The Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom Register of Interests Introduction RCN Council Members RCN country and regional Boards Committees External advisers Staff – Executive Team Introduction Members of RCN Council, the country and regional Boards, external advisers and senior RCN staff have a duty to act impartially and objectively, and to take steps to avoid any conflict of interest arising as a result of their membership of, or association with, other organisations or individuals. To be fully transparent and to maintain confidence in the RCN’s governance process, here is our register of interests. RCN Council Members Michael Brown, Chair of Council, Scotland NHS Ayrshire and Arran – Workforce Nursing Manager Lorrae Allford, Vice Chair of Council, South West Royal United Hospital, Bath – Senior Sister, Emergency Department Festival Medical Service, Glastonbury – Volunteer Cecilia Anim, President Camden NHS Provider Service – Staff Member British Menopause Society – Member School Governor – Chair of Governors Paddington Deanery Synod – Member Professor Rod Thomson FRCN, Deputy President Faculty of Public Health – Fellow Association of Directors of Public Health – Member Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust – Foundation Governor Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group – Board member Herefordshire Council – Director of Public Health (in addition to substantive role as Director of Public Health, Shropshire Council) Join In Trust (Olympics 2012 charity) – Local leader Trevor Allen, Eastern Nepu NHS Foundation Trust 1 Vicky Brotherton, South West Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust – Nurse Manager Ophthalmology Tracey Budding, West Midlands Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust – Neonatal Intensive Care sister Elspeth Caithness, Scotland NHS Highland – Partnership Facilitator David Cardwell, Health Practitioner Weston Area Health NHS Trust – Operating Department Practitioner Total First Aid Somerset Ltd – Director Heartstart Cadet Medics – Scheme Director/Training Supervisor Air Training Corps – Civilian Instructor HCPC – Registrant Member Labour Party – Member Gill Cort, East Midlands Nottingham University Hospitals Trust – Staff Side Secretary and Chair of Staff Lottery Association of British Paediatric Nurses – Member Hertfordshire Family History Society – Member Kathryn Davies, Student NHS Professionals – Bank ODP St. John’s Ambulance – Event First Aider Health Care Professions Council – ODP Cynthia Davis, London Interests to be added Dave Dawes, North West Community Health Innovation – Director Social Enterprise UK – Non-executive Director Fiona Devlin, Northern Ireland No interests to register at this time Siobhan Donald, Northern Ireland Public Health Agency – Nurse Consultant (secondment) Belfast Health & Social Care Trust – Assistant Service Manager, acute services (substantive post) Sylvia Duval, Student Focus Healthcare – Healthcare Assistant Carol Evans, Eastern No interests to register at this time Dr Matthew Hodson MBE, London British Thoracic Society Nurse Advisory Group – Nurse Member British Thoracic Society Quality Improvement Group – Nurse Member Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists – Chair 2 British Lung Foundation – Unpaid Advisory Support Gaynor Jones, Wales Cwn Taf Local Health Board – Paid Lead Steward Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil – Senior Staff Nurse Welsh Government appointed to Cwn Taf Local Health Board – Independent Member Richard Jones MBE, Wales Self Employed – Independent Healthcare Consultant Cwm Taf University Health Board – Hospital Manager Mental health panels – Patient Reviewer for patients detained under the mental health act Healthcare Inspectorate Wales – Peer Reviewer, NHS hospitals across Wales NMC – Member Higher Education Academy – Fellow Chartered Management Institute – Member Anne Kennedy, Yorkshire & The Humber Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Staff Nurse (Bank) British Nursing Agency – Staff Nurse Labour Party – Member Morely Constituency Labour Party – Treasurer Gordon Lees, Northern Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust – Donating Member Alzheimers Disease Society – Donating Member British Legion – Donating Member Professor Janet Marsden FRCN, North West Manchester Metropolitan University – Professor of Ophthalmology and Emergency Care Wolverhampton University – External Examiner Teeside University – External Examiner Manchester University – External Examiner ORBIS Medical Advisory Committee – Nurse Member World Sight Foundation – Trustee Allied Professions in Ophthalmology – Trustee Ministry of Defence Research Ethics Committee – Member International Ophthalmic Nurses Association (IONA) – Member American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses (ASORN) – Member Royal Society of Medicine – Fellow Faculty of Emergency Nursing – Fellow Brenda McDonald, Health Practitioner No interests to register at this time Stuart McKenzie, Chair of Congress NHS Ayrshire and Arran – Clinical Nurse Manager, Forensic and rehabilitation services 3 David Miller, East Midlands Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust – Local Services Staff Side Chair (secondment from CPN role) Maria Nicholson, South East NHS Professionals – Head of Workforce Consultancy Jigsaw Partnership – Director Institute of Healthcare Management – Member Association of Community Hospitals – Member Sigma Theta Tau – Member Labour Party – Member Trevor Peel, Northern Amber Housing – Director/Trustee Amber Housing/Community Options/Heritage Care Quality Committee – Member NPC – Member and executive committee member National Liberal Club – Member (Member of General Committee; Vice Chair of General Purposes Committee; Member of Commonwealth Forum) Liberal Democrats – Member of Hartlepool Local Party/English Council Member Liberal International British Group – Member Royal Horticultural Society – Member CSPA – Member PGA (Retired members) – Member Northumbria Club – Member Howard League for Penal Reform – Member Centre Forum – Member National Federation of Occupational Pensioners – Member Civil Service Pensioners Association – Member Royal Commonwealth Society – Member/Supporter Catholic Institute for International Relations (Progressio) – Member/Supporter Alzheimer’s Society – Member Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust – Member North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust – Member Friends of Gibraltar – Member Carol Popplestone, Yorkshire & The Humber Interests to be added Sylvia Simmons, South East Solent NHS Trust – Staff Side Lead, Senior Bank Nurse RCN Foundation – Trustee Sue Warner, West Midlands South Warwickshire Foundation NHS Trust – Health Visitor NHS Direct – Nurse Adviser 4 RCN country and regional Boards Eastern Laura Falconer No interests to declare Sandra Glover No interests to declare Dean Hall No interests to declare Carla Lewinton No interests to declare Sam Neville St. John’s Ambulance – Nursing Officer Gina Newton No interests to declare Helen Oatham No interests to declare Valerie Outhwaite No interests to declare Michael Oyeleye Two churches – Director and Secretary International Council of Nurses – Member Richard Quigley No interests to declare Andi Robinson No interests to declare East Midlands Jenny Creasey United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust – Executive Staff Side Chair Rachel Forster Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust – Staff Side Chair Jackie Hill One Medical Group – Head of DUCC Helen Inskip 5 No interests to declare Stephen Jobling Labour Party – Member Sharon Johnston No interests to declare Helen Morrison No interests to declare Ian Thomas No interests to declare Neil Thompson Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust – Staff Governor Helen Varney No interests to declare London Selven Armon No interests to declare Noeleen Behan No interests to declare Susan Howkins Mary Seacole Statue Appeal – Ambassador Disability Living Foundation – Disability equipment adviser Yemi Osho Borough of Waltham Forest – Councillor Relate North East London – Councillor Maria Ponto No interests to declare Philip Roud No Interest to declare Neville de Silva No interests to declare Gary Stockwell No interests to declare Faith Thornhill No interests to declare 6 Andy McGovern No Interests to declare Northern Tracy Anderson Northumbria HC Foundation Trust – Specialist Nurse NSPCC – Contributor Michael Appleby Michael Appleby Training Ltd – Director David Cook Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust – Forensic Outreach Community Nurse Judith Hunter MBE City Hospital Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust – Head of Nursing and Patient Safety Butterwick Hospice Care – Trustee and Chair Friends of Tees Valley Youth Orchestra – Treasurer Amanda McEwan Labour Party – Member Janet Mortimer County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation trust – Dementia Nurse Lead Annessa Rebair Northumbria University – Senior Lecturer Mental Health Papyrus – Board Trustee Solution Focussed Brief Therapy Association – Member Northumbria University – Coach Rachael Ridley North Cumbria University NHS Trust – Staff Nurse Grade 5 Labour Party – Member Michael White South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust – Charge Nurse Critical Care Outreach Team Northern Ireland Anne Campbell Belfast Health & Social Care Trust – Operations Manager Laura Crowley Belfast Health & Social Care Trust – Staff Nurse Special Olympics – Volunteer 7 Eileen Dunlop Four Seasons Healthcare – Head of HR, Training and FM Roisin Devlin South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust – Emergency Nurse Practitioner Kathryn Gault Western Health & Social Care Trust – Registered Nurse Audrey Harris Interests to be added Molly Kane Interests to be added Francis Lavery Southern Health & Social Care Trust – Staff Nurse Joanna McCormick Belfast Health & Social Care Trust – Nurse Consultant Associate Director of Nursing: Acute Care Ann Marie Marley Belfast Health & Social Care Trust – Respiratory Nurse Consultant Marie Curie NI – Advisory Board member. Asthma UK – Health Professional Council Member Chest Heart & Stroke NI – Council Member Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists – Member Primary Care Respiratory Society – Regional Lead Paul McElwee Western Health & Social Care Trust – Charge Nurse Karen Oakes South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust – Acting Ward Sister North West Mark Anthony Interests to be added Suzanne Butler Liverpool Community Health – Urgent Care Practitioner Claire Chatterton The Open University – Staff Tutor University of Chester – External Examiner University of Brighton – External Examiner 8 Lesley Doherty Interests to be added Sheila Dunbar No interests to declare Professor Alan Finnegan FRCN University of Chester – Professor of Nursing & Military Mental Health Sigma Theta Tau – Member Julie Gregory University of Manchester – Nurse Lecturer Maggy Heaton Blackpool Wyre and Flyde NHS Trust – District Nurse Tom Palin Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust – Assistant Practitioner Jean Rogers Stockport NHS Foundation Trust – Practice Education Facilitator British Red Cross – Volunteer, Trainer, Public First Aider Stockport NHS Foundation Trust – Governor Lucy Tomlins Interests to be added Scotland Gary Campbell No interests to declare Yvonne Chapple NHS Borders – Learning Disability Liaison Nurse Diane Coleman NHS Shetland – Senior Charge Nurse Theresa Connor No interests to declare Stewart Donnelly NHS Ayrshire & Arran – Partnership Facilitator Alistair Grant NHS Grampian – Senior Charge Nurse Bruce Honeyman Interests to be added 9 Vicky Keir No interests to declare Martin MacGregor NHS 24 – Nurse Practitioner St Paul’s RC Academy, Dundee – Chair of Parents’ Council Stuart McLauchlan NHS Lothian – Clinical Nurse Specialist Andrew Notman NHS Lothian – Senior Charge Nurse Scottish National Party – Member Richard Watters NHS Fife – Charge Nurse Cub Scouts – Leader Tom Wilson No interests to declare South East Modupe Akin-Areola Interests to be added Brian Bostock Bostock Management Ltd – Director CHD Living Ltd – Clinical Director Claire Drot University Hospital Foundation Trust– Clinical Practice Facilitator, Vice Chair Staff Side, Equality & Diversity Champion Karen Holmes Interests to be added Richard Hurn Sussex Partnership NHS Trust – Charge Nurse Sussex Beacon – Bank Nurse Labour Party – Member Lewes CLP – Member British Acupuncture Council – Member BHIVA – Member NHIVNA – Member Kenneth Lloyd Guernsey HSSD – Adult Disability Service, Home Manager Karen McNay Jersey General Hospital – Sister 10 Dr Heather Mercer Penny Brohn Cancer Care – Living Well Co-ordinator Worthing Borough Council – Conservative Member, Councillor, and Executive Member for Customer Services Conservative Association – Borough Councillor Friends of Sussex Hospices – Trustee Queen Nwokporo Interests to be added Susan Symmons Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust – Lead Clinical Site Manager and Nurse Bank Manager Malachy Ujam SABP FT – Clinical Risk and Safety Manager Conservative Party – Member Cecelia Wigley Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust – Head of Safeguarding Mary Williamson Sussex Partnership NHS Trust – EIS Practitioner South West Dawn Cooper Interests to be added Lindsay Jones Interests to be added Jeannette Jones Interests to be added Sarah Latham SEQOL (Urgent Care Department) – Matron Care Quality Commission – Specialist Advisor for Community/Primary Care Kathy Lawrie Devon Partnership NHS Trust – Senior Mental Health Practitioner, Staff Side Chair Kathy Moore NHS Dorset Clinical Commission Group – Operations Manager Lesley Pallett Peninsula Community Health – Workforce Health and Wellbeing Specialist Adviser 11 Labour Party – Member Cornwall Garden Society – Show Committee Member Margaret Ritchie Torbay Hospital Endoscopy Unit – Facilitator Vanda Squire Somerset Partnership NHS Trust – Staff Side Chair/Project Lead Jaydee Swarbrick NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group – Professional Practice Lead Nicolas White No interests to declare Wales Stewart Attridge Cardiff and Vale University Health Board – HIV Clinical Nurse Specialist National HIV Nurses Association – Member Genito-Urinary Nurses Association – Member British HIV Association – Member South West Area HIV Specialists – Chair Labour Party – Member Jacquelin Davies Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board – Ward Manager Christine Edwards-Jones Abertawe Bro Morgannwg Health Board – Ward Manager Hettie C Hopkins Care of the Elderly Scholarship – Trustee Anne Griffiths Hywel Dda University Health Board – Nurse Practitioner Hywel Dda University Health Board Charitable Funds Committee – Trade Union Rep on Committee Angela Haley Interests to be added Owain Jones University of South Wales – Lecturer Health Care Inspectorate Wales – Mental Health Act Reviewer Professor Donna Mead OBE MStJ FRCN Cwm Taf University Health Board – Vice Chair Llandarcy Park – Director Learn Kit – Director Harwen – Director St John (Cymru) Wales – Trustee Neath Port Talbot Group (FE) – Governor 12 Windsor Leadership Trust – Fellow Cardiff Business Club – Member Tamara Morgan Cwm Taf University Health Board – Staff Nurse Billy Nichols Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board – Staff Nurse TUC Equality Network – Member Pamela Parsons Cwm Taf University Health Board – Sister Kate Parry Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board – Lead Representative Gareth Phillips Independent Sector – Staff Nurse Tools for Self Reliance – Trustee Plaid Cymru – Member Elizabeth Rees Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board – Staff Nurse St David’s Hospice Llandudno – Bank Staff Nurse Llangefni Town Partnership Plaid Cymru – Member North Wales Community Health Council – Wife of Member West Midlands Greta Alleyne Independent Sector – Senior Nurse Chris Barber National Autistic Society – Council Member Liberal Democrat Party – Local Party Activist Cathy Briggs No interests to declare Colin Burgess North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust – Case Load Manager, Approved Mental Professional, Staff Side Lead Milton Scout Group – Parent Member Becky Hoskins Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust – Deputy Ward Manager Shaunee Irvine Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust – Triage sister 13 John Kelsall No interests to declare Merry Pearcey Care Quality Commission – Inspector Yorkshire & The Humber Roger Cowell Horizon Scanning – Research Consultant Kay Crawford Public Health England’s North Yorkshire and Humber Health Protection Team – Lead Nurse Annette Else Sheffield Teaching Hospital – Staff Side Rep, Nurse Practitioner, Matron Care Quality Commission – Clinical Advisor John Hill Labour Party – Member/Vice Chair Pam McIvor South Tees Foundation Trust – Clinical Manager Anne Penny York NHS Foundation Trust – Bed/Duty Manager Bronwyn Roberts University of Hudderfield – Senior Lecturer Calderstones NHS Trust – Governor Julie Santy-Tomlinson University of Hull – Senior Lecturer International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing – Editor in Chief Butterflies Memory Loss Support Group – Chair Matthew Sidebottom Locala Community Partnerships C.I.C. – ANP/Clinical Lead University of York – PhD Student Queen’s Nursing Institute – Queen’s Nurse Green Party – Member Tracey Slater NHS England – Patient Experience Manager NMC – Manager Paul Smith South West Yorkshire NHS Trust – Senior Mental Health Practitioner 14 Tina Sykes Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Foundation Trust – Head of Nursing Committees Agenda Committee, Ethics Committee, Forums Governance Group, International Committee Tara Bartley FRCN, Forums Governance Group University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust – Advanced Cardiothoracic Nurse Practitioner Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery – Member European Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery – Lead Nurse for Quality Improvement Programme Molnlycke Health Care – Advisor Major Chris Carter, Forums Governance Group Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps – Nursing Officer British Association of Critical Care Nurses – Member, Chair of Military Region Royal Society of Medicine – Associate Member, Member of the Military Medicine Section Professor Kevin Davies, International Committee Welsh Ambulance Service Trust – Non Executive Director Maureen Dolan, Agenda Committee Southern Health & Social Care Trust – Registered Nurse Judith Dyson, Ethics Committee Interests to be added David Edwards, Ethics Committee Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice – Acting Director of Nursing National Council for Palliative Care – Ethics Forum Member Geoff Earl, International Committee Lothian Health Board – Community Nurse Triathlon Scotland – President Scotland Malawi Partnership – Member Professor Alan Finnegan FRCN, International Committee University of Chester – Professor of Nursing & Military Mental Health Sigma Theta Tau – Member Jeanette Foley, Ethics Committee NHS Blood and Transplant – Head of Clinical Governance UK Donation Ethics Committee – Observer Catriona Forsyth, Agenda Committee 15 Pennine Acute Trust – Divisional Clinical Governance Manager Paul Hancock, Vice Chair of International Committee Rotherham Hospice – Trustee/Director Sigma Theta Tau, Pi Mu Chapter England – Secretary, Finance Committee Commonwealth Nurses Federation – European Board Member Lorraine Hicking-Woodison, Forums Governance Group Hawkinge and Elan Valley GP Practice – Assistant Practitioner Dr Janet Holt, Chair of Ethics Committee University of Leeds – Senior Lecturer National Research Service Yorkshire and the Humber Leeds/Bradford Research Ethics Committee – Chair National Research Ethics Service – Registered Trainer International Philosophy of Nursing Society – Chair Higher Education Academy – Fellow Ann King, Ethics Committee Criminal Justice System – Registered Intermediary MEDAC – Full Member Fawcett Society – Subscriber Amnesty – Subscriber Zoe Lambert, Ethics Committee Leeds Teaching Hospitals – Ward Sister Leeds University – Tutor Judith Malan, International Committee Capita – Initial Review Disability Assessor Professor Kath McCourt CBE FRCN, Chair of International Committee Gateshead Foundation Trust – Board Governor Church High School – Board Governor Northumbria University – Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Sigma Theta Tau – Member Territorial Army – Honorary Colonel of 335 Medical Evacuation Regiment (Volunteers) Northumberland College – Board Governor Anthony McGeown, Agenda Committee NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde – Theatre Practitioner Robinsons Medical Recruitment – Agency Nurse Mary Shaw, Forums Governance Group University of Manchester – Senior Lecturer IGA – Trustee IGA Chair Trust – Trustee and Chair AONA – Member Sigma Theta Tau – Member 16 Dominic Walsh, Agenda Committee North London Hospice – Clinical Nurse Specialist BJ Waltho, Vice Chair of Congress Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust – Associate Director of Operations Jason Warriner, Forums Governance Group Marie Stopes International – UK Director of Quality and Clinical Services WorkSkills UK – Health and Social Care Trainer (consultancy basis) Crisis UK – Trustee, Volunteer British HIV Association – Member Nurses HIV Association – Member British Association of Sexual Health and HIV – Member Labour Party – Member External advisors Sophia Bhatti, Audit Committee Office of Fair Trading – Deputy Director of Strategy Citizens Advice Bureau, Harlow – Trustee Kevan-Peter “KP” Doyle, Audit Committee Layercake Ltd – Founder/Director Re:Cognition Health – Senior Independent Director Smilepod Dental – Non-Executive Director Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales – Fellow David Hopton, Business Committee CLEQU Ltd – Non-executive Chair Simon McClean, Business Committee Interests to be added Frank McKenna, Governance Support Committee Harvey Nash Plc – Managing Director Royal Society of Medicine – Fellow Hugh Spicer, Audit Committee Chiltern Management Services Ltd – Director Institute of Chartered Accounts in England and Wales – Fellow Jon Walsh, Governance Support Committee University of Southampton – Public Affairs Officer Electoral Reform Society – Vice Chair Liberal Democrats – Member Mike Weaver, Audit Committee Creative Support Limited – Trustee The National Examinations Board in Organisational Safety and Health – Trustee 17 The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy – Chartered Public Finance Accountant Retired Member UNISON – Retired Member Our Lady and St Kenelm’s RC Primary School, Halesowen West Midlands – Chair of Governors British Hedgehog Preservation Society – Chair of Trustees West Mercia Probation Care Trust – Independent Examiner of Statutory Annual Financial Statements Birmingham Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference – Independent Examiner of Statutory Annual Financial Statements Staff – Executive Team Janet Davies FRCN, Chief Executive and General Secretary Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) – Trustee Chris Cox, Director of Membership Relations National Data Guardian – Panel Member Public Health England, UKAP – Independent Legal Expert Member RCN Holdco Limited – Director David Cooper, Director of Organisational Capability and Change Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) – Fellow Tina Donnelly CBE, Director, Wales Health Inspectorate Wales – Advisory Board Member Wales Information Governance Board – Advisory Board Member GMB – member Theresa Fyffe, Director, Scotland No interests to register at this time Tim Golbourn, Director of Finance and Business Enablement No interests to register at this time Professor Dame Donna Kinnair, Director, Nursing Policy and Practice No interests to register at this time Tom Sandford FRCN, Director, England GMB – Member Mary Seacole Awards Steering Committee – Member Janice Smyth, Director, Northern Ireland University of Ulster – Member of Court (External Stakeholder Group) Department of Health Social Services and Public Safety Central Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Group – Member Visit Belfast – 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