Early Years profiles Speakers

Dr Philip Thompson
GP Lead for Children
NHS South Worcestershire CCG

Dr Philip Thompson has lead the development of a set of guidelines which have now been rolled out across Worcestershire, looking at the identification and best practice management of the most common childhood presentations for urgent care. Philip has previously worked in a number of acute paediatrics departments as a junior doctor and ...

Sally Burlington
Head of Policy
Local Government Association (LGA)

Sally has had a wide ranging career in policy and strategy development in the Civil Service, particularly focusing on policies to tackle poverty and disadvantage. She spent 6 years in HM Treasury and a year at Kent County Council during which time she reviewed the council's procurement of social care and negotiated one of the first innovative ...

Alison Burton
Maternity and Early Years Lead
Public Health England

Alison is the National Lead for Maternity and Early Years in Public Health England. Alison started her career as a nurse working in City of London and Hackney before moving to Oxfordshire. She went on to train as health visitor and then a school nurse. Alison has worked in clinical practice for over 20 years and moved into public ...

Bridget Halnan
Early Years Committee Member
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

I qualified as a Health Visitor in 1984 and have always worked in the arena of supporting new families to achieve best health outcomes for their Infants and Children. My career has included working in research as well as teaching, but always having contact with families. As a research health visitor. I worked with Professor Lynne Murray in ...

Kenny Gibson
Head of Public Health Commissioning
NHS England

Kenny started his NHS-career as a laundry assistant in 1981 before training as a nurse from 1982. He qualified as a nurse and midwife in Scotland and got the learning bug using the internet. He is now a perpetual learner using social media about all things relating to clinical practice and our health care systems – especially how to get the ...

Ailsa Swarbrick
Director
Family Nurse Partnership National Unit

Ailsa has led the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) National Unit since 2012, and is currently taking forward a significant programmes of development to increase impact, cost effectiveness and fit with local context and priorities. She has previously overseen FNP’s expansion, and led the Unit from the Department of Health to a consortium ...

Carey Oppenheim
Chief Executive
Early Intervention Foundation

Carey has been Chief Executive of the Early Intervention Foundation, a charity and What Works Centre for early intervention for children and families since 2013. Carey’s previous roles include Co-director of the Institute of Public Policy Research, Special Advisor to Tony Blair in the Number 10 Policy Unit between 2000-05, specialising ...

Dr Patricia Mucavele OBE
Head of Nutrition
Children`s Food Trust

Tricia has been at the forefront of the Children's Food Trust's work over the last decade developing national school food standards and the first national, voluntary guidelines to support nurseries, children’s centres, pre-schools and childminders with helping young children eat better. Tricia has been with us ...

Melanie Gregory
CEO
The Ear Foundation

Melanie Gregory is the CEO of The Ear Foundation. She has 20 years’ experience working with families, children and adults with hearing loss. Her area of interest is person-centred practice and rehabilitative audiology. She has written numerous articles on motivational engagement, the patient journey and person-centred practice.

Professor Sally Kendall
Professor of Community Nursing and Public Health
University of Kent

Sally worked as part as a research team investigating the health promotion role of nurses, midwives and health visitors, and at the same time commenced her doctoral studies on the health visitor-client interaction. She gained her PhD from King’s College London in 1991 and took up a lecturing post. In 1999, she moved to the University of ...

Adrian Turner
Director
Total Swimming

Clair Rees
Executive Director
Parent Infant Partnership (PIP) UK

Clair joined PIP UK in this role in February 2015 and has a diverse background of experience in Consultancy, policy, practise based research, training development, public speaking and leadership in the early years over 20 years. She has a specialism in perinatal and infant mental health formed through an eclectic range of clinical experience ...

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