The team

The NHSP Training & Consultancy Team

Christine Cameron

Registered clinical scientist (audiology); audiology consultant for the NHSP Quality Assurance programme.

Christines experience includes: 17 years in the NHS working in a variety of multi disciplinary teams, in the assessment and management of infants and children with a hearing loss; development of an eLearning course for continuing professional development; lead for MCHAS for two years; member of PAIG steering group.

Christines areas of expertise and interest include assessment and habilitation of deaf infants within multidisciplinary teams and training and professional development in these areas.

Gwen Carr

Director of Early Intervention Studies & Deputy Group Director of the MRC Hearing and Communication Group, University of Manchester.

Gwen was Deputy CEO at the National Deaf Childrens Society, for over 3 years, following 10 years as Head of Sensory Support Services in a Metropolitan Local Education Authority. She has been a consultant to the NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme for England since 2002,

Gwens areas of special interest include: support offered to families of deaf children during and following the diagnostic period; the development of Family friendly services; the promotion of Informed Choice; the impact of early information giving on the subsequent engagement of families with the services which exist to support them.

Mary Kean

Teaching Fellow in Deaf Education, University of Manchester

Mary is a Senior Teaching Fellow on the postgraduate teacher of the deaf training course at the University of Manchester. Mary has been a Teacher of the Deaf for over 20 years and has worked in special school, mainstream, unit, peripatetic and advisory roles.

Marys areas of special interest include: The Early Support Monitoring Protocol for deaf babies and children; The Early Support Service audit tool; Early Years; Audiology and children with additional needs.

Lindsay Kimm

NHSP Head of Training and Development

Lindsay has led the NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme training team since its commencement in 2001. Her team develops and delivers all the training for screening sites in England and associated development events. Lindsays areas of special interest include: Setting up, running and evaluating screening programmes; developing and delivering training and eLearning for screening teams and stakeholders; motivation and team building.

Wendy McCracken

Senior Lecturer in Deaf Education, University of Manchester

Wendy is responsible for directing the course leading to the mandatory qualification to teach deaf children. She is a qualified Teacher of the Deaf and Educational Audiologist and has worked in a wide range of settings both nationally and internationally.

Wendys areas of special interest include: Deaf children with additional needs; Multiagency working; Use of the ESMP.

Amy Skipp

Research & Training Consultant

Amy has joined the NHSP training and consultancy team having previously worked on the implementation and evaluation of the MCHAS project and been the Head of Research at the National Deaf Childrens Society.

Amys areas of special interest include: deaf children and their families experiences of services and living with deafness; developing family friendly services; Early Support Service Audit tool; Early support family file and Monitoring protocol for deaf babies.

Graham Sutton MA PhD CS

Registered Clinical Scientist (Audiology). Consultant Audiological Scientist.

Grahams experience includes 18 years in the NHS, 12 of them as head of department in Reading. He also was Audiology lead for the implementation of the Modernising Hearing aid services (MHAS) project. He has been a consultant to the NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme for England since 2001. Grahams areas of special interest include assessment of infants and children, and organisation of paediatric audiology services

Nick Waddell

Communications & IT Manager

Nicks experience includes over six years experience in newborn hearing screening implementation and development.

Nicks areas of expertise and interest include: Design, specification, procurement and implementation of patient management systems; Screening equipment integration; Workflow/dataflow analysis and process improvement; Communications, branding and website design; Innovation and development; Information governance and data quality.

Sally Wood

Clinical Lead, Newborn Hearing Screening programme

Sallys experience includes paediatric audiological assessment and (re)habilitation and newborn hearing screening

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