2010 Speakers

Gail joined UNISON as the Head of Nursing 5 years ago.  She is responsible for negotiating and establishing nursing policy within UNISON, to facilitate this she works closely with the National Nursing Sector.  She has a strong commitment to widening participation and has helped to develop many educational opportunities and programmes for UNISON members.

Kuldip has thirty-four years experience of midwifery education, research and practice including ten years in NHS public appointments as a non-executive director and a Chair of the NHS trusts.  She is currently employed as a Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at the University of Leeds and her principle interests are around health inequalities, midwifery education, research and practice, evidence-based practice, women’s experience of maternity services, organisation of maternity services, workforce development and communication and health services

Howard is the Head of Policy at the Royal College of Nursing.  His team lead on health, social and nursing policy reform and closely support RCN Council and the Executive team. Howard has also undertaken a range of international nursing policy work including an assignment with the International Council of Nurses.

Dr Peter Carter is Chief Executive & General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), the world’s largest professional union of nurses. The RCN has a membership of 400,000 nurses, midwives, health visitors, nursing students, cadets and health care assistants.

Following a clinical background in adult nursing, I moved into higher education in the late 1980s, supporting students on both pre-and post-qualifying nursing programmes at a range of different academic levels.

Tony Hazell has contemporary experience of healthcare regulation having served as a lay member of the Health Professions Council (HPC) 2002 -2008.

His early career took him to the Probation Service and then to social work before moving to an academic career which lasted for almost 30 years until his retirement from the post of Assistant Principal at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC) in 2004.

Donna Kinnair is a qualified nurse, health visitor and lecturer. She is currently the Director of Nursing and Director of Commissioning for health and social care in the London Borough of Southwark. Donna recently worked as an expert nurse on the Prime Ministers Commission on the future of Nursing and Midwifery 2010.

Abigail Masterson is an Assistant Director at the Health Foundation where she (along with her job share partner Pippa Gough) designs and commissions a multi-million pound programme of leadership and organisational development to support quality improvement in health care.

Sian Thomas is the Chief Executive of Synuron,  an employee - owned  social enterprise. It is a membership organisation delivering innovative HR  solutions to health and social care organisations, including GP’s. Following a career on  NHS  Boards, Sian has developed her role in running membership  organisations for five years at a national level and held the post of Director of NHS Employers until April 2010.