Meet the team
Joint Consultant Editor – Angela Grainger MA, RGN, RSCN, Dip.N (Lond), RCNT, FETC, PhD
Angela is assistant director of Nursing (education and research) at King’s College Hospital NHS Trust, London. She was appointed in 2002 having previously held senior nursing posts in Lancashire and was a directorate nurse manager for 13 years at Victoria Hospital, Blackpool.
She is a visiting fellow at London South Bank University, regularly teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Joint Consultant Editor – Menna Lloyd Jones RCN, SCM, MSc, Dip N, PGCE
Menna is a senior nurse in tissue viability for North Wales NHS Trust, having been appointed to her current post in 1999. She has a keen interest in the role of healthcare assistants in tissue viability.
Editor – Polly Sullivan
Polly has a 1st class degree from the University of London. Before joining MA Healthcare as an Editor, she worked in medical publishing for two years, and before that spent several years working in the arts.
Editorial board
Chris Barber
Learning Disability Staff Nurse
Lesley Buckland
Head of Foundation Studies,
London South Bank University
Amanda Dunbar
Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy,
University of Central Lancashire
Anne Eaton
Director - Standards and Qualifications,
Skills for Health
Anji Gardiner
Senior Lecturer in Gastroenterology,
University of Hull
Zubeda Gosling
Midwife,
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital
Barrie Green
Regional Operations Director/Director of Nursing,
Cambian Healthcare and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer,
University of Hull
Irene Gregory
Midwife and NVQ Trainer and Assessor,
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital
Alison Hampson
Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy,
University of Cumbria
Philip Kemp
Lead Senior Nurse,
Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals Trust
Helen Kilgannon
Associate Director, Workforce
Modernisation, NHS Northwest
Sandra Lovell
Senior Care Assistant,
Brooklands Learning Disability Unit,
Birmingham
Denise Megson
Academic Staff - Learning Disabilities Department,
School of Nursing,
University of Salford
Alan Monaghan
Lecturer Practitioner,
Paediatric Intensive Care and Child assessment Modules,
St Georges University
Helen Morris
Paramedic Team Leader,
North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Clare Morris
Tissue Viability Advisor,
North East Wales NHS Trust
Chris Mullen MBE
Associate Director,
Workforce Strategy,
NHS Northwest
Linda Nazarko
Nurse Consultant,
Ealing PC
Marnel Owen
Senior Nurse,
North West Wales NHS Trust
Ian Peate
Associate Head of School,
Health & Human Sciences,
University of Hertfordshire
Samantha Robinson
NVQ Coordinator,
Medway Maritime Hospital
Sandra Seed
NVQ Manager,
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Stephan Spencer-Adams
Lead NVQ Internal Verifier,
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Les Storey
Principal Lecturer,
University of Central Lancashire
Adrian Thomas Evans
Senior Nurse Cadet and HCA Training Manager,
North West Wales NHS Trust
Vince Thomas
Assistant Director of Nursing/Clinical Governance,
Harrow PCT
Paul Vaughan
National Project Manager,
HCA Initiative, WiPP
