The BIRT Clinical Executive is responsible for setting models and standards of service delivery, auditing services, promoting clinical governance, training and research.
It brings together a leading team of clinicians from across the UK, designed to make sure our services remain both excellent and innovative.
The Clinical Executive is introducing a variety of procedures
to ensure continued high standards across all our services. We are continually
looking at all aspects of our work to ensure a high quality environment for
users and for staff too.
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Barrie Oldham is Chief Executive Officer for The
Disabilities Trust, of which BIRT is a part. Before his current appointment
he was Director of Operations for The Disabilities Trust and Director
of Brain Injury Services. He has worked for the Trust since 1992. |
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Lynn Turley is Service Director for the Brain Injury
Rehabilitation Trust. She has worked for BIRT/DT since 1997. Before her
current appointment she was Divisional Manager for the Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Trust, and prior to that Service Manager of The Woodmill, Devon. Lynn
has also served as Non-Executive Director of Mid-Devon PCT for four years. |
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Professor Michael Oddy, Director of Clinical Services,
chairs the Clinical Executive. Prof. Oddy has worked in brain injury rehabilitation
for more than 30 years and joined BIRT in 2001 having been Director of
Ticehurst House Brain Injury Unit. A former Chair of the BPS Division
of Neuropsychology he is Honorary Professor of Psychology at University
of Wales, Swansea. |
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Dr Drew Alcott is the Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist
seconded to Headley Court. Formerly Director of the Brain Injury Service
at Unsted Park Hospital, he joined BIRT in 2003, initially working at
Thomas Edward Mitton House. |
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Dr John Freeland is Consultant in Neuropsychology
and Rehabilitation for the Yorkshire Region, based at Daniel Yorath House
and York House. Dr Freeland has worked for many years in brain injury
and was Clinical Director of the Casa Colina Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Programme in California before joining BIRT in 2001. |
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Mr Ian Fussey joined BIRT in 1999 and is the Consultant
Clinical Psychologist for BIRT’s Community Services in the Midlands and
South. Mr Fussey has many years experience in Clinical Psychology and
Clinical Neuropsychology, including working at the Wolfson Rehabilitation
Centre, London, the Kemsley Unit, St. Andrews Hospital and as visiting
Consultant to the Casa Colina programme in California in the 1980s.
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Dr Camilla Herbert is the Consultant in Neuropsychology
and Rehabilitation for the South East Region, based at Kerwin Court. Dr
Herbert is a former Chair of the British Psychological Society Division
of Neuropsychology. She joined BIRT in 2001 from Ticehurst House and previously
worked in NHS Brain Injury Services in Sheffield, Leeds and London |
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Mr Andrew James is Consultant in Neuropsychology
and Rehabilitation for Fen House in East Anglia. He trained in Sydney,
Australia, and previously worked at York House and Daniel Yorath House
before taking up his post in Ely in May 2006. He is currently engaged
in research into the relationship between cognitive and behavioural disturbances
following ABI at York University. He is chair of the local NeuroSIG group
in Yorkshire and teaches on the Leeds University doctoral course.
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Mrs Gail Leeder is a Consultant in
Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation for the South West, based at The Woodmill.
She has worked for BIRT since 1998 and also works for the Devon Partnership
NHS Trust and is an Honorary Lecturer at Exeter University. |
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Dr Tim Hull is the Consultant in Neuropsychology
and Rehabilitation at West Heath House. He has a wide experience in the
psychology of rehabilitation and in the application of neuropsychological
principles. He is also a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the Coventry
and Warwickshire Partnership Trust and an Honorary Lecturer at the University
of Birmingham. |
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Dr Miles Rogish is Consultant in Neuropsychology
and Rehabilitation for the Goole Neuro Rehabilitation Centre (GNRC) in
Goole, Yorkshire. He has worked for BIRT since 2003 at York House and
has been the lead Neuropsychologist at GNRC since its opening in 2007.
He trained and worked at the University of Florida and also currently
works for the University of Hull as a Clinical Tutor in the Department
of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Therapies. |
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Dr Brian O’Neill is Consultant in
Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation at Graham Anderson House, Glasgow. He
joined BIRT in 2009 to work alongside an excellent neurobehavioural team
serving people with challenging behaviour after brain injury. He draws on
experience from Central Scotland Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre and
the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow. He is also a Research Fellow at
the University of Stirling, examining use of assistive technologies to increase
independent activity. |
