2026 Shortlist

All shortlisted nominess will be contacted directly regarding the next steps. If you have been shortlisted, and not received an email from the BJN team, please email nurseledconferences@markallengroup.com

Sponsored by:

Nutrition Nurse Team, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Madeleine Lee, Lead Nutrition Nurse Specialist Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust

Birmingham Community Nutrition Nurses, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS, Gee House

Continence Team at Crann, Crann Centre, Cork

 Joana Turner, Senior Pelvic Floor Clinical Nurse specialist / Functional Bowel Lead, The Royal London Hospital

Abigail Knight, Harm Free Care Lead for Tissue Viability, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Emily Shuttleworth, Hepatology CNS Kingston Hospital

Katie Ballesteros, Hepatology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Royal London Hospital

Tiverton Endoscopy Project Team & Engagement Team, Royal Devon University Healthcare Trust 

Claire Smith, Clinical Lead, North Worcester LD Team

Co-Chairs Scottish Learning Disability Nurse Leads Group, NHS Scotland, NHS Grampian

Esther Smith, Advance Clinical Practitioner - Learning Disability Service, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust 

Ndukwe Walter Ugwuocha, Senior Clinical Nurse Mersey Care NHS FT 

Melville Jimmy Garber II, Practice Development Nurse,  West London NHS Trust

Katherine Matthews, Registered Manager, Perry Manor Care Home

Innovation & Research Team, Institute of Health Visiting

Lincoln Gombedza, Practice Education Facilitator and Registered Learning Disability Nurse, North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust

Hannah Rahmani, Head of Nursing - Primary Care, Primary Care 24

Joana Teles, Clinical Nurse Specialist CKD, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust  

Sarah Milne, Renal Nurse Consultant, Royal Free Hospital London  

Christine Maville, Nurse Consultant NRCTC, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne

Kathryn Chatterton, Bladder Cancer Advanced Nurse Practitioner,  Guys and St Thomas NHS trust  

Claire Evans, Community Urology Lead Nurse Specialist, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust 

Hannah Doyle, Clinical Nurse Specialist, The Royal Marsden

Abigail Knight, Harm Free Care Lead for Tissue Viability, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Arfon and Mon Leg ulcer and complex wound service, BCUHB, Primary Care. Ysbyty Penrhos Stanley, Holyhead.

Ross Johannides, Deputy Director of Nursing, Barchester Healthcare

Sponsored by:

Pip Noble & Heather Simpson, Midwife and Maternal medicine service & Retired Inflammatory Bowel Specialist Nurse, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals

Gabrielle Parham, Senior Matron Community Nursing, Oxford Health Foundation Trust

Erika Taparan, Catheter Lead Nurse, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust 

Rachel Hulmes, Senior Practice Nurse, Springfield Medical Practice, Eccles

Lisa Watson, Inpatient senior Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist, Royal Liverpool Hospital

NPT Insulin Pump Team, Swansea bay NHS (Neath Port Talbot)

Helen McLaren, Infection Prevention and Control Matron, Liverpool Women's Hospital

Claire Brown, Head of Infection Prevention and Control,  London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Norman Jr Lobino,  Infection Prevention and Control Nurse Manager, St John and St Elizabeth Hospital  

Fiona Kent, Lymphoedema Nurse Clinical Lead, West Pottergate GP Surgery, Norwich 

Lymph and Learn Tissue Viability and Lymphoedema Service, Cantley Health Centre, Doncaster

Garry Cooper, Lymphoedema, Research and Innovation Specialist,  Swansea Bay University Health Board

Dominic Simpson,  Assistant Professor,  Northumbria University

Peter Sandy, Associate Professor in Mental Health Nursing, University of West London

Mirriam Collett,  Childrens Nurse Lecturer,  University of Salford

Right by You Wessex, Wessex Cancer Alliance, University Hospital Southampton 

Gini Melesi,  Head of Clinical Programmes,  East of England Cancer Alliance

Emma Davey, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care, The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre

Kelly Chegwidden, Lead Stoma Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, North Middlesex Hospital  

Margaret Northover, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Stoma Care, Guy’s Hospital  

Anna Brewer, Lead Stoma Clinical Nurse Specialist,  Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Catherine Lang, Vascular Access Nurse Lead, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 

Andrew Barton, Nurse Consultant, Frimley Health NHS FT 

Princell Regis, Vascular Access/ Chemotherapy Sister, Mount Vernon Cancer Center (East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust)