At Hospice UK as Senior QI and Clinical Practice Manager, I lead a three year QI Frailty Programme supporting hospices to deliver grant funded local and regional projects. We aim to extend the offer of frailty care so that patients with advancing frailty will benefit more where they need to from the broad range of exceptional skills available throughout the hospice sector.

Our Final Report will be out April 2025. Meanwhile, please get in touch if you have an interest so we can keep you updated as far as possible. There are resources at https://www.hospiceuk.org/innovation-hub/clinical-care-support/extending-frailty-care-programme

I support the Resilience Based Clinical Supervision work and the Hospice UK Technology Leaders Network.

Previously, I facilitated the Education Network and Dementia Community of Practice, and managed the Hospice UK pandemic bereavement programme which led to the Mind the Grief Gap Publication.

Skills and professional passions summary:

- Qualifying as a registered nurse in 1991, and then working in HIV, TB and Infectious Diseases nursing, I have specialised in Palliative Care since 2009 with a focus on non-cancer care and frailty.
- I have practiced in a specialist nurse capacity, in across all NHS sectors with experience of teaching and facilitation, leadership, service improvement and setting up new services and I have robust experience of bed side care of people at the end of life.
- My interests include grass roots change for improvement, and complex communications such as the impact of breaking bad news, particularly on interpreters, and improving Advance Care Planning in Primary and Secondary Care.
- I am a facilitator in ECHO methodology, Advanced Communications and Sage & Thyme training, and I have coordinated five-day foundation courses in Palliative Care to senior staff including mental health professionals.