r Linda Pollock BSc RGN District Nursing Certificate, RMN PhD, MBA
|
|
Linda Pollock is a highly influential nurse leader who has occupied a variety of pivotal roles across the health care sector
including national policy implementation and has significant senior management experience at both strategic and operational
levels.
|
|
As an Executive Nurse Director she managed primary care and community services, mental health and continuing care and has been
proactive in workforce planning. She also has a track record of setting up corporate systems for decontamination, infection
control, risk management, health and safety, disability discrimination, child protection, protection of vulnerable adults and
non-medical prescribing.
|
|
|
|
Specific areas of expertise include the following:
|
|
•
|
Leading organisational change through service redesign with a particular focus on stakeholder engagement.
|
|
•
|
Implementation of a standardised methodology to ensure compliance with regulatory and professional standards.
|
|
•
|
Leading service audits and reviews to facilitate organisational learning in response to service failure.
|
|
•
|
Achievement of significant savings through service redesign and the tightening of controls on supplementary staffing.
|
|
•
|
Quality improvement activities and focus on excellent patient care.
|
|
|
|
Linda is currently a freelance Primary Care Consultant, the project lead for the Queen’s Nursing Institute (Scotland), an
Appointments Board Member for the Nursing Regulator, and a lay member of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission.
|
|
