Audrey Hopwood
Community and Primary Care
Community Integration lead
MBA Senior Health Care Leadership
MSC Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Community Integration and Primary Care Network Lead
Senior Teaching Fellow Advanced Practice
Lecturer/ project Supervisor Global Health
External Examiner Advanced Practice
20 years in NHS senior posts
Thirty-five plus yearsā€™ experience in nursing, leadership, management, and health care transformation.
Vast experience in community, primary and secondary care, education, professional development, and palliative care and Long-Term Conditions
Professional Advocate
Mental Health First Aider
Vision of Advanced Practice
Nursing, and more recently AHPS, have over the last few decades taken on greater more complex and autonomous roles and responsibilities due to both workforce changes, as well as significant increase in complexity of the patientā€™s health care needs. Advanced practice offers advanced clinical development, leadership and research through transformation and innovation.
It is in more recent years that professional bodies are looking for both further evidence, and greater insight and research to both collaborate and celebrate the growth of advanced practice. This I see as a fantastic opportunity within the changing culture and complex health care systems to offer health care users and health care systems a vision and scope of practice that embraces these decades of change and is robust for the many more practitioners in future years.