Ethics Committee Members

Margaret Kelly - Chair

Margaret Kelly is an executive coach and professional nurse with 30 years' experience in the commissioning and delivery of health and social care in Northern Ireland.

Prior to setting up her own business in 2010 Margaret held a number of posts in clinical care, general management, and service planning, and  most recently was Director of Acute Services with the Western Health and Social Care Trust (2007-2009) and Chief Nurse and Commissioner of Acute Services at the Western Health and Social Services Board (2003-2006).

Margaret's particular skills lie in working in partnership with others to nurture leaders who can manage change effectively and make a real difference to people’s health and wellbeing.

Margaret is an Honorary Lecturer with Queen's University Belfast and a Board Member of AVERT Training Ltd, which provides training in awareness/prevention and management of domestic violence.

Cecilia Anim

Cecilia Anim was elected Deputy President of the RCN in 2010, having been a member for over 30 years. Cecilia was an RCN Steward for 15 years and later a health and safety representative.

She has worked tirelessly supporting members in three central London NHS trusts.

Cecilia was also the staff-side secretary working in partnership with other unions, and secretary of her local RCN branch for 10 years. Cecilia then chaired the new branch and served on the London board before taking up the position of Deputy President.

In addition to these responsibilities, Cecilia previously served on the Ethics Forum Steering Committee and was also a member on the RCN Menopause Nurses Steering Group. Cecilia still chairs and coordinates the Steering Group in London. In recognition of Cecilia's contribution, she and was awarded the RCN Certificate of Merit for outstanding service to members.

Cecilia works as a clinical nurse specialist in sexual and reproductive health at the Margaret Pyke Centre in London and specialises in family planning and aspects of women's health. She has a particular interest in sexual and public health issues.

Cecilia originally trained as a midwife in Ghana, where she worked before moving to the UK and qualifying as a nurse in 1977.

Cecilia is also actively involved in the activities of her local church, where she is a member of the PCC and she is also Chair of Governors of her local primary school.

John Bridson

Biography coming soon.

 

 

 

 

 

David Edwards

For the past four-and-a-half years, David has been the community palliative care team leader at Birmingham St. Mary's Hospice.  During the 17 years previous to this, David has held senior clinical, managerial and leadership positions in specialist palliative care services in hospital, hospice, community and clinical network settings.  He has also worked as an independent health care consultant, focusing on work within specialist palliative care both at local and clinical network level.  As well as being a member of the RCN's Ethics Committee, he is also a member of the National Council for Palliative Care Ethics Committee. 

 

Ann Gallagher

Ann trained as a general nurse at the Royal Victorial Hospital, Belfast, and as a registered mental health nurse in Surrey. She has been involved in health care ethics for over two decades and completed a PhD in professional ethics in 2003.

Ann is Reader in Nursing Ethics at the University of Surrey and is Editor of the journal, Nursing Ethics. She has engaged in research relating to dignity in care and her current research areas include understanding and responding to unprofessional/unethical health care practice.

Ann's interests include theatre, music and swimming.

Judith Hill

Picture and biography coming soon.

Dr Janet Holt

Janet Holt is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Learning and Teaching in the School of Healthcare at the University of Leeds.  She is a registered nurse and midwife who worked in clinical practice, midwifery and nursing research before moving into education. Janet has taught health care ethics and law and nursing philosophy for over 20 years and these subjects are also the focus for her research and publications. 

Janet is also interested in research ethics, and is the Chair of the School of Healthcare Research Ethics Committee in the University, and Vice Chair of an NHS Research Ethics Committee.

 

Professor Martin Johnson

Martin Johnson is Professor in Nursing at the University of Salford.

His Nursing Power and Social Judgement (Ashgate, Aldershot, 1997) offered insights into the way that nurses and their patients negotiate, or struggle, for the power to achieve their goals through judgemental labelling.  His book Research Ethics in the Real World (co-edited with Tony Long), published by Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone in January 2007, takes a consequential approach to real life research ethics and governance problems.

He is a member of the Research Excellence Framework sub-panel 3 and from 2003 to 2010 was Editor in Chief of Nurse Education Today.

Ann King

Ann is currently practicing as a Registered Intermediary, working with vulnerable witnesses in the criminal justice system to enable them to give evidence to the police and courts.  She worked previously in the field of oncology and palliative care in both the acute and community sectors.

She is a Health Visitor with a particular interest in community health care ethics, and facilitated an ethics interest group for PCT health care professionals. She has an MA in Medical Law and Ethics and teaches ethics on a variety of health care courses at Plymouth University. Ann lives in Devon.

 

Carolyn Roberts

Carolyn Roberts has been committed to the NHS since qualifying as a nurse in 1971. She believes in the empowering of disadvantaged and vulnerable individuals to make decisions about their health.  Having trained as a health visitor she spent a number of years in the community and researched the role of the health visitor with older people as part of her Masters in Health Administration. On moving to Oxford Carolyn became involved with the Ethox Foundation which promotes high ethical standards in the delivery of health care. She is currently Chairman. Since 2008 she has been the Nurse Member of the Commission on Human Medicines. Throughout her career and as Chairman of the Ethox Foundation has learned the importance of good governance and the challenges of implementation.

Sue Warner

Sue commenced her nursing training, as well as her RCN membership, in 1975, and has worked continuously in the NHS for the last 36 years. She is an Associate Director of Provider Services within Worcestershire Health and Care Trust, but is currently looking for a new post due to redundancies.

Sue’s expertise lies in community nursing and professional development. She has in-depth knowledge of both national and local health services, particularly community and primary health care as well as community hospitals.

 

 

 

Kerry Welch

Kerry is currently employed as a lecturer in Health and Social Care with the University of Nottingham. Her main areas of teaching for the university are within the field of accountability and professionalism in nursing, including all the relevant law and ethics surrounding those issues.

Kerry's clinical background is predominantly within intensive care and neurological intensive care nursing, which is where her interest in ethics was first ignited. She also spent some time as a practice nurse in an inner city GP practice, and also has experience as an in-flight nurse dealing with medical repatriation.

In addition to her role within the university, Kerry is also currently studying for a PhD, which is focusing on end-of-life decision making and the use of advance directives to refuse treatment at the end of life.