We are delighted to announce our new Committee, elected November 2025:

Chairperson, Emily Ellis, Paediatric Cardiology Advanced Practitioner, Evelina Children’s Hospital

Deputy Chairperson, Nicola Holdback, Cardiac Nurse Specialist, Leicester

Membership Secretary/Treasurer (joint)

Alison Wood, Education sub-group co-lead, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children

Alice Hurn, Fetal Nurse Specailist, Evelina CHildren’s Hospital London (joined June 2025)

Outgoing:

Dr Kerry Gaskin, Outgoing Chairperson (Mentoring Emily), Professor of Congenital Cardiac Nursing, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Birmingham City University, Email: drkerrygaskin@gmail.com

Dr Rebecca Hill, Outgoing Deputy Chairperson (Mentoring Nicola), Advanced Nurse Practitioner (retired)

Di Robertshaw, Outgoing Membership Secretary/Treasurer, Nurse Practice Educator, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Email: di.robertshaw@gosh.nhs.uk

Jenny Somer, Newsletter Editor, Evelina Children’s Hospital, London, Email: Jenny.Somer@gstt.nhs.uk

Other Executive Committee Members:

Kathy Lurcook, Cardiac Nurse Specialist, Oxford Children’s Hospital

Margo Byrne, Our Lady’s Crumlin, Dublin (joined 2024)

Lisa Patten, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children

Paul Nix, Lecturer in Cardiac Nursing, Birmingham City University (joined November 2025)

Tessa Shewan, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust (joined November 2025)

Amanda Potterton, Advanced Practitioner, Great Ormond Street Hospital London (joined June 2025)

Sub–group representatives:

Michelle Wakelin, Education sub-group lead, Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Sophie Tooth/Miranda Porritt, Fetal Nurse Specialist sub-group lead

Helen Walker, Cardiac Nurse Specialist sub-group lead, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Liverpool

Emily Ellis, Advanced Practice sub-group lead Evelina Children’s Hospital, London

(Updated 2nd December 2025 by Kerry Gaskin)