Frailty the Forgotten VoiceWednesday 14th March 2018

Speaker Biographies

Professor Bee Wee

Professor Bee Wee is National Clinical Director for End of Life Care at NHS England for 2 days a week. In this role, she provides strategic leadership for improving end of life care across England. In 2015, she co-led the development and publication of the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: A national framework for local action 2015-2020. This framework was jointly developed with 27 partners across health and care, and statutory and voluntary sectors. It was endorsed in the Government’s response to the Review of Choice in End of Life Care in 2016. She was awarded the Presidential

Medal by the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare in 2017.

Originally from Malaysia, she trained in medicine, then general practice, in Ireland and worked in Hong Kong, then became Consultant/Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, and later, Deputy Director of the Medical School, Southampton University. She moved to Oxford in 2003 as Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Sir Michael Sobell House, Fellow of Harris Manchester College and Associate Director of Clinical Studies at Oxford University, and Head of the Oxford WHO Collaborating Centre for Palliative Care. She is a Past President of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland. Her clinical and academic base remains in Oxford. She is now Associate Professor at Oxford University, Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University and University of Worcester, and Honorary Professor at Sichuan University, China. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, eating and allotment gardening with her husband, Richard.

Dr Martin Vernon

Martin qualified in 1988 in Manchester. Following training in the North West he moved to East London to train in Geriatric Medicine where he also acquired an MA in Medical Ethics and Law from King’s College. He returned to Manchester in 1999 to take up post as Consultant Geriatrician building community geriatrics services in South Manchester.

Martin was Associate Medical Director for NHS Manchester in 2010 and more recently Clinical

Champion for frail older people and integrated care In Greater Manchester. He has been the British Geriatrics Society Champion for End of Life Care for 5 years and was a standing member of the NICE Indicators Committee.

In 2015 Martin moved to Central Manchester where he is Consultant Geriatrician and Associate Head of Division for Medicine and Community Services. He also holds Honorary Academic Posts at Manchester and Salford Universities and was appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Chester in 2016.

In 2016 Martin was appointed National Clinical Director for Older People and Person Centred Integrated Care at NHS England. In 2017 he became Chair of the NHS England Hospital to Home Programme Board and is working on National Frailty Care with NHS Improvement.

Rob Fountain

Rob Fountain is CEO of Age UK Gloucestershire, a local charity promoting a positive experience of ageing. Influenced by community development approaches, Rob is taking Age UK Gloucestershire in a different direction. The organisation’s newly stated vision – to make Gloucestershire the best county in which to grow older – reflects an aim to move away from a service provision model to exploring how the charity can stimulate communities to be more engaged, responsive and resilient places to age in. Rob has been working with the local CCG on an innovative project ‘Knead2Know’ which seeks to encourage people to be better informed about End of Life

issues and to trigger more natural conversations about preferences and care planning for end of life. A social worker by background, Rob has worked in a number of statutory, charity and education roles.

Emily Wighton

Emily is the National Care Homes Senior Manager for the Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) Vanguard programme. She joined the New Care Models programme in September 2017 and has since transitioned to a Senior Manager in Systems Support and Development in the Systems Transformation Group. She is currently leading on the implementation of the EHCH model by ACS and Devo sites in England.

She is a Clinical Pharmacist Prescriber by background qualifying in 2003, and has clinical and management experience in acute and primary care pharmacy, education and the voluntary sector, specialising in palliative care. Emily

completed her Darzi Fellowship in July 2017 where she developed an education framework

for healthcare professionals working with people with diabetes and set up a peer support network for healthcare professionals and people with diabetes. She also developed a healthy curiosity and appreciation of people, systems and context when approaching ‘wicked’ problems. Emily specialises in networked learning and clinically-led service development.

Lelly Oboh

Lelly Oboh is a Consultant Pharmacist (care of older people) with over 22 years’ experience in community settings within and outside the NHS. She has worked within general practice, integrated care teams including care homes, enhanced rapid response and geriatrician-led virtual clinics to optimise medicines use.

Her leadership role involves championing innovative pharmacy service developments, showcasing and

driving uptake at local and national levels. She actively promotes best practice through facilitating effective partnerships between the NHS, Social care, statutory and professional bodies using a whole systems approach to drive change and equip wider workforce to deliver medicines optimisation. She is keen to develop extended roles for pharmacists within integrated care teams for frail older people in community and care home settings and has pioneered a model of “community clinical pharmacy teams” for frail older people, which has been replicated by other organisations. These models have focused on active engagement with older people (carers), developing personalised solutions to improve adherence, better care co-ordination at handover points and improving medicines use in social care.

She is a well sought after inspiring speaker and teaches a range of health and social care practitioners as well as pharmacists at various levels. She has written publications and developed practical resources that are widely accessible to support practitioners involved with older people. Her areas of interest include polypharmacy and deprescribing, frailty, care co-ordination, transfer of care, managing medicines in care homes and social care settings. She has pioneered Peer Support programmes for clinical pharmacy staff working in care homes and General Practice across the UK.

Dr Robert Westgate

Dr Westgate, MBBS, FRCGP, is an NHS General Practitioner, GP Trainer & Year of Care Trainer based in Carlisle, England. He graduated from Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School in 1993 prior to completing general practice training in Cumbria. He works as a GP and Medical Director for Carlisle Healthcare in a busy city centre practice serving 37000 patients. He has been

actively involved in supporting the development of diabetes services in Cumbria for the past 10 or so years. He was lead GP with Cumbria Diabetes until October 2016 and in this role he helped to embed both structured education and personalised care planning into routine care for adults with diabetes. Having enjoyed and survived a recent practice merger he is passionate about service improvement. He is leading ongoing work both within the practice and North Cumbria CCG towards the integration of health and social care services in Carlisle to try and improve the lives of people living with frailty. Care and support planning has been a key building block in this work.

Claire Nelson

Claire Nelson RN MSc ALNP NMP. Claire recently completed a 3 year Consultant Practitioner Trainee Programme through Health Education England Thames Valley specialising in Frailty. Claire is an experienced clinician with knowledge and skills acquired in acute and community care settings. Her interests include the management of frailty, healthcare leadership and the development of the advanced nurse practitioner working with older adults. Her doctorate thesis explores

resilience in the context of older adults living with frailty.

Carlie Karakusevic

Dr Carlie Karakusevic trained at Guy's Hospital, London before completing GP training in Dorset. She has been a GP partner in Teignmouth, South Devon for 24 years.Early in her career, she became interested in generalist palliative care. For more than 10 years, she has also worked as a Macmillan GP Facilitator for cancer and end of life care which is a systems development and education role. She chairs the South Devon & Torbay End of Life Strategic Board