Programme Leaders
The tutor team brings a mix of academic and practical experience in integrated service development.
Guro Huby
Guro is Programme Director and tutor. She comes from a background in social anthropology and has worked in UK applied health services research since 1983. She has experience from a diverse range of fields: management and prevention of problem drinking, community development as a resource for primary care, co-ordination of care for people with HIV/AIDS, hospital discharge and integration of health and social care for older people. From 2001 - 2004 she led the Scotland-wide R&D programme Research-based Development of Scottish Primary Care. This made her aware of the need for new ways of combining research and practice in service development, so that research and information is made directly relevant to the day-to-day challenges of 'integrated' and 'joint working' and whole system development. She is currently Reader in Edinburgh University School of Health in Social Sciences and the Edinburgh University member of the Centre for Integrated Healthcare Research.
Ms. Marion Duffy
Marion is the programme facilitator, taking overall responsibility for designing and facilitating the seminars. She is Educational Facilitator, EM People. With an educational background in the social sciences, in administration and in teaching for Higher Education, Marion's working life has been rich and varied, including lecturing in Communication Skills, writing distance learning material for Community Nurses, managing a general dental practice and co-ordinating a medical practice-based research project. She has been involved in healthcare research and teaching since 1994. Latterly she was a Practice Manager for four years and has facilitated a number of other medical practices in their plans for development. She is now working freelance, concentrating on teaching and facilitation. With Dr Elaine Atkins, she designed and continues to tutor on the MSc in Primary Care Module in Facilitation. She recently co-authored two books on Facilitation Skills for members of primary care teams and runs related workshops for an increasing variety of health and other caring professionals throughout Scotland. In her spare time, she is currently writing a novel.
Steve Kendrick
Steve is a Programme tutor. He brings knowledge and expertise in information use as applied to 'Whole Systems Working' in a Scottish context. He joined the NHS in 1998 after several years working as a research sociologist looking at patterns of social and political change in modern Scotland. His responsibilities working for the Information Services Division of NHS Scotland have included developing the Scottish Medical Record Linkage System, producing Scotland's clinical outcome indicators, and developing a whole system understanding of why emergency admissions have been rising so quickly in Scotland. From April 1994 to May 1995 he was seconded to the Scottish Executive working on the National Framework for Service Change in the NHS in Scotland (the Kerr Report). He is currently developing a programme of work to help map out the territory outlined in the Kerr Report: long term conditions, risk stratification, support for CHPs and Regional Planning.
Pam Warner
Pam is a Programme tutor. She adds academic rigour to the use of information in service development. Based in Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh she has since 1977 worked in the UK in clinical, health services and latterly population health research, mainly in the area of reproductive health. While her initial training was in statistics, she has experience of a diverse range of research methods (physiological studies, questionnaire/diary design, qualitative analysis) and designs (cross-sectional surveys, observational prospective studies, clinical trials, in-depth interview studies, analyses of routine data, development research). She has substantial experience of teaching research methods and statistics to health professionals/ postgraduates, and in dissertation supervision. From 1995 - 2004 she was Course Director for University of Edinburgh's MSc in Epidemiology. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, and her main research affiliation is with the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health Research.
Kate Bell
Kate is a Programme tutor. She brings a wealth of practical experience in integrated service development. She has worked in the Public Sector for approximately 25 years in various sessional, part time, voluntary and professional capacities. This has taken her into jobs in the Social Work Department, Voluntary Organisations, Education formal and informal, and more recently into the NHS. Her current remit as a change and Innovation Manager in the Modernisation Directorate of NHS Lanarkshire involves an 80% conribution to the Community Health Partnerships and a 20% contribution to Whole System Modernisation. She tackles the challenges of systems modernisation, organisational change and service redesign on a daily basis. She engages stakeholders across corporate, clinical and support services, at every level within NHS Lanarkshire and across the organisational boundaries to NHS Lanarkshire's Local Authority partners. 'Whole Systems Working' is complex and demanding. It requiries resilience and belief in an evolving change process that can be influenced by good practice, and Kate helps students build the qualities and skills needed.
Emma Miller
Emma is a Programme tutor. She worked as a social worker in North Lanarkshire for most of the 1990's and moved into research in 1999, obtaining her PhD at Glasgow University in 2003. Since 2004 she has been researching outcomes for users and carers in the context of partnership working. For the last two years she has been working with the Joint Improvement Team of the Scottish Government on integrating user and carer outocmes into community care practice. this work has been both influenced by, and fed into, the National Outcomes Framework for Community Care and has involved working closely with a range of stakeholders to facilitate culture change.
With input and ongoing support from:
The Scottish Government Joint Improvement Team Action Group and Associates, Dr. Tony Kinder, University of Edinburgh Business School, researchers and practitioners of integration and former students.