Thursday 12th September 2024.
This unique gathering taking place at Coventry University’s LONDON site offers an unparalleled opportunity to shape health and social care integration, fostering a collaborative approach that benefits both sectors.
SPEAKERS
Welcome
Professor Deborah Sturdy, CBE
Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care
Bio
Deborah was appointed as the first Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care in 2021. She has held a number of previous roles including senior posts in practice, research and policy, in both social care services and the NHS. She was appointed the expert nurse on the Gosport Independent Panel the report of which was laid before Parliament in 2018.
She is a passionate care sector advocate and believes the workforce is its greatest asset. Developing careers, opening new pathways of opportunity and boosting recognition of care colleagues’ skills, value and expertise are, in her view, vital to the future success of the profession.
She holds three Visiting Chairs in Nursing at Manchester Metropolitan and Buckinghamshire New Universities and Coventry University. Deborah has written numerous papers for publications and presented at national and international meetings.
She was awarded a CBE in the 2022 Honours list and an OBE in the 2017. She is a Fellow of the QNI and RCN and received the British Geriatric President’s Medal for her contribution to older people nursing the first nurse to receive this. She was awarded an honorary doctorate for her contribution to nursing in July 2023 from Buckinghamshire New University, She is a Fellow of both the Queen’s Nursing Institute and Royal College of Nursing.
Professor Ann-Marie Cannaby
Pro-Vice Chancellor School of Health and Care - Coventry University
Bio
Professor Ann-Marie Cannaby is the Pro-Vice Chancellor for the School of Health and Care at Coventry University. Prior to this role she worked in a collaborative group structure as the Chief Nurse at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Chief Nurse and Deputy CEO at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust.
Ann-Marie’s clinical background is grounded in caring for patients with medical conditions. She has worked within large University Hospitals in the UK and has held a variety of clinical, research and managerial roles including Chief Operating Officer.
For the last 18 years Ann-Marie has held executives roles, gaining a wealth of leadership experience across the NHS and internationally, including Chief Nursing Officer at Hamad Medical Corporation the public health system in Qatar. Ann-Marie has maintained an international nursing perspective, and has been involved in nursing leadership and quality projects in Holland, China, Egypt, Qatar, Malawi, Australia and New Zealand
Ann-Marie remains actively involved in research and education and holds a first degree, a Masters degree and a PhD. She held substantive Professorial positions and is now a Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University and Staffordshire University. She continues to teach on topics including transformational leadership and global policy.
Her research interest focus on quality across nursing services including how technology (digital and robotic) can improve nursing care and patient outcomes. Ann-Mare is a member of the Health Advisory Board at British Telecom.
Duncan Burton
CNO & Executive Director NHS England
Bio
Duncan is the Chief Nursing Officer for England and an Executive/National Director at NHS England. He is also the National Director responsible for infection prevention and control.
Prior to his appointment, Duncan held the post of Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for England and led the maternity and neonatal programme and the children and young people’s transformation programme, as well as nursing workforce policy and infection prevention and control. He delivered the Nursing International Recruitment Programme, which ensured we met the 50k nurse commitment 6 months early, and the Health Care Support Worker Recruitment Programme, which resulted in the highest number of healthcare support staff employed in the NHS on record.
Duncan has spent his entire career in nursing in the NHS and has held a variety of leadership and executive roles, including Executive Director of Nursing and Patient Experience at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation where he led the successful development and implementation of the trust’s award-winning dementia strategy.
Duncan is passionate about improving patient care and experience, improving the population’s health, growing, developing and nurturing the workforce, and inspiring the next generation of nursing and midwifery professionals and leaders.
Major General TJ Hodgetts
CB CBE KHS OStJ DL
DSc(Hon) PhD MMEd MBA MBBS CMgr FRCP FRCSEd FRCEM FFPH FIMCRCSEd FCMI FEPS FRGS
Bio
Major General Tim Hodgetts is a strategic international leader in military medicine, widely known for his innovative contributions to both civilian and military healthcare.
With a career spanning over 40 years, Tim has embraced being a clinician, teacher, researcher, inventor, author and war poet. He has continuously held honorary professorships since 1998 in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Serbia and he was the inaugural Defence Professor at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
Tim has served on multiple overseas operations as an emergency medicine consultant, helicopter doctor, and field hospital medical director. His leadership roles have included Head of the Army Medical Services (during the COVID-19 pandemic) and Commissioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. The culmination of his military career has been his appointment as the Surgeon General of the UK Armed Forces, and separately as the elected Chair of the Committee of Chiefs of Military Medical Services in NATO—the senior medical advisor to the international Alliance.
In 2016 Tim co-founded the charity citizenAID, serving as the first Chair of Trustees; he is also a Trustee of The Poppy Factory and London’s Air Ambulance, and the Patron of Style for Soldiers.
With a passion for system improvement, Tim created his own ‘Toolset for Innovation and Change’, that provides a transferable framework to solve complex problems and transform failing systems. He has received numerous national honours and awards including appointment as Companion of the Order of the Bath; Commander of the British Empire; Honorary Surgeon to his Majesty the King; and Deputy Lieutenant for the County of West Midlands.
Internationally he has received the Order of Military Medical Merit from the United States Army, and the Defence Medal for Meritorious Service from Denmark. Tim has authored over 30 books and published more than 150 academic papers; and he was recognised across the National Health Service as ‘Hospital Doctor of the Year’. The British Medical Association named him ‘one of the most innovative doctors in the country’.
A book of his original war poetry “Frontlines and Lifelines”, in support of The Poppy Factory charity, was published in August 2024 and was launched in a performance at The Edinburgh Fringe.