CVD prevention team - roles and responsibilities

Jamie Waterall, national lead for CVD prevention & associate deputy chief nurse

• Aligning and strengthening PHE’s contribution to CVD prevention in England
• Building and strengthening leadership for the NHS Health Check and blood pressure programmes in England
• Providing strategic oversight and management of PHE’s CVD prevention team
• Deputising for PHE’s Chief Nurse, providing visible nurse leadership pertaining to health and wellbeing and community nursing. PHE’s strategic lead for All Our Health

Katherine Thompson, deputy national lead

• Appraising research to inform decisions from the Expert Scientific and Clinical Advisory Panel on changing the content of the NHS Health Check.
• Improving quality by developing and supporting the local use of the NHS Health Check systematic approach to raising standards (StARS) framework and by producing best practice guidance.
• Disseminating learning through the delivery of an annual CVD conference.
• Engaging with third sector partners to enhance the reach of the NHS Health Check programme.
• Evaluating novel and innovative methods of improving NHS Health Check take up and of increasing blood pressure self-monitoring.

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
• Leading on the CVD prevention team’s business planning and reporting
• Stocktake of PHE’s contributions to CVD prevention in England
• Blood pressure system leadership board
• Information governance and data flow guidance
• National steering group

Dr Matt Kearney, GP and national clinical director for CVD Prevention

• Supporting the NHS to improve secondary prevention of CVD through improved detection and management of high risk conditions such as high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation and high cholesterol.
• Supporting development and roll out of NHS RightCare CVD Prevention Pathways.
• Collaborating with British Heart Foundation to build local CVD Communities of Practice.
• Developing resources to support improved CVD prevention

Hannah Rees, senior support manager (Meritxell Rosell from 28/11/16 to 31/05/16)

• NHS Health Check Competence and training
• Local Implementer National Forum (LINF)
• NHS Health Check Marketing and Branding, including One You
• NHS Health Check and blood pressure content on NHS Choices
• Blood pressure Evidence into Action  review
• NHS Health Check Health Equity Audit Guidance

Catherine Lagord, data analyst

• Quarterly NHS Health Check data returns from local authorities (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

Susannah Robinson, digital coordinator

• NHS Health Checks digital work stream
• Digital hypertension work in Cheshire and Merseyside
• Focal point between PHE and the WHO-ITU joint initiative “Be He@lthy, Be Mobile”

Polly Kwok, support manager   

• Best Practice guidance
• NHS healthy workforce pilot
• Regional and centre leads meetings
• Website
• Lead for webinars
• Collect and submit the quarterly local authority data reports

Jennifer Ankrah, operational support administrator

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