Advisory Board

Every aspect of Nursing Live is designed to add real value to the professional and personal development of nurses. To ensure all elements of our unique nurisng event are aligned to the needs of all nurses across the nursing profession, RCNi works with a group of expert advisors, nurse leaders and nursing advocates drawn from across all nursing specialties to help shape our special nursing conference.

Find out more about the people on this year’s Nursing Live advisory board. We hope to see you at the ACC in Liverpool on October 23-24, so save the date.

Meet the board for 2024

  • Alison Dinning

    Alison Dinning

    Year 3 professional lead (adult nursing) and senior lecturer (adult nursing), University of the West of England

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  • Ann Gow

    Ann Gow

    Nursing and Systems Improvement Director and Deputy Chief Executive, Healthcare Improvement Scotland

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  • Claire Sutton

    Claire Sutton

    Transformational lead for the independent health and social care sector, RCN

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  • David Melia

    David Melia

    Chief nursing officer, Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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  • David Williams

    David Williams

    Head of learning disabilities and complex needs, Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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  • Dianne Brown

    Dianne Brown

    Executive Chief Nurse, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

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  • Dr Manju Pallam

    Dr Manju Pallam

    Senior lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University

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  • Emily Pimm

    Emily Pimm

    Social care deputy manager, St Monica Trust

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  • Flavia Munn

    Flavia Munn

    Editor, Nursing Standard

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  • Lesley Goodburn

    Lesley Goodburn

    Experience of care lead - clinical programmes, NHS England

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  •  Louie Horne BEM

    Louie Horne BEM

    Senior global health fellow, NHS England

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  • Lucy Gillespie

    Lucy Gillespie

    National professional lead for nursing, Skills for Care

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  • Ofrah Mulahi

    Ofrah Mulahi

    Professional lead - nursing support workers, Royal College of Nursing and British Arab Nursing and Midwifery Founding Director- BANMA)

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  • Paul Jebb

    Paul Jebb

    Associate chief nurse,
    Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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  • Professor Emma Wadey

    Professor Emma Wadey

    Deputy director – mental health nursing, NHS England


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  • Professor Lyvonne N Tume

    Professor Lyvonne N Tume

    Professor of critical care nursing, Edge Hill University

    Professor and nurse scientist, PICU, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

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  • Jan Ross

    Jan Ross

    Chief executive, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

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  • Jessica Sainsbury

    Jessica Sainsbury

    Head of midwife and nurse engagement, Florence Nightingale Foundation

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  • Jo Marinas

    Jo Marinas

    Deputy director of nursing workforce development, Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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  • Liam Williams

    Liam Williams

    Executive director of quality and nursing, Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust

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  • Nathan Askew

    Nathan Askew

    Chief nursing, AHP and experience officer, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

    Chair, Association of Chief Children's Nurses

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  • Nicola Bailey

    Nicola Bailey

    RCN Nurse of the Year 2021

    Post-partum contraception manager & SWCTOPN, North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

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  • Rohit Sagoo

    Rohit Sagoo

    Children's nurse, founder and director of British Sikh Nurses

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  • Sally Wilson

    Sally Wilson

    Professional lead for older people and dementia, RCN

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  • Sarah O’Donnell

    Sarah O’Donnell

    Strategic lead for primary care integration, Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust

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  • Tim James

    Tim James

    Lead nursing executive, Oracle Cerner

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  • Toni Bewley

    Toni Bewley

    Chair, service user and carer group, Edge Hill University

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  • Winnie George

    Winnie George

    National programme lead (retention), NHS England

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