Viv Marsh is a specialist nurse with more than 30 years’ experience of NHS clinical practice across primary, secondary and community care settings. Viv believes that excellence in education for healthcare professionals and supporting self-management are the key to improving health outcomes for people with Long Term Conditions. As Facilitation Coordinator for the IMP2ART research programme Viv manages the facilitation of the IMP2ART implementation strategy in general practice. Alongside this role, Viv also works part time in primary care diagnosing, reviewing and managing patients with asthma and supports a CCG around standards of care for children with asthma. Viv has a number of additional professional interests including roles on the editorial board for a nursing journal and the committee for the National Paediatric Respiratory and Allergy Nurses Group (NPRANG), writing for publication and membership of the Asthma UK Council for Health Professionals. In 2020 Viv joined the Primary Care Respiratory Society Education Committee.

Chris is an independent spirometry trainer who has worked for over 20 years as a respiratory nurse. During the years as the lead for spirometry at EFH, she has been instrumental in spirometry standards and training such as being the author of the Top Ten Tips for spirometry, which has recently been republished as the Seven Steps to Standardised Spirometry. She has sat on the NICE COPD guidelines committee and has a passion for all things spirometry. She believes every person has a right to the correct diagnosis and treatment and the current misdiagnosis has to be addressed by appropriate training and education. Her recent redundancy and loss of her mum (who occasionally spoke with her as she had respiratory disease) has inspired her to establish her own company and utilise her years of experience.

Podiatry has developed immensely over the past few years, particularly in the NHS. In 27 years of working as an NHS podiatrist Angela has had opportunities to advance her career personally, along with having roles in the evolvement and progression of the podiatry service. Angela currently has a management role for a locality of Birmingham, along with a clinical role as lead for the diabetes/High Risk team. The majority of Angela’s postgraduate training has been diabetes related, including attaining a MSc in Health Sciences with postgraduate awards in education, leadership and management. She is also an independent prescriber. Angela has had educational publications based on clinical studies and evaluations in areas of wound care, with poster presentations at both national and international conferences.

Julie is a Dermatology Lecturer Practitioner; her background is 28 years as a dermatology clinical nurse specialist, in both primary and secondary care. She is a dermatology lecturer at the University of Stirling, currently coordinating the new masters module in the Advanced Practice master’s degree– Advancing Dermatology over the Lifespan. Julie works around the UK, delivering dermatology educational projects and collaborating on dermatology research projects, currently the Eczema Mindlines project (Birmingham City University). Julie is an adviser to several patient support groups, including Allergy UK, PAPAA, ISG, she has a regular weekly session on the National Eczema Society complex helpline. Julie is a health care writer and publishes widely in professional and health care journals; she is past editor of Dermatological Nursing. She is also special adviser to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Skin and steering committee member of the Psoriasis Setting Priorities Partnership project, running from 2017-2020, and RCGP Spotlight toolkit on skin. She works clinically once a week and her current clinical post is with Check4Cancer, Skin Health UK, running skin cancer detection and awareness clinics; in the past she ran nurse-led clinics in eczema, psoriasis and acne care. Julie is passionate about improving care and support for people with skin conditions through developing educational initiatives for both healthcare professionals and patients.

Dr Anne Phillips is a Queens Nurse and a National Teaching Fellow with the Higher Education Academy; she is currently an Associate Professor in Diabetes Care at Birmingham City University. Anne also is part of the iDEAL Diabetes multidisciplinary advisory group, who are an independent organisation working to reduce variation in standards and enable excellence in diabetes care delivery both for people with diabetes and health care professionals. Anne has an Honorary Contract as a Diabetes Research Nurse with the Diabetes Team at Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital, Birmingham, and also works locum as a Practice Nurse. Anne is an editorial member for the European Medical Journal Diabetes Series and UK Practice Nursing Journals to enable outreach of diabetes education to practice colleagues.

Jackie is a Professor of Wound Healing at the Birmingham City University Practice Development Unit. She is recently retired from the NHS having worked as a Consultant Nurse in Tissue Viability, where she provided a strategic and operational role in Tissue Viability across the Worcestershire Health Care Trust. This included education and clinical care for patients in their own homes, community hospitals and hospices across Worcestershire. Jackie has developed and led the implementation of BSc and Master’s level accredited courses including Tissue Viability, Leg Ulcer Care, Infection Control in Tissue Viability, Palliative Care in Tissue Viability, Pressure Ulcer Prevention and the implementation of Tissue Viability education for pre-registration. Jackie has been an external examiner for ten years. Jackie is Chair of the Wound Care Alliance UK a, large charity with the remit of providing educational resources to support the delivery of best practices in Tissue Viability. Jackie is passionate about education and its impact on delivery of care and providing high quality of care to patients. Jackie has published widely, presented both nationally and internationally, and received several national awards.

Darush is a Pharmacist, Behaviour Change Specialist and International Respiratory Trainer. He has presented at various national & international conferences (including ERS, IPCRG, PCRS, Clinical Pharmacy Congress) and was asked to help review the National Training Standards for Smoking Cessation. He is an active teacher and follower of the IPCRG Asthma Right Care social movement and enjoys spreading positive messages on how people can live much better with asthma. Darush has published more than 20 clinical papers and writes teaching modules on various pharmacy platforms. He has been recognised by his healthcare peers at the 2019 PCPA GP Pharmacist awards for excellence. Darush enjoys running and raising money for respiratory & cardiac charities. One of his main missions is to reduce health inequalities caused by tobacco and poor health care and spends a lot of his time teaching in deprived locations across the UK.

Penny is a senior community tissue viability nurse in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. She has over 30 years of nursing experience, much of this in primary care. She was a district nurse team leader for over 15 years, becoming a clinical development lead during this time. It was here that she grew her passion for developing clinical expertise in others. Penny joined the tissue viability team in 2014 and supports a wide range of clinicians in both the prevention and management of complex wounds. She is passionate about education and improving practice. She regularly delivers tissue viability training events and has spoken at both regional and national conferences. She is currently completing an MSc in Clinical Skin Integrity and Wound Management at the University of Hertfordshire.

Queen's Nurse Heather is an entrepreneur, poet, social innovator and health policy influencer. She chaired New NHS Alliance, which influences national health strategy and policy on health inequalities, for over 2 years. She is a former general practice nurse and director of primary care. Heather practises a social model of public health, inventing and co-producing solutions with local people. Based on her own severe asthma as a child, her latest innovation is BreathChamps: Where children and whole communities learn and share asthma knowledge in fun ways. In 2018 she won the Sue Pembrey Award for person and community centred care. In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the NHS, she was named as one of the ‘top 70 standout health and care stars’ . In 2016 Heather received the Open University Business School Alumnus Award for her 'Outstanding Contribution to Society'.

Aine completed Registered Nurse Training in Ireland in 1981 and moved to the UK to undertake Midwifery training in 1982. She found a career in Midwifery enjoyable and rewarding and during that time developed an interest in Education. The Advanced Diploma in Midwifery at the Royal College of Midwives, London, provided an opportunity to evaluate practice and develop new skills and attitudes. The Postgraduate Certificate in the Education of Adults at the University of Surrey was an opportunity to meet individuals from a wide range of clinical and educational backgrounds and provided an environment to try out new ideas and practices. The changes in Nurse and Midwifery education in the late 1980’s required an all graduate workforce and taking the Open University BA made it possible for her to work while she studied. Though it was challenging, Aine found the experience very rewarding and that the opportunities contributed to the person she is today. Aine is married with two sons and and enjoys her job immensely.

Steve qualified as a GP in 1989 and, after initially practising in the north of the country, has been working in Somerset since 2002. He has a long-standing respiratory interest in primary care, has chaired the PCRS and was involved with the British Asthma Guidelines (BTS/SIGN) for 10 years. Steve has been a GP trainer since 1990 and has been involved in medical education throughout his career. Steve has also been involved with a variety of multi-professional, cross boundary initiatives within the NHS and has more than 200 publications to his name. He has had an interest in communication skills training and change management – along with a passion to encourage clinicians to make a difference.

Karen is a Clinical Nurse Specialist and Prescriber. She works in general practice, travel clinics, teaches travel health and has volunteered regularly in Kenya. She was part of the working party that published ‘Female genital mutilation: RCN guidance for travel health services’ in the UK. She is passionate about Immunisation and preventing vaccine preventable diseases.

Jennifer Anderson is Lead Nurse at a busy Travel Clinic. She has worked in diverse settings including remote Australia, international medical assistance, as an expedition medic in Borneo and in rural healthcare outreach in Kenya. Jennifer lectures in travel medicine and has been engaged as a speaker on travel health topics nationally and internationally. She contributed to the RCN document ‘Female Genital Mutilation – RCN guidance for Travel Health Services’. Jennifer serves on the Faculty of Travel Medicine Executive Board of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and recently became Honorary Clinical Registrar for the FTM Membership exams.