Expert Witness Profile
Helene Cross

Surrey

Areas Covered: UK

Orthopaedics

Paediatrics

Cardiovascular

General Surgery

Wards and Theatre

Medicine Management

Nursing and Care Standards

Risk Management

Private Healthcare

Failure to Refer

Tissue Viability

Catheterisation

End of Life Care

  • Maybo Descalation training (May 2023)
  • End of Life and Syringe Pump training (August 2018)
  • Root Cause Analysis Training (February 2018)
  • DOCS development workshop (May 2017)
  • BMI Quality Summit (March 2017)
  • Brand Values workshop (November 2016)
  • Root Cause Analysis Master Class (October 2016)
  • Human Factors training - Trevor Dale (September 2016)
  • Step up to safety training- D.J Brown (August 2016)
  • Duty of Candour training -Kennedys (April 2016)
  • Pre-admission study day (September 2015)
  • Safeguarding level 3 Adults and Child (September 2015)
  • Quality Summit (January 2015)
  • Project Lenio Launch event (October 2014)
  • Independent Sector Nursing Learning day (October 2014)
  • Transformation workshop, London (October 2014)
  • RCN Independent Sector Study day (July 2014)
  • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Guidance for Managers (July 2014)
  • Dorset County Council Dorchester, Adult safeguarding level 3, Dorchester (June 2014)
  • Risk Management Workshop for Managers (April 2014)
  • Medical Gas Training BOC (April 2014)
  • Clinical Quality Conference (February 2014)
  • BMI Leadership 3M Workshop (January 2014)
  • BMI Clinical Leaders Risk Summit (September 2013)
  • ENB 124 Coronary Care Nursing
  • ENB 934 HIV and AIDS Nursing
  • MESOL – Managing in the Health Service
  • Royal College of Nursing
  • 2 years’ experience as a Regional Clinical Support Specialist at Loveday & Co specialising in delivering person-centred care to elderly clients.
  • 2023, Registered Manager at Asprey Health Care, Walton Park Care Home.
  • 1 year of experience as Peripatetic Care Service Manager at Signature Lifestyle.
  • 2 years’ experience as Director of Care at Lifecare Residences providing Leadership and support of clinical services, nursing, complex and palliative care.
  • 14 years’ experience working in role of Director of Care and Clinical services in Acute Private Hospitals for BMI( now Circle), Aspen and Spire.
  • 12 years’ working in NHS , 6 at ward manager and Clinical manager level within the field of Adult medicine, Diabetology and General medicine.
  • Coronary care trained

I have worked in a variety of clinical settings at a senior level for several leading private care homes and independent acute hospitals.

I possess a broad range of clinical experiences and operational expertise underpinned by 12 years of NHS nursing specialising in general medicine, including diabetes, endocrinology and cardiology.