Private: Meet the team
Amanda Kennett
LMNS Midwifery Clinical Lead
LMNS Midwifery Clinical Lead
Becca Scott
LMNS Head of Public Health and Prevention
LMNS Head of Public Health and Prevention
As an experienced Midwife, Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) and Public Health Practitioner, Becca has a passion for advocating the importance of the Best Start in Life.
Awarded with Membership of the Faculty of Public Health in 2022 for her contribution to Public Health, Becca has a proven track record of leading large-scale change across complex systems in health care, including the implementation of the NENC Tobacco Dependency in Pregnancy and Postnatal period pathway and NHS Long Term Plan.
Delivered using a health inequalities lens through a populational health management approach, her current portfolio of work includes tobacco dependency in pregnancy, perinatal mental health, breastfeeding, reproductive health and maternal healthy weight. Supporting the workforce, local systems, research and education through leading and creating a range of public health initiatives, a range of high-quality service improvements have been delivered in clinical practice to contribute to a reduction in health inequalities.
Through her career Becca has developed influencing, negotiating and planning skills as well as people and business management acumen. Communicating effectively, political awareness, emotional and business intelligence, understanding different views, engaging with and managing complexity and using these skills to solve problems and deliver results are key strengths. She has also maintained a passion for teaching by providing lectures on numerous education programmes and providing coaching to strengthen the maternity, nursing and health visiting workforce.
If you would like more information, please contact Becca at: [email protected]
Dr Elaine Gouk
LMNS Obstetric Clinical Lead
LMNS Obstetric Clinical Lead
Dr Lynne Paterson
LMNS Neonatal Nurse Clinical Lead
LMNS Neonatal Nurse Clinical Lead
Dr Thomas Skeath
LMNS Neonatal Medical Clinical Lead
LMNS Neonatal Medical Clinical Lead
Emma Richardson
LMNS Project Officer
LMNS Project Officer
Emma joined the LMNS in January 2023 as Project Officer, her previous background spans from costing, finance, procurement and delivering projects and programmes in both Local Authority and the NHS.
In her role as LMNS Project Officer, Emma supports in delivery of the following elements:
- Programme and Project delivery.
- Financial and budget management.
- Procurement and contracting.
- Co-Producing and engaging with MNVP’s & SUV Leads.
If you would like more information, please contact Emma at: [email protected]
Jenna Wall
LMNS Midwifery Clinical Lead
LMNS Midwifery Clinical Lead
Jenna moved from Yorkshire to study at Northumbria University, qualifying as a midwife in 2002. Over her career, she has held various positions including senior midwife, bereavement lead midwife, and matron with a passion for intrapartum care and supporting women in their choices.
She was Head of Midwifery at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust from 2019 to 2023, focusing on patient safety, quality improvement and addressing health inequalities. From 2021 to 2023, she was the Midwifery Clinical Lead for the NHSE Maternity Clinical Network, providing expert clinical leadership to improve access to quality care in maternity services.
Since 2021, she has been the Midwifery Clinical Lead for NENC LMNS and holds various leadership roles including Chair of the NENC LMNS Workforce Group. She recently served as the NENC ICB Director of Nursing and Midwifery (2023-2024) and commenced as Director of Midwifery at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in June 2024.
A proud midwife and mother of two, she is dedicated to supporting women, families, and healthcare staff.
If you would like more information, please contact Jenna at: [email protected]
Lauren Smart
LMNS Project Officer
LMNS Project Officer
Lauren joined the LMNS in January 2023 as Project officer. Her background spans project management in both private sector and Local Authority.
In her role as LMNS Project Officer, Lauren supports delivery of the following workstreams:
- Quality and Safety
- Workforce
- Equity and Equality
- Digital
- Personalised Care
If you would like more information, please contact Lauren at: [email protected]
Lou Wilson
LMNS Head of Digital Strategy
LMNS Head of Digital Strategy
Louise is the LMNS Programme Management Office lead for the LMNS digital, data and technology programme, working closely with digital midwives, obstetricians, BI and IT leads to utilise digital tools in support of a Learning Health System.
Louise has more than 30 years’ health informatics and systems convening experience – she is enthusiastic about the potential of collaboration and digital in supporting care delivery and improving outcomes.
Louise co-[1]authored a training tool with Dr Paul Robinson, Using Computers in the Consulting Room, and is editor/author of three books including, eAppraisal, eCommunication Skills and eClinical Governance. With an NHS colleague from Bristol, Louise produced an award-winning health app in 2012 for people managing the symptoms of fatigue.
More recently, Louise worked as professional engagement lead for the Great North Care Record and was a co-recipient of an ESRC impact acceleration award-funded project, building a development programme for Learning Community Facilitators.
If you would like more information, please contact Lou at: [email protected]
Louise MasonLodge
Senior Responsible Officer (SRO)
Louise MasonLodge
Louise is the Interim Director of Nursing and Quality and the Designated Nurse for Safeguarding in North Cumbria CCG. Louise has recently taken on the role of SRO for West North East Cumbria LMS.
Louise trained as a nurse and health visitor and completed her Masters in Research in Clinical Practice. Louise has worked in a variety of leadership, clinical and partnership roles in acute, community and primary care services. Louise is passionate about quality, safety and safeguarding and ensuring that women and babies of North Cumbria are at the heart of our maternity services.
Magda Grendus-Boothman
LMNS Business Support Assistant
LMNS Business Support Assistant
Magda joined the LMNS in January 2023. She has been working in the NHS since 2015, where she started working as Laboratory Medical Assistant in Pathology Department in Cumberland Infirmary.
In her role as LMNS Business Support Assistant, Magda has responsibility for the following areas:
- Provide a high quality, comprehensive and confidential administrative support service to the Local Maternity & Neonatal System.
- To service meetings through the compiling and issuing of agendas, taking accurate minutes and notes of meetings as and when required, co-ordinating the collation and distribution of papers, ensuring relevant paperwork is distributed in good time prior to the meeting. Supporting programme managers and PMO lead, following-up outputs, action points and deadlines.
- Arrange appointments and meetings ensuring that appropriate communications are actioned and documents are available.
- Undertake diary management, resolve conflicting appointments and schedules as required.
If you would like more information, please contact Magda at: [email protected]
Mandy Tester
LMNS Programme Lead
LMNS Programme Lead
Mandy joined the LMNS in January 2023 as Programme Lead. Mandy has worked within various roles in the NHS since 1988 including primary care commissioning and operational and programme management. She also spent several years as a Session Manager at the NHS Blood & Transplant.
In her role as LMNS Programme Lead, Mandy has responsibility for the following areas:
- Lead for Service User Engagement
- Lead for Equity & Equality
- Project planning and management
- Planning and organisation of events
- Planning of annual Perinatal Quality Surveillance Assurance Peer Reviews
If you would like more information, please contact Mandy at: [email protected]
Michael Dunn
LMNS Programme Manager
LMNS Programme Manager
Michael joined the LMNS in March 2023 as Programme Manager, his previous background spans commissioning, procurement and programme management in both Local Authority and the NHS. He also spent a number of years as an Operational Manager across a range of specialities in a NHS tertiary hospital trust.
In his role as LMNS Programme Manager, Michael has responsibility for the following areas:
- Overall programme delivery, including governance and assurance
- Risk management and mitigation
- Financial and budget management
- Procurement and contracting oversight
- Human resources management
- Programme administration
- Specific workforce programme management and engagement
If you would like more information, please contact Michael at: [email protected]
Pete Bell
Business Intelligence Manager
Business Intelligence Manager
Pete and his team have worked for the LMNS on a part time basis since January 2023 as the Business Intelligence Manager. Pete has worked in the NHS for over 30 years and his previous background mainly spans Information/Business Intelligence but also includes Finance, Contracting and Performance Management. The initial part of his career was in hospital trusts, however since 2013 he has worked in a Commissioning Support Unit.
In his role as LMNS Business Intelligence Manager, Pete has responsibility for the following areas:
- Develop, streamline and consolidate ad-hoc and routine reporting to support the LMNS.
- Develop data collection, extraction and analysis, led by an expert digital lead for all major strategic programmes.
- Provide support and advice to LMNS groups and meetings.
- Provide support around the use and development of Maternity and Neonatal Data Analytics Environment (MANDATE).
- Provide regular reporting to the LMNS.
If you would like more information, please contact Pete at: [email protected]
Professor Stephen Robson
Digital, Data and Technology Obstetric Clinical Lead
Digital, Data and Technology Obstetric Clinical Lead
Rachel Douglas
LMNS Programme Lead
LMNS Programme Lead
Rachel joined the LMNS Team in November 2022 as Programme Lead. Rachel has worked in various roles in the NHS since 2010 including The North East Ambulance Service, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and NHS England. Rachel has a passion for maternity services and worked in various maternity roles since 2015. She works part-time and spends the other half of the week looking after her two children.
In her role as LMNS Programme Lead, Rachel has responsibility for the following areas:
- Lead for Personalised Care
- Project planning and management
- Planning and organisation of events
- Planning of annual Perinatal Quality Surveillance Assurance Peer Reviews
If you would like more information, please contact Rachel at: [email protected]
Roz Nunn
LMNS Public Health Practitioner
LMNS Public Health Practitioner
Having initially gained qualification as a Registered General Nurse consolidated in practice in elderly care, Ros completed dual registration as a Midwife and has worked across all areas in acute and community maternity services. She progressed to specialise in infant feeding within an NHS Trust leading on and achieving full UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation, providing specialist clinical support for maternity, neonatal and paediatrics services, delivering workforce training including lecturing on the Midwifery and Specialist Public Health Nursing and Health Visiting Programmes and supporting best practice and quality assurance within her sphere of work. She went on to work within Surestart Childrens Centres managing an infant feeding team and peer support programme whilst leading again on UNICEF BFI accreditation within health visiting and community settings, before returning to midwifery from where she has been seconded for almost 4 years to a NENC public health prevention in maternity role.
Within her current role, she has worked extensively from a whole-system approach at strategic level with stakeholders across multi-disciplinary organisations to oversee implementation and embedding of the North East and North Cumbria Infant Feeding Strategy, leading a nationally recognised model of best practice and excellence, and guest lecturing to other LMNS’s, national and regional teams and OHID. She continues to provide clinical expertise across the NENC and is currently the NENC regional lead for the National Infant Feeding Network and a member of UNICEF BFI Designation Committee.
Her portfolio as a public health practitioner includes project work from a health inequalities, population health and prevention approach, developing and supporting implementation of best practice standards and training programmes including maternal healthy weight, immunisation (including the Covid 19 response), safe sleep and migrant health whilst supporting the wider public health agenda in maternity, early years, and the Best Start in Life programme. She has also contributed in collaboration on several research projects. Currently she is supporting delivery of the NENC LMNS infant feeding, healthy weight and pregnancy anticipatory care workstreams as part of the public health and equity and equality workstream.
If you would like more information, please contact Roz at: [email protected]
Vicky Bulman
LMNS Business Support Administrator
LMNS Business Support Administrator
Vicky has worked in the NHS for the past 10 years in various administrative roles and joined the LMNS PMO team in February 2022
In her role as LMNS Business Support Administrator, Vicky supports the LMNS PMO team and has responsibility for providing effective comprehensive admin support on a day to day basis.
If you would like more information please contact Vicky at: [email protected]
Andy Beeby
LMS Senior Responsible Officer
Andy is Medical Director and Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. He is the Senior Responsible Officer for the NTWND LMS.
Sandra Guise
Maternity Voices Partnership Representative
I’m Sandra, I live in Ennerdale, on the west coast of Cumbria. My three children were born at West Cumberland Hospital. I have been involved in varying ways and in different projects relating the service user/ family perspective in maternity and children’s services, on and off over several years. I have been actively involved since the launch of Better Births in 2016 in formation of local Maternity Voices Partnership Groups, these have expanded opportunities to be involved and make a positive difference locally in maternity. Involvement is maturing now into Co production at many levels, normalising the service user voice being an expected part of all maternity service improvement and development. Maternity is such an important and influential time in a woman s/ birthing person’s life, and their partner/ family’s life. It is vital that we strive to ensure that all local voices have a safe space to be heard, particularly those from groups who experience poorer outcomes. I’m currently Chair of West Cumbria Maternity Voices Partnership Group (MVP) and Chair of the Carlisle & Eden MVP. As MVP Chair I sit on the West North East Cumbria Local Maternity System (LMS) Board ensuring that service user voices are represented at the strategic level. I am one of three Co-Chairs of the Maternity Engagement group (MEG) that covers North Cumbria and the Northeast, one lay Chair for each LMS. We act as a lay link between the local LMS board and MEG. I’m a founding committee member of National Maternity Voices, which is the national group of Maternity Voices Partnerships in England, and an NHS Peer Mentor for MVP Chairs.
Kathryn Hardy
LMS Programme Lead NTWD and DTHRW/DTHRW LMS Acting Senior Responsible Officer
I have had a long and happy career working within the NHS. I became a Registered General Nurse back in 1987 then I became a Registered Midwife in 1991. My Midwifery career has provided me with many opportunities and I have been able to undertake a number of differing roles. I have worked in both hospital and community midwifery settings and I have many years experience delivering women at home, in water and to empower women to have the birth of their choice. I am privileged to have had a breadth of experience within the health service such as Quality and Governance lead, Modern Matron and my current role across the North East as Local Maternity System Programme Lead. Although my current role is no longer patient facing, due to the experience I have gained I feel well placed to lead on new initiatives to ensure the families across the North East receive maternity care which is safe, of the highest quality and most importantly family focused. I work with some incredible people who are passionate about improving the health of women and babies across the region it’s a pleasure to come to work.
Nicola Jackson
LMS Programme Lead
I am Nicola, I have two grown up daughters who also work for the NHS. I am the Programme Management Lead for the West North East Cumbria Local Maternity System (LMS) and responsible for the delivery of the Better Births Programme. I work closely with a wide range of colleagues in North Cumbria Midwifery Service, our Maternity Voices Partnerships and others across the regional so that we can deliver the best possible services for women, babies and their families. I am passionate about delivering the best NHS services for babies, children, young people and families.
Naomi Tinnion
LMS Admnistrator
My name is Naomi Tinnion and I provide admin support to the DTHRW and NTWD LMS’s for 50% of my time. For the other 50% I support the Maternity Clinical Network. My main role is to support the team with the setting up of meetings, taking notes and producing minutes, the circulation and sharing of information across the LMS areas and anything else required to keep things running smoothly. If you would like to meet with a member of the team or have a question to ask please get in touch – [email protected]