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Chair
Bio
Anita has worked in health and social care for almost 40 years as a Registered Nurse, System Leader and Advocate.
For 34 years, she has led the team at Wren Hall Nursing Home, which is rated outstanding in all five domains by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Anita is passionate about delivering high-quality care, empowering individuals to live well and nurturing individuals to achieve their aspirations.
Anita is proud to have supported many care assistants to progress professionally; 107 as Registered Nurses, 6 as Nursing Associates, 3 as Midwives and 1 as a Social Worker.
Anita is currently a Board Member for the National Care Association merged with the Registered Nursing Home Association. She has held positions such as Board Member and Fellow for Skills for Care, Governor of a NHS Mental Health Trust and Non-Executive Director of a Primary Care Trust.
Recently, Anita supported the campaign for a Specialist Practice Qualification for Care Home Nursing, believing it important for this area of nursing to be recognised as a specialism.
She has worked with the Queens Nursing Institute Reference Group to develop and map the standards.
Co-Chair
Bio
Jo-Anne qualified as a registered nurse in the mid-’80s and worked in the NHS in London for several years before returning to Warwickshire. As a ward sister in Northampton, then later a McMillan Nurse, she introduced ‘Primary Nursing’, which at the time was an innovative concept of ‘My Nurse: My Patient’ recognising the importance of getting to know the people we nursed; Person Centred Care
Jo-Anne moved to work with older people in the late 1990s, where she developed a real interest in working with People living with Dementia and long-term conditions within care homes. As a trustee and trainer for WRAP (Warwickshire Reminiscence Action Project), Jo-Anne visited care homes training staff, supporting them to change both attitude and environment positively.
Jo-Anne started working for the Royal British Legion in 2003 as a Registered Manager. She led the home through its first inspection in 36 years and introduced a culture of person-centeredness, innovation, change and excellence. She is passionate about the positive impact and added value nurses make to the social care environment.
Over the years, the home worked with Dementia Care Matters to become an accredited Butterfly Home, with GSF to become a Platinum-rated home, and the home has been rated Outstanding on their last 2 CQC inspections. In 2015 the home was featured in a Channel 4 documentary, Dementiaville, and later awarded Care Home of the Year.
Jo-Anne is an active member of various best practice and research groups and regularly speaks at conferences. She is also Chair of the Skills for Care Registered Managers Network in South Warwickshire. In 2020 Jo-Anne was made a Queen’s Nurse and has been awarded an MBE in this year’s New Year’s Honours List.
Chief Nurse
Council Members
Midlands
Name | Bio | Role | Organisation |
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Anita Astle | Chair for Midlands SCNAC & Managing Director | Wren Hall Nursing Home | |
Jo-Anne Wilson | Co-Chair for Midlands SCNAC & Registered Manager | Royal British Legion | |
Jacqueline Barnes | Director of Nursing | Midlands Regional CNO | |
Helen Sands | Head of All-age Continuing Healthcare | NHS Lincolnshire ICB | |
Louise Luckman | Senior Clinical Quality Assurance Lead | Birmingham & Solihull ICB | |
Andrea Westlade | Director of Nursing | Birmingham & Solihull ICB | |
Rosa Waddingham | Chief Nurse | NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB | |
Sally Roberts | Chief Nurse | Black Country and West Birmingham ICB | |
Ellie Monkhouse | CNO | Coventry and Warwickshire ICB | |
Dean Howells | CNO | Joined up Derbyshire ICB | |
Kay Darby | Chief Nurse | NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB | |
Kathryn Cobain | Chief Nurse | Worcestershire and Herefordshire ICB | |
Lynn Tolley | Chief Nurse | Staffordshire and Stoke ICB | |
Yvonne Higgins | Chief Nurse | NHS Northamptonshire ICB | |
Vanessa Whatley | Chief Nurse | NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB | |
Jackie Riddett | Registered Manager | The Willows Nursing and Residential Home | |
Masline Chitura | Quality Director | Berkley Care Group | |
Jayanthi Antony | Registered Manager | Julie Richardson Nursing Home | |
Tom Rose | Admiral Nurse Clinical Lead | St Barnabas Hospice | |
Shirley Way | Read | Head of Area for East & West Midlands | Skills for Care |
Sandra Prew | Read | NIHR | |
Lynne Bowers | ADASS | ||
Loucia Kyprianou | Regulation Advisor for Independent Health & Care | NMC | |
Tony Newman | Regulations Advisor, Midlands | NMC | |
Diane Mayhew | Read | Co-founder | Rights for Residents |
Sam Preston | Read | Independent Health & Social Care Lead Nurse for East Midlands | RCN |
Vicky Sandy-Davies | Read | Independent Health & Social Care Lead Nurse | RCN |
Kate Hodgkinson | Nursing Associate | Wren Hall Nursing Home | |
Emma Copley | Nursing Associate | Wren Hall Nursing Home | |
Weston Muranda | 3rd Year Student | Student Nurse | |
Charlie Bitchenor | Heritage Manor | ||
Shanci Mathew | Read | District Manager | Morton Grange Nursing Home |
Martha Mutukwa | Anchor Care Services | ||
Jasmine Stanhope | Managing Director | Rushcliffe Care Group | |
Darren Pitcher | Read | Group Commissioning & Operations Manager | Bracebridge Care |
Itai Nyamatore | Registered Manager | GAIN Care Ltd |
Midlands Regional Meetings
Meeting Date
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1st October 2024
2nd July 2024