Substantive post held

Director of Nursing and Patient Care
NHS Yorkshire and the Humber SHA

Other posts held

Board member Infant Mortality Commission, Bradford Vision; 2005-6
Board member of West Yorkshire Connexions; 2004-6
Research for Patient Benefit Committee Member

Membership of professional bodies/Representative Bodies

Department of Health National Leaders Network (group of around 200 top NHS managers)
Health Foundation Leadership Fellows Alumni
Society of Social Medicine; Public Health and Primary Care group
Institute of Healthcare Management

Honorary Research Fellow, School of Health Studies, Bradford University
Visiting Research Fellow, School of Health & Life Sciences, King’s College London
Visiting Research Fellow – University of Huddersfield
Partnerships Director of the Health Development Agency Practice Development Collaborating Centre for Maternal & Child Nutrition – University of York

Panel Member Dept of Health Policy Research Programme – Nurses and New Technologies
Editorial Board – Practice Development in Health Care, Journal
Reviewer – Family Practice, British Journal of Clinical Governance, Midwives (RCM Journal)

Interest in assessment and learning/ health & social care/practice placements/higher education

Sue is passionate about the importance of improving experience of patients, carers and service users, and of the need to work effectively with partnering organisations to improve health and wellbeing across all sectors of the community.