Together For Mental Health 2019 Speakers

Dr Sarah Markham

Visiting Researcher , King`s College London

Dr Sarah Markham is a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London and a Patient Reviewer for the QNFMHS, RCPsych. She is a passionate advocate for quality improvement and identifying and sharing best practice.

1st Afternoon Plenary - Solutions and Innovations

Quality improvement in Secure and Forensic Mental Health Services

14:50 - 15:05

Ken Skates
Minister for Economy and Transport
Welsh Government

Ken Skates was born in 1976 in Wrexham, educated at Mold Alun School and went on to study Social and Political Science at Cambridge University. In his free time, Ken enjoys running, swimming, hiking and golf as well as having an interest in gardening, art and architecture. Ken was previously a journalist and assistant to Mark Tami ...

Hazel Powell
Nursing Officer for Mental Health & Learning Disability
Welsh Government

Hazel is a dual qualified nurse registered as a mental health and a learning disability nurse. Most of her career has been spent in Scotland where she worked clinically in both hospital and community services, with children and adults. She has been a Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University teaching on under and postgraduate ...

Cllr Huw David
Spokesperson: Health and Social Care
Welsh Local Government Association

Councillor David was elected as the Leader of Bridgend County Borough Council in October 2016, having served as the Deputy Leader since 2015. He was first appointed as Cabinet Member in 2008. Cllr David is the spokesperson for Health and Social Care and a Deputy Presiding Officer for the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA). Through this ...

Dr Andrew Hider
Clinical Director and Consultant Forensic Psychologist
Ludlow Street Healthcare

Andrew Hider is a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist and approved clinician. He currently works as clinical director for Ludlow Street Healthcare in Cardiff. For 22 years he has worked solely in services for people with severe and complex mental health problems, with and without associated neurodevelopmental conditions and forensic ...

Dr Kate Chamberlain
Chief Executive
Healthcare Inspectorate Wales

Dr Kate Chamberlain has been Chief Executive of Healthcare Inspectorate Wales since 2013. Kate is responsible for the overall management, staffing and organisation of the Inspectorate and also works closely with other inspection, audit and regulation bodies in Wales. Prior to joining HIW, Kate was the Welsh Government's Chief Statistician, ...

Sarah Stone
Executive Director
Samaritans Cymru

Sarah Stone is Executive Director for Wales for Samaritans. Samaritans vision is that fewer people die by suicide. The organisation works to achieve this by reducing feelings of distress and crisis, increasing access to support, reducing risk in specific settings and vulnerable groups and influencing governments and other agencies to take ...

Sara Moseley
Director
Mind Cymru

Sara is Director of Mind Cymru and an Executive Director of Mind. She chairs the Wales Alliance for Mental Health, the anti-stigma campaign Time to Change Wales, and the Government’s Mental Health Crisis Care Task and Finish group. Sara has a background in journalism, communication and public engagement having been Director of ...

Professor Simon Dymond
Professor of Psychology
Swansea University

Simon Dymond is Professor of Psychology and Behaviour Analysis at Swansea University and a Visiting Professor at Reykjavik University, Iceland. His group conducts neurobehavioural research on gambling behaviour and social/epidemiological analyses of gambling related harm in vulnerable populations, such as veterans. He has received ...

Dr Fiona Pipon-Young
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, St Peter’s Hospital
Ludlow Street Healthcare

Fiona Pipon-Young is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at St Peter’s Hospital, Newport. She has worked in older people’s services for 10 years across a range of inpatient and community settings including memory assessment services. She currently works at St Peter’s Hospital, which provides specialist assessment and treatment to ...

Dr Andrea Davies
Clinical Psychologist
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Dr Andrea Davies works as a clinical psychologist and systemic psychotherapist in acute mental health services in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board. Clinically, she specialises in working with people who are experiencing acute psychosis and those deemed ‘hard to reach’. Her research interests include exploring the factors that ...

Lowri Wyn Jones
Programme Manager
Time for Change Wales

Lowri Wyn Jones is the Programme Manager for Time to Change Wales. Working alongside a team across two partner organisations (Hafal and Mind Cymru), she is responsible for the day-to-day management and strategic delivery of the programme in Wales. Time to Change Wales is the first national mental health anti-stigma campaign launched in 2012 with ...

Dr Alex Stirzaker
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Clinical lead IAPT SMI South West

I have been working in the NHS as a psychologist since the early eighties within a wide range of services including inpatient and community services in the south west and the Midlands. I have worked to develop services for people given the diagnosis of a Personality Disorder and worked at a national and regional level. I am currently ...

Dr Gill Richardson
Assistant Director of Policy Research and International Division
Public Health Wales

Gill has worked in the NHS for over 30 years in a variety of roles; Community Child Health doctor, GP and Lecturer in Primary Care, then Consultant in Public Health Medicine, becoming Director in Public Health for Caerphilly Local Health Board then Gwent/ Aneurin Bevan University Health Board from 2003-17. She has sat on Gwent LRF, four Public ...

Sarah Shingler
Chief Nursing Officer/Director of Quality
NHS Walsall CCG

Sarah is the Chief Nursing Officer/Director of Quality for Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group. Sarah has a long career history in the NHS working as a Nurse Consultant in Emergency Care and has a track record of working collaboratively across many organisational boundaries to improve services for patients and families. Sarah has 10 ...

Dr Liz Andrew
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Aneurin Bevan Health Board

Dr Andrew is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with 16 years’ experience of delivering care and treatment to individuals with complex psychological needs and severe levels of emotional distress. She graduated from Swansea University in 1998 with a First Class Honours Degree in Psychology and spent some time working in Psychological ...

Dr Sarah Markham
Visiting Researcher
King`s College London

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Dr Sarah Markham

Visiting Researcher , King`s College London

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