Our Speakers

Red Door Coaching and Training Ltd .

Red Door Coaching and Training Ltd is a business owned and run by Linda Banister and Tracy Francksen.We are training professionals with over 25 years HR and Training experience across the UK and abroad at Senior Management level in Marks and Spencer. We really understand the challenges of organisations in 2011. We have held manager roles ourselves in a culture of constant change, requiring a demanding commitment to customer service and against a backdrop of dwindling resources. We know it MORE...

Kathy Abernethy

MClinSci RN Kathy works in a busy multidisciplinary NHS Service in Harrow, Middlesex. The service offers specialist clinics for young women and for women experiencing menopause after cancer as well as general menopause. As a prescriber, her consultations are independent and holistic. Kathy has published widely on the topic of menopause in the lay and nursing press, including a textbook for nurses: ‘Menopause and HRT’.She is a regular conference speaker and sits on the Editorial Board of t MORE...

Zoe Rawles

BN RGN BSc Hons (Nurse Practitioner) Zoe has worked in Primary Care for 20 years and qualified as a Nurse Practitioner in 1999. She is an Independent Prescriber and has Diplomas in Asthma, Family Planning, Coronary Heart Disease, Women’s Health and Ear Care. She currently shares her time between working in Tenby Surgery in Pembrokeshire on 3 days a week and working for her own training business as well as doing some freelance training. Zoë has a particular interest in HCA training and has developed courses and study days MORE...

Mark Bancroft Livingston

MA MRCP(UK) MRCGP

Dr Mark Bancroft Livingston MA MRCP(UK) MRCGP has been a full time GP in Gloucester for 20 years. He was a medical Senior Registrar in General Medicine before going into General Practice.

His interests include communication and teaching, and he co-developed and taught a Primary  MORE...

IAN DAVEY

Ian has a wealth of training experience with many organisations including the British Red Cross and commercial training companies. Ian is a First Aid at Work commercial trainer and assessor, provides a first responder service to the East of England ambulance service and works as a phlebotomist for Basildon & Thurrock Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Ian regularly provides a number of workshops and courses for Health Care Training & Development Services Ltd including FAW, Venepuncture,  MORE...

Nicola Hayward

Nicola Hayward is a Practice Manager at Painswick Surgery in Gloucestershire. She started her career as a medical secretary in Manchester before relocating to the South West in 1991. She has 26 years’ experience specifically in General Practice, the last 10 years as a Practice Manager. Nicola has an MA in Medical Law and Ethics achieved 5 years ago and has been involved in teaching since that time with medical students and GP Registrars as well as Receptionists attached to the Practice. MORE...

Steve Machan

MA, BSc, Dip Ed.

Steve has been in the education and learning environment for most of his life. He particularly enjoys the development side of the role. He has written inspirational workshops to support workplace skills and role changes within general practice teams. He is equally at home in front of a crowd or supporting individuals at their own desk and if one phrase was to be found to describe his style it would be that he enables others to succeed. The introduction of 'IT Help At Hand' several years ago p MORE...

Molly Courtenay

Professor of Clinical Practice: Prescribing and Medicines Management, Surrey University and Prescribing Advisor, Association for Nurse Prescribing.

Molly Courtenay is a Professor of Clinical Practice: Prescribing and Medicines Management. She is a qualified nurse with a background in Intensive Care. Molly moved to Surrey from the University of Reading where she worked as a reader and later a professor. Molly’s main research interests are in the area of non medical prescribing.MORE...

Barbara Dunn

Barbara is the Lead Practice Nurse at Rosebank Health with an interest in asthma and COPD as well as acute minor illness and triage. She has completed COPD and asthma Diploma courses from Education for Health in Warwick and also a BSc (Hons) Specialist Practitioner Award (Practice Nursing) from the University of Gloucestershire.

Di Kalus

RN, SCM, DN Cert, BSc Hons, MSc Health and Social Care, PGCHE

Di has worked as a Diabetes Specialist Nurse for 5 years and is part of a county wide community diabetes team providing diabetes care to people with diabetes mainly in the Forest of Dean area.  She has extensive experience in community nursing and was employed as a District Nursing Sister for 10 years. During this time she developed an interest in teaching and moved to work at Collingwood House in Gloucester as a Professional Development teacher which involved teaching a number of nursin MORE...

Jo Green

My name is Jo Green  and I am a  Regional Trainer for the National Primary Ear Care Centre in Rotherham. This role compliments my role of Lead Practice Nurse in a semi rural  GP practice  where ear care, particularly blocked ears account for a significant number of nurse consultations. To address this, I undertook my Diploma in Primary Ear Care in 2007 at the Primary Ear Care Centre which enabled me to provide holistic ear care, incorporating patient education to promote h MORE...

Anna Gibbins QN

Anna starting nursing in 1977 and has progressed from SEN to RGN and has  worked  up through the different grades within Community Nursing.She has a sound track record of district nursing in rural,urban,town and inner city areas spanning twenty eight years,and has always been interested in staff development and qualified as a Community Practice Educator in 2000.  She is in receipt of a BSC (Hons) Community studies and has a post graduate certificate in Fur MORE...

Jane DeVille-Almond

Jane is an Independent Nurse Consultant and free lance journalist who specialises in Men’s Health and Obesity in Primary Care.

She works at the cutting edge of innovation and has had much national and local press coverage appearing on many TV and radio shows including, ‘that’s Esther’ (men’s health) ‘Men’s health - Cause for concern BBC2, ‘Life watch’ (men’s health) BBC2, Simply Money (men’s health) BBC1, Diet  MORE...

Gwyn Grout

Dr Gwyn Grout qualified as a Mental Health Nurse in 1986.  She became a staff nurse on an acute mental health admission ward, for younger adults, and was horrified to be “sent” to an older persons ward upon promotion.  However, now she would not choose any other speciality, believing this to be the most challenging and rewarding field of nursing, due to the diversity and complexity of health and psychosocial needs. 

After working as MORE...

Lynn Davis

Bsc hons CHCN (DN) Dip Tissue Viability Dip Research RGN Lynn Davis is currently Tissue Viability Lead Nurse for Gloucestershire NHS Gloucestershire Care Services and has just completed a year as chair person of the County Tissue Viability Steering Group. Lynn has been working in a Tissue Viability role for the past four years and is passionate about this clinical speciality. Lynn’s previous back ground is in District Nursing where she has worked in both urban and rural areas of Gloucestershire over the last twenty five years. Lynn completed her MORE...

Rachel McKenna

RGN, BSc (Hons), Teacher (PGCHE) Rachel’s passion is education and working with young people. 
Trained as Registered General Nurse at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital School of Nursing, qualifying in 1988.
Worked in Paediatrics, General Surgery, and Practice Nursing in Moreton in Marsh and Gloucester city, then as Out Patient Department manager at Winfield Hospital.
She has had a clinical role within the Gloucestershire Contraception and MORE...

Carol Stonham QN

nurse practitioner at Dr Marlow and Partners in Gloucestershire Carol is a prescribing nurse practitioner at Dr Marlow and Partners in Gloucestershire. She has been working in general practice since 1990 and leads a small nursing team. Her clinical role encompasses triage and treatment of minor illnesses, chronic disease management, women's health and some travel health. She is nurse lead for diabetes, but her main interest is in respiratory medicine. 'She has recently achieved a Master of Science degree in Respiratory Care and also undertakes research in th MORE...

Adrienne Willcox

PhD (Warwick Medical School), MA (Ed), BSc(Hons), RN, Registered nurse teacher, Lic.Ac, FHEA, Member Adrienne Willcox is Nurse Director at A Talent 4 Health Ltd, a role that combines educational, authoring, consultancy and clinical work. Adrienne nursed people with tropical and travel-related illnesses on a specialist infectious diseases unit, and has set up private and NHS travel health clinics for several organisations. Her previous roles include working for the NMC, the NHS Cancer Screening Programme, universities and the RCN. She was the first nurse to be awarded a research grant fro MORE...