Kirsty qualified as an adult nurse in 2004 where she began her career working in medical admissions and coronary care. She then progressed to be one of the first critical care outreach sisters within the trust, and this is where she embarked on her MSc in Advanced Practice. This role combined with the knowledge and skills from her MSc fuelled her enthusiasm, drive, and capability to ensure patients receive high quality care and interventions in a timely manner. Kirsty successfully secured her first ACP post in 2012.

Kirsty has gained a breadth of experience within medical disciplines, including Hospital out of hours, Acute medicine/ambulatory care, Frailty, Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Community rehabilitation and Respiratory.

Kirsty now specialises within respiratory medicine, where she has established an ACP led pleural outpatient service and has a passion for pleural disease. Alongside this she is highly motivated to deliver quality improvement projects, is an active mentor of trainee ACPs, and is an enthusiastic member of both the pleural society and the respiratory ACP network. She values collaborative multi-professional working to develop and improve quality of services delivered to our patients.

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Max is the Regional Programme Manager for the NE&Y Faculty supporting the Regional Faculty leads. Prior to this role Max was the Project Lead for New Roles across South Yorkshire & Bassetlaw ICS where he was responsible for the implementation of new roles such as Trainee Nursing Associates across Health and Social care organisations. Max has always been interested in workforce development across Health and Social Care and supporting other to develop their careers.

Haley Whelpton is the specialist advisor for learning disability and autism for the Regional Advanced Practice Faculty for North-East and Yorkshire. She is a registered occupational therapist and chair of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy Northern & Yorkshire Regional Group. 

Haley worked in various areas as an occupational therapist her last full time clinical role as a specialist occupational therapist for people with complex physical disabilities, often with learning/intellectual disability.  For the last 8 years she has worked for Health Education England and the North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care System in various roles including quality, implementation of the Nursing Associate role and latterly as a workforce development manager in the learning disability and autism workstream.  This work provides an underpinning foundation to understand the relevance of advanced practitioners in the learning disability and autism workforce, and the potential impact they can have for people with a learning disability and autistic people, both in specialist and mainstream services.

I am a primary care clinical ACP (nurse) in Sheffield. I am also the NMP development lead for the South Yorkshire workforce hub and the primary care training programme director (advanced practice) for NHSE in South Yorkshire. When I am not at work I enjoy running and walking in the peak district and growing flowers in my garden. I am an avid reader and love exploring how creativity shapes both our clinical practice and leadership.

Sam qualified as a GP in 2012, after completing her medical degree in 2007 at Nottingham University followed by GP training in the West Midlands.

Sam worked as a full time salaried GP for 4 years, before joining Warwick Medical School as a Clinical Teaching Fellow, dividing her time between this role and her GP role. In 2021, Sam moved back to the North East where she is a GP in Northumberland, and HEE Clinical Educator for Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Physician Associates, as well as Clinical Lead for the Primary Care Training Hub in the North of the Tyne and Gateshead Integrated Care Provider (ICP). In 2022, Sam was appointed as the Specialty Advisor for Advanced Practice in Primary Care in the north east and north Cumbria.  She also works as a GP Lecturer for Newcastle University.

– NEY Regional Faculty: Advanced Practice Training Programme Director – Mental Health (2 days)

– Sheffield Hallam: Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Advancing Practice (3 days)

– Occupational Therapist / MSc Occupational Therapy

– Clinical specialisms – mental health and chronic pain

– Evaluation lead – national AP-MH Network

– Education provider representative – national AP-MH steering group

– RCOT pain forum lead / member of national executive committee

Before joining the NHS, Tim worked as a Software Tester in industry having qualified from Newcastle with a Degree in IT. He then started with the NHS where he has worked for over 23 years. Initially, he worked as a New Born Baby Hearing Screener before joining the Yorkshire Ambulance Service. 

Tim qualified as a Paramedic in 2005, progressing to Paramedic Tutor before gaining his MSc in Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) from Huddersfield University in 2011. With this, he became a lecturer in Paramedic Practice working in Higher Education and the private sector. He then travelled extensively working as an international repatriation medic before joining the Minor Injuries Unit at the Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust (LTHT), where he first became interested in Ophthalmology. Tim then gained the Advanced Practice MSc, being one of the first Paramedics to qualify as an Independent Prescribing from the University of Leeds and has worked as an ACP in Ophthalmology at LTHT for several years now.