List of Contributors

Dr Jo Alleyne, Principal Lecturer in Nursing and Healthcare Management, School of Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University, London

Jo is the current Chartered Management Institute's Programme Director for the Institute's Approved Centre at Middlesex University. She devised and successfully applied a model of Group Clinical Supervision as part of her doctoral studies, through a co-operative inquiry approach, which used focused management and leadership interventions. She is an RCN and National Association for Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) activist, a member of the RCN Education Forum and the negotiating secretary for the Middlesex University NATFHE branch. She is Chair of the Health Educators Forum. Jo combines her management and leadership knowledge and skills to support her teaching and research and to contribute towards effective negotiations in her trade union activities.

Dr Nadia Chambers, Consultant Nurse for Older People, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nadia qualified in 1982 and gained extensive experience in medicine and care of older people. She has led both practice and service developments for older people, including influencing the development of a staff support system for victims of violence experienced at work, developing quality standards for care of the older person, developing the care of the older person in an acute medical assessment unit and developing a rapid access Transient Ischaemic Attack Service. In addition to this, her experience as a teacher in higher education has included innovative curriculum developments such as post-graduate studies in clinical governance and clinical leadership.

Christopher M.A.D. Gbolo, Charge Nurse, Mental Health, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Health Care NHS Trust, London

Christopher is a charge nurse/team leader in the psychiatric intensive care unit in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Health Care NHS Trust in north London. He trained as a psychiatric and general nurse in Ghana and migrated to the UK in 1999. He progressed in his nursing career and became a charge nurse by 2003. He studied at Middlesex University and obtained an advanced diploma in healthcare, ethics and law and an advanced diploma in health and social care management. He is currently studying to obtain a BSc Honours degree in nursing studies and a professional diploma at Middlesex University and Chartered Management Institute respectively.

Lindsey Hayes, Senior Fellow, Leadership for Primary Care, Royal College of Nursing Institute, London

Lindsey brings many years of knowledge, skills and experience as a community nurse, teacher and trainer to the world of leadership in primary care. Her passion for primary and public health developed when she was working as a health visitor in an inner city multicultural and ethnically diverse area. Then she chose to work with disadvantaged community groups, specialising in the homeless, a fairly unique health visiting role. Her interest in individual and group behaviours led her to undertake a period of ante-natal teaching and then go on to further education, where she managed and taught a large child care course in one of the most deprived inner London boroughs. Her passion for health and understanding of behaviour was further enhanced through counselling and more recently completing an MSc in health psychology. She is now Senior Fellow, Leadership for Primary Care at the Royal College of Nursing Institute in London.

Mark Hodder, Head of Organisational Development, Mid and West Wales (NHS Secondment from Centre for Health Leadership, Wales)

Mark is a training and development professional working to improve organisational and individual performance in NHS Wales through the implementation of the balanced scorecard approach to performance management. Mark gained his leadership experience as a Royal Air Force Officer developing and delivering officer training both in the UK and overseas. He is also a qualified performance coach, master practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming and hypnotherapist, skills that he uses to develop excellence in others.

Professor Melanie Jasper, Professor and Head of Health and Social Welfare Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University College

Having practised in the community as a midwife and health visitor for a number of years post-qualification, Melanie moved to the University of Portsmouth as a senior lecturer in 1990. She led the Masters curriculum and the Professional Doctorate in Nursing, as well as developing her academic field in critical reflection, reflective practice and reflective writing, until her appointment at Canterbury. She was appointed Editor of the Journal of Nursing Management in 2002, and holds an honorary appointment with Thames Valley University as Visiting Professor in the Adult Nursing subject group.

Helen Julu, Senior Practitioner, Health Visiting, London Borough of Enfield

Helen trained as a nurse in Uganda and migrated to Great Britain in 1983, elevating her nursing career to the level of a Ward Sister by 1998. Her ambition carried her further and she obtained an Honours degree at the University of South Bank in Specialist Community Nursing Public Health/Health Visiting in 2000 and an advanced diploma in Management in 2003 with the Chartered Institute of Management and Middlesex University, London.

Dr Mansour Jumaa, Chartered Manager and Executive Coach, Chief Emeka Anyaoku R&D Centre for Work Based Learnig and Leading. Anyaoku Centre, West Sussex

A Florence Nightingale Foundation Scholar in Evidence-Based Practice in Healthcare and Nursing Management, Academic Group Chair (Healthcare Management), and former Chartered Management Institute Programme Director at Middlesex University, London. Mansour is now a Chartered Manager and Executive Coach at the Anyaoku Centre, West Sussex. He is the first nurse, the first West African, the first Nigerian and the first black person of African origin resident in the UK to be awarded Chartered Manager status, the hallmark of the professional manager. His award was based on his ability to use knowledge management processes for performance improvement within organisations. Mansour has over 30 years of experience within the NHS and the higher education sector in the UK. Since 1987 he has taught, facilitated and supervised management and leadership courses from doctorate and masters levels to single study days at many universities in the UK - the Middlesex, the London School of Economics, and the Universities of Sussex, Surrey, and Wales in Swansea. He is committed to widening management and leadership access to first- and middle-line managers, particularly managers from black and minority ethnic communities. It is for this reason that he has established L4T - Leadership For Today (www.leadershipfortoday.com).

Dr Ilkka Kunnamo, Editor-in-Chief, EBM Guidelines, Finland

Ilkka, a specialist in general medicine, wrote his doctoral thesis in the field of paediatrics. Since 1986 he has worked as a general practitioner at Karstula in central Finland. He developed the idea of Evidence-Based Medicine Guide-lines (www.ebm-guidelines.com) and has served as its Editor-in-Chief since 1988. He is the author of about 30 research papers. He has been involved in several projects in primary care computing and medical informatics. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Clinical Evidence (BMJ Publishing Group, London) and the core reviewer group of BioMed Central.

Stuart Marples, Former Chief Executive, Institute of Healthcare Management, London

Although Stuart has now moved on in his career, at the time of writing he was Chief Executive of the Institute of Healthcare Management. The Institute is the professional body for managers working in healthcare. He is also a Fellow and Companion of the Institute. His 38-year career has been mainly in the NHS, including a long period as Chief Executive Officer of a large NHS Trust. He is a Business Studies Honours graduate and NVQ assessor and verifier. His personal interest is in management.

Dr Janet McCray, Principal Lecturer, Portsmouth Institute of Medicine, Health and Social Care, University of Portsmouth

Throughout her career, Janet has always maintained a connection with learning disability services. This has been broad, ranging from leading one of the first community care projects in North West England in the 1980s to taking forward the validation of the first joint prequalifying programme in nursing and social work in the learning disability field in the 1990s. Recently she has explored further practice roles in the field, gaining her PhD in 2002, and from this developing a conceptual framework for practice. At present she is beginning further testing of the framework and exploring its potential as a leadership tool.

Robert McSherry, Principal Lecturer, Practice Development, School of Health and Social Care, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough

Rob's current post is Principal Lecturer in Practice Development at the School of Health and Social Care, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough. His long-term aim is to develop and strengthen practice development within the School of Health and Social Care, local community and NHS Trusts locally, regionally and nationally. Rob has facilitated and supported the advancement and evaluation of many innovative practice developments by focusing on the promotion of multiprofessional collaboration and teamworking in delivering evidence-based practice. Rob's main concern is seeing research being utilised at a clinical level, whereby nurses,...