Abbie Canton

Faculty Lead TBC



Annet Gamell

Primary Care Faculty Executive Sponsor

Biography coming soon

Sarah Redhead

B(Mid), RM, PMA 

Primary Care Learning and Environment Lead

Sarah qualified as a Midwife in 2006 and has practiced up and down the country, within rural, town and inner-city locations and is now living back in her home county. She has provided maternity care within Acute, Community and Primary Care settings, including Caseloading models of maternity care, working to improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities within deprived communities. Throughout her years as a midwife, she regularly supported students during their training in a supervisory and assessing role, which alongside providing parent education sessions for prospective parents, first fostered my interest within education and learning pathways.

During Sarah's career she has gained additional qualifications and training, in areas including mentorship, leadership, quality improvement, breastfeeding, Newborn Infant Physical Examination (NIPE), counselling, and has most recently qualified as a Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA).

She moved into a Learning Environment Facilitator role in 2020, supporting Nursing Associates and learning pathways within Primary Care. From this, she developed and progressed into her current role as a Learning Environment Lead for Primary Care across Buckinghamshire. Sarah supports the provision of quality workplace experiences, promoting, facilitating and developing clinical placements, nursing apprenticeships and learning and development pathways for all learners across Primary Care locally. She is passionate about showcasing the wealth of experience Primary Care has to offer and supporting learners and colleagues working within it to thrive and develop.

Kathy Warrick

RN, BSc (Hons), DipHe (Adult Nursing)

Primary Care Learning Environment Facilitator

Kathy is currently a Primary Care Learning Environment Facilitator, having previously held roles of Lead Practice Nurse, Community & Respiratory Support Nurse, Senior registered Nurse and Community staff nurse.

She is a registered nurse with over 12 years of experience in Secondary and Primary Care, working in diverse settings such as hospitals, GP surgeries, nursing homes, and community nursing and Community Health Centres. With this experience, she has gained a comprehensive knowledge of evidence-based patient care in assessing, planning, evaluating, initiating and coordinating patient care. Kathy is passionate about preparing pre-registration student nurses and registered nurses to be successful in any healthcare environment because she had some of the best mentors and preceptors who helped her to be successful in her nursing career. She has worked as part of a team supporting pre-registration students within primary care placement and GP surgeries.

Annie Board

RN, Primary Care Learning Environment Facilitator

Annie qualified as a registered adult nurse in 1993 and started her career working on a Coronary Care Unit in an acute trust, and then A & E.  She then decided she would like to work in Primary Care and has worked in the community for the Out of Hours GP provider, for many years as a Practice Nurse and then as a Community Nurse. She also spent a short time working as a Prison Nurse, before taking on a role as part of a Community Stroke Team. She has therefore gained vast experience of Primary Care, and is passionate about voicing the many learning opportunities and possible career progressions available in the area. One of the things Annie loves about working in Primary Care is the way that she could form relationships with patients that she was seeing on a long-term basis and with their families. During this time, she successfully passed degree level modules in Management of Minor illness, Diabetes Care and Management of Stroke Survivors, and is due to start a coaching course in February 2023.

In May 2022, Annie applied and was offered a post working as a Primary Care Learning Environment Facilitator. The role is varied, but currently her main workstream is to support applicants hoping to do a Nursing Associate Apprenticeship, from application through to supporting them in post. A typical day could involve supporting an NA who is struggling, doing a presentation for Nursing Associates through to chasing up contracts required to enable primary Care Nursing Associates to do a placement in an acute Trust. She is passionate about supporting Nursing Associates to the best of her ability, to help them have a good learning experience and to encourage them to further develop if they wish to do so.