The Network Team

I am the current Medical Lead for the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Adult Critical Care Operational Delivery Network. I am a full time consultant in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia at the Royal Surrey Hospital NHS Trust where I deliver anaesthesia for surgery and work as part of the multi-professional team in the ICU. My particular interests are in the delivery of rehabilitation during hospital admission continuing into discharge home, to ensure patients who survive critical illness go on to make the best recovery possible; in standardised perioperative care pathways for cancer surgery and enhanced medical and surgical care areas. I was been involved in the development and improvement of critical care from the start of my consultant appointment in 2006. As clinical director of Guildford ICU I led on the design and build of a new ICU extension along with the provision of all the resources, including the expansion of the multi-professional team required to staff it.

From the outset as a consultant, I was involved in the Surrey Wide Critical Care Network, which I also led jointly for a time before the networks amalgamated into one larger geographical area. I have been a member of the National Clinical Reference Group for Adult Critical Care, have worked on a number of project groups aimed at improving the provision of intensive care services over the last 10 years and been an active member of the CRG, helping to inform and shape commissioning for adult critical care along with the multi-professional CRG. I have also been a co-chair for the national medical leads for adult critical care bringing together all the medical leads for the networks in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

I am passionate about working with leadership teams in ICUs in helping to improve access to and provision of, the very best adult critical care services possible and this is always where the focus of my contribution to the network lies.

I joined the network in March 2022 as the Network Manager. Critical care is an area that I am passionate about and I have held a number of roles within Intensive Care and High Dependency throughout my time as a nurse. 

My role as Network Manager is to promote the partnership of the multi-disciplinary clinical teams to deliver the best care for their patients. To improve standardisations of care across the network governed by quality standards and agreed pathways. Cohesiveness builds a strong, positive support network, and the sharing of knowledge and experience between the critical care units ultimately benefits patient care. 

Covid-19 has had a significant impact on NHS staff, and there is a need for continue to support the health and wellbeing of critical care staff, especially with the ongoing NHS day to day challenges. 

The network supports patient and public involvement, and for the patients voice to be heard through any service developments or standards related to the delivery of ODN objectives, and to act as champions for patients and their interests. 

I joined the Network in October 2022.  I have worked as a Registered Nurse since 2010, mostly within Critical care. Aside from being a Point of Care Nurse in Critical care, I have worked as a Quality Improvement Nurse and a Practice educator in the Acute sector. 

In my role as the Quality Improvement Lead for the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Adult Critical care Network, I liaise with various healthcare professionals and service users to develop and deliver effective improvement projects to support the delivery of positive outcomes and quality experiences. To this end, I would be working with patients and the public, Clinical leads, Staff and other service users. 

I am an enthusiastic patient safety professional who firmly believes that a positive work culture, education and great leadership promotes safe and quality healthcare. I hope to continue to drive transformation projects through mobilisation, professional support, opportunities, and tools that would support optimal service delivery across Critical care units in the Network. 

Roxy is a data analyst with over 10 years working in the NHS. With a background in NHS Trust Finance and having worked within Thames Valley and Wessex Neonatal Network, Roxy joined the Adult Critical Care Network with the aim of utilising data across Thames Valley, Wessex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

Roxy uses data to benefit services and drive improvements. Her role is shared with the Thames Valley and Wessex Adult Critical Care Network.