Rachel Raymond is a Senior Nurse for Cardiff Flying Start Health Visiting Service in South Wales. Rachel qualified as an adult nurse in 1995 working for 7 years within surgery. In 2003, Rachel trained as a midwife and worked within the high-risk maternity unit at Cardiff.

In 2011, Rachel became a health visitor working across generic and Flying Start health visiting services, she has held a management post since 2016. Rachel is passionate about health visiting, improving outcomes for children and families, reducing health inequalities, and feels privileged to lead a great team of health visitors in Cardiff.

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Kim Jones holds a BN degree, RSCN, SCPHN HV and MSC Child Public Health.

In 1996, Kim commenced health visiting at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (C&VUHB), becoming a Flying Start health visitor in 2007, based at Barry, where she also held an acting manager role. In 2019, Kim became a member of the Perinatal Clinical Network for Wales, representing health visiting.

Due to her special interest in perinatal mental health, Kim became a Specialist Health Visitor for perinatal mental health at C&VUHB. Kim is an iHV perinatal champion, delivering training, promoting a perinatal frame of mind to all.

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Bethany Gill is a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) North West Coast (NWC) Senior Research Associate and PhD Student.

Her research interests focus on the ‘people part’ of technology, including people’s experiences of implementing and using technology for health and care. The title of her PhD is ‘Telehealth during Covid-19, with a focus on health visiting’. Supported by a supervisory team, an Advisory Board and two ARC Public Advisors, they are working to understand more about experiences of telehealth during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on health visiting.

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Sally is a Registered Nurse (Child) and after a 42 year NHS career, now represents health on the National Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel. The Panel was established in 2017 to have a national oversight of serious safeguarding incidents in England, sharing the learning across agencies to improve practice.

Prior to taking up this role in July 2022, Sally spent seven years as Chief Nurse and Deputy CEO of Sheffield Children’s and two and a half years as Director of Nursing for children and young people at Barts Health. Both roles included executive accountability for 0-19 services, experience that has strengthened her resolve to influence the broader determinants of children’s health. Sally also volunteers at a mums and tots group, keeping her grounded in the joy and challenge of parenting.

Sally previously held positions as Visiting Professor at Sheffield Hallam University and Chair of the ACCN 2019-2022. She is a member of the iHV.

Sally was awarded an OBE in October 2020 for her services to nursing.

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I have a background in teaching and over 20 years’ health visiting experience. Since retiring from practice I have been involved in various research and community projects. This currently includes helping to develop an online support programme for patients receiving palliative care with a focus on their identity and agency. This is a fully collaborative project involving patients, clinicians, and academics.

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Nicky Brown is a senior nurse/ public health specialist in BCYP working for Office of Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) in London Region.

With 40 years of nursing and health visiting experience Nicky works in partnership with all London stakeholders including local authorities, NHSE/I and Greater London Assembly, to deliver on the reduction of health inequalities, improve the populations health and well-being. She provides specialist public health input into all 0 – 19 years public health programmes and she is jointly leading on a workforce plan for public health nursing.

Nicky is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Public Health.

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Pippa is a lecturer within the SCPHN team at the University of Central Lancashire and is the Baby Friendly Initiative Lead for Health Visiting. She is a health visitor, nurse (adult and child), IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) and has recently become the infant feeding expert advisor for the Institute of Health Visiting.

She has recently finished a three year NIHR Allied Research Collaboration North West Coast doctoral studentship. Her research explored how women experienced the revised Baby Friendly Initiative standards over time and whether the socioeconomic context influenced the care women received.

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Greg is the Director of Public Health in Sheffield. He graduated from Nottingham University with a degree in biochemistry and physiology in 1993. He worked as a social researcher in a maternity unit; in health promotion and public health before joining the public health training scheme. Greg worked as a consultant in public health in Bradford in the PCT then Bradford Council. Since Feb 2016 he has worked for Sheffield City Council as the Director of Public Health. Greg was also appointed to the role of Vice President to the Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) in December 2021.

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Professor Monica Lakhanpaul is Professor of Integrated Community Child Health at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and an academic, clinician, science communicator and poet. She is also Consultant Paediatrician at Whittington NHS Trust, PPI lead for the Great Ormond Street Biomedical Research Centre and Global Strategic Academic Advisor (India).

Professor Lakhanpaul focuses on using collaborative, participatory research methods incorporating the arts at the intersections of health, education and the environment in order to optimise the health and wellbeing of children, adolescents and families affected by social and structural inequalities with the aim of influencing practice and policy.

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