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Professional Strategic Advisory Group (PSAG)

Overview

The NMC Professional Strategic Advisory Group (PSAG) was established as a forum for expert professionals to provide the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) with constructive challenge on strategic issues. It offers a regular opportunity for senior registrants to steer the NMC’s initiatives, through insights and reflections from contemporary practice, education and training. The group also considers emerging themes in nursing and midwifery, helping the NMC to anticipate and prepare for innovations and risks which could impact its regulatory role.   

The group meets four times a year and is chaired by Chris Dzikiti, Executive Director of Professional Practice.

Objectives

  • Ensure that the expertise, experience, and knowledge of senior professionals can inform and challenge the NMC’s work. 
  • Provide a collaborative and consultative space for discussion, actively involving senior nursing and midwifery professionals in co-producing the NMC’s strategic work on the future of regulation in the sector.
  • Bring together senior nurses and midwives from the health and social care sectors, including professional bodies, providing substantial leadership, expertise, and credibility. 

Read the PSAG terms of reference to find out more about their purpose. 

Recent meetings 

Members

PSAG membership is being updated. Biographies of the members will be available here soon.

Lucy Muchina, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, Royal College of Nursing (Co-Chair) 

Jennifer Winslade, Executive Director of Nursing, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (Co-Chair) 

Sharon Arkell, Chair, NMC Code and revalidation reviews 

Jonathan Beebee, Professional Lead for Neuroscience and Learning Disability Nursing, Royal College of Nursing 

Claire Birchall, Executive Director of Nursing, Quality and Integrated Governance, Public Health Wales 

Joanne Bosanquet, Chief Executive, Foundation of Nursing Studies 

Sharon Burnside, Nursing Officer for Education & Regulation, Department of Health Northern Ireland 

Kirsty Cartin, Care Home Manager, Rashielee Care Home 

Lucy Coe, Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 

Dr Sarah Doyle, Chief Executive and Nurse Director, Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland 

Paul Edwards, Chief Nursing Officer, Dementia UK 

Liz Fenton OBE, Director of Nursing and Midwifery, NHS England 

Lincoln Gombedza, Inclusion and Belonging Lead and Nurse Citizen Developer at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust  

Fiona Holley, Head of Education (Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Health Professionals), Ashford & St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

Colonel Maggie Hodge RRC, Chief Nursing Officer (Defence), Ministry of Defence 

Professor Aly Hulme, Independent Consultant at AH Stella Healthcare Consulting and Visiting Professor of Patient Safety and Leadership at the University of Cumbria 

Professor Paul Jebb, Associate Chief Nurse for Patient Experience, Engagement and Safeguarding at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust 

Linda Kelly, Chief Executive, Northern Ireland Practice and Education Council for Nursing and Midwifery (NIPEC)  

Gillian Knight, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, Welsh Government 

Felicia Kwaku OBE, Associate Director of Nursing at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of the Mary Seacole Trust  

Steph Lawrence MBE, Chief Executive, Queen's Institute of Community Nursing 

Elizabeth Mason, Deputy Head of the School of Health Sciences, Bangor University 

Mary Frances McManus, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, Department of Health, Northern Ireland 

Claire McGuinness, Strategic Professional Lead Nursing and Midwifery Education and Regulation, Scottish Government 

Ian Naldrett, Associate Director of Nursing at North Middlesex University Hospital and Chair of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses 

Alison Payne, Home Manager, Erskine Edinburgh 

Corinne Power, Head of Nursing – Professional Strategy and Regulation, NHS England 

Baroness Anne Marie Rafferty DBE FRCN, Chair of Nursing Policy, King's College London 

Debbie Smith, Director of Nursing Services, North East London FT 

Vanessa Smith, Chief Nursing Officer at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of the National Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurse Directors’ Forum since June 2025. 

Jamie Waterall, Deputy Chief Nurse, Public Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) 

Professor Greta Westwood CBE, Chief Executive, Florence Nightingale Foundation 

Documents  

PSAG Terms of reference

Find out more

If you have any questions about our Professional Strategic Advisory Group, please email psag@nmc-uk.org.

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