More about our Council Members

Membership and brief biographical details

   
Elizabeth Fenton OBE
Director of Nursing and  Midwifery - Workforce , Training and Education. NHS England
Starting her nursing career at Kings College Hospital joining the nursing register in 1981, Liz has held a variety of operational, managerial and leadership roles in health and care, including at Executive Director level and is currently the Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Workforce, Training and Education for NHS England.  Passionate about nursing and improving out comes for patients, Liz was awarded the title Queens Nurse in 2017 and an OBE for services to nursing in 2022. Liz has been a CHKS surveyor for more that 20 years and is a part time Doctoral student at the University of Worcester. 
 

Hayley Hall
 

Hayley has held a wide range of roles related to quality assurance and clinical governance she changed her career in early 2020 to focus on self-employment. This has led to a wide variety of ad-hoc and sessional roles related to public and patient engagement and involvement. Hayley now works with a variety of organisations including the University of Central Lancashire, the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and The Health Foundation.  Her work focuses on ensuring that research and service provision considers the lived experiences of service users, patients, carers and their families and that ethical issues have been considered. In early 2021 she was appointed a public member of the NIHR EME funding committee and a member of its Strategy Advisory Committee in November 2021.
 
Hayley supports the Health and Care Professionals Council in their approval and monitoring work, providing advice on how education providers have engaged with service users in the provision and delivery of their education and training programmes. Finally, as a lay examiner, she works with both the Royal College of Surgeons and Royal College Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, assessing candidates’ professionalism and ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, and colleagues.
 
Hayley also has a range of voluntary roles, including being a community engagement volunteer with her local Healthwatch, being an active part of the Royal College of Physicians Patient and Carer Network and being a member of the Research Advisory Group at the University Hospital Warwick & Coventry NHS Trust.
 


 
 
Gerard Crofton-Martin
Director of Transformation and Improvement,
Social Care Institute for Excellence
 
Gerard has worked on improvement & transformation programmes for over 10 years and leads SCIE’s national work in this area. This includes leading a multimillion-pound work programme supporting Government Departments in England and Northern Ireland with adult social care improvement and transformation, as well as  programmes covering coproduction, workforce development, and  Social Care Wales' knowledge management programme. Gerard is also the Programme Director for SCIE’s Safeguarding audit and review programme.

Gerard has been a member of a number of advisory Boards, for example the Health & Care Publications Advisory Board   which oversaw official and national statistics publications across the sector, the Strategic Oversight Board for care.data and the National Information Board. 
 
 

 
 
 
  
  



 
 
 
 

 

 

 
 



 

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