YQSR GROUP - Key Persons
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- Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
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- Research Allied Health Professional
- Research Allied Health Professional ( PACT )
Background
Anna is a Physiotherapist and has worked predominantly in elderly care both in the NHS and private care sector. Anna has a master's degree in Advancing Physiotherapy Practice with an interest in neurological rehabilitation.
Research Interest
Anna joined the YQSR Team in October 2021 as a part-time Research Assistant before joining the PACT Team in her new role as a Research Allied Health Professional.
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- Project Support Officer, ActEarly City Collaboratory & Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration ( YHARC )
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- Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
- Student
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- Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
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- Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
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- Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
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- Senior Research Fellow
- Senior Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
Amrit has a background in Health Psychology and has been involved in various healthcare/services projects since graduating with her PhD (encouraging the uptake a of healthy behaviours among young South Asian people) from the University of Leeds in 2012. Amrit is particularly interested in health inequalities and conducting research with seldom heard groups. Amrit is an experienced mixed-methods researcher.
Research interests
Amrit works with the Safe Use of Medicines team at the University of Bradford. Amrit works on DEPPLOY in the Safe Use of Medicines theme - an intervention to safely deprescribe (stop or taper) medicines in older adults with frailty, working closely with those who prescribe and review medicines and patients.
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- Programme Manager ( Improvement Science Theme of the Yorkshire and Humber ARC )
Andria is an improvement scientist with experience of using improvement science methods within the NHS, academia and the commercial sector. Andria also has expertise in quantitative research methods and psychometrics, having worked as a senior research consultant in outcomes research at York Health Economics Consortium prior to joining Bradford Institute for Health Research. Andria's improvement science research has included working as a research fellow on the implementation science theme of the first round of the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, advising a mental health trust on improvement science projects during a secondment, and her PhD which was conducted within a host mental health trust.
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- Member of the Research Team
- Assistant Chief Nurse Quality & Safety Research
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- Member of the Research Team
- Senior Lecturer in Patient Safety and Assistant Director, NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre
Beth is the Programme Manager for the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre. She also has a dual role at the University of Bradford School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences programme managing a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) programme exploring and improving medicines management at transitions of care for people with heart failure (ISCOMAT).
Beth is an experienced health and social researcher and has worked extensively in the UK on research projects for national and local government, NHS organisations, charities, and the private sector. Her research has included national evaluations of health-related policy, for example she led the qualitative evaluation with GPs of the statement of fitness for work for the Department for Work and Pensions.
In Yorkshire and the Humber, Beth has led evaluations of services for bereaved families, those delivering outdoor activities for young people and those aiming to reduce recidivism. She has conducted research to redesign health services for patient benefit, and recently has co-facilitated a series of consultation events to understand and improve experiences of about breast diagnostic services. Beth has also designed and delivered training in research methods for clients such as Warwickshire County Council and the East of England and taught intervention development techniques, for example to university students on an EU programme aiming to make the transport environment in their local communities safer.
Beth has an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics at the University of Manchester and a PhD in which she explored the medicines-related professional and informal social networks of cardiology patients after they were discharged from hospital. Beth conducts qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research.
Research interests
Beth's research interests focus on the quality and safety of healthcare and how care can be improved. She has a particular interest in safety at care transitions, for example when people move between healthcare settings and providers.
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- Senior Research Fellow
- Senior Research Fellow / Patient and Public Engagement Lead
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- Member of the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit
- Research Fellow With the Yorkshire Quality
- Research Programme Manager
Gemma is a member of the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB), Yorkshire and North East Regional Advisory Committee and an Associate Editor for BMC Health Services Research.
Louch, G., Mohammed, M. A., Hughes, L., & O'Hara, J. (2018). "Change is what can actually make the tough times better": A patient-centred patient safety intervention delivered in collaboration with hospital volunteers. Health Expectations. Advance Online Publication. doi.org/10.1111/hex.12835
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- Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
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- Senior Research Fellow
- Senior Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
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- Senior Research Fellow
- Senior Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
Heyhoe, J. and Lawton, R. (2009). Distress in patients with interstitial cystitis: Do illness representations have a role to play? Psychology, Health and Medicine, 14, 6, 726-739.
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- Patient Safety Research Nurse
Background
Jayne is a registered nurse with over 30 years clinical and managerial experience in the field of surgical, operating theatre and intensive care nursing. Jayne completed a Combined Health Studies degree in 2002 and was awarded a PhD from the University of Bradford in 2010. Her doctoral research focused on the prevalence and management of anxiety experienced by patients during awake surgical procedures. Jayne was Divisional Head of Nursing for surgery, anaesthesia and diagnostics in Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for a number of years, before retiring early in 2018. She has recently taken up post as patient safety research nurse within the quality and safety research team and offers research nurse support for a variety of projects.
Research interests
Jayne is currently providing support for projects relating to transition of care for older people, medication safety and second victim resource development as well as work relating to determining the research priorities locally and regionally for the future. Jayne is also providing support in an advisory capacity to projects relating to patient safety in Accident and Emergency care and the implementation of the Electronic Patient Record.
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- Member of the Research Team
- Programme Manager, PACT
- Programme Manager, Partners at Care Transitions ( PACT ) NIHR Research Programme
Jenni joined the YQSR Group as a Programme Manager in December 2016 to work on the NIHR funded programme of work ‘Partners At Care Transitions (PACT): Improving Patient Experience and Safety at Transitions of Care'. Jenni is responsible for co-ordinating the timely delivery of each of the six work packages within the programme and ensuring that opportunities for outputs are maximised.
Jenni has an applied science degree and an MSc in Biotechnology. Her PhD obtained from the University of Leeds in 2008 related to longer-term care following a stroke. Jenni brings with her a long history of research experience across a breath of applied health and social care areas including antenatal and neonatal screening, stroke and cardiovascular care and offender health within third sector green spaces and has published widely in these areas.
Research interests
She has a particular interest in the development and process evaluations of complex interventions and is a fan of the use of green spaces (such as social farms) as interventions to improve emotional and social wellbeing. Jenni enjoys the variety and the challenges that project management brings but also the continued opportunities to contribute intellectually to health service research and development.
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- Associate Professor in Healthcare Quality and Safety
- Associate Professor in Healthcare Quality and Safety, University of Leeds
Background
Jonathan Benn is Associate Professor in Healthcare Quality and Safety at the School of Psychology, University of Leeds. Jonathan works closely with researchers in the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, including the Safe Use of Medicines and Workforce Engagement and Wellbeing themes. He is co-lead for the Digital Innovations for Patient Safety theme.
Jonathan has worked in health services research since 2005, applying knowledge and theory from the social sciences to address practical issues in health care delivery and the design of clinical work systems. He completed his undergraduate study in Psychology, followed by a PhD in Human Factors in Systems Engineering. Prior to taking up his post at Leeds in 2018, he was Lecturer in Quality Improvement in Healthcare in the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London. Jonathan has received funding as Principal Investigator from NIHR HS&DR; NIHR CLAHRC and The Health Foundation. He has extensive experience as an educator in improvement and implementation science topics and is an academic advisor to the AHSN Improvement Academy at the Bradford Institute for Health Research.
Research interests
Jonathan is particularly interested in applications of organisational psychology and human factors in a health service context, with an emphasis on patient safety. Specific interests include:
Evaluation of digital innovations for patient safety from a sociotechnical perspective
The effects of audit and feedback interventions on organisational and professional behaviour
Work-related wellbeing in ambulance service staff
Secondary use of data to drive quality improvement
Factors governing implementation of evidence-based practice to reduce potentially harmful variations in care
Application of quality improvement methods in healthcare (particularly Statistical Process Control)
System resilience and high reliability organisations
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- Lecturer
- Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer across Bradford Institute for Health Research and the University of Leeds
Judith Johnson is a Clinical Psychologist who is based at both the School of Psychology, University of Leeds, and the Bradford Institute for Health Research. She graduated from the University of Manchester with a BSc(Hons) in Psychology in 2007. She was awarded a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Manchester in 2010, and a ClinPsyD (Clinical Psychology Doctorate) from the University of Birmingham in 2013.
Research interests
Judith's research aims to understand and support the development of wellbeing and resilience. She is particularly interested in investigating these topics in healthcare staff. Some of her recent work suggests that when healthcare staff wellbeing is low, and burnout is elevated, the quality and safety of patient care suffers. Her current research explores these issues in a range of healthcare staff groups and aims to develop interventions which can enhance resilience and reduce burnout. She is also currently researching the role of communication in healthcare settings in order to understand how healthcare staff can be better supported and trained in this aspect of their roles.
Johnson, J., Johnson, O., Heyhoe, J., Fielder, C., & Dunning, A. (2018). Parent experiences and preferences when dysemlia is identified during the prenatal and perinatal periods: A qualitative study into family nursing care for rare diseases. Journal of Family Nursing, 24, 271-293. doi: 10.1177/1074840718772808
Johnson, J., Hall, L. H., Berzins, K., Baker, J., Melling, K. & Thompson, C. (2018). Mental healthcare staff well-being and burnout: A narrative review of trends, causes, implications, and recommendations for future interventions. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27, 20-32.
Panagioti, M., Geraghty, K., & Johnson, J. (2017). How to prevent burnout in cardiologists? A review of the current evidence, gaps and future directions. Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine.
Johnson, J., Louch, G., Dunning, A., Johnson, O., Grange, A., Reynolds, C., Hall, L., & O'Hara, J. (2017). Burnout mediates the association between symptoms of depression and patient safety perceptions: A cross-sectional study in hospital nurses. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73, 1667-1680.
Johnson, J., Adams-Spink, G., Arndt, T., Wijeratne, D., Heyhoe, J., Taylor, P. J. (2016). Providing family-centred care for rare diseases in maternity services: Parent satisfaction and preferences when dysmelia is identified. Women and Birth, 29, e99-e104.
Johnson, J., Gooding, P., Wood, A., Taylor, P., & Tarrier, N. (2011). Trait reappraisal amplifies subjective defeat, sadness and negative affect in response to failure versus success in non-clinical and psychosis populations. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 922-934. 16. Johnson, J., & Wood A. M. (2015). Integrating Positive and Clinical Psychology: Viewing Human Functioning as Continua from Positive to Negative Can Benefit Clinical Assessment, Interventions and Understandings of Resilience. Cognitive Therapy and Research.
Johnson, J., Gooding., P. Wood., A., Taylor, P., Pratt, D., & Tarrier, N. (2010). Resilience to suicidal ideation in psychosis: Positive self-appraisals buffer the impact of hopelessness. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48, 883-889.
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- Senior Research Fellow, PhD, CPsychol
- Senior Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
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- Member of the Research Team
- Principal Research Fellow, Deputy Director and Qualitative Lead, Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group
Laura was appointed Senior Research Fellow in 2012, and became Principal Research Fellow in 2018. By background, Laura is a sociologist and a health services researcher. She undertook her doctoral research at the University of Leeds and was awarded her PhD (Sociology) in 2010. Laura's skills are mainly around qualitative methodology and analysis, process evaluations and trial management. Laura works across research teams at the Bradford Institute for Health Research and leads several studies about patient safety, patient experience, prisoner health and public health.
Laura's most discussed and talked about paper to date was published in February 2017 in Social Science & Medicine (available here). It currently has an Altmetric score of over 200. The paper proposes a conceptual framework to understand why ward staff struggle to make improvements based on patient feedback. Laura is the author of over 40 peer reviewed publications. She is principal investigator on the NIHR funded Improving the Quality of Primary Care for Prisoners (£659, 000) study and co-applicant on four NIHR grant applications totalling £9.3m of research income.
Laura is a panel member of the Yorkshire and North East Research for Patient Benefit Advisory Board and an Associate Editor for the journal Trials.
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- Senior Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
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- Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
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- Programme Manager / Principal Researcher, Involving Patients and Families in Serious Incident Investigations Project ( NIHR HS & DR )
- Programme Manager, YH PSTRC
Ruth has a BSc (1st hons) Psychology from the University of Leeds, an MSc Occupational Psychology (distinction) from the University of Leicester and her PhD at the University of Leeds investigated how the retention of organisational cluster sites can be maximised in longitudinal research. In the School of Psychology at the University of Leeds Ruth is a visiting research fellow and guest lecturer at postgraduate (MSc Psychological Approaches to Health: ‘Understanding, Predicting and Changing Health Behaviours') and undergraduate levels (BSc Psychology: ‘Occupational Health Psychology'). She was recently involved in developing a new undergraduate module on ‘Work Psychology', launched in 2020.
Conner, M., Grogan, S., Simms-Ellis, R., Flett, K., Sykes-Muskett, B., Cowap, L., … & West, R. (2017). Do electronic cigarettes increase cigarette smoking in UK adolescents? Evidence from a 12-month prospective study. Tobacco control, tobaccocontrol-2016.
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- Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
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- Research Fellow, NG - SURE
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- Research Fellow, ARC Improvement Science
- Student
Fylan Gwynn, B, Blenkisnopp, A, Armitage, G., Naylor, D. (2013) "You have to be dying before you actually see a doctor…" Patients' medicines safety networks at transfer of care. Conference presentation: EUSN European Conference on Social Networks 03/07. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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- Research Nurse
- Research Nurse ( PACT )
Jacqui is a Patient Safety Research Nurse currently working on the Partners at Care Transitions Programme PACT within the Bradford Institute for Health Research.
A Registered General Adult Nurse for twenty years within a hospital setting, Jacqui has experience from working within the fields of Intensive Care Medicine, Pre-Operative Assessment, Women's Health and Pain Management. Jacqui has also worked at a Senior Level in the community within the fields of Infection Prevention and Control and Social Housing Management.
Jacqui has developed skills in staff development, education and training as well as coaching and management. She has undertaken surveillance and investigations around infection prevention and health and safety in the workplace. Jacqui has also worked closely with Health and Social Care Providers in the fields of audit and service improvement and she has developed and delivered community engagement events.
Research interests
Jacqui is currently providing support for a project relating to the transition of care for older people, she has a special interest in quality, safety and behaviour change and she is looking forward to developing in her new role as a research nurse.
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- Professor of Healthcare Quality and Safety
Johnson, J., Louch, G., Dunning, A., Johnson, O., Grange, A., Reynolds, C., … & O'Hara, J. (2017). Burnout mediates the association between depression and patient safety perceptions: a cross-sectional study in hospital nurses. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(7), 1667-1680.
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- Research Fellow
- Research Nurse ( PACT )
Jane has worked for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2003 as a Children's Physiotherapist and as a Therapy Co-ordinator since 2005. Jane's main areas of clinical interest are working with children and young people with complex and multiple health needs and their carers; SEND (special educational needs and disabilities); and children's safeguarding.
In 2014 Jane completed an MSc in Leadership, Management and Change in Health and Social Care at the University of Bradford. Jane then completed a PGCert in Health Research at the University of Leeds in 2018.
Jane has previously worked as a clinician in the NHS in Sheffield and Rotherham, and with charity organisations in India and Nepal. Jane was a resource trainer on the Disability in Development course for Voluntary Service Overseas from 2003 - 2007. Jane is a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and has presented posters / papers at CSP conferences, and also at the World Congress of Physiotherapy in 2003.
Research interests
Jane joined the YQSR team in May 2021 as a Research AHP with PACT, combining the part time research assistant post with ongoing clinical work.
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- Research and Implementation Assistant
Background
Matthew recently joined the team as a Research and Implementation Assistant. Matthew is an undergraduate Psychology Student at the University of Leeds, and is working with the Bradford Institute for Health Research as part of an industrial working placement until June 2023.
Research Interests
Matthew is currently supporting a project examining proactive strategies used by people with dementia to improve safety in the home, in addition to a project looking at the effect of technical tasks being performed by informal carers away from medical environments. He is looking forward to developing in the role and finding specific interests within the field.
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- PPIE Research Fellow - PACT
- Student
Olivia graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science from De Montfort University, followed by an MRC awarded scholarship for an MRes in Inflammation: Cellular and Vascular Aspects. During both degrees Olivia became particularly interested in research communication with patient, public and healthcare staff and equity in health research, which lead to a five-year career as a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Specialist within NHS research. Olivia works one day a week as a PPIE Research Fellow within the Partners at Care Transitions research programme to maintain her involvement expertise and sustain relationships.
Research interests
Olivia's professional interests include exploring different methods to involve seldom listened communities, creative approaches for co-production and understanding the impact of PPIE in health research on research projects, research culture, researchers and public contributors. Ultimately, exploring methods to make health research more inclusive, meaningful and equitable.
Hague, C., Foran, B., Hall, E., Guild, S., Joseph, O., Moule, R., Nutting, C., Parsons, S., Prestwich, R., Slevin, N. and West, C., 2018. Patient involvement in the design of a phase III trial comparing intensity-modulated proton therapy and intensity-modulated radiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer.
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- Research Fellow, YH PSTRC
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- Research Fellow NIHR Y & H PSTRC
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- Professor in Psychology of Healthcare
Rebecca Lawton is Professor in Psychology of Healthcare at the University of Leeds. Since 2009 Rebecca has held a joint post at Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Teaching NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust where she leads the YQSR Group. Rebecca is Director of the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, funded by the NIHR.
Rebecca graduated from University of Nottingham with a BA in Psychology in 1991. In 1994 Rebecca was awarded a PhD from the University of Manchester, the culmination of an ESRC (Case) studentship working with Professor James Reason and investigating the role of procedural violations in railway accidents. Rebecca stayed at Manchester, working as a Research Fellow on two research projects; the first, a Department for Transport funded project investigating the psychological predictors of speeding while driving and the second, an ESRC funded project, investigating the attitudes and behaviour of healthcare professionals to the increasing regulation of their work. In 1999 Rebecca took up a post at the University of Leeds as a lecturer and was later promoted to Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, before her promotion to Professor in 2012. Rebecca has attracted research funding from the NIHR, ESRC, MRC, The Health Foundation, British Academy and Bupa Foundation and has published over 180 peer reviewed articles.
Research interests
Rebecca's broad research interest is the application of psychological theory to improving health and healthcare services. More specifically, Rebecca carries out research on human factors and patient safety, patient involvement in patient safety, the implementation of safety innovations and wellbeing of the healthcare workforce. She also delivers more traditional health psychology research investigating determinants of health risk behaviours and the evaluation of interventions to improve lifestyle behaviours.
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- Patient Safety Research Nurse
For the last five years Sally has been providing nursing input and support to the YQSR Group, building on clinical experience and developing research knowledge and skills. She is a registered nurse with over 30 years experience, specialising in care of the patient in the operating department and endoscopy unit.
Her most recent clinical post was as the Matron for the Operating Theatres and the Endoscopy Unit at a Foundation Hospital Trust. Sally still works in the clinical area on a regular basis.
Sally has many years experience in practice development, including staff development and patient quality, safety and satisfaction across operating departments, endoscopy units, pre-operative assessment, day surgery and outpatient environments.
Sally is providing research nurse support for the following projects:
Partners at Care Transitions (PACT)
Effects of FloTrac IQ on changing clinician behaviour in the management of intraoperative hypotension
Using patient feedback to improve the quality and safety of care
Using behaviour change methodology to prevent acute kidney injury in an acute hospital trust
Exploring patient behaviours with alcohol and smoking during the perioperative period
Learning from Error: Developing a patient-led patient safety incident reporting tool;
HIEC: A behaviour change approach to implementing patient safety guidelines
Evaluation of the ELSO training programme for paramedics and ambulance technicians
Evaluating the TAPS program
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- Research Dietician
- Research Dietitian, NG - SURE
Sam is a Research Dietitian currently working on the NG-Sure project within the Bradford Institute of Health Research.
As a registered dietitian, Sam has been qualified for four years, achieving a PGDip in Dietetics (with merit), in 2018, from Leeds Beckett University. Sam currently works as a Clinical Specialist Extended Roles Dietitian in Stroke, based predominantly on the Acute Stroke Unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary (BRI). Sam has lead and developed the stroke dietetic service at BRI for the past 3 years, becoming the first dietitian within the trust to place nasogastric feeding tubes (NGT's) and nasal retention devices. He specialises in nutrition support for stroke patients, as well as insertion and management of NGT's and NGT training and development for the wider workforce. Sam is a member of the trusts Artificial Nutrition Support Group (ANSG) and a key part of the Nutrition team, working alongside medical and nursing staff in assessing patient's suitability for gastrostomy feeding, as well as complex ethical decision making.
Sam's other academic achievements include a First Class honours degree in BSc (Hons) Applied Sports Science and Human Performance, from the University of Salford, 2012 and a Postgraduate Certificate, with merit, from the University of Chester, 2013. He also has an extensive background working as an assistant across therapy, pharmacy and dietetic teams, over the past 8 years.