2026 Speakers

Lead Nurse for Nutrition
East Kent Hospitals University Foundation NHS Trust

Fleur worked in colorectal surgery for 23 years, most recently as a ward manager, where she developed extensive experience caring for patients requiring complex nutritional support. Seeking a new challenge after the pandemic, she joined the Nutrition Team in 2021 and became Lead Nurse for Nutrition five months later. She has completed the Leeds Clinical Nutrition Course and contributes nationally through roles with NNNG and the BAPEN Patient Network Group. Fleur leads Trust‑wide nutritional strategy, education, and policy, and remains committed to improving standards and supporting colleagues in delivering high‑quality nutritional care.

Extended Imaging Practitioner
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Gillian is a specialist radiographer in GI radiology and has trained and worked in Leeds since 1998.

Gillian oversees the adult GI and GU fluoroscopy service and performs a range of diagnostic and interventional fluoroscopic procedures with a particular interest in enteral feeding tubes. Gillian has a special interest in NG tube safety with published peer reviewed papers on this subject. Gillian is part of a team working with professional bodies to implement a radiographer-led pathway for adoption across all four nations in the NHS as a system-wide preventative measure to reduce the number of NG tube related never events.

Advanced Dietitian supporting acute services with Eating disorders and disordered eating
Northern Care Alliance (Salford/Bury/Oldham)

Ingrid has worked in mental health most of her career. Disordered eating and eating disorders have always part of Ingrid's caseload mainly manged in mental health units, but she has always tried to provided support in acute settings. In last 5 years, Ingrid moved solely to community eating disorders but then the opportunity arose to extend this role in in patient acute settings looking mainly at those diagnosed with an eating disorder but also looking at those with disordered eating - treatment plans are different (she enjoys the challenges of those with mental health). Mental health and physical health should always be dovetailed and Ingrid has been a strong advocate of physical health in mental health units. With her extended experience within mental health units she has been involved in supporting those with GI issues/diabetes/other long term conditions. Ingrid would and advocate for trauma informed training for all professionals involved in patient care. Over the last decade support for eating disorders has improved but there is still a fear of those being admitted with an eating disordered onto acute settings. Ingrid actively encourages the use of the MDT to support this group of patients - the outcomes are very positive. Developing this model supports all involved. As a dietitian Ingrid does review the diet but as a mental health practitioner she looks at the whole picture and support teams with this. Bringing the patient with you on the journey and having all staff support this leads to good outcomes (not just fixing but getting them ready for the next step).