Meet the Team

Katie Bagstaff

Forum Chair

After qualifying as a registered Children's Nurse in 2000, Katie went on to work on a surgical ward specialising in plastic surgery, orthopaedic and neurosurgery. In 2002, she then moved to Paediatric Recovery and has an extensive clinical knowledge of Children's surgery. She now works as the Senior Sister Paediatric Recovery and Children's Day Surgery ward. Within her role, Katie also co-manages the Adult Recovery areas.

She is passionate about promoting the needs of the children and young people within the Perioperative setting, and has developed regional competences and conferences to encourage and support this.

Aside from her clinical enthusiasms, Katie is committed to providing and promotive team ownership and engagement.

Katrina Cooper

Neil Fletcher RGN, RN (Child), MSc Advanced Clinical Practice

Roald Dahl Clinical Nurse Specialist for teenagers and young adults, Barts Health

Neil has had a variety of roles throughout his career, including Practice Development, Senior Nurse for children's inpatient and outpatients, Children's Site Practitioner, Senior Clinical Site Manager and Guest Lecturer. The majority of his experience has been within the field of Emergency Department Nursing.

Neil is passionate about young people health and was delighted that three members of the Barts Health Youth Forum were part of his interview panel and Neil helps to facilitate the monthly youth forum meeting.

Neil has recently undertaken the Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership and is very pleased to be supported by Barts Health NHS Trust and the Roald Dahl Marvellous Children's Charity.

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Daniel Gooding

RCN Children and Young People's Forum steering committee member, former West Midlands Board member, former Devon Branch Chair

Daniel is a paediatric charge nurse, who studied at London South Bank University. He started his career in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in the West Midlands. He served on the RCN West Midlands Board for two years prior to moving to Devon. Since moving to Devon, he has become a Charge Nurse in the Paediatric Emergency Department and has spent time chairing the department wide shared governance patient safety council.

He has previously been recognised for leading innovative projects to support student nurses, receiving prestigious award from the Royal College of Nursing on two occasions celebrating the amount of effort and dedication he puts into these projects. He has published articles in Nursing Standard and has co-chaired conferences for the Royal College of Nursing and the NHS.

He founded ‘The Student Nurse Project’, an online supportive community and currently has a role with the @WeCYPNurses community on Twitter. He is passionate about staff wellbeing and paediatric emergency medicine and trauma. 

Areas of special interests include: paediatric emergency medicine, paediatric trauma, patient experience, social media, pre-reg students, network building and staff wellbeing.

Carli Whittaker