Meet the team
Emma Croghan, RGN, RSCN, RSPHN, BSc(Hons), Spec. Pract (School nursing) MPH, PhD (sub) - Consultant editor
Emma is an independent consultant and advisor to health and social care organisations. She chairs the West Midlands Tobacco Control in Young Persons group and has been a member of the expert advisory group for school health chaired by the chief nursing officer. Emma has written extensively on school health and her first book "Health Promotion for Primary Schools - a Guide for Teachers and Nurses" is to be published later this year.
Emma qualified as an RGN and worked at Birmingham's Children's Hospital before gaining the RSCN qualification. She has studied in the United States and was awarded a Department of Health fellowship to study school health and tobacco control policies as part of both a Master's in Public Health and a PhD programme.
Jane Dudeney - Editor
Jane studied Psychology at the University of Surrey, and worked as a Scientific Research Assistant at the Institute of Psychiatry before graduating in 2006. She joined MA Healthcare Limited as an editorial assistant across a range of healthcare journals before becoming Editor of the British Journal of School Nursing. She is also sub-editor for the Journal of Children’s and Young People’s Nursing.
Editorial board
Yinglen Butt - Nurse Consultant, Department of Health, London
Gill Coverdale - Senior Lecturer/Course Leader, Leeds Metropolitan University
Peter Coverdale - School Workforce Adviser, Education Leeds
Kath Lancaster - Health Needs Assessment Nurse Specialist, Bradford and Airedale PCT
Olivia McDaid - School Nurse Team Leader, Foyle NHS Trust, Northern Ireland
Liz Plastow - Professional Advisor Specialist Community Public Health Nursing, NMC, London
Catherine Powell - Consultant Nurse Safeguarding Children, Portsmouth City Teaching PCT
Barbara Richardson-Todd - School Nurse Co-ordinator and Practice Teacher, Suffolk PCT
Sharon White - UK Professional Officer, School and Public Health Nurses Association
Barbara Young - Nurse Adviser, Children and Young People's Public Health Programme, Department of Health, London