Pat Reid
Pat commenced her nurse training in 1977 at University College Hospital London and upon qualifying worked predominantly within surgery and Intensive Care in senior nurse roles. In 1989 as she had two young children she took a night nurse practitioner post and left in 1992 to train as a Journalist.
In 2001 Pat moved back to the NHS as Head of Nursing for Acute Medical Care at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust where she provided professional leadership and strategic vision for the development of Nursing and Clinical Governance within the Division. A major achievement since at that time was to be appointed as the only nurse adviser on the board of the BMJ.
In 2006 she was seconded to an Emergency services improvement post where she improved performance of the 4 hourly target from 95% to 98%. In January 2008 she moved into a project management role to support the reconfiguration of Acute services in West Hertfordshire. This involved the development of an Urgent Care Centre and Acute Admissions Unit (AAU). The AAU which comprises 120 beds is be the largest in the country and a key focus of the role has been the radical redesign of both medical and nursing models of care with a major redesign of the workforce. Currently she is Divisional General Manager for Emergency and Acute Care at West Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
