NHS Health Check eBulletin

Organogram, roles and responsibilities of the NHS Health Check and blood pressure team

Organogram:

The current NHS Health Check and blood pressure team can be viewed by clicking on this Organogram.

 

Roles and responsibilities:

Jamie Waterall, national lead

  • Building and strengthening the leadership for the NHS Health Check and blood pressure programmes in the emerging political and place based landscape
  • Providing and supporting system wide leadership for the blood pressure programme  
  • Aligning and strengthening PHE’s contribution to CVD prevention

 

Dr Matt Kearney, national clinical advisor

  • Right Care – development of cardiovascular disease pathway to reduce variation in CVD
  • National primary care network – lead for the development of acknowledged primary care leaders, through the facilitation of training development and leadership opportunities and activities

 

Katherine Thompson, deputy national lead

  • ESCAP (expert scientific and clinical advisory panel) – supporting the panel and ensuring transparency of its work.
  • StARS framework – support and training for local authorities to improve the quality of delivery
  • Implementing the content review process
  • NHS Health Check stocktake exercise
  • Annual national conference
  • National advisory committee
  • Third sector engagement
  • Blood pressure staff pilot

 

Slade Carter, deputy national lead         

  • Leading on PHE’s national data extraction of NHS Health Check data
  • Aligning and strengthening agency-wide contributions on cardiovascular disease through the cardiovascular disease working group
  • Stocktake of PHE’s contributions to CVD prevention in England
  • Blood pressure system leadership board
  • Information governance and data flow guidance
  • National steering group

 

Catherine Lagord, data analyst

  • Quarterly local authority data reports (official statistics standards).
  • Health Profile and Longer Lives tools
  • National data extraction
  • Data intelligence and information governance sub-group
  • Heart age tool
  • Bridge between the chief knowledge officer and health and wellbeing for issues relating to information governance, modelling, dataset development and intelligence

 

Hannah Rees, senior support manager

  • NHS Health Check Competence and training
  • Local Implementer National Forum (LINF)
  • One You and the NHS Health Check
  • NHS Health Check and blood pressure content on NHS Choices
  • Blood pressure Evidence into Action review

  

Kay Thomas, support manager 

  • Best Practice guidance
  • NHS healthy workforce pilot
  • Regional and centre leads meetings
  • Comminssioners and providers website 
  • Lead for webinars
  • Quarterly NHS Health Check data returns from local authorities and submission to ministers

 

Jennifer Ankrah, operational support administrator

  • PA to national lead
  • Administrative support for the NHS HC team
  • E-bulletin publication
  • Blood pressure resource hub
  • Patient information leaflets

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