Expert Advisory Group
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Barry Keane (Chair)
Barry is a registered nurse and has practised mainly in the areas of oncology/ haematology and palliative care. More latterly he has held the posts of Nurse Manager and Director of Clinical Services at Arohanui Hospice and Executive Director at Cranford Hospice. He currently chairs the Palliative Care Advisory Group which supports the Ministry of Health with its work in palliative care.
Barry has a particular interest in integrated palliative care service provision models that link generalist and specialist services around patient need. To that end he has had a long involvement with LCP in New Zealand.
Raewyn Calvert
Raewyn has been actively involved in breast cancer advocacy and support in New Zealand since her diagnosis and treatment in 2003. From diagnosis came her first experience of breast cancer clinical trials of which she has participated in two. This involvement has led to her appointment as the New Zealand representative on the Consumer Advisory Panel of the Australia New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group. Raewyn also sits as a consumer representative on a number of committees including breast cancer and other cancers. Initially from a background in education, Raewyn now undertakes some contract adult facilitation work.
Fiona Holmes
Fiona is an LCP Facilitator, based at Waipuna Hospice in Tauranga. She did her basic training at Waikato then, after working for a year as a staff nurse, travelled for several years before settling in London. She then trained to be a district nurse in the UK and after six years went to work at St Christopher’s Hospice (London) as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the community. Fiona managed two of the community teams while at St Christopher’s and then moved into professional development. Overall Fiona worked for 14 years at St Christopher’s before returning to NZ via Asia and India before taking up her current position based at Waipuna Hospice.
Raewyn Jenkins
Raewyn has been the Clinical Nurse Educator for the Nurse Maude Hospice Palliative Care Service since 2002. Previously she worked in the UK in oncology and haematology settings, and as a Nurse Manager and Clinical Nurse Specialist at St Christopher’s Hospice in London for 10 years. She took her Masters degree in Cancer Nursing at the University of Surrey.
Recently she has been involved in developing two national education programmes, both endorsed by Hospice New Zealand – the Syringe Driver Competency Programme and Palliative Care Education for Care Assistants. Last year she co-authored the new National Guideline for Syringe Driver Management in Palliative Care in New Zealand. She wrote the business case for the Nurse Maude LCP project and was successful in securing two year funding for the project from the Canterbury District Health Board.
Claire Mooney
Claire is based in Auckland and is employed by Bupa care services as a Clinical Nurse Specialist / Nurse Practitioner Intern. Her role with Bupa includes consulting on Quality and Governance issues for 45 care homes country-wide. She has held various roles in the field of Gerontology for the past 14 years and was involved in many initiatives in the Irish Health Services aimed at improving quality of life and end of life care for individuals living in residential aged care. Claire’s interests include dementia, counselling and emotional support for older people, pain management and quality of life in residential care.
Claire studied and was awarded a Diploma in Nursing, BSC Nursing and PgDip in Gerontology Nursing in Ireland, prior to moving to New Zealand in 2010. She is now continuing her postgraduate studies in Auckland University.
“I am passionate about ensuring that residents and their families have the best possible experience of the last part of their journey with us, and that this is managed well by those caring for them. Effective communication between healthcare professionals and with families and residents is an essential component in this process. I believe that the Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying is one of the tools which can contribute to improving the overall experience for all concerned”.
Sande Ramage
Sande Ramage is a healthcare chaplain and writer who thinks that living is enhanced if we learn to die well. She retrained as an Anglican priest at St Johns College and the University of Auckland after a background of social marketing, public health and change management in the health and welfare sectors. Her experience also includes being a chaplain in secondary schools and the military. Sande now combines healthcare chaplaincy with blogging about life and meaning on spiritedcrone.com/ and the Vaughan Park Retreat Centre with the help of her beloved muse, Spiritedk9 the Chocolate Labrador
Dr Marion Taylor
Marion is currently Medical Director for Hospice Wanganui, and continues to work part-time in General Practice. Marion spent her childhood in rural Zambia, trained in Edinburgh and started her career in Paediatrics in Zimbabwe. On moving to New Zealand in 1993 she retrained in General Practice and then developed an interest in Palliative Care. Hospice Wanganui has established the LCP in the hospice, the community, the hospital medical and surgical wards, and provisionally in the ICU. They have seen the benefits of this and are keen advocates of the LCP.
Dr John Waldon
Dr John Waldon is an independent health researcher. He was awarded a life membership of the Cancer Society (Manawatu Centre) of New Zealand in 2007 and he sits on the board of Cancer Control NZ. John’s current research interests are in the quality of life for children affected by cancer. His interest in palliative care was first associated with his work with the Cancer Society. John intends to contribute through his knowledge of the health sector and his connections with the Maori communities here in the Manawatu and Eastern Bay of Plenty. In 2011, he was invited to present some research carried out by the Ruatoki branch of the Maori Women’s Welfare League –Te Huinga-a-Matariki to a palliative care workshop in Tauranga hosted by the Bay of Plenty District Health Board.
Matt Watson
Matt is a registered nurse having practiced in a wide range of clinical management and strategic settings. Postgraduate clinical training in Intensive Care Nursing is supported by a postgraduate diploma in business management from Waikato University. Matt is passionate in creating sustainable health services across the continuum of care. To achieve this service delivery must be linked and well understood.
Some of the key issues Matt believes we will need to address include, understanding how to grow, develop, and enhance health services within the current economic environment, looking at ways to accommodate the growth in chronic care management, and ensuring that we create services that are sustainable going forward.
EX OFFICIO MEMBER:
Bridget Marshall
Bridget is a registered nurse currently working as the National LCP Office NZ, Lead. She has had many years experience working in specialist palliative care services in NZ and in the UK, in in-patient units, community services and palliative care clinical education. Prior to her position at the National LCP Office, she worked as the LCP Facilitator for Oceania Group and assisted in implementing the LCP into 33 of the 39 Hospital level care facilities.
Bridget’s association with the LCP began while working at Arohanui Hospice, where she was involved in research looking at “Staff perceptions of end of life care pre and post the implementation of the LCP” with a focus in aged residential care.
Bridget completed her Masters of Nursing from Massey University in 2009 and has co-authored several palliative care-associated publications and national guidelines.
Dr Simon Allan MD, FRACP, FRCP (Edin) FAChPM
Dr Simon Allan is the Director of Palliative Care, Arohanui Hospice, Senior Clinical Advisor
Dr Allan is a palliative medicine specialist and a medical oncologist. He trained in Aberdeen and Edinburgh (UK) and started practicing in Palmerston North in 1989 at the Regional Cancer Treatment Service and Arohanui Hospice. He has an interest in models of palliative care and the delivery of excellent integrated palliative care. He has published over 50 articles in the fields of cancer and palliative care.