Speakers
Dale Gardiner
Dr Ben Ivory
Jill Featherstone
Stream 1
The NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) team is back.
Building on their previous innovative SOA sessions, they will present the stories of two ‘typical’ UK organ donors—from their arrival in the emergency department through the complex, compassionate, multi-professional care provided to patients and families. These powerful narratives highlight the extraordinary coordination that makes the gift of organ donation possible.
Dr Dale Gardiner is a Consultant in Adult Intensive Care Medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the Associate Medical Director – Deceased Organ Donation at NHS Blood and Transplant.
His professional interests are medical ethics, the diagnosis of death and deceased organ donation.
Dale is a Board Member of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and Chair of the Professional Affairs and Safety Committee. He is co-chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges task and finish group to update the 2008 Code of Practice for the Diagnosis and Confirmation of Death.
Originally, Dale came from Australia but migrated to the UK in 2002.
I joined NHSBT’s Professional Development Team following time as a Specialist Nurse Organ Donation with the Northern Region at James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough. This was following a long career in critical care with a wide range of critical care experience with leadership experience both in critical care and in the volunteer and charity business sector.
I work collaboratively with national and regional medical leads to develop and deliver training opportunities for NHSBT partners in the clinical areas both in the UK and internationally. This includes the highly regarded and award winning National Deceased Donation Course. This course provides donation education to both adult and paediatric trainees becoming our next generation of consultants. Induction programmes for CLODs and Trust/Health board Organ Donation Committee Chairs are core to local donation service leadership and conference opportunities achieve a wider audience reach. My role also supports a more cohesive multidisciplinary approach across the package of education programmes the Professional Development Team deliver.
Our aim is to build confidence and excellence in donation practice, train in multidisciplinary ways and remain world class by providing a high level of engagement, interest and academic rigour whilst complementing specialist nurse training for a cohesive approach.
I am passionate about the family end of life experience, teamwork, simulation, service improvement and innovation using a wide variety of forums to have the greatest impact and reach as possible.
