Fiona Green

I am a Nurse and Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner working in Somerset.

I have worked across community, primary and secondary care settings over my career. My current role focuses on frailty, preventing unnecessary hospital admission and facilitating early discharge across the county of somerset. I completed my masters in advanced practice in 2021 which has consolidated my educational experiences, achievements and experiential equivalence throughout my career to date.

I have worked within the community for the last sixteen years, and l am passionate and a huge advocate for the provision of person-centred care being the right care, in the right place at the right time, ensuring appropriate expertise and capacity allocation, across the workplace.

I am a Queens Nurse which demonstrates my applied commitment to leadership networking within the sphere of community working, promoting best practice, sharing ideas, empowering and influencing change and identifying need for research at a local, regional and national level. The privilege of working within the homes of our older person population is one l take very seriously, ensuring that the care they receive is evidence based, individualised and reflected upon to ensure learning occurs to improve the NHS overall.

I am passionate and proactive about facing the NHS challenges in improving health and social care for the older person. The focus must be on innovative, cross organisational working ensuring personalised care is the overriding agenda within the multidisciplinary working environment. Positive learning from situations such as the pandemic is essential to improve the future. Research needs to be encouraged at grass roots level within the NHS to ensure robust learning is embedded in all that the NHS does.

I embrace developing the workforce. On a day to day basis, I support trainee ACPs and junior doctors, joint working wherever possible, sharing my expertise and encouraging collaboration across all sectors of secondary, primary and community services, promoting how to focus on frailty – deprescribing over prescribing, ensuring quality of life is the focus not an over medical approach. Is the patient and their key support network involved in all the decisions being made?

The deputy chair role would be a new personal challenge so l would approach it with an open mind and enthusiasm. I would use all my transferable skills and values to learn quickly, listen and embrace the privilege of working with the expertise around me. The campaigns supported and promoted by the BGS are already embedded within my working ethos, such as H@H models of care, front door frailty, MDT workforce working, enabling technology to improve care delivery for the older person, just a few examples. I am so passionate about caring for the older person, so l would channel that into promoting the voice of the BGS with the intention of directly influencing improvements for the care of the older person.