Professor McMahon is the Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland. He was officially appointed to this post on the 1st January 2022.

The post advises government on a range of professional and policy areas including infection prevention and control and regulation. His Directorate also has responsibility for professional policy and practice for allied healthcare professionals, midwives and healthcare scientists.

Prior to taking up this post Professor McMahon was the Executive Director for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions for NHS Lothian from 2016 to 2020. Previous to this he has held other Executive and Senior posts in public and private sector, as well as the RCN.

Ben is passionate about supporting community nurses to use research to enhance person-centred care and develop their own research expertise and careers. He is a Queen’s Nurse and the co-founder of the UK-wide Community Nursing Research Forum. Ben’s recent NIHR funded mixed-methods doctoral research investigated community end-of-life anticipatory prescribing practice and patients’, family caregivers’ and clinicians’ perspectives of this care. Ben’s postdoctoral research interests include improving systems for using end-of-life care medications at home.

Ben is a Community Nursing Research Consultant with the Queen’s Nursing Institute. He is a postdoctoral Research Associate with the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge, and a practicing Community Palliative Care Nurse.

Prof. Beverley Harden FCSP is a proud physiotherapist and an AHP, working as Deputy Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (England), Lead AHP in Health Education England and Lead for the national multi professional programme on Advanced and Consultant Practice. Beverley is an Honorary Professor at Winchester University and a Board Trustee for Carers UK.

Professor Dame Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu is an Emeritus Professor of Nursing at the University of West London. In 1979 she set up the first ever UK sickle cell/thalassaemia nurse counselling service, based in Brent. She then became a senior lecturer in Community Genetic Counselling at the University College London’s Institute of Child Health. Prior to retirement in 2007, she was Dean of the School of Adult Nursing Studies & Professor of Nursing at University of West London (UWL), before establishing the Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice, also at UWL. Elizabeth was Vice-Chairperson of the successful Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal and is now a Life Patron of the Mary Seacole Trust. In 2016 she published her memoirs Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union. Elizabeth became a Dame in 2017 in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours and was awarded a Fellowship of the Queen’s Nursing Institute (FQNI) in October 2017 and became a Vice-President of the QNI in 2021.

Catharine Leman was a successful European Sales Director in London for many years before realising that she enjoyed listening to her clients talk to her about the issues affecting their personal lives more than selling IT solutions to them. This lead her in 2016 to retrain as a certified hypnotherapist under Marisa Peer, founder of the RTT method, a multi award winning therapy. Catharine's objective is to guide people of all ages to help free themselves from the negative baggage we all accumulate over the years, so that they can live their best lives. She has been working online and from her office in La Rochelle, France ever since.

Ruth enjoyed national appointments with NHS Improvement and Monitor, as well as regional and trust leadership roles, before becoming the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England in January 2019.

In June 2022, as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Honours, Ruth was awarded a DBE for her services to nursing, midwifery and the NHS since she started her nurse training in 1985. Upon receiving her Damehood, Ruth recognised the expertise of nursing and midwifery colleagues in caring for people at every stage of their lives and the vital role that the professions and care staff played during the pandemic. Ruth has led the nursing, midwifery and care professions’ response to COVID-19 in England and led collaborative work with UK CNO colleagues, the NMC and trade unions to ensure agreement and consistent messaging on key issues.

She is passionate about nurturing the next generation of NHS nursing and midwifery leaders and encouraging professional development opportunities. This includes advocating for improved mental health awareness, championing volunteer activity to support the frontline workforce, and she is a vocal supporter of the WRES agenda and increased diversity across the NHS.

Proud mum to her wonderful daughter, Ruth is a great believer in a healthy professional and home life balance for all.

Find Ruth on twitter @CNOEngland / #teamCNO

Emma is a mental health nurse with over 25 years of experience across a wide range of health, emergency care and criminal justice settings. Maintaining clinical practice is a priority and Emma continues to work as a consultant Nurse in Psychiatric liaison.

Key to improving patient care is ensuring the mental health and wellbeing of Nurses, Emma leads a national program of work on reducing suicides in Nursing and Midwifery and building on the success of PMA, She developed a Professional Clinical leadership program. for registered nurses. There are now nearly 5000 trained professional Nurse advocates delivering clinical supervision across all healthcare settings in England with further expansion underway.

Elizabeth Iro is the World Health Organization Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) who commenced in this role in January 2018. She is based in Geneva, Switzerland. Mrs Iro is from the Cook Islands, prior to taking up her role in WHO she served as her country’s Secretary of Health since 2012- 2017. She was the first nurse/midwife and woman to be appointed in this role in the Cook Islands. Her priorities while in this role focused on legislative reforms to strengthen the country’s health system and developing National Health Strategic plans (2012-2016, 2017-2021) and a National Health Road Map 2017-2036. Mrs Iro was trained in New Zealand as a nurse and

Francis Fernando has more than 30 years of experience as a nurse . He has held senior posts which include Clinical Matron, Nurse Consultant, Head of Nursing and currently as an Associate Director of Nursing and Quality.

Francis has been named as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Ethnic and Minority Leaders in the UK by HSJ ,won the Inclusive and Compassionate Leader of the Year Award by the National BAME Awards last year and Francis was one of the Top 10 finalists for the Aster Guardian global nursing awards 2022. He is also the Founder of the Filipino Nurses Association UK and is a Florence Nightingale Leadership Scholar.

Helen Whyley is the Director of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales. Since February 2022 she has also been Interim Director of Nursing. Helen is the Chair of the RCN Education, Learning, and Development Strategy Program Board and the RCN Staffing for Safe and Effective Care Program Board. Previously she was Associate Director (Employment Relations). And as Nursing Officer in the office of the Welsh Government’s Chief Nursing Officer her role included professional and policy advice on workforce development, nursing & midwifery education and regulation, and safeguarding. Her clinical background is in intensive care. She is married with three children and three grandchildren and lives in mid Glamorgan.

Karen successfully qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1999 in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, specialising in the field of Neurosurgery before holding various nursing management positions. Karen became Director of Nursing in Beaumont Hospital in 2015 for 5 years leading a large clinical workforce. In 2020 Karen joined the Department of Health as Deputy Chief Nursing Officer with responsibility for leading safe nurse staffing policy development. Karen holds a MSc in Organisational Change & leadership Development, is an ICN global nursing leadership scholar and is currently undertaking a global scholarship through the Florence Nightingale F Karen holds a diploma in Executive Coaching and continues to regularly coach frontline healthcare

Maria was appointed Chief Nursing Officer for the Department of Health in March 2022. Maria has worked across a range of acute and community settings within Health and Social care in England and Scotland and has gained extensive leadership, management and strategic experience. As Chief Nursing Officer, Maria leads the nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals’ contribution to the development and implementation of health and social care policy in NI. Her team provides advice on adult and children's acute services, mental health, elderly care, learning and physical disabilities, public health, community health, primary care, midwifery, and international issues.

Prof. Dr. Michael Joseph Dino, President of the Phi Gamma Chapter of the Sigma International Honor Society in Nursing, is the Director of the Research Development and Innovation Center of the Our Lady of Fatima University in Valenzuela City, Philippines. As an award-winning researcher, innovator, scholar, and educator, he has published numerous patents and studies in nursing leadership, management, humanoid technologies, and constructive integration of technology in teaching & learning. His current research initiatives include an exploration of human-computer interaction (HCI), Fourth Industrial Age/ Revolution (4IR) technologies, and how they will impact healthcare science, praxis, and education in the near future.

I retrained in my 30's and completed a BSc Hons. Adult Nursing in 2018. As a newly qualified nurse, I came straight into community as a community nurse with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust (CPFT). Then, in February 2020 I moved to the Learning and Development team to support the nursing associates team as an Assistant Practice Educator and also did a maternity cover as part Clinical Education Lead. I also have been a deputy chair and chair of the CPFT Ethnic Minority Network. I am working in a corporate role as Infection Prevention and Control Clinical Nurse Specialist .

Paul is a registered nurse with over 35 years of experience and his previous roles include; deputy director of nursing roles as well as senior management roles within the NHS in both acute and community organisations. As part of a Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership Scholarship Paul undertook leadership studies at Harvard and visited integrated community services in Holland. Paul is the author of a number of papers including national guidance in Wales and is on the editorial advisory board of RCNi Nursing Management.

Anne is Emeritus Professor, London South Bank University is Queen’s Nurse, and holds several accolades including Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, Hon Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), and a HEA National Teaching Fellow. She was the Association of Occupational Health Nurses Occupational Health Nurse of the Year in 2011 and more recently, in 2020 elected President of the Society of Occupational Medicine, the only non-physician to be president in the society’s 87-year history.

Professor Professor Brown is Professor of Nursing and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University, Belfast. A Registered Nurse in Learning Disabilities and Registered General Nurse, he is an active researcher involving people with learning disabilities, he has. undertaken a range of studies, and published over 100 papers in the nursing and learning disability literature on issues including, health transitions, access to healthcare, liaison nursing models and person -centred care, diabetes and psychological interventions. He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing

Sam is a Registered Nurse, Qualified Specialist Practitioner in the home, District Nurse, Nurse Prescriber and Queens Nurse. Sam is Deputy Director Community Nursing at NHS England and NHS Improvement, having spent a number of years in NHS England national team formerly as Head of Nursing and Midwifery Strategy within the Nursing Directorate and Head of Stakeholder and Cultural Transformation, Future Focused Finance within the Finance Directorate. Previously for eight years, Sam worked for the Northwest Strategic Health Authority, leading the delivery of the Department of Health Non-Medical Prescribing Programme across the region, then nationally for the Department of Health as an advisor and internationally.

Sam holds a number of national roles, including chair of Association for Prescribers UK and co-chair of European, UK and Ireland committee Prescribing Research in Medicines Management (PRIMM). Sam is well published and has won a number of awards, most notably 'The Eileen Steele Memorial Award for Caring’. Sam holds a MSc Nursing (Cancer), a post graduate Leadership and Management qualification, is a Top Directors NHS Leadership Academy graduate and is ILM level 7 Exec coach and mentor. She is a founding Director of Health and Education Cooperative. She is formerly a nurse board member for Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group, Greater Manchester and member of the National Association for Primary Care Executive. She recently joined University of Surrey as an expert advisor to the national research of independent prescribing by therapeutic radiographers and supplementary prescribing by dietitians. In her spare time, Sam enjoys time with her young family.

Shonna Spreadbury has been nursing for 23 years the majority of that time in community nursing. For the last 8 years Shonna has been involved in implementing and maintaining clinical systems for her community organisation, Sirona care & health based across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Her primary focus for digital working is that clinical systems should enhance the clinicians ability to perform and support care rather than hindering. A mantra she preaches to any non clinical staff and remains the clinicians advocate when implementing any digital project.

Steph was born and has spent most of her working life in Yorkshire. She trained as a nurse in Calderdale and has worked within the NHS for the last 35 years. As well as being a Registered Nurse for adults, she also holds qualifications in children’s nursing, district nursing and advanced practice as well as being a non-medical prescriber.

She is currently the Executive Director of Nursing and Quality for Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, and for the Leeds GP Confederation. In addition she has led and chaired the national district nurse apprenticeship standard group. She was awarded an MBE in the Queens Jubilee Honours for services to District Nursing.

Su specialises in occupational health, graduating with a first-class honours BSc. registering as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Occupational Health. She has been a Queens Nurse. Her career portfolio includes vocation case management and sickness absence, wellbeing physical and mental health awareness in the workplace, ergonomic workstation assessments, risk management , civil law expert witness and health screening as well as health surveillance in relation to workplace chemical and hazards risks. She is the Clinical Director of an Occupational Health Hub of experts and she offers a wide range of workplace physical and mental health support to a range of clients nationwide. She specialises in Motorsport and Formula 1 Racing.

Maritess completed her nursing degree in the Philippines, before moving to the UK to work in an acute hospital. Afterwards, she decided to explore London and community nursing, where she found her niche. Maritess completed her District Nursing qualification at Kings College London and became a qualified District Nurse. Eventually, she transferred to East London, became a community matron, and achieved her Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification. Maritess worked in a nursing home and subsequently joined North Central London CCG as a Quality Assurance nurse for care homes. In 2020, she completed her MSc in Global Issues and Ageing and Gerontology at the University of Stirling.

Kenton Cool is one of the world’s leading high-altitude climbers and avid adventurers. He’s climbed Mount Everest 16 times along with many other mountain peaks around the globe and is the only Brit to ski down two 8,000m peaks. Alongside being one of the global elite IFMGA guides, Kenton provides guidance on key leadership and team performance criteria to corporate clients. He’s a highly engaging and inspiring motivational speaker. His ultimate goal is to inspire the next generation.

Dr Crystal Oldman CBE joined the QNI in November 2012 as Chief Executive. Crystal worked in the NHS for 18 years, the majority of which was in the field of community nursing, working with some of the most deprived communities in west London. She has a passion for learning, teaching and research to support best practice and in 1994 joined Buckinghamshire New University as a senior lecturer, to develop a variety of community nursing programmes. Crystal enjoyed an academic career for a further 18 years, completing her Higher Education career as Dean of Enterprise and Business Management in the Faculty of Society & Health, where her role included the development of partnerships with external agencies to promote research and assist in workforce development. Crystal’s interest in leadership and management inspired her doctoral studies into the knowledge, skills and attributes of middle managers and this research was completed in 2014. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2017 for services to community nursing and her leadership of the QNI.

Nicola Pointer is the co-creator of NHSKindness.uk and an Ambassador of @FabNHSstuff, as well as the founder of Kindness Paradox she is a Speaker, Mentor and Coach Nicki is currently working as a Senior Nurse and Clinical Site Manager in the NHS. She believes in compassionate leadership and empowering people to become NHS change agents. She is also passionate about staff engagement, quality improvement and patient safety Nicki is passionate about creating a culture of high quality and compassionate care, that strives to continuously improve patient outcomes and staff morale.

Paul Devlin is an NHS Change Agent and proud member of the national Emergency Care Improvement Support Team, at NHS England and NHS Improvement. He has a special interest in happiness, positivity and self esteem. Paul is an Ambassador for the NHS Academy of Fabulous Stuff @FabNHSStuf.

Suzanne Rich joined the QNI in 2016 as a Keep in Touch Project Officer. Her work centres on overseeing a new telephone befriending service, staffed by volunteers, for retired Queen’s Nurses and District Nurses. Suzanne originally trained as a Personal Assistant and has worked for a variety of organisations, both large and small, before deciding to move to the charitable sector twenty years ago. Since then she has worked on many volunteer-led projects for several charities including Age UK Lewisham & Southwark, which included providing one-to-one befriending for older clients. Suzanne herself volunteered for more than twenty years and believes strongly in valuing volunteers.

George Plumptre has led the National Garden Scheme since 2010. The NGS was founded by the QNI in 1927 to raise funds for District Nurses. Today annual donations of the net income raised at gardens continues to be given to a group of nursing charities including the QNI. In 2019, £3 million was donated from funds raised at gardens.

Sue Boran joined the QNI in April 2018 as Director of Nursing Programmes. She has had a clinical background as a District Nurse and Practice Teacher in Hackney and the City of London and for the past 18 years has been a Senior Lecturer and Course Director for the District Nursing Specialist Practice programme at London South Bank University. Sue became a Queen’s Nurse in 2015 and has worked with the QNI on the Transition to Adult Services project. Sue is very passionate about community nursing and district nursing in particular. She is an advocate for care being close to people’s homes and in supporting people to self-care and regain independence where possible. She is also interested in dementia, frailty, loneliness and social isolation.

Eve Thrupp is a Paediatric Nurse. Qualifying in 2005, she initially worked within the acute sector, then completed her Specialist Community Public Health Degree in School Nursing and has worked in the community as a School Nurse – within rural and inner-city locations – for over 10 years. Eve gained further experience in more specialist roles working as Lead Nurse for Safeguarding Children, Adults and Patients with Learning Disabilities. Eve is passionate about safeguarding and ensuring that patients and families are central to, and part of the team that delivers the best possible care. Eve became a Queen’s Nurse in 2016 and has been involved in the QNI’s Aspiring Leadership Programme since 2018-19.

Professor Alison Leary PhD RN FRCN is the Chair of Healthcare & Workforce Modelling at London South Bank University. She undertakes projects around the modelling of complex systems in healthcare. Her interests are in the complexity of healthcare, mathematical models and data science. She is a registered nurse and is particularly interested in specialist and advanced practice. Alison is the Director of The International Community Nursing Observatory (ICNO) which was launched by the QNI in 2019 to analyse data and trends in the community nursing workforce data in greater depth, to aid understanding of the challenges faced by services.

Professor John Unsworth is the Interim Deputy Faculty Pro Vice Chancellor at Northumbria University. He has a background in community nursing practice, education, management and research. Prior to his current post John has worked as the Head of Learning and Teaching, University of Sunderland, Head of Academic Development at the Higher Education Academy and as Director of Nursing Programmes at Northumbria University. He is an experienced NHS manager having been a Nurse Director in a rural Care Trust in Northern England prior to taking up posts in Higher Education. He has experience of workforce redesign in relation to developing the community nurses’ role around admission avoidance. John is also an International Council of Nurses (ICN) Global Nursing Leadership Scholar 2020. John has extensive experience of developing nursing, medical and higher education internationally having worked to develop teachers and practice in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Ghana, Bahrain, Hungary, Ukraine and Grenada (West Indies). John trained as a nurse in Sunderland and worked in a variety of acute ward settings before moving into district nursing. He completed his specialist practitioner qualification in district nursing in 1997 and he has worked in a variety of roles including district nursing, as a specialist nurse and nurse consultant. He has a PhD from Robert Gordon University which specifically examined the influence of health care organisations on innovation and development. John is an alumni of the QNI Innovation and Creative Practice Awards and is a Queen’s Nurse. John was awarded an OBE for services to community nursing and community nurse education in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2022.

Professor Deborah Sturdy is Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care in England. She has had a long and successful career in nursing, including working with older people and people living with dementia. Since February 2020, Professor Sturdy has worked on secondment for one day a week to the Chief Nursing Officer as strategic advisor for social care nursing. She has also provided nursing advice to the Gosport Independent Panel, set up to address concerns about the care of residents in Gosport War Memorial Hospital. Before this, Professor Sturdy was employed as Professional Nursing Advisor at the Department of Health and Social Care between 2000 and 2011. She has been a member of the BGS since 2005.

Howard was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in February 2019. He is committed to ensure that ICN effectively represents nursing worldwide, advances the nursing profession, promotes the wellbeing of nurses and advocates for health in all policies. He firmly believes that nurses should be at the heart of health policy decision making and leading healthcare systems and delivery. Throughout his career Howard has worked and written extensively on issues relating to the nursing and healthcare workforce and he co-chaired the first ever State of the World’s Nursing Report. He has led ICN’s work to respond to and support nurses globally during the pandemic and has been at the forefront of advocating for the protection of and investment in the nursing profession. Howard joined ICN in April 2016 as the Director, Nursing, Policy and Programmes. His team led the development of ICN policy and position statements, working closely with WHO and other International Organisations to provide nursing advice on global health challenges and input into formal WHO and UN decision making meetings and processes. He also co-ordinated ICN Programmes and projects including Leadership development and worked closely with other Non-Government Health Organisations, civil society and private sector organisations. Howard also oversaw the development of scientific programmes for ICN events including its world congresses, held every two years. In December 2019 the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland appointed Howard as Fellow of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery. This Fellowship without examination is granted in exceptional circumstances to nurses who have rendered outstanding service to the profession.

Esther Mwangi a Specialist Practitioner District Nurse and Area Nursing Manager for CPFT NHS trust (currently on secondment at NHS E/I). She is a keen advocate for shared governance with nurses at the point of care as a mechanism for tackling workforce challenges. Recently as a CNO Nurse Fellow, she led the setup of a national Shared Decision-Making Council for Community Nursing which she continues to facilitate. As an internationally recruited nurse from Kenya, Esther has found great success in transferring her skills acquired abroad into nursing in the NHS. She is working in collaboration with regions, trusts and NHS community organisations to share innovations and solutions to complex challenges and to develop and implement national strategies for community nursing international recruitment.

Professor Brian Webster Henderson is a Professor of Nursing and a recognised and established national leader in relation to nursing and health care. He is Chair of the Council of Deans of Health UK, which represents the university sector across the whole of the UK, 100 universities that provide nursing, midwifery and/or allied health profession education and research, and works at the highest level of strategic discussions on issues such as workforce, curriculum design, research and policy. Brian is also an adjunct Professor at the John Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore USA. He provides strategic leadership for the Institute of Health, and the Institute of Science, Natural Resources and Outdoor Studies, as well as Marketing and Recruitment, Research and Knowledge Exchange and Student Services teams across the University’s campuses. Brian also leads on our equality, diversity, inclusion and well-being agendas and has a strong interest in cultural change within organisations. Brian is also the VCE lead for the Lancaster and Ambleside campuses.

Andrea Sutcliffe CBE joined as our Chief Executive and Registrar in January 2019. Andrea has over 30 years’ experience in health and social care. She joined us from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) where she was the Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care since October 2013. While there she led on the regulation and inspection of adult social care including residential and nursing homes and domiciliary care. Andrea was also responsible for the registration team, supporting all health and care sectors. Prior to that she had roles as the Chief Executive at Social Care Institute for Excellence and also Chief Executive of the Appointments Commission. She was also an Executive Director at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence for seven years. In July 2016, in recognition of her work in social care, Andrea received an Honorary Award of Doctor of Science from the University of Leeds. She was awarded a CBE for services to adult social care in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List.

Rob Webster has worked in healthcare since 1990, taking on national leadership roles in the Department of Health on policy, transformation, and delivery. He is an active member of the NHS Assembly and contributes to several national programmes and networks. Rob is defined by a values-based approach to leadership. He has a history of effective partnership working and a strong commitment to system leadership. He was proud to be made a Fellow of the Queen’s Nursing Institute in 2014.

Caron is an Operations Manager for a medium sized group of care homes and comes with an extensive background in Operations, Quality and Governance, and management and leadership. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, coaching and mentoring future leaders and a member of the advisory committee for the Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care. Caron is also the author of Amazon best-seller Behind The Smiles, a no-holds barred exploration of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its impact on individuals and families, based on her personal experiences. She has studied PTSD and is a member of International Trauma Informed Care Networks as well as running a local Trauma Informed Peer Support Group. In addition, Caron is currently part of a co-production group for veterans, reservists, and families, designing services and pathways for Norfolk Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) with the NHS team and other support organizations. She is also involved in working groups for a unified approach to nursing documentation with the NHS and Social Care networks involving other stakeholders and is currently working with the QNI on the Standards Reference Group for Adult Social Care. She is also a member of QNI CHNN, Long Covid Nurse Expert Group and Infection Prevention and Control Champions Network.

Rebecca Daniels is a qualified paediatric nurse with 22 years clinical experience. She has been working within Community Children’s Nursing (CCN) services in East London for the past 15 years, in various CCN roles and currently Community Children’s Matron. She is passionate about ensuring babies, children and young people (BCYP) with health needs can remain at home and integrated into their community alongside their peers, with the right community nursing support in place. She is also passionate about teaching, leadership and quality improvement. She recently qualified as a professional nurse advocate (PNA), enabling her to provide essential restorative supervision within the workforce. She became a Queen’s Nurse in 2020 and is a core founding member of the UK wide online CCN forum (@CareCCN) which is supporting CCNs across the UK to develop guidance, share knowledge and experiences, connecting via online platform.

Charlotte Fry qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1995 and successfully completed Community Health Care Nursing Degree (District Nursing) in 2000. As well as District Nursing experience Charlotte has also worked in Care Home & Safeguarding Adult Teams within Community Health and has experience working in Social Care. In 2015 she started her own business providing training and support to health and social care including regularly delivering Safeguarding Adult training and Train the Trainer programme for a local authority and providing a Safeguarding Adult training programme and supporting clinical knowledge and skills for a Social Care provider. Charlotte was awarded the title of Queen’s Nurse in 2019. Charlotte works with QNI to develop and deliver Infection Prevention and Control Champions Network. She has also contributed to the QNI’s Transition to Care Home Nursing publication and has written a care home blog for QNI.

Angie Hack has a background as a District Nurse since 1989 and a Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University since 2006. Angie was Course Director for the Foundation Degree Programme (for Assistant Practitioners in Primary Care) at London South Bank University until 2015 and has since co-developed and led the General Practice Nurse Programme successfully for nurses new to General Practice. Angie strongly believes in tripartite working to ensure a positive experience for students, practice mentors and practice leads and shares a passion for developing all levels of nurses and helping individuals to realise their potential. In addition to promoting district nursing and primary care nursing, Angie has been seconded to the QNI as an Assistant Director of Nursing Programmes to promote general practice nursing and lead on the management of the General Practice Nurse Education Network. Angie was awarded The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mothers Award for Outstanding Service and became a Queen’s Nurse in 2016. Angie is also a member of the Keep In Touch project.

Kendra Schneller is a nurse practitioner and has been working with people experiencing homelessness, including clients with addictions and refugee and asylum seekers in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham for almost 14 years. She has developed services to improve the health and social well-being of her clients. In 2018, Kendra jointly led on what is now a successful street outreach service, which was initially funding as a pilot project from the Queen’s Nursing Institute and the Burdett Trust. Kendra is the current Vice Chair for the London Network for Nurses and Midwives Homelessness Group. Kendra promotes the importance of inclusion health through her work and concentrated effort to enhance the education and skills to those not working in the sector. She has won several awards, including The Nursing Standard’s Community Nurse Award, 2011 and Adult Nursing Mentor of the year 2014 for her Trust. In 2019, Kendra became a Queen’s Nurse, a Windrush Scholar, an NHS Assembly member and won the Chief Nurse’s Individual of the Year Award at her Trust. She has published various articles on homeless health in nursing journals, her Trust’s publications, and a local newspaper.

This is Catherine's third year now supporting our annual conference on behalf of Teva UK Limited. She has represented Teva in both her previous role as Professional Relations Manager and now as a Healthcare Manager. Catherine has been working alongside the NHS for 20 years now and covers a multitude of therapy areas including mental health, oncology, respiratory, CNS, specialty generics and many more. Catherine prides herself on her passion for making a difference and delivering on promises whilst always keeping the patient at the heart of everything she does.

Kayla Meikle is lead actor in the play Marys Seacole. Kayla’s theatre credits include National Theatre performances of Paradise, and Shakespeare's Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. She also starred in All My Sons at the Old Vic and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Lyric Hammersmith.