Third year of Prestigious Older Person's Fellowship launched

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Older Person’s Fellowship (OPF), following successful selection of our 2017-18 cohort who we are pleased to welcome to the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery.

Now in its third year, our successful Health Education England (HEE) funded programme seeks out dynamic senior nurses and allied health professionals (AHPs) from across England, who are passionate about their roles, can champion the priorities and preferences of older people, and have the innovation, drive and ambition to challenge barriers to provide high-quality age-attuned services.

The cohort for 2017-18 are:

Lorraine Azam, Kate Bennett, Emer Bouanem, Lisa Comber, Renee Comerford, Alex Da Costa, Shirley Hall, Margaret Harries, Laura Harris, Amy Hassan, Lynn Iveson, Kavita Kantilal, Alison Keizer, Jules Knight, Sarah Lambert, Deborah Lee, Kate Legg, Claire Lowrey, Rachelle Palmer, Fiona Quinn, Lindsay Rees, Darlene Romero, Helen Ruse, Lauren Sandford, Premchand Sarikonda, Sarah Smith, Rachel Thomas, Charlotte Tucker, Mandy Tyrrell and Fiona White. 

The OPF is designed to enhance care for older people and progress the development of older people’s nursing and AHPs as a speciality. The Fellowship focuses on up-to-date clinical knowledge, contemporary models of care, such as comprehensive geriatric assessment and quality improvement and innovation in older people’s services. All of the fellows complete a quality improvement project.

One of the OPF’s previous fellows, Geraldine Rogers, won a national prize for reducing aggression and violence on an older person’s mental health ward. Other projects included reducing incidence of pressure ulcers, improving identification of depression in older people in the emergency department, and improving the management of depression in older people in care homes. Our 2015-16 fellows presented their projects at the Older Person's Fellowship conference in June last year.

You can see photographs and videos from the conference here.

Find out more about the Older Person’s Fellowship.