Our team
We are a multi-disciplinary team, made up of clinical and support staff, and those who organise the service.
Senior leadership team
Jason Willcox
Head of Dementia Provision and Innovation
My professional career has been steeped in healthcare, with experience of holding leadership positions in CQC regulated activity across the NHS, Social Care and in the private sector.
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Head of Dementia Provision and Innovation
During my career, I have worked across sectors including private, NHS and Social Care, and I have supported services to redesign and attain high quality, effective systems. I have enjoyed changing systems to better meet the needs of the people they serve.
In 2015, I joined Here (Care Unbound), and have had the pleasure to work with several of Here’s partnerships, holding leadership positions across their community services including Wellbeing (IAPT), Diabetes Care For You, the Community Eye Service and our Memory Assessment Service.
I’m passionate about supporting systems to improve the care we provide to the people who use them, and my role allows me to support the local and national system in memory service provision and design. My experience includes supporting the MAS National Covid Steering Group (NHSE Improvement) and contributing to the MAS Good Practice workstream (NHSE Improvement and Leeds Beckett Uni) as a subject matter expert. I have also supported Yma and their work in MAS provision with Hywel Dda Health Board, as well as contributing to local clinical networks within the South East of England.
Dr Rachel Duncan
Clinical Lead and GP
Working within Brighton and Hove Memory Assessment Service as a clinical lead has helped build on my passion for working in a holistic way with older people.
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Clinical Lead and GP
I have been a GP for 15 years and I have always had an interest in improving systems, holding roles in clinical guidelines development and in mental health commissioning in the past. My role as one of the roving GPs in Brighton & Hove for over ten years has complimented my work in the Memory Assessment Service as this is an admissions avoidance service for complex often older housebound individuals.
My role here is varied from being part of our diagnosis work-stream and clinical appointments, to training new staff and working on the development of new pathways with other teams to improve flow for our patients and everything in between. The quality of our offer to patients is very important so this is an area of focus for me. I enjoy the personalised way we can work with patients and very much value the way that the support service is interwoven with the clinical service. I have also been involved with building up close links with other, related services to broaden our offer and be as much of a “one stop shop” as is possible for our patients with memory concerns. I feel very lucky to work with such a quality focused team where what is in the best interests of our patients is the driver throughout the whole service.
Kristina Antonova
Consultant Psychiatrist
Victoria Lukats
Consultant Psychiatrist
Alison Melling
Lead Specialist Nurse
Carla Gilfoyle
Service Manager
Clinical Team
Julie Kipling
Specialist Nurse
Michaela Walsh
Specialist Nurse
Claire Hawman
Specialist Nurse
Allie Lawrence
Specialist Nurse
Karen Paddison
Specialist Nurse
Garry Ryan
Nurse Prescriber
Dr. Esme Gates
GP with Extended Responsibilities (GPwER)
Dr. Lucy Bamford
GP with Extended Responsibilities (GPwER)
Dr. Ruper Hutchinson
GP with Extended Responsibilities (GPwER)
Gill Yates
Pharmacist Prescriber
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