Information for health professionals

KISSING IT BETTER is keen to work with health professionals. We need your ideas so we can pass them on to others. We'd love to help you as best we can.

Jill and Nicola (more information) regularly speak to conferences or meetings of health professionals in order to discuss issues of patient quality, care and dignity. Please see our events section for more information on future meetings.

Recent news

July 2009 Jill and Nicola appointed to the Dignity in Care Stakeholders Partnership Board at the Department of Health. More information

25th October 2010 Daily Telegraph Article More information

3rd March 2011 - Jill gives Key Note Address at Worcestershire NHS Primary Care Trust Provider Services Quality Conference

11th March 2011 Jill and Nicola give a MasterClass at The Florence Nightingale Conference at Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, London

14th March 2011 Meeting with Julia Manning, Chief Executive 2020health, an independent, grass roots, health and techology policy think tank. More information

14th March 2011 Nicola attends the first meeting of the CQC Dignity and Nutrition Advisory Board

15th March 2011 Meeting with Lucy Botting, Clinical Advisor on the Transforming Community Services Programme, Department of Health

16th March 2011 Jill speaks at Matrons Away Day, Walsall Manor Hospital

20th March 2011 Jill speaks at Rotary Conference, ICC Birmingham

23rd March 2011 Jill speaks at Women's Institute conference, Stoneleigh Park

24th March 2011 Jill speaks at Transforming Community Services Conference, Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, London

28th March 2011 KISSING IT BETTER forge links with The Queen's Nursing Institute -a registered charity dedicated to improving the nursing care of people in their own homes. Their latest campaign Right Nurse, Right Skills argues for a properly skilled and trained home nursing workforce, so that patients receive the care they need. More Information . Until his death in 2009, Professor Kieran Sweeney was a Trustee of The Queen's Nursing Institute. A few weeks before he died, he was filmed talking about his experience of care during his illness. For any health care professionals, caring for patients with very serious conditions, the film is extremely sad, hugely relevent and deeply moving. LInk to film

Kissing it Better is invited to contribute to the evaluation of the Hywell Dda Dignity and Respect 2011 package/innovation

Kissing it Better is invited to contribute to and advise on Swansea University School of Human and Health Sciences New Nursing Curriculum for 2011.

28th April 2011 Jill takes part in The Guardian NHS 'live' 'technology special' blog. Scroll down the page to 3.55pm for highlights of this hour long discussion.The Guardian NHS Reforms Live Blog technology special

18th May 2011 Jill takes part in Roundtable discussion with Lord Wei on Self-Care: Taking Responsibility and Building Confidence, Portcullis House, Westminster

2nd June 2011 Queen's Nursing Institute Roundtable discussion. Nursing care in the home:Understanding the patient perspective

6th June 2011 Meeting with Monica Fletcher, Chief Executive, Education for Health

9th June 2011: Jill starts to introduce KISSING IT BETTER concept to some wards at Walsall Manor Hospital

13th June 2011: Meeting with NHS London in Warwick.

4th July 2011: Meeting with BUPA

7th September 2011: Invited to speak at NHS London's Director's of Nursing Meeting

8th September 2011: Contributed to Memoirs of Nightingale Nurses as part of a project for The Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas' hospital in London.

6th Ocober 2011: Speaker at Occupational Therapy Awayday at Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

10th October 2011: Presentation at Walsall Retired Teacher Association meeting

13th October 2011: Speaker at All Queen's Nurse Meeting, London

27th October 2011: Meeting with Cathleen McCarron, Royal Shakespeare Company to discuss performances in Care Homes

08th November-18th November 2011: Six visits from beauticians at Walsall College delivering 120 hours of care resulting in around 460 manicures and hand and arm massages.

15th November 2011: Meeting with Ross Simpson, Director First Act Workshop to discuss drama students visits to wards

18th November 2011 Meeting with Richard Kirby, Chief Executive, Walsall Manor Hospital.

21st November 2011: Meeting National Dignity Council, Dignity in Care at Social Care Institute for Excellence

21st November 2011 Jill gives short speech at the House of Lords at launch of Queen's Nursing Institute's report into Nursing Care at Home

22nd November 2011 Jill gives presentation at Dignity in Care Meeting in Manchester

23rd November 2011: Charlcote Festival Singers perform at Bancroft Gardens Residential Home

24th November 2011 Meeting with MP for Stratford upon Avon, Nadim Zahawi,at Portcullis House in Westminster

28th November 2011: Young actors from Royal Shakespeare Theatre give a short performance, entitled Autumn at Bancroft Gardens Residential Home and Hyland House Residential Home.

29th November 2011: Jill gives a speech at The Royal Society of Medicine e-health and Telemed 2011 conference

6th January 2012: Studio Guest on BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show

9th January 2012: Meeting with Michelle Mello, National Implementation Director, Energise for Excellence.

13th January 2012: Meeting with Nadim Zahawi MP in Stratford Upon Avon

16th January 2012: Dignity in Care Meeting, SCIE Headquarters

16th January 2012: Meeting with Peter Cotton, Chairman of Guinness Care and Support.

17th January 2012: National Delivery Group Meeting, Energise for Excellence, Richmond House, Whitehall.

23rd January 2012: Dignity Meeting, Walsall Manor Hospital

1st February 2012: Dignity Action Day. Jill speaks at Dignity Conference in Walsall