Meet the team
The new steering committee for the Children and Young People: Continuing and Community Care Forum was formed in October 2011.
Chair- Trudy Ward
Laura Marshall
Orla Watt
Ez Maunder
Susan Dunlop
Christine Thompson (BA Community Health, RHV, RSCN, RGN)
Christine is presently working in the field of community children's nursing in Lothian, Scotland. Christine has worked in this service for 12 years and enjoys the diversity of caring for children and young people with acute, chronic, life limiting and life threatening conditions. She is a member of local groups exploring end of life care, continence promotion and management, community children's nursing career framework and the review of community children's nursing in Lothian.
She is motivated and committed to explore challenges faced within community practice to provide visible and accessible service for children, young people and their families.
Rachel Lyles
Rachel has spent the last eight years working within the community setting, spanning both primary care sectors and acute care led outreach provision.
She worked as a sister on a busy children's unit for six years within the acute sector before transition to community care. This involved a range of surgical, orthopaedic and medical conditions and children with both acute and complex health needs.
Her community practice has spanned the urban and rural communities; in particular multi-cultural societies and the challenges this may pose.
Her passions include developing partnerships with children, young people and their families and therefore voicing the issues which are of paramount importance to them. Rachel has been currently working with multiple agencies to develop improved services for children with palliative care needs.