Speakers Announced for 2018 QNI Conference

The QNI 2018 Conference is taking place on September 24th – 25th at The Royal College of General Practitioners, 30 Euston Square, London.

The theme of the conference is Healthcare in the Community: From Silence to Voice. The QNI is thrilled to announce that international speaker and journalist Suzanne Gordon will be joining us for both days of the conference.

Suzanne is the author of both ‘From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public’ and ‘When Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough: Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession’

Other fantastic speakers include:

• Dr Crystal Oldman CBE, Chief Executive, The Queen’s Nursing Institute (Confirmed)
• Caroline Dinenage MP, Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Care (Confirmed)
• Tom and Nicola Ray, Authors of the book ‘Starfish’, Resilience & Co (Confirmed)
• Pippa Bagnall, Executive Director, Resilience & Co (Confirmed)
• Sharon Aldridge-Bent, Programme Manager, The Queen’s Nursing Institute (Confirmed)
• Memuna Sowe, Specialist Midwife, Vulnerable and Marginalised Women, Homeless Health Services, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust (Invited)
• Alison Hopkins, Chief Executive, Accelerate CIC. Partners in Wound and Lymphoedema Care (Confirmed)
• Professor Alison Leary, QNI Fellow, Chair of Healthcare & Workforce Modelling, London Southbank University (Confirmed)
• Dr Barbara Stilwell, Global Campaign Executive Director, Nursing Now (Confirmed)
• Professor Alison While, Fellow, The QNI, Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing at King’s College London (Confirmed)
• Dr Ruth May, Executive Director of Nursing, NHS Improvement, Deputy CNO, England (Confirmed)
• Professor Viv Bennett CBE, Public Health England Chief Nurse & the Government’s Principal Advisor on Public Health Nursing, Public Health Nursing & Midwifery WHO Collaborating Centre Head (Confirmed)
• Professor Brian Webster-Henderson, Chair, Council of Deans of Health
• Professor Jean White, Chief Nursing Officer, Wales (Confirmed)
• Professor Charlotte McArdle, Chief Nursing Officer, Northern Ireland (Confirmed)
• Sue Boran, Director of Nursing Programmes, The Queen’s Nursing Institute (Confirmed)
• Mary Saunders, Project Manager, The Queen’s Nursing Institute (Confirmed)
• Liz Fenton, Deputy Chief Nurse, Health Education England (Confirmed)
• George Plumptre, Chief Executive, National Garden Scheme (Confirmed)
• Professor Alison While, Fellow, The QNI, Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing at King’s College London (Confirmed)

To see the full draft programme please visit the main conference event page here.