Mary Atkinson

Practice Development Midwife
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Tim Ballard

National GP Advisor for Online and Independent PMS
Care Quality Commission

Tim Ballard is a National Clinical Advisor at CQC. He has been a GP since 1988 and is currently in clinical practice in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire. He was a trainer for 25 years and was an RCGP Examiner for 21 years and a Convenor of the Simulated Surgery module which became the CSA. Tim Was Vice Chair at the RCGP 2013-2016. His role at CQC involves giving professional advice to the commission on independent health care and online care as well as supporting NHS GP inspections in the north of England.

Dr John Ferris

Consultant in Emergency, Pre-Hospital & Retrieval Medicine North Cumbria University Hospital Trust & Great North Air Ambulance

Clinical Lead for Transfer & Aero-Retrieval Medicine

Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine, UCLan

John is an Emergency Physician with a passion for challenging medicine, critically sick patients and mountainous wild places. He is very lucky that his job and home in the Lake District includes all these things! John has been working full-time for multiple organisations over the last 10 years including Scotland’s Emergency Medical Retrieval Service, London's Air Ambulance, Essex & Herts Air Ambulance and The Great North Air Ambulance;

Nigel Garratt

CPD and Development Lead
School of Medicine, UCLan

Nigel started his paddling career as a kid in a swimming pool, this led to joining his local club and his parents spending long days sat in car parks all over the country waiting to shuttle the paddlers! This passion went on for years (he did have a bit of slowdown of the paddling whilst he played a bit a rugby professionally in the UK and New Zealand).

Dr Nasir Hameed

Senior Lecturer – Imaging (Ultrasound)
School of Medicine, UCLan

Dr. Hameed started his career in radiology in 1994 by joining the Radiology Department, post Graduate Medical Institute, Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar as Medical officer then serving as an      M. Phil Radiology trainee from January 1996 to December 1997.  After completing his training in Radiology, he decided to take ultrasound as career, and started "Hameed Gul Memorial Ultrasound Institute" in Peshawar Pakistan. In 2003 he went to USA for a visiting fellowship in ultrasound at Jefferson Ultrasound Research and Education, Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

Dr James Hickman MBE

GP with Special Interest in Pre-Hospital Emergency Care, Somerset

James Hickman is a Somerset GP with 20 years of experience in pre-hospital emergency care. He is the Immediate Past Chairman of the British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS) and Chairman of SAVES (the Somerset BASICS scheme). James has experience in motorsports medicine, event medicine, air ambulance work and International Search and Rescue (and 25 years as a full time GP partner!). In November 2011 he was one of the first on scene at the M5 motorway pile-up and fire near Taunton and acted as Medical Incident Officer. James was appointed MBE in 2014 “for services to healthcare, particularly emergency medical care”

Sir Bruce Keogh

Chair
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Sir Bruce has had a distinguished international career as a cardiac surgeon. He held the chair of Cardiac Surgery at University College London before being appointed Medical Director of the NHS in the Department of Health in 2007and National Medical Director of NHS England between 2013 - 2018. For a decade he was the professional lead for doctors in the NHS and was responsible for clinical policy and strategy, promoting quality, clinical leadership and innovation across the service. In the Department of Health he was the sponsor for NICE, the Healthcare Commission and the National Patient Safety Agency.

Professor James Kingsland

Senior Partner in General Practice

The development of Primary Care Networks (PCN) in rural areas based on the experience of delivering Primary Care homes in rural/more remote locations.

Professor James Kingsland OBE is Senior Partner in a general practice the in the North West of England.   He has extensive experience in general practice, medical education and medical politics and is President of  the NAPC, having previously served as Chair.   He is the co-author of the new care model, the primary care home. 

James served as a senior GP adviser at the Department of Health twice and was the National Clinical Lead for the implementation programmes for clinical commissioning. He was also the Primary Care Lead on the Department of Health Board of the National Clinical Directors. James has also held advisory positions with National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Monitor. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. In July 2018, he was made an Honorary Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Central Lancashire.

Professor Richard Lyon MBE

Consultant
Emergency Medicine & Pre-hospital Care Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

Prof Lyon is a recognised international leader in Emergency Medicine & Pre-hospital Care. He is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Clinical Lead for pre-hospital care in southeast Scotland. He is Associate Medical Director of Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance.

Richard is Professor of Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Care at the University of Surrey and has an established research portfolio in pre-hospital resuscitation, trauma care and emergency medicine with an extensive publication record. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the UK College of Paramedics and awarded an MBE by HM The Queen in the 2017 Birthday Honours. He holds numerous international awards, including the European Resuscitation Council top researcher and British Medical Journal Emergency Medical Team of the Year. Richard is an active member of the UK International Search & Rescue Team and has previous experience in the British Armed Forces. Richard is a current member of the Resuscitation Council (UK) Executive Committee and author of several international pre-hospital guidelines. He has worked with several HEMS services and holds Level 8 status with the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Prof Stuart Maitland-Knibb

Director
National Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine, UCLan

Stuart is the newly appointed director for the National Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine.  He has worked extensively in urgent care, emergency medicine and pre hospital emergency medicine. After  working  in  the  military  for  12  years he was  the  clinical director on creating an out  of hospital remote centre  to deliver urgent  and emergency  care  to be  delivered  solely by primary  care. This has developed in to a highly successful unit delivering class-leading care in the community.

He has worked extensively on a HEMS platform delivering pre hospital emergency medicine in rural areas to critically ill or injured patients. He works for a global remote telemedicine company delivering urgent primary care and retrieval medicine support.

Stuart is also is a member of the UK International Search and Rescue Team which is deployed as the U.K. Government emergency rescue to natural disasters where casualties are believed to be trapped.

Professor Martin Marshall CBE

Vice Chair External Affairs
Royal College of General Practitioners

Martin Marshall is Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, Programme Director for Primary Care at UCLPartners and leads Improvement Science London, an initiative to promote and embed the science of improvement across the health service and academic sectors. In November 2016 he was elected to Vice Chair (External Affairs) of the RCGP.   Previously he was Director of R&D at the Health Foundation, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England and Director General in the Department of Health, a clinical academic at the University of Manchester and a Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy.

Dr Martin McGrath

Managing Director
CAS-App Ltd

Martin is an experienced clinician and medical leader with particular interests in strategic and operational planning, medical education and the delivery of urgent medical care. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1998 where he completed a medium commission, initially developing expertise in pre-hospital care, aviation medicine and medical planning. Amongst other roles he assisted in the development and implementation of capability re-design as part of a RAF Medical Branch re-structure and was responsible for the control of all UK Defence strategic aeromedical evacuations. He attended the UK Military Advanced Command and Staff Course which prepares selected officers for high-grade appointments and commanded one of the military’s foremost operational medical units.

Lee Omar

Chief Executive Officer
Red Ninja Studios

Lee Omar, CEO, Red Ninja - A design led technology company, that co-creates technology using their expertise in artificial intelligence, data science, Internet of Things, smart cities, electrical engineering and app development. Lee has led the design and development of several digital health products that have been co-created by NHS, Red Ninja, Patients and their families.  Has created technology that optimises ambulance response times, by controlling traffic lights in cities in real time to prioritise ambulance routes. He has recently 'spun-out' a digital health product company - Safe Steps, that reduces falls for the ageing population, this is part of the NHS Digital Health Accelerator programme. Advises governments, including President of India and Chief Minister on Smart Cities Led teams that created IoT products in healthcare, transport, energy and urban planning sectors.

Dr Chris Press

Air Ambulance Doctor, UK

Medical Officer, Northern Exposure

Consultant Anaesthetist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

Delivering healthcare when help is not coming in the near to medium time frame

Polar bear attacks in the Arctic

Chris is a Consultant Anaesthetist in Sheffield, UK. He has undertaken more than 30 expeditions to the polar regions, a number of deserts and high mountains, as well as undertaking a number of remote diving trips exploring caves and wrecks. Having responded for Edale Mountain Rescue Team since 2002, and as a BASICS ambulance responder since 2011, Chris has built up a varied portfolio of pre-hospital activity including emergency response, motorsport medicine, sporting events, mass gatherings and tactical medical work.

He flies with the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance in the East Midlands and has recently acted as a Forward Doctor at the Manchester arena bombing. An active member of the Cheese Appreciation Society, Chris is an accomplished gastronome as well as a keen SCUBA diver and mountaineer.

Alicia Ridout

Deputy Director
mHabitat

Alicia is a registered Occupational Therapist with 30 years of experience encompassing industry, NHS, private healthcare, Higher Education and the 3rd sector. She has spent much of her career working in mental health and liaison psychiatry, commissioning, Higher Education innovation and more recently as Deputy Director and Clinical Safety Officer of the mHabitat, an innovative NHS service focused on people driven digital interventions. Alicia won the Chief Allied Health Professionals Officer Digital Innovator 2017 award, sponsored by NHS Digital. Alicia is a member of the College of Occupational Therapists (COT) National English Board, advising on digital issues and is a member of the NHS Digital Indicator Governance Board.

Dr Malcolm Q Russell MBE

Medical Director, UK Fire & Rescue Service International Search and Rescue Team (UKISAR)

Chief Executive Officer, Prometheus Medical

Delivering medicine in earthquake zones for UK International Search and Rescue

Treating catastrophic haemorrhage in the community following mass shootings and improvised explosive devices.

Dr Tim Sanders

Senior Clinical Lecturer in Rural Medicine
UCLan

Dr Tim Sanders is a GP in Appleby-in-Westmorland. 

Alongside his clinical role, he is a Clinical Lecturer in Rural Medicine for UCLan and a Training Programme Director for North Cumbria GP Training Programme.  He also co-ordinates the clinical teaching programme for Cumbria Health on Call. 

He is a GP appraiser and Mental Health Act Section 12 approved GP.

When he is not working, he can be found walking and running in the mountains and enjoying family adventures in the campervan.

Dr David Somekh

Network Director
European Health Futures Forum

Dr David Somekh, a forensic psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and experienced clinician in management who retired from the UK NHS. He has been involved in healthcare quality since 1988; served as an NGO representative on the Advisory Committee of ISQuA (International Society for Quality Assurance) from 1995-1997, and on the Advisory Committee of the UK NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) from 1999-2004.

Nigel Garratt
CPD and Development Lead
School of Medicine, UCLan

Flooding risks for medics – what can and can’t be done

Dr Malcolm Q Russell MBE

Medical Director, UK Fire & Rescue Service International Search and Rescue Team (UKISAR)
Chief Executive Officer, Prometheus Medical

Professor James Kingsland
Senior Partner in General Practice

The development of Primary Care Networks (PCN) in rural areas based on the experience of delivering Primary Care homes in rural/more remote locations.

The Why and How of Remote Medical Training : In this facilitated round table discussion participants will be asked to share and discuss their experiences, challenges, hopes and desires about Remote and Technology Enhanced Learning.