UK transformation plans

Claire Hurlin currently works in West Wales for Hywel Dda University Health Board as the Strategic Head for Community and Chronic Conditions. She leads and co-ordinates a range of activities that promote excellence in chronic conditions management, overseeing diabetes, diabetes prevention, respiratory and epilepsy nursing services as well as the Be Well Service supporting people to self-care . This work is undertaken focusing on chronic conditions management with equitable , value based , accessible care, care closer to home , within communities driving respiratory care and improving patient experience. At a national level she attends on behalf of the Health Board the Respiratory and Diabetes Clinical Network Groups and is the Clinical Lead for the Home Oxygen Service. This group has developed All Wales documentation for the Home Oxygen Service, and a training package for the performance and interpretation of blood gases. Claire is the first nurse to undertake the role of President Welsh Thoracic Society, and received RCN Lifetime Achievement Award 2024.Claire was joint winner at the RCN Wales awards 2018 for Improving Individual and Population Health, MediWales and NHS Wales’s team award winner 2018 for the Virtual Pulmonary Rehabilitation Project (VIPAR). In the dragons den Digital Health Innovation Zone at the International Conference for Integrated Care she was awarded first place for the presentation of the VIPAR model.

Professor Tom Fardon is a consultant physician in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine at NHS Tayside, Honorary Professor with the University of Dundee, and clinical lead of the Respiratory Specialist Delivery Group within the Centre for Sustainable Delivery. He was the author and Clinical Lead for the Respiratory Care Action Plan for Scotland, chairs the Scottish Asthma PRECISION Group, and the Scottish Asthma Committee within CfSD. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1999, and was awarded his MD from Cambridge in 2008, winning the Ralph Nobel Prize for his thesis "Optimising Anti-inflammatory Therapy in Atopic Asthma". Professor Fardon's clinical interests include difficult to control asthma, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis and chronic bronchial infection.

Dr Nazia Chaudhuri is a respiratory physician with a specialist interest in interstitial lung disease (ILD). She is senior clinical lecturer at Ulster University and is lead of the Northern Ireland ILD network. She is chair of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) ILD registry working group and was chair of the BTS interstitial and rare lung disease specialist advisory group from Nov 2020 to 2023. She is also a member of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) ILD long range planning committee, an ERS ILD mentor and the secretary of the ERS idiopathic interstitial pneumonia ILD assembly. She is the secretary of the Irish Thoracic Society and member of the ILD working group. She is a trustee of the patient charity Pulmonary Fibrosis Northern Ireland (PFNI) and the NI rare disease partnership. She graduated from the University of Leeds with an honours degree in medicine and a BSc honours in genetics. She performed a PhD and published her work looking at the cellular interactions and signalling in response to infection and air pollution. She is the principal investigator on a number of clinical research trials (>20 over 5 years) in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and was the UK Chief Investigator of a major clinical trial on progressive ILDs and a trial in IPF. She is collaborator on a number of grants exceeding £5 million. She is also co-applicant for a British Lung foundation grant for a study in Sarcoidosis. Dr Chaudhuri has published her experience in prescribing antifibrotics and delivering MDT care and has presented over 40 abstracts pertaining to IPF, antifibrotics and the importance of a multi-disciplinary team approach at all major respiratory conferences. She is collaborator on a number of grants and has co-authored over 50 peer reviewed articles.

Martin Allen is a consultant physician at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire where he has had a major interest in respiratory and sleep medicine. He has fulfilled a variety of management and transformational roles within the hospital and nationally. Currently these include: Chair of the expert working group on coding for respiratory medicine, National respiratory GIRFT lead, lead for the GIRFT review of TB services across England and Scotland and National Speciality Advisor for physiological science in the National Diagnostics Program, In the latter role he has been involved in the development and roll out of CDCs since their inception.

Dr Allie Hare is a consultant physician and specialist in Sleep medicine. She is the President of the British Sleep Society and Hon Treasurer of the British Thoracic Society. She is on the editorial board of the EU Sleep Health Coalition and a founding member of the UK Sleep Health Coalition. She led the national review of outpatient sleep medicine pathways and is currently the NHSE Clinical Lead for the Sleep outpatient transformation project.

Helen Ward has been a Consultant Respiratory Physician at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust since February 2013. She has a particular interest in integrated care, the assessment and management of chronic breathlessness and end of life care in non-malignant respiratory disease. She was a trustee for the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and a member of the BTS board for 4 years until June 2023 and is the current President-Elect for the Association of Respiratory Technology and Physiology (ARTP). She also represents the BTS on the NHS England Respiratory Delivery Board which has oversight of the delivery of the Long Term Plan (LTP) for Respiratory. She is the West Midlands Respiratory Clinical Director for the Respiratory network.