2025 Speakers

If you would like to be a speaker at our workforce events in 2025 please contact Desiree De Cecchis, Senior Conference Producer, desiree.dececchis@emap.com
View the 2025 speakers below.

Anna Young
Advanced Practice Nurse (Primary Care)
South Yorkshire NMP/IP development lead (Primary Care)
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Annesha Archyangelio
Director Of Nursing - specialist commissioner
NHS
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CJ Nwasike
Mental Health Nurse
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Donna Keenan
Director of Nursing, Midwifery and AHPs and Executive Director Nursing
Western Health & Social Care Trust
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Emma Dawes
Head of NMAHP Education and Workforce Development
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Helen McManus
NMAHP education and development lead for advanced and enhanced practice
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Isobel Jackson
Palliative Care Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Independent Nurse Prescriber, Community Team
Greenwich and Bexley
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Jeanette Milne
Associate Director of Nursing
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Jenny Kirkland
Chief Nurse
Elysium Healthcare
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Joanne Bosanquet MBE
CEO
Foundation of Nursing Studies
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Kelly McGovern
Chief Nurse
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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Linda Nazarko
Frailty Nurse Specialist
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Linda Chibuzor
Group Chief Nurse/Executive Director of Nursing, Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) & Quality, Director of Infection Prevention and Control (DiPC), Deputy Caldicott Guardian
Northamptonshire Healthcare
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Lisa Plotkin
Head of Policy and Influence.
Florence Nightingale Foundation
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Nyarai Gondo
Associate Chief Nurse
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
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Olga Lainidi
PhD Researcher & Post Graduate Teaching Fellow (PGTF)
School of Psychology , University of Leeds
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Professor Alison Leary MBE
Professor of Healthcare Modelling
London South Bank University
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Professor Alison Machin
Chair
Council of Deans of Health
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Professor Dave Thomas
Interim Chief Nurse & Director of Infection Prevention and Control
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
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Professor Mark Radford
National Director of Long Term Workforce Plan for Delivery, Director of Education and Training & Deputy CNO for England
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Steph Lawrence MBE
Chief Executive
Queens institute of community nursing
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Steve Ford
Editor
Nursing Times
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Tristan Kerr
Director of Nursing and Governance
Barts Health NHS Trust
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Will Laing
Operations Director
Workforce Alliance
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Zaneta Sadauskaite-Khokhar
Newly Qualified Adult Nurse
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