service in the UK Birmingham OwnHealth which supports people over the telephone to manage their Long-Term Condition.
Andrew is the Project Director for the PCTs World Class Commissioning programme.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Long-term conditions
Contact details
- Tel: 07778 492 458
Keren Down – Director, The Foundation for Assistive Technology (FAST)
Keren became Director of FAST in March 2004. FAST acts to draw together expert opinion to develop strategic guidance on developments for assistive technology, with recent activity focused on workforce development. Over the past two years FAST has developed its role as a research and product commercialisation partner working with a range of national level projects.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Strategic development of assistive technology, including telecare & telehealth
Contact details
- Email: keren@fastuk.org
- Tel: 020 7264 8955
Dr Malcolm J. Fisk – Chair, Telecare Services Association
Malcolm Fisk has a track record including local government, university and private sectors. His work has focused on older people, disability, telecare and telehealth. He authored Social Alarms to Telecare: Older People’s Services in Transition (the Policy Press) and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Assistive Technologies.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Telecare and telehealth
Contact details
- Email: malcolm.fisk@dsl.pipex.com
Dr Jonathan Fuld – Consultant Physician, Acute & Respiratory Medicine, Cambridge University Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust
Jonathan is Consultant in Acute and Respiratory Medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. He is clinical lead at Addenbrooke’s for the Co Creating health Initiative which aims to embed self management support strategies and is involved in other local quality improvement and research projects.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- COPD
- Workforce for self management support
Contact details
Dr Nick Goodwin – Senior Fellow, King’s Fund & WSD Action Network
Nick Goodwin is Senior Fellow at the King’s Fund, London. Nick’s key research interests lie in the management of primary care organisations, commissioning, integrated care systems, knowledge transfer, the management of long term conditions, and international health management and development. Nick is co-project lead on the Department of Health-funded Whole System Demonstrator Action Network (WSDAN).
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Telecare & Telehealth
- Practice-based commissioning
- Integrated care organisations
Contact details
- Email: N.Goodwin@kingsfund.org.uk
- Tel: 0207 307 2400
Prof Michael Greco, A/Professor & Director, CFEP-UK Surveys, Innovation Centre, University of Exeter
A/Professor Michael Greco is Director of CFEP-UK Surveys based at the Innovation Centre, University of Exeter.
CFEP, in partnership with the Health Foundation, is implementing a skill development programme for clinicians who are travelling on the journey of change with people with long-term conditions.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Skills development programme for clinicians that support self-management
Contact details
- Tel: 07740 744 980
Julie Green – Head of Commissioning, Older People and Long Term, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly PCT
Julie has worked in both Social Care and the NHS for over 25 years, her interest focusing on older people and people with chronic illness. Julie has been particularly interested in co-creation of services, working with people to develop truly person centred outcomes. This project has been a good example of partnership working across health, social care, the fitness industry and local communities themselves.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- All relevant to this work
Contact details
Dr John Hague – Independent Consultant to Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, GP, East of England Clinical Lead for IAPT
Dr John Hague is a GP in Ipswich, and Mental Health Advisor to Suffolk PCT. He is an independent consultant to the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, and is East of England Clinical Lead for IAPT. He Chairs the national IAPT Long Term Conditions/ Medically Unexplained Symptoms special interest group.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- IAPT
- Long-term conditions
Contact details
- Email: John.Hague@scmh.org.uk
Ed Harding – Integrated Care Network Manager, Department of Health
Ed is the Manager of the Integrated Care Network (ICN) in the Department of Health’s Putting People First Delivery Team. The ICN works to promote improved outcomes for people who use health and social care services through better working between the NHS and Local Government. Further details available at integratedcare.gov.uk
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Integrated care
Contact details
- Email: chris.mahony@dh.gsi.gov.uk
Julie Hickey – General Manager, Brixham Health & Social Care, Baywide Enabling Services Team (BEST)
Julie, a social worker by profession, specialising in mental health, was appointed to one of the first general management posts in Torbay Care Trust when it was established. She has the responsibility for the Brixham Zone, an integrated service which includes social work, community nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and a community hospital.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Torbay Care Trust
- Integration of Health & Social Care
Contact details
- Tel: 07825 027572
Vaughn F. Keller MFT EdD – Director, Health Behaviour Laboratory, University of Miami-Humana Health Services Research Cente
Dr. Keller directs the Health Behavior Laboratory of the University of Miami-Humana Health Services Research Center. His primary interest is in the development of intervention models and systems to influence health behavior. He is currently working on a new model for influencing health behavior.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Health promotion
- Health behaviour change
Contact details
- Email: vkeller@humana.com
Simon Knighton – Chief Executive, Expert Patients Programme Community Interest Company (EPP CIC
Simon was appointed Chief Executive of EPP CIC at the end of June 2007 with remit to sustainably achieve a significant step change in the volume of self management courses being delivered in England. Before joining EPP, Simon worked in both the private and the not for profit sectors.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Financial Constraints
- Social Enterprise
- Management of Long Term Conditions
- Improving Quality of Life
- Patient Independence
- Patient Choice
- Integrated Pathways
- Darzi
- NHS Constitution etc
Contact details
- Email: simon.knighton@eppcic.co.uk
- Tel: 07879 444180
Prof Bob Lewin - Professor of Rehabilitation, University of York and Director of the BHF Care & Education Research Group
A clinical psychologist by training, he has been working clinically and researching the self-management of heart disease for more than 20 years, and has helped to introduce a number of evidence based programmes into the NHS.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Self-management of chronic disease
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Health Psychology
Contact details
- Email: rjpl1@york.ac.uk
Geraint Lewis, Visiting Fellow, Nuffield Trust
Geraint is a public health physician. Working at Croydon Primary Care Trust between 2004 and 2006, he developed and implemented the Virtual Wards project, which won an unprecedented four HSJ awards and was overall winner of the Guardian Newspaper’s Public Service Awards.
He spent 2007-08 as a Harkness in New York, where his research explored the use of predictive modelling in the United States. Geraint was the 2008 recipient of the National Directors' Award at the Veterans' Health Administration in Washington DC. He is the author of the postgraduate textbook public health textbook.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Virtual Wards
- PARR/Combined Model
- Predicting "Impactability"
Contact details
- Email: Geraint.lewis@nuffieldtrust.org.uk
- Tel: 020 7462 0519
Sally Parker – Project Manager, Telehealth, Nottingham City PCT
Until summer 2008, Sally Parker was Head of Adult Services at Nottingham City PCT and in this role she led on the establishment of Case Management services for the PCT, which includes the Community Matron service and a specialist COPD team, amongst others.
Prior to this Sally worked as a Locality General Manager and as a Health Promotion Specialist in the same organisation.
Sally’s career in health started as a Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse, working with people with challenging behaviours.
In June 2008 Sally changed roles to allow her to spend more time with her young family and she is currently working part time project managing the telehealth roll-out for the PCT.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Use of Telehealth technology in the management of people with long-term conditions
Contact details
Jill Pattenden – Senior Research Fellow, BHF Care & Education Research Group, University of York.
Jill works in the British Heart Foundation Care and Education Research Group, Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. Jill has experience of using different research methods and managed a range of studies exploring patients’ experiences of living with heart disease and their perceptions of new health services.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Heart failure services from diagnosis to death
Contact details
- Email: Jp30@york.ac.uk
Jeremy Porteus – National Programme Lead, Integrated Care Network, Department of Health
Jeremy is the National Programme Lead (Networks) in the Department of Health’s Putting People First Delivery Team. The programme incorporates the Integrated Care Network and Housing and Telecare Learning and Improvement Networks to support the integration of health and social care locally and forge effective partnerships with 3rd sector and social enterprises to deliver person-centred Care Closer to Home services. Further details available at DHcarenetwork.org.uk
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Integrated Care
- Housing with Care for people with dementia, older people and vulnerable adults
- Telecare / telehealth for people with LTC
Contact details
- Email: Chris.Mahony@dh.gsi.gov.uk
Dr Sue Roberts – Chair of the Year of Care Programme Board
Sue Roberts is Chair of the Year of Care Programme Board with responsibility for overseeing the practical delivery of the project, on behalf of the Partnership Board. She was National Clinical Director for Diabetes from 2003 to 2008, having previously worked as a consultant physician across North Tyneside and Northumberland for nearly 30 years, pioneering structured and integrated diabetes care. She was in active clinical practice until 2007.
Having trained in London, Newfoundland and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, she developed comprehensive district-wide services in Northumbria, bridging primary and hospital care.She has held senior positions on a number of influential committees and groups involving diabetes care and has led the introduction and spread of rigorously evaluated education within the UK
Her main interests include the practical aspects of healthcare delivery, especially related to long-term conditions, and the education of people with diabetes.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Care planning
- Care for people with diabetes / long-term conditions
Contact details
- Email: sue.roberts@gofo.co.uk
Geoff Rollason – Programme Director, Pfizer Health Solutions
Geoff worked for the NHS for almost twenty years in community and primary care services, before spending twelve months in Indonesia as a volunteer working in a remote general hospital assisting with management and planning. He returned to the UK in late 2008 to take up this role with PHS.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Long-term conditions’ management
- Telephone based services
Contact details
- Email: geoff.rollason@pfizer.com
Helen Rollings - Community Matron, Swindon PCT
Helen has been a Community Matron since January 2006 working for Swindon PCT. She manages Long Term conditions and works in partnership with patients who have a wide range of illnesses and complex social issues. She is part of a five strong Community matron Team. They also support Nursing Homes and have five nurse led beds they manage. Helen is clinically active.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Telehealth in Swindon
Contact details
- Tel: 01793 708 706
Prof Gill Rowlands, Director, Institute of Primary Care and Public Health and Chair, Health Literacy Group UK
Professor Gill Rowlands is an academic GP, specialising in Health Literacy (HL) research. She has set up a national group of patients, practitioners and academics interested in building the HL evidence base see www.healthliteracy.org.uk.
We are developing national and international HL projects and are keen to develop collaborations with key stakeholders including patients, carers and health care providers.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Health literacy
Contact details
- Email: rolwang2@lsbu.ac.uk
Michael Sobanja, Chief Executive, NHS Alliance
Michael has thirty years experience of the NHS at all levels. He now works nationally and internationally through the NHS Alliance and the European Forum for Primary Care as well as providing consultancy advice to both public and private sectors.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- National NHS Policy and primary care in particular
- Commissioning including practice-based commissioning
Contact details
- Email: m.sobanja@nhsalliance.org
- Tel: 07798 797 476
Dr Geraldine Strathdee – Consultant Psychiatrist and HfL Co Clinical Director for Mental Health Care Pathways & Mental Health Specialist Clinical Adviser, Care Quality Commission.
Dr Geraldine Strathdee is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Assertive Outreach in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. Her team provides intensive community treatment for people with complex and longer term conditions who are supported to self manage. She led the mental health Information prescription pilot in London, and is committed to accessible information for patients.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Mental health
- Darzi care pathways in mental health
- London GfL programme
- Information Prescriptions
Contact details
- Email: geraldine.strathdee@ocleas.nhs.uk
- Tel: 020 8676 8250
Johan Taylor – Practice Manager, Marple Cottage Surgery
A law graduate with management, sales and service delivery experience in private sector, with the last six years as Business/Practice Manager at Marple Cottage Surgery in Stockport, Cheshire.
Johan has a strong interest in PBC and utilising IT within primary care to help manage patients care, and workload, more efficiently.
He is a member of the NHS Alliance Practice Manager Group
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Use of IT in general practice
Contact details
Peter Thistlethwaite – Director, integratedcare R&D, and Editor, Journal of Integrated Care.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Integrated care
Contact details
- Email: Peter@integratedcare.org.uk
- Tel: 07813 890416
Jim Thomas, Programme Head, Skills for Care
Jim manages Skills for Care's Workforce Action Learning Programme. Previously, Jim was head of workforce development for Cambridgeshire's disability service and the Valuing People Support team's expert advisor on workforce development.
Jim lives in Cambridge and spends his spare time as a roadie for his son's band - Isaac's Aircraft.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Social care workforce development
- Transformation for adult social care
- Workforce development in the context of end of live care
- Workforce development in the context of learning disabilities
- Health and social care partnership working
Contact details
- Email: Jim.Thomas@skillsforcare.org.uk or jiiim@mac.com
- Tel: 07860 821 882
Carole Thomson – Community Matron, Torbay Care Trust
Community Matron for 2½ years with Brixham Health and Social Care Multi Disciplinary Team, under the management of Torbay Care Trust. Actively engaged through case management in promoting self care for individuals with long-term health conditions.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Community Matron case management in Torbay Care Trust
Contact details
- Email: carole.thomson4@nhs.net
Helen Tite – Managing Director of The Core Fitness & Body Studios, Advanced Exercise Specialist
Helen is an Advanced Instructor. A member of the Register of Exercise Professionals, member of the American Council of Exercise and a member of the UK Fitness Industry Association (FIA) and is an international fitness presenter who is fiercely passionate about health and fitness.
She was pivotal in CIOSPCT winning an award for chronic care management and long term conditions for the Health Service Journal.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Managing long-term conditions
- Fitness for Life
Contact details
- Tel: 01326 310760
Warren E. Todd – Executive Director & Founder, International Disease Management Alliance [IDMA]
Warren E. Todd, Executive Director of the International Disease Management Alliance has been at forefront of the disease management industry for over a decade. After developing one of the first disease management programs for asthma in the early 90s and publishing the first book on DM in 1996, he founded the Disease Management Association of America in 1999 and received DMAA’s “Most Influential Individual in DM” award in 2001. In 2005 he formed the International DM Alliance and since has pioneered DM in 21 countries. Mr. Todd is a graduate of Northeastern University and has an MBA from Columbia University.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Chronic disease management and prevention
Contact details
- Email: toddnjc@aol.com
- Tel: 908-806-3961
Karen Walker – Divisional Manager, Health Policy Team, Skills for Health
Karen qualified as a podiatrist in 1984 and worked in a variety of clinical roles before moving into diabetes. After a number of management roles in the NHS in 2005 she moved to Skills for Health as Diabetes Workforce Development Manager. Following an organisational restructure Karen was appointed as a Divisional Manager in the Health Policy Development Team in December 2007.
Topics of expertise or comment in media
- Workforce / skills development, training and education
Contact details
- Email: Karen.Walker@skillsforhealth.org.uk
- Tel: 07768 998069
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