Speakers
Irrum Afzal
Paul Banaszkiewicz
Sabina Barbur
Helen Boulton
Simon Britten
William Eardley
Bob Handley
Jo Marsden
Sarah Nellis
Anna Riley
Kim Russon
Sarah Stapley
Sally Stuart
External Organisation
Hall 10
The roles and responsibilities of the ES and CS when training advanced roles within the ECT
Sally Stuart MSc, PGCHE, FHEA, MFPCEd, NMP, RN.
Programme Lead and Senior Lecturer for MSc in Surgical Care Practice
Student Experience and Engagement lead for PG Med Ed and CPD
Edge Hill University
Irrum graduated with a distinction from Imperial College London. Irrum is MICR, MRQA, and a Master of Public Health qualified researcher. Irrum has both research and management experience. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) in Sustainability Studies and has successfully completed both the PRINCE2 Practitioner and Foundation exams.
Irrum holds multiple positions of responsibility, including being a professional member of the Research Quality Association (RQA) and a professional member of the Research Ethics Committee for the Health Research Authority (HRA). Irrum regularly attends HRA meetings, actively providing her expert opinion and guidance on research ethics and governance.
Irrum is an honorary lecturer at Imperial College London, an active member of the British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma & Arthroscopy Association (BOSTAA) Committee, BOSTAA Research Committee in line with the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), and is the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity Lead for BOSTAA. Additionally, Irrum is a Non-Executive Board Member of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF).
Irrum has published in various peer-reviewed journals and frequently presents at national and international meetings. Irrum most recently received the National Orthopaedic Alliance (NOA) Director’s Award.
Paul graduated from Glasgow University, completing his basic SHO surgical training in the Merseyside Deanery and then undertook specialist registrar training on the North East of Scotland training programme. He was appointed as Hip and Knee arthroplasty surgeon at Queen Elizabeth hospital Gateshead in 2004.
He is passionate about training and medical education being a fellow of Higher Education Academy, fellow Academy of Medical Educators and has a Master’s degree in Medical Education.
He is an RCSEng member for the appointments accreditation committee (AAC) and RCSEng quality assurance and accreditation assessor for courses seeking RCSEng course accreditation.
Paul is visiting professor at Northumbria University this role acts as an interface between the academic roles Northumbria University provides and his own clinical oriented background that provides a practical focus for research.
He has been a strong supporter of the BOA Futures Leadership Programme and the BOA annual Travelling Fellowships. He is a keen supporter of BOTA being regularly involved with their annual instructional course and sponsor of BOTA travelling fellowships.
Paul is the main editor and author for three FRCS (Tr&Orth) related exam books that are international best sellers and have won several BMA book awards. He co-ordinates an annual six-day intensive FRCS (Tr&Orth) revision course at Newcastle. In recent years Paul has run its international equivalent for overseas trainees with courses taking place in Dubai, India, Singapore and Jordan.
For many years Paul was involved in humanitarian work in Northern Iraq regularly visiting the region to undertake neglected hip and knee arthroplasty surgery. This gave him a greater appreciation and understanding of our own health care system. Many patients would have continued to struggle due to a lack of local expertise and resources to pay for expensive surgery.
Through the contacts he has made overseas Paul is keen to develop the international profile of the BOA.
In his spare time, Paul is a keen runner, skier, gardener and Burnley FC fan.
Helen has been with our team for 5 years now and recently gained her Masters of Science in Advanced Practice (Clinical), with an impressive dissertation nutritional support for hip fracture patients, which has led to this project being implemented. Qualifying 20 years ago in Nottingham, she has worked in various hospitals in acute settings. At the WSH she has left her mark on just about every ward and acute care facility - medical and surgical, with a wealth of experience in the trauma and orthopaedics. She is enthusiastic, energetic, creative and innovative, with proven leadership ability. As a country mum, she lives in the house she built, where she loves yoga (and teaches it), dancing, running, music and animals - currently one dog and 3 cats.
Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals since 2002, having completed surgical training in Bath and Bristol and following fellowship training in the Ilizarov method at the Ilizarov Scientific Centre in Kurgan, Russia.
Mr Britten’s clinical practice includes the treatment of severe lower limb fractures and post-traumatic limb reconstruction including non-union, mal-union and deformity, limb length inequality, bone loss and amputation.
Current President of the British Limb Reconstruction Society and Chair of the British Orthopaedic Association Medico-legal Committee.
In 2018 Mr Britten was awarded the taught degree of Master of Laws with Distinction in medical law and ethics by De Montfort University Leicester.
His other interests include Nottingham Forest FC, Leeds Rhinos RLFC, modern languages, old Gothic Hammer Horror films, Formula One racing and the castles of Northumberland.
Will is an academic orthopaedic surgeon with a specialist interest in trauma surgery and fracture fixation failure, nonunion and osteomyelitis.
Will is responsible for hip fracture care in England and Wales as the Orthopaedic Clinical lead for the National Hip Fracture Database.
Will is involved in benchmarking surgical quality as vice-chair of the Specialty Surgical Board of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Will helps coordinate United Kingdom Orthopaedic Trauma and co-author BOAST guidelines as vice-chair of the
British Orthopaedic Association Trauma Committee. Will is involved in benchmarking Major Trauma Care and open fracture data collection nationally through the Major Trauma Registry audit committee. Will has recently become an examiner for the FRCS(Orth).
Bob Handley has been a Consultant on the Trauma Service at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford since 1994. Bob is currently President of the British Orthoapedic Association, and National Clinical Lead for GIRFT Orthopaedic Trauma. He has been President of both AOUK and the Orthopaedic Trauma Society, and has chaired the NICE guideline development group. Bob was also an examiner for FRCS T&O for ten years.
As consultant breast surgeon at King's College Hospital, London, I developed the first UK day case pathway for breast surgery. This resulted in more than 90% of patients being discharged safely on the same day, including women who had mastectomies without impacting adversely on cancer treatment waiting times. This was identified as an exemplar of care, recommended as best practice by The Department of Health and informed the introduction of Best Practice Tariffs for day case breast surgery. This stimulated my interest in spreading excellence in day surgery practice and I was elected to the British Association of Day Surgery (BADS) Council in 2015. I became publications editor in 2016, President in 2021 and have been the Immediate Past President since June 2023.
Sarah is a Trauma Nurse Specialist at James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough.
She has many years of nursing experience in providing care for trauma and orthopaedic patients. Beginning her career as a Healthcare Assistant on the Trauma Ward at Middlesbrough General Hospital in 1993 before qualifying as a registered nurse in 1998, progressing to Trauma Ward Manager at James Cook Hospital in 2012.
Since 2016, after achieving MSc Advanced Clinical Assessment and Non-Medical Prescribing qualifications, Sarah has advanced her role to that of Trauma Co-ordinator / Trauma Nurse Practitioner.
The role involves working with the on-call team organising the daily running of the trauma service combined with providing clinical care for injured patients within the ward and outpatient settings.
Sarah runs a twice weekly nurse-led out-patient clinic for review of patients including those attending for their initial post-operative assessment, for follow up after non-operatively managed fractures with X-Ray surveillance or provide rapid access clinical assessment for patients contacting with concerns or complication after discharge.
As a BOA qualified casting practitioner Sarah works with her plaster room colleagues in providing teaching sessions to Emergency Department staff on the principles and practice of safe and effective cast application.
Having a special interest in limb reconstruction Sarah works closely with her Ortho-plastics and Microbiology colleagues to co-ordinate and provide continuity of care for patients receiving complex, multidisciplinary care following trauma, deformity correction and infection.
Dr Russon is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Clinical Lead for Day Surgery at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust and a past president (2019-2021) of the British Association of Day surgery (BADS). She was a member of BADS Council 2016-2023.
She is passionate about helping progress day surgery locally and nationally and has given many presentations and has co-authored a number of BADS booklets and the BADS/CPOC/GIRFT National Day Surgery Delivery pack. Kim organise some BADS/HCUK speciality focused conferences. She has also authored day surgery chapters in Lee’s synopsis of anaesthesia and Bailey and Love Short practice of surgery.
She has a fantastic Day Surgery team who are committed to delivering a high quality Day Surgery service and developing new day case pathways. We have many surgeons who promote day case and so at my Trust we successfully perform many day case procedures including day case total knee replacements, total hip replacements, total laparoscopic hysterectomies through our DSU.
Dr Russon is also interested in Regional Anaesthesia (RA) and Education. She has written RA articles, chapters in books, an E-Learning module and teach on national RA courses and the RA MSC. I was co-editor for the RA section of Anaesthesia Tutorial of the Week for 10 years. I was on the Society for Education in Anaesthesia’s council for 8 years.
A consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics since 2004, based in Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust, I had a diverse training pathway including fellowships in Wrightington and Toronto.
I served with the Royal Navy for 33 years, frequently leading health care delivery in isolated and extreme locations with limited resources. I understand how education, and the effect a good mentor has on an individual, and this has continually driven me to encourage trainees of all levels to seek their potential. I have undertaken roles as Surgical Tutor, Training Programme Director at both core and higher specialty level, and as Defence Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics.
I have undertaken several unusual leadership roles, as a Deployed Medical Director (Camp Bastian Hospital) in Afghanistan, Consultant Advisor in Trauma and Orthopaedics to the Royal Navy and as the UK Representative on the NATO COMEDS futures advisory panel. I have also sat on the National Selection Design panel for ST3 interviews which has been a challenge during the COVID pandemic for all and still interview regularly for both levels of trainee.
A member of the BOA since I was a trainee, I have sat on the Education Committee, as a Council Member and now as the Council member for BADS. I am the co-opted BADS council member from the BOA.
Since Covid Trauma and Orthopaedics has had to change, particularly with refence to in-patient stays. The huge backlog of “non urgent” MSK surgery and the limited beds available throughout the NHS has required the specialty to move forward and look at pathways to shorten hospital stays even further. As a consultant with a subspecialty of hand surgery, I have been fortunate enough to undertake most surgeries as Day cases for the last 20 years. Very few patients have had to stay overnight. Along with the multidisciplinary teams it is possible to engage further and widen the breadth of intervention that can be delivered. This is now one of my areas of interest as well as maintaining my education roles for registrar training.
Sally qualified as a nurse from Sheffield and North Trent College of Nursing and Midwifery in Jan 1993. Having developed a keen interest in perioperative care during her pre-registration training and she spent the early part of her career working within all phases of surgical care, gaining experience in multiple specialties.
Her career moved into advanced perioperative practice in 2003 when she was appointed as a Surgical Care Practitioner in General Surgery at Salford Royal. Her main interest was developing laparoscopic colorectal surgery in the mid noughties.
Following the launch of the 2014 SCP curriculum she successfully completed the MSc in Surgical Care Practice at Edge Hill University. Sally’s experience in developing SCPs in both in practice and in the classroom led her to become a senior lecturer on the SCP programme at Edge Hill University in 2019 and in May 2021 become the programme’s lead. From this position she supported the development of the new bi-colligiate SCP curriculum and is in the process of revalidating the programme.
Her research interested surround the use of technology to support learning and improving student experience.
When Sally is not working you will find her on a hockey field either playing or coaching.
Clare qualified as a nurse from St Bartholomews Hospital London in Jan 1990. Her clinical experience includes adult and paediatric ICU, acute and general medicine, SDEC and palliative care as well as 10 years part time supporting home visits for the local out of hours provider.
Clare’s experience in developing an ACP service led her to engaging with multiple arms lengths bodies and she supported HEE with their first Multiprofessional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE 2017) as well as the toolkit that facilitated implementation of the framework. Clare has also chaired the surgical ACP curriculum framework that was launched in 2020 and the revision due to be published soon.
Her role in PGDME as an Associate Dean for interprofessional learning has enabled her to get closer to ensuring the multiprofessional agenda is considered in all planning and use of resources are expanded as workforce transforms.
Clare has just left her leadership role in Derby after 19 years to support the NMC developing regulation of advanced practice.
Out of work Clare is a retired rally driver, married to Alistair an ex national rally champion. When not working Clare enjoys spending time with her 2 stepchildren, 2 grandchildren, 6 brothers and sisters in law, 15 nieces and nephews, 10 great nieces and nephews … and her own mum and brother.