Stacy currently has 35 years’ experience in the NHS. After spending 10 years working with paediatrics, she then gained experience in School Health, with Looked after Children and Leaving Care young people.

Stacy spent 12 years in General Practice as a Practice Nurse / Lead Practice Nurse before joining Public Health England as a Screening and Immunisation Coordinator then manager.
Over the past five years she has been successful in CCG / ICB Quality and safety forum as Head of Quality and Safety.

Jayne initially worked in Financial Services where she special interest in leadership development and coaching & became NLP practitioner. In 2005 she became a Practice Manager in a large GP practice. During this time she was a non medical mentor and undertook undergraduate training. She also held a number of roles in her CCG. Jayne joined the RCGP PCD team in 2015 when the programme was in its infancy. Initially an adviser she became deputy lead in the summer of 2015. Currently Jayne is lead for coaching, mentoring and other HR programmes. She is a Lay representative for NHSE, working with a variety of specialties, including General Practice. She works with NHSE during the recruitment process & assessment panels.

Alyson is the founder and Director of Altogether Better an NHS national network organisation who offer solutions to the challenges the NHS is facing. Working with practices and PCNs, Altogether Better help teams to increase their capacity and reduce demand by adopting a new model of care to tackle the problems medicine alone cannot fix.

Alyson was voted by the HSJ as one of the top 50 inspirational women leaders in the NHS and was awarded an MBE in the 2021 New Years Honours List for services to Collaborative Practice and Service Development in the NHS. She is a member of the NHS Leadership Academy Faculty with over 11 years board level experience as a Non-Executive Director.

Dr Seema Pattni is a Careers Coach for Female Doctors.

She is a qualified GP and also has a BSc in Neuroscience and Mental Health.

She has worked across the UK and around the world, in the NHS and the private sector.

She has developed and led services in homeless health inclusion, social prescribing and family planning.

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A committed NHS IT geek, Dave Mills is the head of Think Healthcare, one of the largest NHS specialist cloud telephony platforms.

Dave has a broad background in the NHS IT sector, starting with half a decade in GP practice management which fuelled a passion to improve IT infrastructure within the NHS for patients benefit.

He has since been involved with various national provider platforms including patient workflow platforms and primary care clinical systems.

His current passion is focussing on improving patient access to GP services via the medium of cloud telephony.

Lorna splits her time working for the RCGP as a Deputy Lead on the Primary Care Development programme and as a Specialist in Field for GP Excellence, the flagship programme of the Greater Manchester Primary Care Provider Board. Lorna’s background is in practice management, and she has almost 20 years’ experience in General Practice and is accredited with the IGPM. Before the COVID pandemic she was a Lay assessor for Health Education England, assessing FY2 doctors applying to start GP training, and has more recently worked as senior consultant on the Good Practice Guidelines team at NECS.

Lorna is a qualified coach and mentor, specialising in professional development. She has an MBA and a post grad qualification in strategic management and leadership and a special interest in Continuous quality improvement (CQI).

Kay is the Practice Manager at Urban Village Medical Practice in Ancoats, Manchester.  As well as the usual suite of NHS General Practice services the practice also specialises in addressing those patients facing health inequalities, they run a specialist service for those people experiencing homelessness, an in-house substance misuse service, tissue viability care and have specialist clinicians focussing on those people who find it difficult to access healthcare.

Having been employed within the NHS since being a teenager she has seen lots of changes and developments and worked in various parts of the service.  Kay was awarded the National Association of Primary Care “Practice Manager of the Year” in 2017 and has since helped to set up The Institute of General Practice Management, the registered body for all Managers in Primary Care.

Outside of work Kay is a keen allotmenteer where she prefers to grow flowers for the vase.  She enjoys weekends away in a campervan and may also occasionally be found dancing in a field at a music festival.