This weeks show we have a chat with Alison Leary MBE FRCN she is a Chair of Healthcare & Workforce Modelling at London South Bank University.

She works on the modelling of private and public healthcare systems. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and Queen's Nursing Institute. She has previously held the position of Chief Nursing Officer to St John Ambulance.

Alison served as the clinical lead at Millwall Football Club

In this capacity she helped the football club deploy emergency healthcare, and studied what roles are required for the most effective response team. Her research on the effectiveness of medical teams is part of Millwall F.C.'s new approach to healthcare services, which can accommodate disasters as well as minor injuries, spectator safety and primary care

This work was included in the Sports Safety Ground Authority's 2018 guide, which sets benchmarking standards in British football grounds.

She stood down after 23 years

Awards and honours

2012 Mayor of Southwark Civic Award

2013 Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership Scholar

2014 Nursing Times Leaders list

2014 Health Service Journal Inspirational Women

2015 Elected Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing

2016 Elected Fellow of the Queen's Nursing Institute

2018 Top 70 women in health in 70 years of the NHS

2019 Appointed an MBE in the 2019 Birthday Honours

The charity we spoke about is The British Association for Immediate Care is a registered charity with members drawn from a number of the health care professions, particularly medicine, nursing and paramedicine, as well as others who work or volunteer within pre-hospital care. Some have been members since our inception in 1977 and many have been long term members. Contrary to popular opinion, not all of our members are immediate care responders in an affiliated scheme.