Nursing Expert
Anthony Palmer & Associates
Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Healthcare Professional Experts
Office: 01244 649097
Mobile: 07918 110390
contact@nursingexpert.co.uk
Nursing Expert
Anthony Palmer & Associates
Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Healthcare Professional Experts
Office: 01244 649097
Mobile: 07918 110390
contact@nursingexpert.co.uk
Our experts are highly experienced nursing, midwifery and allied healthcare professional staff, with a wealth of clinical, managerial and educational experience.
Between them, they write hundreds of reports each year for UK bodies including the NHS, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Royal College of Nursing, coroners and lawyers, and also to numerous overseas clients.
The reports are produced mainly in relation to liability and causation.
Our current experts are:
Highly experienced Expert Witness with over 20 years’ experience as a Nursing Expert to leading law firms, public inquires, Coroners and the CPS in the UK. Anthony has significant courtroom experience including high profile criminal trials. He has given oral evidence in Court on many occasions in the last 20 years, on average 6 times per year. Anthony also has given evidence in criminal trials in cases of gross negligence/manslaughter instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service. Anthony has also prepared reports for overseas clients in Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands. Finally, Anthony has regularly given advice at Coroner’s Courts across the UK.
Anthony was instructed as a Nursing expert for the Vale of Leven Hospital Public Inquiry in 2011, where he was required to independently review 10 deaths associated with Clostridium Difficille infection. As part of his evidence he was required to provide oral evidence to the Public Court Hearing for a continuous 2 ½ days. Anthony continues to undertake sessional clinical nursing at his local hospital in order to maintain his nursing skills.
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Anthony’s areas of nursing expertise include:
Please note that Mr Palmer is working on existing cases only and is NOT accepting new instructions.
Rebecca Baker is a Registered Nurse with 19 years’ experience, She currently works as Respiratory Community Nurse Specialist for Dorset Healthcare Foundation Trust, which involves assessing respiratory patients in the community, supporting junior staff, managing chronic respiratory conditions, setting up an assessment clinic, supporting diagnostic services, bridging the link between primary and secondary care, facilitating MDTs and escalation when appropriate.
Recently working within a critical care outreach team, Rebecca assisted during the Covid pandemic, observing and assessing deteriorating patients, liaising with multi-disciplinary teams, attending cardiac arrest and medical emergency calls, and commencing non-invasive ventilatory support within ward areas. Rebecca last worked clinically within ITU in December 2023 to assist as a senior bank ITU nurse.
Rebecca Baker’s areas of expertise include:
A Registered General Nurse (RGN) with over 22 years’ experience of working within a variety of health care fields. Currently working as Associate Director of Nursing for Theatre, Critical Care and Surgery for a large south London teaching hospital with responsibility for the operational management of the division, strategy, governance and nursing quality of care within theatres, critical care and surgical wards across two hospital sites.
Extensive nursing and management experience gained as Matron for Adult Critical Care and Cardiac and Vascular Surgery in central London teaching hospitals.
Donna achieved a first-class honours qualifying Law degree and has an interest in medical law, governance, policy and ethics. As an NMC Registrant, Donna continually maintains and develops her clinical skills, knowledge and competence through her role as Associate Director of Nursing for Theatre, Critical Care and Surgery for a large south London teaching hospital and expert witness work.
As an Expert Witness, Donna Bradburn’s areas of expertise are:
An advanced Nurse Practitioner with over 15 years’ experience of working as a nurse within various areas of the NHS, and considerable experience working in various wards and departments within the Gloucestershire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Jeannette currently works as Frailty Advanced Clinical Practitioner, which involves undertaking geriatric assessments in the A&E Department and on the Frailty Assessment Unit.
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) and Nurse Prescriber, Jeannette is responsible for making autonomous clinical decisions, diagnosing, treating and discharging patients.
She has experience of working within surgical (gynaecology & urology), respiratory, outpatients and the acute medical wards. Jeannette has a particular expertise in the management of elderly patients with a range of complex needs, including managing the risk of falls, and medication / prescribing. An experienced, professional nurse who has given evidence in Coroner’s court, Jeannette has excellent report writing skills, preparing structured judgement reviews for hospital deaths and inpatient incidents – such as falls with injury – for the Hospital trust.
Jeannette’s areas of expertise are as follows:
Henry is a Registered Senior Nurse with over 10 years’ experience of working within the field of nursing. He is also an educator with an excellent clinical background and proven leadership skills in complex healthcare environments.
Henry is an accomplished registered Senior Nurse Educator with extensive experience in critical care nursing and patient transfer operations. He currently works as a Retrieval and Transfer Practitioner for the Adult Critical Care Transfer Service Cymru.
His expertise spans advanced critical care protocols, military nursing, aeromedical and ground-based patient transfers, and managing complex care needs in high-stakes environments. Henry has successfully led and coordinated numerous critical care initiatives, including the training for the UK Military Medical Forces in Exercise Mobility Guardian, where he oversaw intricate patient transfer operations and collaborated with international teams to ensure patient safety and care quality in challenging settings.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Henry took on a critical leadership role, managing a team and ensuring efficient patient care amid unprecedented demands. His work emphasised patient safety, acute assessment, and the swift escalation of care when needed. Henry’s background includes hands-on experience with emergency response, advanced trauma care, and high-risk patient management. Henry’s robust clinical expertise and hands-on leadership in critical care and patient transfer demonstrate his commitment to patient safety and excellence in care delivery.
As an NMC Registrant, Henry continually maintains and develops his clinical skills, knowledge, and competence.
Areas of Expertise
A registered nurse and midwife, with over 20 years’ experience of working within acute and community health care settings; Clinical Commissioning groups; NHSI and the CQC. Betty currently works as Senior Community Nursing Fellow for NHS England. The role involves working at a strategic and national level to strengthen and support the implementation of the National Priorities for Community Nursing (Annual Community Nursing Plan).
Prior to this role, Betty was Chief Nursing Officer for a large acute NHS Trust and had responsibility for the leadership of all nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals within the organisation, providing expert senior leadership and strategic oversight to the quality, patient safety and clinical governance agenda. Her role included being lead for the Patient Safety Incidents Responses Framework within the Trust, ensuring that systems of assurance were in place to monitor and minimise risks to patients.
Betty has significant experience in support of quality improvement through project management, monitoring and assuring quality of care in healthcare settings. She is also a qualified Nurse Prescriber. As an NMC Registrant, Betty continually maintains and develops her clinical skills, knowledge and competence.
Betty’s areas of expertise are as follows:
Dr Victoria Wright is a highly experienced Registered Nurse & Emergency Nurse Practitioner with over 21 NHS years’ experience, with a unique skill set in nursing and management. Victoria has a broad range of experience in Accident & Emergency and acute care for both paediatrics and adults, as well as in partnership with other organisations.
She possesses well-developed expertise as an Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP) and Independent Nurse Prescriber, and also has significant private sector experience. Victoria is currently working towards an MSc in Medical Law and Ethics. As an NMC Registrant, Victoria has continually maintained and developed her clinical skills, knowledge and competence.
As an Expert Witness Dr Victoria Wright’s areas of expertise are:
A Registered General Nurse (RGN) with over 30 years’ experience of working within various areas of the NHS, Elizabeth currently works as Lead Nurse for Specialist Surgery in a large University Teaching Hospital, with responsibility for the implementation, quality and delivery of a specialist surgical service for in-patients and outpatients throughout the Division.
A qualified Nurse Prescriber, Elizabeth works regularly as a Senior Clinical Nurse within the acute surgical wards at her Trust and therefore is completely up to date with current nursing practice and standards of care. She currently provides direct hands-on care whilst supervising junior less experienced colleagues. Elizabeth has considerable experience in complaint management, undertaking internal investigations into standards of nursing practice, leading on Serious Untoward Incident Investigations and reporting on standards of care.
Elizabeth also has further experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Haemodialysis access and therefore is highly skilled in the management of the care of all vascular access devices.
Elizabeth Anderson’s areas of expertise include:
Molly is a highly motivated and experienced registered nurse with extensive senior ward clinical experience. She demonstrates extensive knowledge and skills in both clinical and managerial aspects of nursing, as well as in the training and supervision of junior nurses and students. With more than 10 years’ experience within the acute care setting, Molly has been pivotal in the improvement of nursing standards provided to patients and has significant experience working as a successful nurse leader with deliverable practice in securing CQC improvement. Molly is currently a core member of two corporate committees including pain management and VTE. Importantly Molly maintains her practical nursing skills by being an active bank and agency nurse, covering a variety of settings within public, NHS, and private sector. This includes hospital as well as specialist facilities, such as a vaccination hub and schools.
As an Expert Witness, Molly Bartlett’s areas of expertise are:
A Registered Nurse (RN) with over 30 years’ experience of working within various areas of the NHS, hospices sector and social care, Peter is currently working as a freelance writer producing social care policies and online learning materials for e-platforms and for individual social care providers. Peter has extensive knowledge of regulation and policy within health and social care, and has previously been the Registered Manager for two nursing homes.
Peter also consults in social care, mainly supporting new care homes and domiciliary providers to register with the CQC and Ofsted, working with a variety of health and social care providers on registration (CQC and Ofsted), policy, management supervisions and mentoring, mock inspections, tenders, training and development, audit and governance structures, and delivery.
Peter’s extensive nursing expertise covers health and social care and he has extensive hands-on experience of working for agencies in nursing homes on and off since the 1980’s. For over 10 years, Peter was link-lecturer to the social care sector from a university, where he was a senior lecturer in nursing. With significant expertise and a profile in kidney care where he worked clinically, Peter ran research and governance teams, taught the renal course and continues to contribute as the consultant editor of a national kidney care journal.
Peter’s most recent experience includes registered manager of two nursing homes as well as director of nursing, and registered manager of two UK hospices, all of which needed significant development work where Peter was able to develop a broad understanding of health and social care.
Experience in end-of-life care having been a director of nursing in two hospices and a visiting lecturer and research supervisor in palliative care. Peter has been writing professionally since 1990 and has published over 400 articles in nursing and medical journals, 10 or so book chapters and six books (five in multiple editions).
Peter’s areas of expertise are as follows:
A Registered Nurse (RN) with over 16 years’ experience of working within various areas of the NHS, Sian currently works as a Lead Nurse for Vascular Surgery at a large London Teaching Hospital, with responsibility for implementing and overseeing the quality and delivery of specialist surgical services for in-patients and outpatients throughout the Division.
Sian is a qualified Nurse Prescriber and works routinely as a Senior Clinical Nurse within the acute surgical wards at her Trust. She is therefore completely up to date with current nursing practice and standards of care and currently provides direct hands-on care, whilst supervising junior less experienced colleagues.
Sian has considerable experience in undertaking internal investigations into standards of nursing practice, leading on Serious Untoward Incident Investigations and reporting on standards of care. In addition, she is an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist in Wound Care and Surgical Site Infection at Imperial College Healthcare for over three years and, since 2018, has presented at numerous professional conferences.
Sian’s areas of expertise are as follows:
A Registered General Nurse (RGN) with over 16 years’ experience of working within various areas of the NHS, Sarah currently works as a Lecturer (Adult Field of Practice) in a large university where she is responsible for the implementation of teaching and learning in pre-registration nursing and is the Programme Lead for Masters for Leadership and Management.
Sarah is also a qualified Nurse Prescriber and works regularly as a Senior Bank Staff Nurse within Oncology, Haematology and Transplant Unit at The Christie Clinic and therefore is completely up to date with current nursing practice and standards of care.
She currently provides direct hands-on care with admission and discharge assessment and documentation, assessment, administration and delivery of chemotherapy and management of its side effects, delivery of care for patients undergoing stem cell transplant, blood product transfusion and biospecifics, care for patients post operatives and care of the dying.
As an NMC Registrant, Sarah continually maintains and develops her clinical skills, knowledge and competence.
Areas of Expertise
A Registered General Nurse (RGN) with over 37 years’ experience in healthcare, including 14 years’ experience of working as a Lead Falls Prevention Specialist in a large teaching hospital. Currently working as Leads Fall Prevention Specialist for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, with responsibility for the development and evaluation of the Trust Falls Prevention Management service in line with National Policy and guidelines.
Strong primary and secondary care professional with a Registered Nurse qualification, BSc (Hons) Health & Social Care, PGCert in Medical and Health Education and Osteoporosis and Falls Management, Qualified Professional Nurse Advocate and Expert Witness Certificate.
Debra also holds an associate lecturer post at Anglia Ruskin University. She has been closely involved in the development and implementation of the Falls Quality Improvement Programme and has implemented the role of Falls Advocates to the Trust. Her current role involves responding to complaints and investigations relating to Falls.
Debra’s areas of expertise are as follows:
Yvette is a Registered Mental Health Nurse with over 8 years’ experience of working within the field of mental health. Yvette has experience in general mental health nursing, mental health crisis team and early intervention in psychosis. Yvette’s extensive expertise covers a wide range of mental health nursing, including assess, signposting and treating patients presenting with mental health crisis within primary care and accident and emergency departments.
She also has experience with general mental health nursing, including medication rounds, physical observations, risk assessments, and supporting service users under section 17 leave. Furthermore, Yvette has experience in identification and management of service users suffering with early psychosis.
An Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Registered General Nurse (RGN) with over 25 years’ experience of working within various areas of the NHS, Melissa currently has a dual role as Advanced Nurse Practitioner within both a large GP Medical Centre & for the University Health Centre, with responsibility for patient care including the initial assessment of treatment of presenting patient as well as assessing and treating patients with minor illnesses.
Melissa is also a qualified Non-Medical Prescriber and has considerable experience of working within the community as Matron, managing the practice nurse team for a large GP practice with a population size of 13,000 in Coventry. This involved caring for patients with long term conditions such as COPD, heart failure and diabetes. Melissa held clinical responsibility for these complex patients, assessing, diagnosing, and prescribing as necessary. She also delivered care via telephone and video consultation for those patients that did not wish to attend the practice.
With responsibility for delivering high quality care under the ‘Enhanced Health in Care Home’s (2020)’ scheme, Melissa was responsible for leading the delivery of primary health care to seven care homes with 200 beds. This role involved ensuring and coordinating high quality outcome-based care for these patients, which involved working alongside GPs, ANPs, nurses, Out of Hospital staff, care home staff, social care and administrative staff – and following local guidelines.
Melissa’s areas of expertise include:
Lorna Redgewell is a highly experienced Registered Nurse with over 25 NHS years’ experience, currently working as Advanced & Emergency Nurse Practitioner for Urgent Care Suffolk GP Federation, which involves assessing, diagnosing and treating patients with minor injuries and minor illness; requesting X-ray and referring to specialties (where appropriate) within the acute or outpatient setting; and responsibility for investigating clinical complaints and serious incidents within the organisation.
In addition, Lorna is autonomously practising in the community as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner with GP Practice, Ipswich. Lorna has prepared a large number of internal investigation reports including Serious Untoward Incident Reports (SUI), Route Cause Analysis Investigation Reports (RCA), as well as other internally focused investigative reports.
With experience as an Independent Specialist Advisor for the Care Quality Commission from June 2014 to January 2019, Lorna has considerable experience in advising on specific nursing standards within hospital and community settings. She has a broad range of experience in working across both acute and primary care, as well as in partnership with other organisations. Lorna possesses excellent interpersonal skills and well-developed expertise in Nurse Practitioning and is a qualified Independent Nurse Prescriber.
As an NMC Registrant, she has continually maintained and developed her clinical skills, knowledge and competence.
Lorna’s areas of expertise include:
Mark is a highly experienced NMC registered nurse with a varied background of clinical practice, from general nursing to advanced clinical practice working as a locum through Coben Healthcare. Mark also has significant organisational nursing management and nurse education experience.
Advanced Nurse Practitioner role with an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice and V300 Independent Prescribing Qualification. Wide-ranging experience working within GP surgeries, Walk-In Centres, Urgent Care Centres, GP Out of Hours, Acute Visiting Services for admission avoidance and accident and emergency departments.
Conducts telephone / face-to-face triage, face-to-face assessment and home visits. General Nursing and organisational nursing management. Mark also has experience working within general wards, endoscopy units, nursing homes and community case management of long-term conditions and acute virtual ward.
He has experience as a senior auditor on clinical guardian and senior management on-call rota. Mark is an honorary nurse lecturer at the University of Chester, teaching a variety of specialist nursing topics to both undergraduate and postgraduate students including nursing research and advanced clinical practice modules.
Mark is currently undertaking his doctorate in professional nursing studies with completion due in September 2024. Mark has published several articles within the nursing literature and has been a clinical mentor for postgraduate students undertaking a degree module on minor illness affiliated with Liverpool John Moores University.
Mark’s areas of expertise include:
Anita Tunstall is a highly experienced Registered Nurse with over 30 NHS years’ experience, including with orthopaedics, general medicine, rehabilitation and elderly care. Ensuring high quality care has been central to the roles Anita has undertaken, with day-to-day involvement with management of clinical incidents, staff development and conflict resolution. In private settings, Anita has managed several elderly care units.
Currently working as Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Applocum, which involves the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with minor injuries and minor illness; requesting X-ray and referring to specialties (where appropriate) within the acute or outpatient setting; and recently working within the vaccination clinics with responsibility for administering Covid 19 vaccines.
Anita has a broad range of experience in working across both acute and primary care, as well as in partnership with other organisations. She possesses excellent interpersonal skills and well-developed expertise as a Nurse Practitioner and is a qualified Independent Nurse Prescriber.
As an NMC Registrant she has continually maintained and developed her clinical skills, knowledge and competence. With a particular expertise with stroke patients, Anita has a Diploma and Advanced Qualification in Stroke Care and has provided presentations nationally on the same.
Anita’s areas of expertise include:
Claire is an NMC registered nurse with 15 years’ experience, has significant involvement in Advanced Clinical Practice and holds an Independent Prescribing qualification (V300).
Claire has a wide range of experience working within GP surgeries, Walk-In Centres, Urgent Care Centres, GP Out of Hours and Acute Visiting Services for admission avoidance.
Her experience includes telephone / face-to-face triage, face-to-face assessment and home visits, and she has worked in school nursing and family support.
As an NMC Registrant, Claire continually maintains and develops her clinical skills, knowledge and competence.
Areas of Expertise
A highly experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner with over 20 NHS years’ experience, Joanne currently works for Primary Care 24 which involves assessing, diagnosing and treating patients with undiagnosed and undifferentiated symptoms and minor injuries including requesting X-Ray.
Joanne is responsible for investigating clinical complaints and serious incidents, is a senior auditor for Clinical Guardian, and has considerable experience in advising on specific nursing standards within GP practice, GP Out-Of-Hours, Walk-in centres and Urgent Care Centres.
Joanne also has a broad range of telephone and face-to-face triage experience including NHS 111 and NHS 24. She possesses excellent interpersonal skills and well-developed expertise in Nurse Practitioner and is a qualified Independent Non-Medical Prescriber. As an NMC Registrant she has continually maintained and developed her clinical skills, knowledge and competence.
Areas of Expertise
An experienced Registered General Nurse (RGN) with over 20 years’ experience of working within various areas of the NHS, Wendie is currently working as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner where she has the responsibility of diagnosing and treating illness, organising tests and referrals as necessary.
Wendie works as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in a variety of settings including primary care (GPs) and out of hours. As a qualified Non-Medical Prescriber, Wendie is able to prescribe medicines to patients. For the past seven years, Wendie has undertaken telephone triage for 111 and out of hours services, and recently started remote consultations to suit the needs of the service.
Since qualifying, Wendie’s nursing experience has been wide-ranging, including acute care in hospital settings in a variety of specialties. Her focus over the past 15 years has been within primary care, working closely with multidisciplinary teams, GP’s, district nurses and carers. Her role as an advanced nurse practitioner has involved utilising clinical skills in clinics as an autonomous practitioner working alongside other clinical and non-clinical staff to provide patient care. This includes undertaking referrals and requesting clinical investigations to diagnose conditions.
Wendie has been a Queens nurse since 2014 – an endorsement of Wendie’s commitment to patient care and quality of service – and she is an active member of the Queens Nurses Institute community. As an NMC Registrant, Wendie continually maintains and develops her clinical skills, knowledge and competence.
Judith is Registered Nurse (RN) with over 30 years’ experience of working within community care. She has experience in district nursing and community nursing as a clinical matron in long-term conditions and also in palliative and end of life community nursing care.
Judith’s extensive nursing expertise covers wide range of district and community nursing practice both in clinical practice and nursing management. She is an independent non-medical prescriber in all aspects of medicine management and drug errors. As clinical matron within the community she is a long-term conditions case manager, where she actively assesses and plans care for her caseload.
As an NMC Registrant, Judith continually maintains and develops her clinical skills, knowledge, and competence.
Judith’s areas of expertise include:
An Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Registered General Nurse (RGN) with over 25 years’ experience of working within various areas of the NHS, Melissa currently has a dual role as Advanced Nurse Practitioner within both a large GP Medical Centre & for the University Health Centre, with responsibility for patient care including the initial assessment of treatment of presenting patient as well as assessing and treating patients with minor illnesses.
Melissa is also a qualified Non-Medical Prescriber and has considerable experience of working within the community as Matron, managing the practice nurse team for a large GP practice with a population size of 13,000 in Coventry. This involved caring for patients with long term conditions such as COPD, heart failure and diabetes. Melissa held clinical responsibility for these complex patients, assessing, diagnosing, and prescribing as necessary. She also delivered care via telephone and video consultation for those patients that did not wish to attend the practice.
With responsibility for delivering high quality care under the ‘Enhanced Health in Care Home’s (2020)’ scheme, Melissa was responsible for leading the delivery of primary health care to seven care homes with 200 beds. This role involved ensuring and coordinating high quality outcome-based care for these patients, which involved working alongside GPs, ANPs, nurses, Out of Hospital staff, care home staff, social care and administrative staff – and following local guidelines.
Melissa’s areas of expertise include:
Registered General Nurse (RGN) with over 40 years’ experience of working within various areas of the NHS, and considerable experience working in nursing homes and dual registered homes.
Pam McAuslan currently works as a Senior Nurse Manager / Matron within a 28 bed Gold Standards Award nursing home (The Beeches). Since 2012, she has worked within a variety of nursing and dual registered care home settings with a particular expertise and responsibility for the monitoring of clinical excellence and the delivery of high-quality care to elder residents with a range of complex needs, including dementia management, palliative and end-of-life care.
An experienced, professional nurse who is knowledgeable and conversant with CQC standards and requirements, Pam regularly works with the CQC to ensure standards of care are effectively maintained, undertaking clinical shifts regularly to support the team and maintain her clinical skills. As an NMC Registrant, Pam continually maintains and develops her clinical skills, knowledge and competence.
Pam’s areas of expertise include:
A professional graduate nurse with 35 years’ experience in the NHS, private, private medical insurance, medico legal and nursing home healthcare sectors. An excellent communicator and manager operating at all levels within the healthcare sector.
Amanda is an independent healthcare consultant providing expert witness services, rehabilitation, case management, care management and healthcare consultancy services to the public and private sector nationally.
An exceptionally experienced Nursing Expert Witness providing Causation and Liability reports, Breach of care reports, Condition and Prognosis Reports on Care, Loss of Services reports, Care Needs Reports, Care and Services reports and Care and Case Management reports with reference to multiple trauma, catastrophic injury and acquired brain injury.
Amanda is an experienced rehabilitation case manager providing Immediate Needs Assessments (INA). She continues to work clinically as an agency nurse – in a Specialist Neuro rehabilitation Unit; a School Nurse in a Special Educational Needs School providing care to pupils with complex physical, developmental, behavioural and Neuro diverse needs; Nursing care Homes in the community and Palliative care.
She has experience as a clinical lead and nursing home manager providing care to clients with complex needs such as physical disability, Parkinson’s disease, post CVA, dementia and end-of-life care requiring 24-hour nursing.
Amanda’s areas of expertise include:
A Registered Nurse (RN) with over 30 years’ experience of working within various areas of the NHS, hospices sector and social care, Peter is currently working as a freelance writer producing social care policies and online learning materials for e-platforms and for individual social care providers. Peter has extensive knowledge of regulation and policy within health and social care, and has previously been the Registered Manager for two nursing homes.
Peter also consults in social care, mainly supporting new care homes and domiciliary providers to register with the CQC and Ofsted, working with a variety of health and social care providers on registration (CQC and Ofsted), policy, management supervisions and mentoring, mock inspections, tenders, training and development, audit and governance structures, and delivery.
Peter’s extensive nursing expertise covers health and social care and he has extensive hands-on experience of working for agencies in nursing homes on and off since the 1980’s. For over 10 years, Peter was link-lecturer to the social care sector from a university, where he was a senior lecturer in nursing. With significant expertise and a profile in kidney care where he worked clinically, Peter ran research and governance teams, taught the renal course and continues to contribute as the consultant editor of a national kidney care journal.
Peter’s most recent experience includes registered manager of two nursing homes as well as director of nursing, and registered manager of two UK hospices, all of which needed significant development work where Peter was able to develop a broad understanding of health and social care.
Experience in end-of-life care having been a director of nursing in two hospices and a visiting lecturer and research supervisor in palliative care. Peter has been writing professionally since 1990 and has published over 400 articles in nursing and medical journals, 10 or so book chapters and six books (five in multiple editions).
Peter’s areas of expertise are as follows:
A professional graduate nurse with over 16 years’ experience in the NHS, Nicola continues to work clinically as a Community Matron / Advanced Nurse Practitioner leading a team of nurses, which involves the management of patients with complex health needs and assessment of complex patient discharges.
With responsibility for undertaking concise investigations and serious incidents, and dealing with complaints, Nicola has recently taken on the dual role of Service Manager which involves leading service delivery for adult community health service, and management of a team of 60 community nurses and responsibility for the adult community for part of north Northamptonshire.
Responsible for assessing patients from GP practice referrals, Nicola’s role currently involves performing advanced assessments such as cardiovascular, neurological, abdominal, respiratory and musculoskeletal examinations to determine a diagnosis, prescribe or refer onwards.
Nicola has a keen interest in tissue viability and palliative care and is regarded as an expert in these fields. In the last five years, she has completed a degree in cancer care, undertaken the MSc in District Nursing, Nurse Prescribing and NHS Leadership.
As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Nicola supports patients with long term conditions and provides support to enable them to remain in their home and improve their quality of life. In addition, Nicola has experience as a clinical lead and Nursing Home manager, providing care to clients with complex needs such as physical disability, Parkinson’s disease, post CVA, dementia, end-of-life care and 24-hour nursing care.
Nicola’s areas of expertise include:
Tanya is a dual Registered Nurse (RN) and Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) with over 20 years’ experience of working within various areas of the NHS, Forensic Nursing, Nursing / Residential Care and Domiciliary Care.
She has extensive knowledge of regulation and policy within health and social care, where she is a nominated individual with the CQC for two private care organisations.
As an independent healthcare consultant, Tanya consults in social care mainly supporting new Care Homes and domiciliary providers to register with the CQC and Ofsted, working with a variety of health and social care providers on registration CQC, policy, management supervisions and mentoring, mock inspections, tenders, training and development, audit and governance structures and delivery.
Tanya’s extensive nursing expertise covers health and social care, and she has hands-on experience working for agencies in nursing homes, is an NVQ assessor and experienced at conducting root cause analysis as part of serious untoward investigation. She has previously been a CQC inspector, predominantly within mental health.
As an NMC Registrant, Tanya continually maintains and develops her clinical skills, knowledge, and competence.
Areas of Expertise
An experienced Registered General Nurse (RGN) with over 20 years’ experience of working within various areas of the NHS, Wendie is currently working as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner where she has the responsibility of diagnosing and treating illness, organising tests and referrals as necessary.
Wendie works as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in a variety of settings including primary care (GPs) and out of hours. As a qualified Non-Medical Prescriber, Wendie is able to prescribe medicines to patients. For the past seven years, Wendie has undertaken telephone triage for 111 and out of hours services, and recently started remote consultations to suit the needs of the service.
Since qualifying, Wendie’s nursing experience has been wide-ranging, including acute care in hospital settings in a variety of specialties. Her focus over the past 15 years has been within primary care, working closely with multidisciplinary teams, GP’s, district nurses and carers. Her role as an advanced nurse practitioner has involved utilising clinical skills in clinics as an autonomous practitioner working alongside other clinical and non-clinical staff to provide patient care. This includes undertaking referrals and requesting clinical investigations to diagnose conditions.
Wendie has been a Queens nurse since 2014 – an endorsement of Wendie’s commitment to patient care and quality of service – and she is an active member of the Queens Nurses Institute community. As an NMC Registrant, Wendie continually maintains and develops her clinical skills, knowledge and competence.
Sarah has worked in clinical midwifery for 25 years, during which time she has gained extensive experience in all aspects of midwifery care. Currently working as a Community Midwife, (antenatal care, home births, postnatal care), Sarah also has very recent experience of working as Senior Midwife within the Maternity Assessment (triage) Unit and now regularly runs a clinic for newborn babies requiring their physical examination (NIPE) as part of the Public Health England antenatal and postnatal screening pathway.
Sarah is regularly employed by the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Fitness to Practice panellist. As an NMC Registrant, Sarah continually maintains and develops her clinical skills, knowledge and competence. She also works part-time as a midwifery lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and gained her Master’s degree in 2021. Within the last two years, Sarah has had three research papers published in both national and international professional journals.
Sarah’s areas of expertise include:
Martin is Chartered Physiotherapist with over 25 years’ experience of working within the field of both NHS and private clinical practice. He has experience in general physiotherapy, direct referral to MSK clinics, fracture clinics, complex MSK specialist MDT services, private sporting injury practice and undertaking progress and condition reports for personal injury such as whiplash.
Martin’s extensive clinical expertise covers a wide range of physiotherapy work, including NHS practice, private clinical practice, and personal injury progress and condition reports. He is an independent clinical practitioner who assesses, diagnoses and implements clinical management plans for patients presenting from primary care service with MSK disorders. He also has clinical experience working within fracture clinics and clinically assesses and implements clinical treatment plans for patients presenting within his private clinical practice with MSK disorders, whiplash and sporting injuries.
A member of the Sports Council of Wales network of physiotherapists, Martin also provides specialist physiotherapy to Welsh elite athletes based in North Wales for both junior and senior level and for all manner of sports. This involves providing physiotherapy and rehabilitation in order to get them back to their sport.
As an HPC Registrant, Martin continually maintains and develops his clinical skills, knowledge, and competence.
Martin’s areas of expertise include:
Emma is a highly experienced Brain Injury Case Manager with additional extensive experience of nursing care supporting patients with a broad range of medical conditions in both adult and paediatric situations.
For over 13 years she has wworked as a professional nurse with patients with physical health needs, acquired / traumatic brain injury, learning disabilities, mental health needs, other neurological disorders.
Having worked in a variety of medical settings including neuro rehabilitation hospitals, EMI units, psychiatric hospitals and general medical wards, Emma is skilled and experienced in working with patients who have complex rehabilitation, support and care requirements and have medical requirements such as tracheostomy, ventilation care and continence need.
Emma can accurately and comprehensively assess the health and nursing needs of a client to ensure that the appropriate treatment, support and therapy interventions required are arranged and provided to support optimal health and rehabilitation.
Emma has proven skills in working cooperatively and creatively with legal teams (including extensive experience in attending Counsel led case conferences and giving evidence in court) and in client situations where there are both statutory and independent agencies involved.
Furthermore, she has experience of forming and coordinating multi-disciplinary rehabilitation packages and in managing large care teams, both directly employed and through agencies and has a proven history of cultivating excellent working relationships with colleagues, service users and their families.
Whilst working in a hospital and care home environment, Emma was able to diligently complete and support Health Needs Assessments of patients with complex needs under the Department of Health National framework for Continuing Health Care, NHS Funded Nursing Care, and fast track referrals for end-of-life needs. Emma also undertook further work in this environment, including the chairing of Care Programme Approach (CPA) meetings with overall responsibility for ensuring that patients’ needs were assessed and plans around patient care needs were met whilst under the Mental Health Act.
Areas of Expertise
Michael is a Registered Paramedic with over 16 years’ clinical experience working within the field of paramedicine, accident and emergency, primary care and acute medicine.
An experienced Consultant Advanced Clinical Practitioner within unscheduled urgent primary care, Michael works as Head of Clinical Performance at Mastercall Healthcare where he is responsible for clinical and service improvement through robust clinical governance and digital transformation.
Michael is a clinical auditor on the clinical guardian board and a senior member of the quality and safety team. An experienced mentor and educator for trainee advanced clinical practitioners across acute medicine, and unscheduled urgent primary care, he is also a mentor and educator for the level 7 minor illness qualification, which is affiliated with Liverpool John Moore University.
Michael’s extensive clinical expertise covers a wide range of clinical care for ambulatory acute medicine, unscheduled primary care, pre-hospital emergency paramedicine, urgent and emergency care environments.
Focusing on patient-centred evidence-based practices, he has experience of developing and integrating advanced clinical pathways, including virtual wards and complex booking systems to improve patient flow and reduce hospital admissions, and of introducing of Point of Care Testing (POCT) systems into clinical services e.g. acute respiratory hubs, enabling rapid diagnostics and reducing A&E admissions.
He is acting clinical lead for the Stepping Hill Urgent Treatment Centre, where he teaches cohorts of MSc advanced practice students. In addition, he is clinical development lead for community DVT pathway integration across Trafford, Stockport and Wythenshawe, including use of POCT D-Dimer and Patient Group Directions for DOAC to reduce admissions. Michael is also antimicrobial resistance lead for Trafford unscheduled care.
As an HCPC Registrant, Michael continually maintains and develops his clinical skills, knowledge, and competence.
Areas of Expertise
Please note that these Associates are working on existing cases only and are NOT accepting new instructions.
Julie Bowmaker – Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP), District & Prison nursing care
Sue Judge – Care Home / Residential care nursing
Gail Meers – General nursing
Anthony Palmer – General nursing
Kelly Parker – Registered Midwife
Lisa Simpson – General nurse
Expert Witnesses providing nursing liability and causation reports for clinical negligence, personal injury and employment related claims.
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