About Learn2Collaborate

‘Learn2Collaborate’, evolved from 25 years’ of working in healthcare sectors and academic institutions to increase collaboration within, and across disciplines.

Professional Experience – working with:

• Healthcare Trusts,
  • Senior Managers, Matrons, Clinical and Departmental Leads, Practitioners of Nursing, Medicine, Midwifery, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, Dieticians, and Pharmacy and Practitioners of Child and Adult Mental Health Services

• Primary Care,
  • General practitioners, Nurse practitioners, Psychiatrist, Pharmacists and Social Workers

• NHS Workforce Confederation

• University’s in the UK, Sweden, Australia, Malta, and Norway

• Chair of Interprofessional Education Groups, (Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery, Pharmacy, Optometry, Allied Health Professions)

I have directed and advised on strategic development, operational change and designed and delivered training and educational programs for management, practitioners and students. Theotorically underpinning my leadership has been my research and evaluations into the impact of collaboration for organisations, practitioners, and patients.

I understand the complexities, strengths and limitations of building the partnerships required for effective collaboration. 

Research on Collaboration

Excellence in elective hip and knee surgery: what does it look like? Using a positive deviance approach
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1355819619867350

Qualitative evaluation of general practices developing training for a range of health disciplines
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259724228_Qualitative_evaluation_of_general_practices_developing_training_for_a_range_of_health_disciplines#fullTextFileContent

Patients experience of service collaboration
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/understanding-and-supporting-children-with-adhd-lesley-a-hughes/1100612530?ean=9781412918619

Qualifications /Awards

Doctor of Philosophy – Health Studies
Master’s Degree – Health Research
Honour’s Degree – Psychology
Registered Nurse – NMC
Post Graduate Certificate – Teaching in Higher Education
Post Graduate Degree – Leadership and Management
Professional Certificate in Mediation and Mediation Skills
Chartered Psychologist with British Psychological Society
Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators