variety of senior clinical nursing and leadership roles across a range of NHS Trusts, both in the acute care setting and community. Educationally, Liz has worked in education since 2001, initially as a clinical facilitator before moving into full‐time Higher Education in 2003. She has had held a range of leadership and management roles including being an Associate Dean for Academic Quality Assurance and Head of Department for Nursing. Liz has extensive experience in academic quality assurance and also works as an NMC quality assurance visitor. She is still actively engaged in both teaching and research. Her areas of interest are care of the acutely ill child, healthcare law and ethics, professional values, curriculum development, practice‐based learning and degree apprenticeships.
Sinéad Greener Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Pharmacist at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Research Associate at Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Sinéad studied biochemistry with immunology in Trinity College Dublin before training in pharmacy in Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. She completed her pre‐registration training year in St Mary’s Hospital in London before moving to Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to begin training as a junior pharmacist. She has been working as a pharmacist since 2009. She became a senior pharmacist in paediatrics in 2012 and specialised as a paediatric bone marrow transplantation pharmacist in 2016. She enjoys undertaking research alongside her clinical role.
Sarah Greenshields RN (child), BNurs, MSc Specialist Community Public Health Nursing, Post Graduate Certificate of Academic Practice, Fellow of HEA Sarah qualified as a children’s nurse from Manchester University in 2008. She worked on a ward which cared for children and young people with a variety of needs. This included neurology, neuro oncology, immunology and general paediatrics. Following this Sarah moved into community nursing. This included being responsible for immunisations and working in schools. Sarah qualified as a Specialist Public Health Practitioner in 2015. She then led a team of nurses who worked into specialist provisions, caring for children with complex needs and their families. During 2017 she completed her masters in Public Health. In late 2018 Sarah started a role as a Lecturer in the Children and Young Peoples nursing team at Northumbria University. She also has a role in teaching on the Specialist Public Health Practitioner programme and is working towards her PhD.
Dr Annette Hand DNursing, MA, PG Dip CR, Dip HE, RGN Nurse Consultant/Associate Professor/Clinical Lead – Nursing, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust/Northumbria University/Parkinson’s Excellence Network Annette has a clinical academic position and divides her time between three roles: Nurse Consultant, Associate Professor and UK Clinical Lead for Nursing (Parkinson’s). Annette has worked in the field of Parkinson’s for many years and as a Nurse Consultant has an active clinical, research and educational role within this area. She qualified as a non‐medical prescriber over 15 years ago and continues to use this skill in day to day clinical practice. She was the non‐medical prescribing lead for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for many years, supporting and developing other non‐medical prescribers. Annette, an Associate Professor with Northumbria University, has lectured on the non‐medical prescribing programme (V300) for over 5 years, and supports prescribing students and the continual development of the V300 programme. Annette was appointed to the national role of Clinical Lead for Nursing within the Parkinson’s UK Excellence Network, as part of the clinical leadership team. This role was developed to support service improvements through education, knowledge exchange and evidence based practice and support the role of the Parkinson’s Nurse across the UK.
Barry Hill MSc Advanced Practice, PGC Academic Practice, BSc (Hons) Intensive Care Nursing, DipHE Adult Nursing, OA Dip Counselling Skills, Registered Nurse (RN). Registered Teacher (NMC RNT/TCH). Senior Fellow (SFHEA), Programme Leader (Senior Lecturer) Adult Nursing, Northumbria University. Clinical and Commissioning Editor for the British Journal of Nursing. Barry is an experienced leader, academic, educator, researcher, and clinical nurse. His current role is director level and as part of the senior leadership team, as ‘Director of Education (Employability)’ for the department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, and Programme Leader (BSc Nursing Sciences). He has a demonstrated history of working within academia particularly in the Higher Education (HE) industry. Barry is a Senior Fellow (SFHEA) and a HEA mentor, Barry is a certified Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP), NMC Registered Nurse (RN), NMC Registered Teacher (TCH), and NMC Registered independent and supplementary prescriber (V300). Barry is skilled in clinical research; clinical education and is passionate about Higher Education, especially Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP), Critical Care, and Non‐Medical Prescribing (NMP), and pharmacology. Barry has been a Nurse leader for more than 15 years and was trained in London’s best teaching hospitals at Imperial college NHS Trust. He is a strong education focused professional, Barry has published books, book chapters and peer reviewed journal articles. Barry is the clinical editor and commissioning editor for the at a glance and advanced practice series within the British Journal of Nursing. Barry is currently a fourth year Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) candidate at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Noreen Kilkenny Noreen qualified as a adult nurse in 2008 from the University of Hertfordshire. She worked as a cardiac and respiratory staff nurse at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital and completed her MSc in Cardio Respiratory Nursing at Imperial College London. Noreen has worked as a Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse specialist in Hertfordshire and in Ireland and Australia as an agency nurse, telephone nurse triage specialist and clinical educator. Noreen commenced her academic career in nurse education in 2014 and works at Northumbria University, Newcastle as a Senior Lecturer. Noreen is currently studying her PhD in patient safety and human factors education.
Louise Lingwood MBA, MA‐Ed, PGDip‐ANP, PGDip‐Ed, APMG, BSc (Hons), RNMH, FHEA Senior Lecturer Mental Health Nursing at Northumbria University at Newcastle. Louise completed her undergraduate mental health nurse education and training at Northumbria University in the year 2000. She has worked extensively across children and young people’s mental health services (CAMHS) since qualifying and has worked as a mental health nurse, project manager and clinical manager within specialist CAMHS across the North East and nationally. Louise has worked clinically within forensic teams, looked after children Teams, primary mental health, CAMHS, National D/deaf CAMHS, autism, eating disorder and learning disability services. She commenced her post at Northumbria University at Newcastle in 2013. She is currently the Programme Lead for Mental Health Nursing and teaches across pre‐registration programmes across all fields. She has a specialist interest in enhancing nurse education, anatomy, parity of esteem, autism and disability. She is involved in a number of research projects and is currently reading for her PhD.
Harriet Minto Senior clinical pharmacist at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. Harriet began her pharmacy career at the University of Huddersfield; following that she completed her pre‐registration year at the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Trust (NUTH) working between the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Freeman Hospital. After qualifying as a pharmacist, she continued to work for NUTH as a rotational pharmacist alongside studying for a Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Sunderland. Over the past few years she has worked in the paediatric respiratory and cystic fibrosis team at the Great North Children’s Hospital and is currently working towards becoming an independent pharmacist prescriber in this area.
Jackie O’Sullivan Specialist Nurse Children and Young Peoples Endocrinology at Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. Jackie trained as a nurse in the QARANC nursing soldiers, civilians and their families in Germany, Aldershot, Woolwich and Hong Kong for 11 years. After leaving the Army in 1992 Jackie worked in general paediatric wards at Gateshead and Newcastle for 10 years. She has always had an interest in endocrine and metabolic processes and became an Endocrine Nurse Specialist at the RVI in 2002, a role she continues to thrive in, speaking regularly at local and national endocrine meetings and within the university to student nurses. She has had a publication in Archives of Disease in Childhood and has worked on research projects in diabetes and endocrinology with local teams.
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