Health Directions Network -Our Consultants

Marsaili Cameron

Marsaili is interested in how people make sense of their lives and their work, and in how they share their understandings. A basic way of doing this, of course, is through story of one kind or another. Marsaili’s work – as writer and editor, consultant and teacher – is rooted in a fascination with how and why stories and storylines are developed and shared (or not shared).

Background

Marsaili has over twenty-five years experience as an independent consultant, writer and teacher, with particular interests in health and social care, community development, and professional education. She is a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences at Thames Valley University ; and has a long-standing interest in distance learning and teaching

Recent Projects

A member of the Continuous Learning in Organisations team of independent consultants delivering, at Thames Valley University , a master’s programme in Leadership for Health and Social Care

Advising clients at regional and at strategic health authority level on the development of brochures and booklets for particular purposes and audiences, and working with designers to create these materials

Our consultants

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Marsaili Cameron

Maria Duggan

Rachel Harrison

Roma Iskander

Marion Macalpine

Sheila Marsh

Jud Stone

Suzanne Tyler

A member of the Continuous Learning in Organisations team of independent consultants delivering, at Thames Valley University , a master’s programme in Leadership for Health and Social Care

Advising clients at regional and at strategic health authority level on the development of brochures and booklets for particular purposes and audiences, and working with designers to create these materials.

Core member of the teams carrying out health impact assessments of the Mayor of London’s strategies on economic development, air quality, biodiversity, municipal waste management, noise and culture. (Download a copy external site link)

Editorial consultant for 2002, 2003 and 2004 editions of Health in London, the Greater London Authority’s annual review of the London Health Strategy high level indicators (available here external site link)

Project manager and writer with consultancy team planning, researching, writing and producing two resources, published in 2001, on the management of change in the NHS – Organisational Change: areview for health care managers, professionals and researchers and Making Informed Decisions on Change: key points for health care managers and professionals (Available from National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R&D ).

Publications

Twenty-five years of writing produce frightening amounts of paper. Some examples follow.

Relating to health and social care
King’s Fund/National Institute for Mental Health in England

Co-author, with Teresa Edmans, Angela Greatley and David Morris, of Community Renewal and Mental Health: strengthening the links (2003), a resource designed to promote flexible and effective local partnership working.

King’s Fund
  • 'Employment', co-authored with Teresa Edmans and Helen Bishop, in Claiming the Health Dividend: unlocking the benefits of NHS spending (2002), ed. A. Coote, King's Fund.
Department of Health London Region
  • Co-developer, with Helen Bishop, of Employment Improves YourHealth (2002), a 2-volume guide to good practice in health and regeneration.
  • Co-researcher/writer, with Steve Cranfield, of Workforce andDevelopment: Mapping the Territory (1999) and Getting People onBoard (2000) – resources to support, and provide a framework for, workforce and development strategies in the NHS in London
  • Co-researcher, with Jud Stone and Steve Cranfield, of Embodying Leadership in the NHS (2000) in on-line and poster versions
  • Researcher/writer for A Short Guide to Health Impact Assessment (2000)
  • With Steve Cranfield, planning, researching and writing Unlocking the Potential, a resource designed to support cross-sectoral partnership (1998)
  • Researcher/writer on the consultancy team developing and producing The Right Team for the Job (1997), a resource to support group work on clinical workforce issues
Other angles on life

Marketing (1988) co-authored with Angela Rushton and David Carson. (An introductory text, appearing in Penguin’s ‘Self-Starter’ series.)

John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men & The Pearl (1986), Penguin Passnotes. (An interactive study guide for school students.)

All That: the other half of history (1986), co-authored with the cartoonist, Kate Charlesworth, Pandora Press. (A not entirely serious history of English women.).