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The NAEP Board

The NAEP Board is composed of eleven serving Board Members, covering fourteen Board Posts, with some Board Members at present holding more than one Board post.

Board Members

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NAEP Executive Team

Jean Hutfield

NAEP Chief Executive

Health Representative / Conference Operations Group Chair

Jean has worked in the NHS for 50 years and has been involved in Equipment for 40 of those years. She has been Head of Operational Services that included Community Equipment Services and also Commissioner of Community Equipment Services in West Cheshire. Jean now works at Alder Hey Children’s Foundation Trust, whilst also sitting on the Medical Devices Committee, she is also a Director of the National Association of Medical Devices Educators & Trainers (NAMDET).

Jean has been involved in NAEP since its conception when it was Equipment Service Providers. The first NAEP Conference took place at the Heartlands in Birmingham in 1997, it became the National Association of Equipment Providers (NAEP) a not for profit organisation in 1999 and her membership number is 17. She truly believes that Community Equipment Services are at the heart of keeping people in their own homes and also allowing patients to be discharged in a safe way.

Jean has had the privilege to be the Chair of NAEP since July 2007, she finds it to be a very rewarding position and has met a lot of interesting people, Jean hopes to spend many more years as Chair.

Aurndra Golden - North West Regional Chair

Aurndra Marshall-Clarke

NAEP Deputy Chief Executive

NAEP North
Regional Group Chair

BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapist with many years’ experience across Health, Social Care and the Private Sector. Best Interest Assessor, Postural Management Specialist, Trainer in MOving and Handling, Trusted Assessor in levels 3 and 4, Behavioural support specialist. North Regional Chair of NAEP, and NAEP Deputy Chief Executive.

Sarah Docksey (nee Bailey)

NAEP Treasurer

NAEP Trent
Regional Group Chair

Partnership Manager and Commissioning Lead for Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire for the last 20 years. Sarah provides service oversight, strategic planning and day-to-day operational responsibility for continuous service development and improvements and working alongside clinicians and service providers looking at challenges and changes.

Non-Executive Board Members

Evelyn Murray

NAEP Scotland
Regional Group Chair

Anita Rush

NAEP South (inc. London)
Regional Group Chair

Sarah Windsor

NAEP Midlands
Regional Group Chair

Christa Jeffrey

NAEP Eastern
Regional Group Chair

Frances Kent
RGN / Queens Nurse

Chair of Clinical and Prescriber Support SIG since inception in 2007

Frances has been Clinical representative for the NAEP since its inception in 1999 and has held the post of Clinical Nurse Specialist Lead, for the Buckinghamshire Community Equipment Loans Service since September 1995. She is also a Queens Nurse which gives special recognition to individual nurses in the community who have demonstrated a high level of commitment to patient care and nursing practise.
Her nursing career commenced at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, where after qualifying she specialised in intensive care nursing, also spending 6 months in an ICU in a hospital in Rotterdam. Her involvement and interested in equipment began when she worked at Stoke Mandeville Hospital as sister in charge of the Young Disabled Unit, and later in the National Spinal Injuries Centre as a sister after completing the Spinal Cord Injuries Nursing course.

Before commencing this innovative role, Frances left the NHS for 10 years working as a clinical equipment advisor for a local business and later as training manager for a UK Healthcare company, whose main products were specialist high risk pressure care systems. A considerable part of this post involved assessments and setting up for corrective wheelchair seating. During this time she was also In- Service Training Sister in a private spinal unit.

Her current post generates many challenges, having a wide remit that has increased dramatically over the years and there are many services that tap into this facility ensuring that end users, and prescribers, have a quality resource providing expert advice and assessments for ever increasing complex issues for the population of Buckinghamshire. Training plays a large part of the role as well as involvement in the strategic aspects of the equipment service.

Anne Reed

Honorary Legal Advisor

Oriana Bell

NAEP Co-Ordinator
& Digital Manager

Oriana has been working with NAEP for many years, along with our team she redesigned and built the NAEP public website and created our Members Area providing a central hub for NAEP Members to make the most of their membership benefits.

She manages updates for the website, publishs our monthly NAEP Focus and quarterly NAEP Insider. More recently she has taken on the task of our Membership Administrator, helping members with their renewals, upgrades, and ensuring they make full use of their benefits. Oriana also enjoys assisting the team with our annual conference administration and queries.

Board Member Responsibilities

The NAEP National Board is responsible for ensuring that robust systems are in place for the management of the key areas of the association’s business.

Governance
– To provide effective governance that ensures the business of the organisation provides clarity and is transparent to all members.
Operational
– To ensure the operational services of the organisation are managed in an effective and efficient manner.
Financial
– To develop a proactive approach to business planning and financial forecasting and to ensure external audit takes place of NAEP’s finance and Business is carried out.
Services to Members
– To conduct all such other lawful processes that will further the attainment of the aims and objectives of the organisation.

NAEP is aligned with organisations that offer services and support to the statutory and private sector community equipment providers.

Terms of Reference

Download the 2021 NAEP Board Terms of Reference pdf by clicking here.

NAEP’s remit will continue in:

The promotion of our member’s interests in the national policymaking arena and to form partnerships with like-minded organisations to support the development of the organisation and its services.
Managing, interpreting, and disseminating information both within the organisation and externally that will promote the interest of our members.
Working closely with all Government bodies and associated partners throughout the United Kingdom to ensure that policy changes are informed by evidence.

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