Meet the team
Management team
Owen Ainsley, Divisional director for specialised services
Mandie Townsend, Clinical chair for specialised services
Sophie Nicholls, General manager for Bristol Heart
Institute
Becky Hocking, Divisional HR business partner
Helen Bishop, Head of Nursing
Vicky Beard, Performance and operations manager
David O'Sullivan, Finance manager for specialised services
Katie Phelan, Assistant Finance Manager
Nursing teams in the Bristol Heart Institute
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Sarah Furniss is the head of nursing for the Division of
Specialised Services, which includes the Bristol Heart Institute.
As head of nursing, Sarah is responsible for overseeing the
management of all nursing teams and ensuring the highest quality
nursing care is provided in the most efficient way.
Sarah Furniss: 0117 342 6619
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Jenny Anstey: 0117 342 6619
Jenny's role as Matron is to lead by example ensuring that the
patients receive the highest quality patient experience in the
Bristol Heart Institute. She ensures that patients are cared for by
highly trained, experienced staff, that privacy and dignity are
respected, infection control protocols adhered to, the wards are
clean and that patients, carers and staff are all safe and well
cared for.
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Sarah Chalkley: 0117 342 6524
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Sarah Carson is the catheter laboratory clinical manager. Sarah
is part of the senior nurse team but also leads the multi
professional team in this department. |
Rachel Allan (Ward 51), Rebecca Brockway
(cardiology catheter laboratories and day case), Sarah Chalkley
(coronary care unit), Sue Gibert (cardiac intensive care unit),
Lorraine Hopes (Ward 53), Liz Leech (Ward 52) and Nicky Lukaszewicz
are the ward/unit sisters who lead the teams of nurses in their
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Clinical nurse specialists
Cardiology staff
Cardiac surgery staff
Adult congenital heart disease staff
Bristol Heart Rhythm
Mangement and
clerical support teams
Cardiology staff
Consultant cardiologists
Cardiology lead doctor - Dr Julian
Strange.
Secretary, Jacqui Wright, 0117 342 6574
Cardiology catheter lab lead doctor - Steve Dorman
Secretary, Zena Clothier, 0117 342 6573
EP lead - Glyn Thomas
Secretary, Felicity Lambert, 0117 342 6578
Ed Duncan
Secretary, Julie Georgewell, 0117 342 6695
Tom Johnson
Secretary, Zena Clothier, 0117 342 6573
Angus Nightingale
Secretary, Ann Wherlock, 0117 342 6691
Mandie Townsend
Secretary, Julie Georgewell, 0117 342 6695
Associate specialist
Nabil Tumia
Secretary, Caron Finn/Ann Wherlock, 0117 342 26572
Clinical nurse specialists
HEART team (acute coronary syndrome and cardiac
rehabilitation)
Team leader - Daniel Thomas, nurse practitioner,
Heart failure
Bev Pearson
Hannah Lightfoot
Cardiac physiology team
Karen Barrett, cardiographer
Lois Ollerenshaw, cardiographer
Polly Taylor, cardiographer
Cardiac
surgery staff
Consultant surgeons
Professor GD Angelini,
British Heart Foundation professor of cardiac surgery
Professor Raimondo
Ascione, professor of cardiac surgical science and
translational research
Professor Massimo Caputo, reader in cardiac surgery
(paediatrics)
Franco Ciulli, consultant cardiac
surgeon
Andrew Parry, consultant cardiac surgeon (congenital)
Serban Stoica, consultant cardiac
surgeon (congenital)
Mark Yeatman, consultant cardiac
surgeon.
Cha Rajakaruna, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Hunaid Vohra, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Umberto Benedetto, Consulant Cardiac Surgeon
Associate
specialist
Mr Milan Bates
Staff grade
Mr Radek Capoun
Principal
perfusionist
Mr Richard Downes
Director of
CICU
Dr Adrian Wagstaff
Lead anaesthetist (cardiac)
Dr Martin Platt
Adult congential heart disease
(GUCH) team
Cardiologists
Lead clinician, Dr
Stephanie Curtis
Dr Mark
Turner
Dr Graham Stuart
Dr Radwa Badair
Surgeons
Mr Andrew Parry
Mr
Massimo Caputo
Mr
Serban Stoica
Specialist nurses
Mrs Sheena Vernon
Mrs Wendy Visser
Caryl Evans
Jessica Strange
Cardiac radiologists
Dr Mark Hamilton
Dr Nathan Manghat
Obstetricians
Miss Sue Sellers
Miss Jo Trinder
Obstetric anaesthetists
Dr Issy Gardner
Dr Nicola Harvey
Dr Mike Kinsella
Dr Mark Scrutton
Dr Nick Wharton
Secretaries
Mrs Lisa Curthoys (Dr Curtis) 0117 342 5967
Bristol Heart Rhythm
Dr Glyn Thomas, Consultant
Dr Ed Duncan, Consultant
Dr Palash Barman, Consultant
Dr Ashley Nisbet, Consultant
Dr Ihab Diab, Consultant
Ben Honeyands, cardiac physiologist
Jason Parker, cardiac physiologist