Melanie is currently managing a three-year BTS project, funded by NHSE, which involves supporting clinicians within hospital acute trusts to implement and improve tobacco dependency treatment services alongside the NHSE Long Term Plan delivery objectives. Melanie has over 30yrs experience in the NHS, nursing, within secondary and primary care followed by working within tobacco control… Read more »
Joanna Feeney has worked in smoking cessation in the North East for over 18 years in a variety of roles from Specialist Stop Smoking Advisor, Stop Smoking Service Manager and Commissioner, and Smokefree NHS Strategic Manager. Joanna has also worked in both a regional and national capacity with OHID and North East & Yorkshire regional… Read more »
Jane is a senior midwife and lead for Tobacco Dependency programme for NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care and is leading the new National Smokefree Pregnancy Incentive scheme alongside colleagues within Accenture. Jane is responsible for implementing and embedding this complex programme that’s pioneering in its work, taking a system-wide approach in the implementation of the… Read more »
Andy worked as a nurse in acute and forensic psychiatry before specialising in the field of substance misuse treatment. In 1997 he completed an MSc in Addictive Behaviour at St George’s Hospital Medical School before beginning his clinical and then academic career in smoking cessation there with Professor Robert West. In 2003 he took up… Read more »
Debbie Robson RMN, PhD. Senior Lecturer on Tobacco Harm Reduction & Mental Health Nurse, King’s College London Debbie works with the Nicotine Research Group in the National Addiction Centre. Her work involves evaluating tobacco dependence treatment pathways in mental health, substance use and acute settings, and also assessing the effectiveness and harms of vaping in… Read more »
With a background in mathematics and statistics, Lesley has worked in both NHS and University settings and has more than 20 years experience in health services/public health research. Lesley has particular expertise in trial management and has a MSc in Clinical Trials from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Since 2011 Lesley has worked… Read more »
Mary is a Learning Disability and Mental Health Nurse. She provided leadership for the smoke free programme in South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust from 2014 to 2022. She was expert advisor to the NICE committees when they developed guidance on smoking in 2013 and 2020 and was an active member of the Mental… Read more »
After completing the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme, Paul worked for 10 years in acute Trusts managing a range of services, including Women and Children’s and Trauma & Orthopaedics. These roles focussed on delivering quality services to patients, operational priorities including acute patient flows, capacity & demand planning and the delivery of performance targets. They… Read more »
Deborah Arnott is Chief Executive of Action on Smoking and Health, honorary associate professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Nottingham, honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a member of the RCP’s Tobacco Advisory Group. She is a recognised national and international expert on tobacco control… Read more »
Sanjay has been working on reducing the devastating impact of tobacco for many years, mainly due to seeing its profound effect on people and families in lung cancer clinics and intensive care over the past 30 years. As Chair of the RCP tobacco advisory group and the publication of many tobacco related reports, numerous recommendations… Read more »
