Podcast: Clinical leadership: Lectures from the experts

Steve Payne was trained in London and Wessex, became a Consultant at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1988, and retired in 2017. He had andrological and reconstructive urological interests and a strong commitment to medical education, particularly assessment.

He was Joint Committee on Intercollegiate Examinations Chair of the FRCS(Urol) and JSCFE and continues to quality assure exams internationally. Steve is also an external examiner for the Salford Urology MSc course and chairs numerous Data Monitoring Committees for NIHR trials.

Since retirement, Steve has had many other roles. He was Associate Editor of the Professionalism and Patient Safety sections of BJUI Knowledge, recently editing their ebook Being the best doctor you can; he has co-edited the impending 2^nd edition of Imaging and Technology in Urology, due out in April 2023. He is Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychology at Bournemouth University, with a research interest in the ageing surgeon which, together with his interest in data analysis, led to his appointment as BAUS Workforce Lead.

Steve travels widely with Urolink, helping train surgeons in sub-Saharan Africa, and has published extensively on his career’s non-technical experiences in the hope they won’t be wasted!

Freddie is a Consultant and Paediatric Urologist based at West Herts Teaching Hospitals Trust. He was appointed to West Herts in 2008 having completed an SpR training programme in North West London. He completed an MD at UCLH/Royal Free and prior to this was on the St Mary’s Basic Surgical rotation.

Freddie has a specialist interest in Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) surgery. He also has a genuine paediatric interest with a particular emphasis on hypospadias surgery.

Freddie was appointed as Associate Medical Director for Clinical Strategy in 2016. This was a role predominantly involved with the New Hospital redevelopment and involves overseeing the key clinical strategy and integration of services.

Duncan was appointed as Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for England in April 2021 and his portfolio includes IPC, Maternity, Children and Young People and Nursing Workforce.

Duncan held two Director of Nursing roles, at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and then Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust before his appointment as Regional Chief Nurse, South East England, and Director of International Nurse Recruitment for NHS England/Improvement.

Prior to joining Kingston Hospital, Duncan was Deputy Chief Nurse at University College London Hospitals (UCLH), having held a number of posts at UCLH including Charge Nurse within the acute admissions unit, Modern Matron for Infection & Pathology, Divisional Senior Nurse for Emergency Services and Head of Nursing for Medicine. He has also worked in respiratory medicine and neurology at the Royal United Hospital, Bath and trained to be a nurse at the University of Wales, Swansea.

Duncan holds a Bachelor of Nursing (Hons) degree and a master’s degree in Healthcare Practice.