Present appointment:
Director of Clinical Quality, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. (interim Oct 2020 - may 2021) June 2021 - present day
Visiting Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University and Associate of Lab4Living
Honorary Researcher with University of Sheffield, School of Nursing and Midwifery
Address: 10-18 Union Street, London SE1 1SZ
Twitter: @Wolstenholme_d
Professional registration: (Name of body, registration number and date of registration.)
UK Nursing and Midwifery Council, 96IO918E, 09/98
Qualifications:
The University of Sheffield M. Med Sci, Health Care Studies 1999 – 2001
Oxford Brookes University Masters module, Planning and conducting clinical trials 2006 – 2007
The University of Sheffield Registered General Nurse, Adult Nursing 1996 – 1998
The University of Sheffield B.Sc. (Hons), Neuroscience 1992 – 1996
Previous and other appointments:
Director and Senior Programme Manager for the Centre for Quality Improvement and Clinical Audit , RCOG. July 2019 - October 2021
Programme manager NIHR CLAHRC YH, Communications Lead, Theme Manager Translating Knowledge into action, NIHR CLAHRC Yorkshire and Humber, Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom January 2014- June 2019
Theme manager and Clinical Research Fellow, User-centred Healthcare Design, NIHR CLAHRC for South Yorkshire, Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom
October 2009- December 2013 (4 years)
Senior Research coordinator, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, May 2008 – October 2009 (1 year 6 months)
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Research and Development Lead March 2006 – May 2008 (2 years 3 months)
Charge Nurse, Emergency Admissions Unit, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, January 2004 – March 2006 (2 years 3 months)
University of Sheffield Lecturer Practitioner, University of Sheffield, September 2003 – March 2006 (2 years 7 months)
Grants:
PI or Co-I Grants
2022 – circa £3,000,000 Avoiding Brain Injury in Childbirth – UK Department of Health and Social Care
2021 - £199,000 Health Foundation, Covid Maternity Equality Project
2019 - £73,000 Energy Redress Funds, ‘Prioritise me’
2017 - £7,500 DEEP, Sheffield creative dementia hub
2017 - £153,658 Mesothelioma UK Understanding the impact of mesothelioma for military personnel and veterans.
2017 £19,931 EAGA Charitable Trust. Being Warm: Being Happy. Understanding fuel poverty for people with learning difficulties.
2017 - £23,544 NIHR Research Capacity Funding NIHR RCF through CLAHRC YH
Safety netting in primary care for people with cancer.
2017 - £15,000 Doncaster Council/CCG/CLAHRC YH Planning hospital discharge to maximise positive experiences and outcomes for frail older people
2016 - £15,000 Chartered Society Physiotherapy Knowledge Mobilisation: Weigh Forward
2013 - £50,000 The Arts and Humanities Research Council: Design in Innovation Expert network
2012 - £75,000 The Health Foundation: SHINE 2012 Improving self efficacy in Spinal Cord Injury Patients through ‘Design Thinking’ rehabilitation workshops
2011 - £679,429 NIHR CLAHRC YH ‘TK2A theme’
Project Partner
Effectiveness of sexual assault referral centres with regard to Mental Health and Substance Use: A National Mixed Method Study – NIHR HSDR £1,367,000 (co-production lead)
Consultancy
Coproducing a Mesothelioma decision aid £2000
BME Domestic violence £2000 (Project funding £25,000 from General Nursing Council Trust)
Patient Experience and Reflective Learning (PEARL) (Project funded by NIHR HS&DR £723,698 (co-design lead and consultant)
Invited Conferences:
• Keynote speaker Design / Health Symposium, Auckland University of technology and Auckland District Health Board December 2013
• International Nurses Day 2018: Presentation at Medical School University of Sheffield
• Royal college of midwives Annual Conference plenary session “design thinking as service improvement” October 2016
• Invited visit to Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. School of Nursing.
• Sharing Good Practice Festival 2017 ‘Translating knowledge into Action’ Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Prizes
• Poster of the day RCN International research conference 2018, An Exploratory Study to Review Written Nursing Documentation
• Most creative contribution UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum 2018 “How can co- production processes help to elicit, share and blend different forms of knowledge? “
• Paper of the day RCN international research conference 2017 ‘Co-designing hepatitis C services’ with Dr Ray Poll, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
• Best oral presentation 14th annual Knowledge Utilization Colloquium 2014 Tallberg Dalarna