Les StoreyLes Storey

Les Storey has had a very varied and successful career that includes clinical experience at senior levels, and work with national bodies as project manager for a number of national and regional projects – these currently include prison health care, palliative care, emergency care, dysphagia and substance misuse.

Since 1989, he has been involved in competence-based education and training including NVQs and standards-based education programmes. He has developed a range of academic/practice-based qualifications for health care professionals and prison officers. He accepted the opportunity in 1998 to jointly lead a national scoping study investigating nursing in secure environments on behalf of the UKCC (now NMC).

Les joined the Faculty of Health’s Business Development Unit at the University of Central Lancashire as Principal Lecturer in September 2002. He is responsible for contributing to the development of Faculty initiatives through providing consultancy for a diverse range of clients in the NHS and independent sector, undertaking research and developing new products for the Faculty’s portfolio of education within health care.

Les is an educator and manager of change with strong leadership skills who successfully introduced NVQs and Occupational Standards into a wide range of programmes. He has a record of innovation in all the positions he has held, and he has demonstrated the ability to identify goals, develop effective strategies and drive them to successful conclusions.

He has been on a part-time secondment to Lancashire and South Cumbria Cancer Services Network since September 2001 where he has led the development of a framework of competencies and of an educational programme for enhancing palliative care services in the community. As a part of this work he led the development of the Preferred Place of Care (PPC) process that has now been acknowledged as one of the key tools for the Department of Health’s End of Life Care Initiative. In February 2005 he was offered a position as National Lead to facilitate the roll-out of the PPC across the country.

Les has achieved national and international recognition through awards and scholarships for his work in competency development and development of staff in a range of care settings.

He lives in Merseyside.

Publications

Les Storey is the editor of the RCN Education Forum’s newsletter and is a member of the editorial board for an international publishing consortium. He has presented papers to international, national and regional conferences and has written items for professional publication. Here are a few examples of his extensive list of publications:

  • Co-author of Competent to care, Radcliffe Press (2002)
  • Co-author of Scoping the competences in emergency care, Greater Manchester Workforce Development Confederation (2003)
  • Co-editor of Providing services for people with learning disabilities who have offended (Conference Proceedings), Nursing Praxis International (2002, 2004)
  • Four chapters (with co-author) in Landsberg and Smiley’s Forensic mental health: working with offenders with mental illness (2001)
  • Two chapters in Norman and Parrish’s Prison Healthcare (2002)
  • Contributor to the development of Blackwell’s Nursing Dictionary (2005).