Organogram, roles and responsibilities of the NHS Health Check and blood pressure team

Organogram:

The current NHS Health Check and blood pressure team can be viewed by clicking on this Organogram.

Roles and responsibilities:

Jamie Waterall, national lead

• Building and strengthening the leadership for the NHS Health Check and blood pressure programmes in the emerging political and place based landscape
• Providing and supporting system wide leadership for the blood pressure programme  
• Aligning and strengthening PHE’s contribution to CVD prevention

Dr Matt Kearney, national clinical advisor

• Right Care – development of cardiovascular disease pathway to reduce variation in CVD
• National primary care network – lead for the development of acknowledged primary care leaders, through the facilitation of training development and leadership opportunities and activities

Katherine Thompson, deputy national lead

• ESCAP (expert scientific and clinical advisory panel) – supporting the panel and ensuring transparency of its work.
• StARS framework – support and training for local authorities to improve the quality of delivery
• Implementing the content review process
• NHS Health Check stocktake exercise
• Annual national conference
• National advisory committee
• Third sector engagement
• Blood pressure staff pilot

Slade Carter, deputy national lead         

• Leading on PHE’s national data extraction of NHS Health Check data
• Aligning and strengthening agency-wide contributions on cardiovascular disease through the cardiovascular disease working group
• Stocktake of PHE’s contributions to CVD prevention in England
• Blood pressure system leadership board
• Information governance and data flow guidance
• National steering group

Catherine Lagord, data analyst

• Quarterly local authority data reports (official statistics standards).
• Health Profile and Longer Lives tools
• National data extraction
• Data intelligence and information governance sub-group
• Heart age tool
• Bridge between the chief knowledge officer and health and wellbeing for issues relating to information governance, modelling, dataset development and intelligence

Hannah Rees, senior support manager

• NHS Health Check Competence and training
• Local Implementer National Forum (LINF)
• One You and the NHS Health Check
• NHS Health Check and blood pressure content on NHS Choices
• Blood pressure Evidence into Action review

Kay Thomas, support manager 

• Best Practice guidance
• NHS healthy workforce pilot
• Regional and centre leads meetings
• Comminssioners and providers website 
• Lead for webinars
• Quarterly NHS Health Check data returns from local authorities and submission to ministers

Jennifer Ankrah, operational support administrator

• PA to national lead
• Administrative support for the NHS HC team
• E-bulletin publication
• Blood pressure resource hub
• Patient information leaflets