REALISTIC MEDICINE - Key Persons
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- RM Lead / Consultant Gynaecologist
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- Clinical Lead
- National Services Scotland
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- Clinical Lead / Cardiac Research Nurse
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- Clinical Lead / Consultant Physician in General Medicine & Diabetes & Endocrinology
I am a Consultant Physician in General Medicine and Diabetes & Endocrinology, based in Hairmyres Hospital. I was the Clinical Lead for General Medicine on this site until very recently. My other commitments included hospital subdean role for medical undergraduates, and Board member of Medical examinations at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
In my above roles I have had experience in site based operational management, including leading service change, staff development and team building. In addition to successfully coordinating and leading the response to a critical Deanery visit, I have managed to turn an intensely difficult situation into an opportunity to embed positive changes for the trainees. I have implemented diabetes safety strategies, which have included developing a pan NHSL diabetes guideline for surgical patients. I have extensive experience in training and development, and supporting quality improvement, and a number of these projects have been showcased locally and nationally. NHSL and the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh jointly awarded me the inaugural William Cullen prize in 2016 for excellence in teaching and service innovation. I think the challenges facing modern healthcare are different to a decade ago, and we need to fundamentally change the way we plan and deliver healthcare and engage with the public to meet the complex needs.
Outside my professional life, I have an interest in music and promoting performing arts forms to bind people and communities together. I have lived in Scotland now for 15 years, and reside with my family in south Glasgow.
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- Member of the Realistic Medicine Team
- - Team Leader
Craig joined Scottish Government Health Directorates in 2006 and has worked in several key policy areas, including Cardiovascular Disease, Long Term Conditions and National Service Planning, where he helped develop the plans for Scotland's Trauma Network.
Craig took on the role of Team Leader in July 2017, and is passionate about supporting people to practise Realistic Medicine.
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- Clinical Lead / General Practitioner
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- Member of the Realistic Medicine Team
- - National Clinical Advisor
I'm Catherine Labinjoh. I'm a heart doctor working in NHS Forth Valley.
As a heart doctor I think about how to prevent heart disease and how to care for people affected by heart disease. I'm interested in making sure we provide the kind of care people want so I've been involved in developing new services and changing existing services to promote care at home and I am interested in other aspects of service improvement too. I'm the clinical lead for the Quality Improvement Hub in Forth Valley and I am now the Realistic Medicine Lead in Forth Valley.
I'm interested in the education and training of healthcare professionals and related to that, I am a council member of the Scottish Cardiac Society and the clinical lead for mentoring at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. I sing in the doctors' choir and grow fruit and vegetables in my allotment (I do neither very well but I enjoy them both hugely). I'm married to Andy and we have two grown-up children and a not very grown-up dog.
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- Member of the Realistic Medicine Team
- Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
Gregor is a GP and former Medical Director for primary care in NHS Lanarkshire. He began working for Scottish Government as a medical adviser in Primary Care in 2012 as part of the negotiating team for the Scottish GP contract, subsequently leading the development of a new quality framework for General Practice in Scotland. He was appointed Deputy Chief Medical Officer in 2015 and alongside Realistic Medicine leads on a broad range of professional activity where he is a passionate advocate of person-centred approaches to care. This remit also includes working in partnership with a number of organisations outside healthcare, such as Scottish Natural Heritage and the Forestry Commission to promote exercise in green spaces, to raise awareness of the health benefits of spending time outdoors.
As a keen runner and cyclist, he believes getting outside in the great outdoors can help improve people's physical, mental and social health. He is a Scottish Quality and Safety Fellow and Salzburg Global Fellow and is an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of University of Glasgow.
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- Clinical Lead / Consultant in Public Health
- Consultant in Public Health Medicine at NHS Shetland
Dr Susan Laidlaw has been a Consultant in Public Health Medicine at NHS Shetland since 2007. She graduated from Edinburgh Medical School in 1991, and trained in psychiatry for five years before moving into public health. She trained initially in the north east of England, then moved to Shetland in 2002 to complete her training. As the only CPHM at NHS Shetland, her post covers the whole range of public health practice.
Within the realistic medicine agenda, Susan has a particular interest in the concepts of population health (meeting the needs of the whole population) along with prevention and shared decision making. She is keen to look at people having access to accurate information, which they can make sense of, along with support in order to make decisions which suit their unique circumstances.
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- Consultant in Dental Public Health
Dr Linda McGourty and I share the Realistic Medicine Clinical Lead role for Realistic Medicine. I am a Consultant in Dental Public Health in NHS Fife and work as part of a network covering South East Scotland and a Scottish Quality and Safety Fellow (Cohort 9). I have also collaborated with other dental colleagues who have taken on the Realistic Medicine Clinical Lead role for the islands and promoted the need for dentistry to be engaged in the Realistic Medicine agenda. We are working to ensure the principles guide the new model of care.
I see this role as a great opportunity to contribute to taking the social movement further and as a result of COVID-19 to look at innovative ways to do things differently or even better within NHS Fife. This involves working with the population of Fife, patients, their families/carers and the workforce to embed the principles of the Realistic Medicine and ultimately change the culture. There are already many examples of Realistic Medicine taking place every day. Collaboration with key stakeholders is critical, in order that realistic conversations take place in a meaningful way. To achieve these principles the key priorities are the need to work with the Communications Team to share the message with the population, patients and through continued professional development in order to empower our colleagues and identify champions in all areas.
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- Clinical Lead / Associate Medical Director
Having graduated from Glasgow University in 1990, I spent the next 7 years as a Junior Doctor in just about all the Glasgow hospitals, dabbling in Acute Medicine, Diabetes and a bit of research. In 1997 I became a West of Scotland SpR in Clinical Biochemistry, again rotating through just about all the Glasgow and Lanarkshire hospitals. Bored with Glasgow, I moved to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 2000 for 2 years to work as a Post-doc researcher, using my research in islet transplantation as the basis for my MD in 2004. Working in the USA converted me from being a cynical Glaswegian to a positive optimist! A Consultant Clinical Biochemist post in NHS Dumfries and Galloway beckoned in 2005 and thereafter I pursued medical management culminating in an exhausting but worthwhile 2 years as Associate Medical Director for Acute and Diagnostics! Now that I can breathe (and think) I Chair the D&G ADTC, lead Realistic Medicine in D&G and am the HIS National Clinical Lead for the ADTC Collaborative and National Review Panel. In my spare time I am house-husband and chef to my wife Kirsty, dad to 2 lads (Keir and Ruaraidh) and step-daughter (Holly), dog walker of 2 whippets (Poppy and Daisy) and an Italian Greyhound puppy - Lily. Which keeps me busy and out of trouble!
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- Paramedic & SAS Patient Safety Manager
- Scottish Ambulance Service
I am the Patient Safety Manager for the Scottish Ambulance Service, and I am also a paramedic. I have a particular interest in human factors and systems thinking related to pre-hospital care, and have edited a book on this topic, which includes a co-authored chapter on patient centred care and shared decision making.
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- Clinical Lead / Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
- State Hospital
I am a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at The State Hospital, Carstairs where I lead a multidisciplinary team working with high risk mentally disordered men. I am a Scottish Quality and Safety Fellow and my interests lie in the areas of culture change, systems thinking, safety and quality improvement.
Helen is a Paediatrician and one of the Realistic Medicine Clinical Leads for NHS Forth Valley.
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- Clinical Lead / Clinical Dental Director
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- Clinical Lead
- NHS Education Scotland
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- Clinical Lead / General Practitioner
I am Linda McGourty. I work as a GP in Fife and am Cluster Lead for the practice involved in looking at quality issues in Primary Care.
I also do a session per week for the Medicines Efficiency team and first became interested in the work around Realistic Prescribing and reduction in medicines waste. This aligns with the principles of Realistic Medicine and I am excited at this opportunity to champion it in Fife.
Martin is a GP and one of the Realistic Medicine Clinical Leads for NHS Forth Valley.
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- RM Lead / GP & Clinical Lead for Acute Respiratory Assessment Centres
I am a consultant physician with a specialist interest in Diabetes and Endocrinology in NHS Borders and local lead for pump therapy. I am also the Director of Medical Education, the Associate Director for Governance and Quality and more recently Realistic Medicine lead. One of my main areas of interest is quality driven improvement in both clinical services and education. As DME I, along with my team, am responsible for maintaining and developing high quality medical education and training creating a culture of learning within our board. From a clinical perspective as we remobilise, now more than ever, we need to focus on improving quality and delivering best-value care. Patient experiences are an important component of health-care quality. I believe that shared decision making enables the delivery of the right care for each individual, reduces risk and harm and improves our service quality.
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- Consultant Vascular Surgeon
Paul is a Consultant Vascular & Endovascular surgeon, Medical Director Acute NHSG and Executive Lead for planned adult services NHSG.
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- Lead for NHS Ayrshire & Arran
I have been a consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in Ayrshire and Arran for just over 10 years. My subspecialty interest is Critical Care recovery and rehabilitation having established an ever evolving service in this area over the past 8 years. I love supporting patients and their families to recover to their best. I am an opportunistic visionary.
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- Programme Manager
- Programme Manager in NHS Forth Valley
Samantha is the Programme Manager in NHS Forth Valley and can be contacted by email - samantha.goudie2@nhs.scot
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- National Clinical Lead / General Practitioner
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- RM Clinical Lead / Consultant Anaesthetist
I have been a Consultant in Anaesthetics and ICU for 10 years in Hairmyres Hospital.
My clinical area of interest is the high risk surgical patient and to that end I am in the process of setting up a "Shared Decision Making Clinic" for that patient group.
I love travelling and was lucky enough to go on sabbatical to New Zealand last year to work in such an established clinic -and see a truly beautiful country with the whole family.