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).

Co-chair, NGSIG
Advanced Clinical Practitioner Nutrition Support, Hywel Dda University Health Board

Linda has worked as a nurse for over 25 years gaining experience in several fields including general surgery and started her career in the Royal Air Force before moving into the NHS. Now working as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner Nutrition Support, she has developed and implemented several policies, clinical pathways and guidelines to support enteral and parenteral nutrition delivery to patients. Currently she is co-Chair of the Nasogastric Special Interest Group (NGSIG) for BAPEN.

Co-chair, NGSIG
Clinical Policy Lead, Nutricia Ltd

Suzy Cole had 25 years acute NHS experience, before moving 5 years ago into community healthcare. Formerly Clinical Practice Manager for Nutricia, she is now Clinical Policy Lead with a strong background in enteral feeding governance. As a Lead Nutrition Nurse in the acute Trust, she implemented nurse led PEG removal and NG tube risk reduction policies for elevated pH. She continues to collaborates with the NHS, focusing on reducing A&E admissions related to enteral feeding tube complications, and is co-chair of NGSIG, part of BAPEN, and former committee member of NNNG.