Profiles of Service Users
Alan Parker; Service user and carer
Anne Arber; Senior Lecturer in Cancer and Palliative Care (University of Surrey)
Ann Emery; Representative from Age UK
Dave Chuter; Service user
David Cook; Service user
Gilly Golesworthy; Service User and carer
Maggie Wilcox; Service user
Margaret Hill; Representative from Age UK
Sophie Gasson; Service user
Janet Holah; Service User
Dave Chuter
My full time day job is an Operations Co-ordinator / Account Manager for a Label printing company on the south coast. I had an Oesophagectomy at the RSCH in Sept 2006. With the support from the hospital Upper GI team, I helped set up the local patient support group for Upper GI surgery and cancer patients which I organise and Chair, we now meet monthly with different themes / topics / presentations each month, see attached 2011 programme for details.
My aim for the group is to be able to offer support, advice and to answer all the questions new patients / carers have, by having Clinical staff attending meetings and using the vast experiences of other patients. To find out more information for the support group and having an interest in cancer research from the patient side of the fence, I was invited to join the SWSH CPRG in 2009 and was elected Vice Chair this year. I am also a Patient Governor of the RSCH, elected at the start of the Foundation Trust. Within this role, one of my duties is to put forward the views of patients right to the top and ensure that they are heard.
Outside work and Hospital duties, my interests are:
Photography - Chair of Middleton-on-Sea Camera Club,
Trustee of local Village Hall,
Beach Fishing,
Walking,
Gardening,
Spoiling Grandson.
David Cook
David has been, for over 20 years, an active member of self-help groups for people with drug and alcohol problems and self-help groups for adults who were brought up in homes where at least one of their parents suffered from alcoholism. David has a Diploma in Mental Health Nursing from the University of Surrey and an MSc in Interprofessional Practice in Mental Health from St. Bartholomew's School of Nursing and Midwifery at City University. Both qualifications were awarded with a Distinction. David is currently working on publishing articles based on his work at City University including his Dissertation.
Janet Holah
I used to work in the pharmaceutical industry. On leaving that I became an member and then Chairman of Mid Surrey Community Health Council. During this time, I joined East Surrey Local Research Ethics Committee (LREC).
I then became a Non Executive Director (NED) of East Surrey Health Authority (ESHA) where I was Lead Complaints Convenor and chaired a number of sub committees. I also continued my membership of the LREC.
When ESHA merged with others to become the South East coast Strategic Health Authority I spent a year or so as a consultant to several newly formed Trusts mentoring their new NEDs on the NHS complaints procedure.
I then became a NED of Surrey Ambulance Trust where again I was given the role of Lead Complaints Convenor and Chaired the Clinical Governance and Risk Management Committee and also the Patient and Public Involvement Committee. I became a Mental Health Act Manager in 2001 and continue with this role. It involves sitting on Hearings when sectioned patients have the Section renewed or when they appeal against Section. We then have to deliberate and decide whether the Section should be upheld or not. I am a member of SECAmb Research and Development Subcommittee, advising on Ethics.
