Mental Health 2018 Speakers

Professor Tim Kendall
National Clinical Director for Mental Health
NHS England and NHS Improvement

Professor Tim Kendall is NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Mental health. He has been Director of the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health at the Royal College of Psychiatrists for 15 years and Visiting Professor at University College London for the last 8 years. Tim has also been Medical Director for 13 years and ...

Sarah Hughes
Chief Executive
Centre for Mental Health

Sarah has worked in mental health for 27 years and has been the Chief Executive at Centre for Mental Health for over a year now. Having initially trained as a social worker, Sarah has managed a range of innovative community and secure services. She also led the research and evaluation of the pioneering First Night in Custody project in Holloway ...

Alexandra Blohm
Policy Manager - Mental Health
Care Quality Commission

Alexandra Blohm was appointed as Regulatory Policy Manager in Care Quality Commission (CQC)’s Mental Health Policy Team in 2017 and in this role she is responsible for; leading CQC’s input in to the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, leading on the actions arising out of CQC’s state of care in mental health services 2014 ...

Dr Tom Foley
Senior Clinical lead
NHS Digital

Tom specialises as a child and adolescent psychiatrist and has degrees in software engineering, economics and public policy. Since working as a full-time management consultant with PwC and BDO, Tom has spent time in clinical practice, academia and consultancy. Tom conducts reviews on healthcare policy issues and has held operational positions ...

Professor Dame Sue Bailey DBE
Chair
Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Coalition

Prof Dame Sue Bailey is Chair of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition. She is Honorary Professor of Mental Health Policy at the University of Central Lancashire; Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges; Senior Clinical Advisor for Mental Health at Health Education England; External Advisor to the Minister of Health ...

Tracey Robinson
Project Manager – Perinatal Mental Health
NHS England

Tracey is a project manager on the NHS England national perinatal mental health transformation programme, which is investing £365m in specialist perinatal mental health services as part of the mental health five year forward view. She has worked in NHS mental health services for 24 years, as an occupational therapist and in a variety of ...

Kathy Roberts
Chief Executive
Association of Mental Health Providers

With over 20 years of cross-sector senior leadership roles, Kathy was appointed as Chief Executive of Association of Mental Health Providers in April 2012. Throughout her career Kathy has championed the need for whole-person and whole-system approaches to the design, development and delivery of services; across health, social care and wider ...

Dr Kay Sahdev
Managing Director
ODRL

Kay has over twenty five years’ experience in the areas of Organisation Development, Talent Management and Learning and Development. She has consulted with diverse organisations such as civil service, international development, police, telecommunications, health service, manufacturing, utilities, chemicals distribution, insurance and ...

Mark Yates
Acting Director of Operations
Rethink Mental Illness

Mark has worked in care and support services for many years, starting his career working across supported housing and supported living services as a support worker for homeless families and individuals with a learning disability. Mark moved onto work in older people’s services, leading a team to deliver housing support services with ...

Brian Dow
Director of External Affairs and Deputy Chief Executive
Rethink Mental Illness

Brian joined Rethink Mental Illness in November 2014 as Director of External Affairs, having spent the previous fifteen years working for a range of well-known charities including Shelter, RNID and, most recently, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Prior to that he was a broadcast journalist working with both the BBC and the ...

John Dixon
Executive Director
Pinpoint Limited

John has a track record in developing and delivering strategies for businesses with significant international growth opportunities. Having owned several companies of his own, ranging from web-based technology to capital equipment manufacturing, he has a passion for products and solutions that support and lead change in the market. After selling ...

Richard Andrews
Founder, Chairman and CEO
Healios

Having close family and friends who’ve suffered from mental illness and dementia, Richard experienced first-hand the challenge of accessing support for both those affected by the illness and the families involved. In 2013, he founded Healios to transform the way mental health care is delivered through technology; helping people with mental ...

Kathy Smethurst
Deputy Director for Mental Health Policy
Department of Health & Social Care

Kathy is Deputy Director for Mental Health Policy and Delivery at the Department for Health and Social Care in England. She has held various roles in health policy, including mental health, long-term conditions and public health, as well as in the voluntary sector.

Kevin Crysell
Account Manager
Pinpoint Limited

With over 35 years of sales and business development experience, Kevin was appointed as Account Manager for Pinpoint in 2006. Based in the South East of England, he has worked with key healthcare providers such as London Kings College Hospital, Cygnet Health, The Priory Group and Kent & Medway NHS to implement high performance staff safety ...

Jane Winehouse
Managing Trustee, Director and Co-founder
Amy Winehouse Foundation

The Amy Winehouse Foundation (AWF) was set up by the Winehouse family following Amy Winehouse’s untimely death in 2011. As part of its mission, AWF works to prevent the effects of drug and alcohol misuse on young people. Jane has been one of the key people involved in the development of two of AWF’s main projects: The ‘Amy ...

Cam Lugton
Programme Lead - National Mental Health Dementia & Neurology Intelligence Network (NMHDNIN)
Public Health England

Cam is a public health specialist with interests in mental health and the effective use of data and intelligence to inform planning and commissioning of care and support services. He has worked in public health for 25 years and has been registered as a Specialist on UKPHA register of public health specialists since 2008. He has worked for the ...

Michelle Reynolds
Group Director of Commercial and Charitable services
Clarion Housing Group

Michelle heads up the commercial and charitable directorate of Clarion Housing Group. Her responsibilities include oversight of: Centra care and support, Clarion Response (our in house repairs service), Grange (property management company) House Exchange and Clarion Futures, the Group's charitable foundation. With over 25 years ...

Lizzie Smith
Regional Mental Health Lead for London and Local Director HEE North London
Health Education England

Lizzie Smith has almost 20 years NHS management experience and is currently the Local Director for HEE across North London and the regional lead for Mental Health for HEE across London. Before the establishment of HEE, Lizzie was Head of Education Planning and Market Development in the NHS London Education commissioning team. She is an ...

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