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 Afzal is a graduate of Imperial College London and a recipient of the National Orthopaedic Alliance (NOA) Director’s Award. In addition to her academic qualifications, Irrum holds both PRINCE2 Practitioner and Foundation certifications, demonstrating strong project management expertise. With experience in both the NHS and the private healthcare sector, Irrum has contributed to a range of digital health transformation initiatives. She brings a unique blend of research and operational insight, enabling her to effectively manage multidisciplinary teams and deliver high-impact healthcare, research, and quality improvement projects.
Irrum holds multiple positions of national responsibility, reflecting her commitment to healthcare leadership, innovation, and advancing high-quality, patient-centred care. Her positions of responsibility include Vice Chair of Research and Innovation for the NOA, Professional Member of the Research Ethics Committee for the Health Research Authority (HRA), Research Committee Representative for the British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma and Arthroscopy Association (BOSTAA), and BOSTAA Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity Lead, Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel Member. Irrum is a Non-Executive Board Member of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF). She also plays an active role in the Imperial College Alumni Service.
Her interests include Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), Evidence-Based Medicine, and Artificial Intelligence. Irrum has published in various peer-reviewed journals, frequently presents at national and international meetings, and is a reviewer for The Bone & Joint Journal.
Paul Banaszkiewicz is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, specialising in hip and knee arthroplasty. He graduated from University of Glasgow, completed basic surgical training in the Merseyside Deanery, and undertook specialist registrar training on the North East of Scotland training programme.
He is currently a Trustee of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) and Chair of the BOA Education and Careers (EdCar) Committee, leading initiatives focused on professional development, mentoring, workforce support, and equity of opportunity across orthopaedics. He has helped develop national educational programmes including the BOA–BODS Clinical Directors course, UKITE, Ortho Update and Extended Clinical Team initiatives at BOA Congress.
Paul is Editor of the Journal of Trauma and Orthopaedics (JTO) and co-leads the TENDON study evaluating musculoskeletal education within UK medical schools. He has a particular interest in differential attainment, widening participation, and improving access to mentorship and career development within surgical training.
He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, and holds a Master’s degree in Medical Education from Newcastle University. He also serves as an Advisory Appointments Committee (AAC) member and Quality Assurance Assessor for the RCSEng.
As Visiting Professor at Northumbria University, Paul helps bridge academic research with practical clinical orthopaedic practice. He has supported the BOA Futures Leadership Programme, BOA Travelling Fellowships, and the educational activities of the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association (BOTA). He is also lead editor and author of three internationally recognised FRCS (Tr & Orth) textbooks, which have received several BMA Book Awards.
Paul has undertaken humanitarian orthopaedic work in Northern Iraq and remains committed to international collaboration, diversity, and inclusion within orthopaedics. Outside work, he enjoys running, skiing, gardening, and supporting Burnley F.C..
Helen Ann Boulton is a highly experienced Advanced Lead Trauma Nurse Practitioner with over 20 years in acute and trauma care. She began her clinical career following A-levels and a GNVQ in Health and Social Care, training through the Project 2000 programme at University of Nottingham Hospital (Queen's Medical Centre).
Helen has worked across several leading NHS Trusts, including Northern General (Sheffield), where she completed a spinal nursing course in acute spinal care, The Royal London, Norfolk and Norwich, and now West Suffolk Hospital (WSH). Under her leadership, the WSH femoral fracture pathway was recently recognised as the best in the country by the NHFD.
Her expertise in trauma and orthopaedics is supported by advanced clinical education and a strong foundation in intensive care, acute surgical and medical nursing. She is enthusiastic, energetic and known for her innovative, patient-focused approach and leadership in service transformation.
Outside of her clinical work, Helen is a mum that enjoys running, yoga, dancing, and music, and lives in the countryside with her three 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.
Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon with subspecialty interest in Hand Surgery and Military Surgery. Qualified from Glasgow University. Joined the Royal Navy in 1987, undertook Surgical Training, obtaining a DM during this period. Fellowship training in Hand Surgery in Wrightington, and Trauma in Toronto, Canada. Accrediting in 2004, before undertaking 6 tours to Iraq and Afghanistan Conflicts. Has used Day Surgery throughout consultant career, and since COVID has assisted in developing pathways for acute trauma to be managed via day surgery. Has a significant interest in training, holding multiple training positions and has supported several trainees through higher degrees. Retired from the MOD in 2021. Currently a visiting Clinical Professor to Loughborough University. Continues to work in the NHS as a Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, sitting on BOA Council as BADS representative
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.