Hello, my name is Natalie Ruscoe.  I joined the Midlands team as the Regional Faculty Lead for Advancing Practice at the end of January 2025.  Prior to joining you in the Midlands, I had worked at the Centre for Advancing Practice as the Deputy Centre Lead and Programme Accreditation Lead and more recently, as the North East and Yorkshire’s Regional Faculty Lead for Advancing Practice.  

I’m a nurse by profession and my background includes working clinically as an Advanced Practitioner in Emergency Care and as a Programme Lead for an advanced practice programme within a university. In my spare time, I’m currently trying to write-up my doctorate findings on the experiences of Advanced Practitioners which I hope to complete in the next twelve months. 

I am Paediatric Advanced Clinical Practitioner working in the Midlands region. I have worked in a variety of clinical settings from General Paediatrics, Accident and Emergency, ITU and Community.

Since I started my advanced practice journey in Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care in 2010, I’ve been passionate about advanced practice.  I have an interest in Simulation and Human Factors and I’m currently undertaking a post Graduate Certificate in Human Factors for Patient Safety.

I work for the Midlands Faculty 3 days a week whilst continuing to work clinically 2 days a week.

I am the Clinical Leadership & Education Manager within the Midlands Advancing Practice Faculty. I have been in the team since July 2025 but have worked for NHS England since 2016, initially in the Midlands Quality and Commissioning team. I joined the Faculty from the Centre for Advancing Practice where I worked since 2020. I’m looking forward to working with you all and supporting the work of Advancing Practice within the Midlands.

I am the project support officer for the Faculty for Advancing Practice. I’ve been with the team since it’s creation in late 2020, early 2021.

I really enjoy understanding how organisations work, and how best to help them and the workforce succeed. My current role allows me to implement this with the NHS trainee advanced practitioner workforce. My role is varied from various stakeholder engagement activity to supporting the team with active projects, and managing the commissioning of our trainees. Some other tasks include supporting Faculty communications, webinars and conferences, data collection and producing reports. The overall promotion for advanced practice in the region.

I’ve undertaken and passed the Association for Project Management (APM), Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ), and I’m continuously looking to develop myself.

I am the Administration Officer for the Faculty for Advancing Practice, NHS England – Workforce Training and Education – Midlands.

I have been fortunate to experience a variety of roles over the course of my career. This includes General Assessment Officer for the OCR Examinations Board for 10 years. I have worked with Adults Health and Social Care for 10 years.

I was an Administrator to UK Health Security Agency (UK HSA). This involved supporting Covid-19 infection control during the pandemic and Administration Lead for the Tuberculosis, Safeguarding and Hepatitis clinical teams. The proudest moment of my career was being nominated by members of the public as an ‘unsung hero’ for the Chamberlain Awards. This was for my promptness and efficiency of my delivery of service, empathy, care, and discretion.

I qualified as a nurse at Nottingham University in 1996. My advancing practice journey began in 2002 when I developed a nurse-led femoral nerve block service for hip fractures. I moved into the community in 2004 as a Community Matron and evolved into an Advanced Clinical Practitioner for community hospitals of Derbyshire.

Since 2015 I have been the Clinical Lead for Advanced Practice in Derbyshire Community Health Services and have supervised numerous trainee advanced practitioners in various community settings. I’m committed to educating and developing others and contribute to the MSc in Advancing Practice at the University of Derby as an Associate Lecturer.

I have recently been appointed as the Lead for the emerging Derbyshire Faculty for Advancing Practice.

I began my nurse training at St. Thomas’ Hospital and specialised in the field of Intensive Care at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. I furthered my knowledge in the field and moved to the Midlands, spending a total of 14 years in ITU. In 2012, I changed pathways and began my midwifery career.

My background knowledge and experience have been the foundation to my Midwifery career. They have enabled me to disseminate my knowledge both clinically and through education. In 2017 I undertook my MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice. I lead a team of midwives who provide enhanced maternal care to women who have pre-existing co-morbidities or experience an acute deterioration in health.

A testament to my advanced practice course is that I provide expert clinical care, support staff, educate colleagues and students, and evaluate the results of a service implementation plan. I also link with colleagues nationally to deliver teaching in Enhanced Maternal Care / Maternal Medicine.

NHS England enables me to support Midwives who are embarking upon the advanced practice route. Alongside provide information and guidance to organisations who want to support their staff on this career pathway.

I started my advanced practice career over ten years ago, working as an advanced practitioner within acute medicine in Derby. Though I am employed with the Faculty one day a week, I continue to work as a clinician in this area at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust.

I am passionate about the standard of training for advanced practitioners in acute care and keen to ensure trainees are supported to reach their full capability.

From a pilot project funded by Health Education West Midlands (2013), placing prescribing pharmacists in ED, in 2015, I qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, trained in Paediatric Acute and Emergency Medicine.

Today, I work as part of the pre-operative medicine, anaesthetic medical team. My role involves providing patient care in clinic, to ensure they are fit for surgery. Demonstrating I can transfer teachings of my advanced practice course, to develop competencies and capabilities to work in elective orthopaedics.

I’ve always been passionate about Pharmacy. Now as an advanced practitioner, understanding these roles are relatively new for us and the challenges we may face.

If you need support please get in touch. Whether you’re thinking about, embarking on or qualified in your role as an advanced practitioner.

I am an Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner specialising in Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedics at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

I care for inpatients under various areas. This include Trauma and Orthopaedics, Spinal Surgery and Orthopaedic Oncology as well as Fracture Clinics and Elective Orthopaedic clinic