NCSCT People

Find below the names, roles and responsibilities of the people who make-up the NCSCT team:
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Directorate

Andy McEwen
Director of NCSCT CIC and Executive Director of the NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training
Responsibilities include:

• Policy development
• Formulation of organisational direction and strategy development
• Coordinating Activities and Resources

Robert West
Director of the NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training
Responsibilities include:

• Strategy development and supervison of work
• International collaboration and dissemination
• Special responsibility for research

Susan Michie
Director of the NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training
Responsibilities include:

• Strategy development and supervison of work
• Best practice for behavioural support
• Special responsibility for evaluation­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

­Heather Thomson
Associate Director of the NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training
Responsibilities include:

• Communication and stakeholder engagement 

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Information Technology

Don Churchill
Head of Information Systems
Responsibilities include:

• Provision of information systems (IS) and services according to agreed plans
• Procurement, development and maintenance of major IT/IS investment
• Development of IT/IS Strategies
• Contributing to organisational policy including quality standards and strategic planning

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Leanne Rhodes-Robinson
Training Centre Manager
Responsibilities include:

• NCSCT face-to-face training course in behavioural support
• Certification

Jennifer Tapsfield
Training Administrator
Responsibilities include:

• Stage 1 training and assessment programme 
• Enquiries

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NCSCT Research

Leonie Brose
Research Associate
Responsibilities include:

• Evaluation of the stage 1 and stage 2 training
• Examining factors that influence the effectiveness of NHS stop smoking services

Fabiana Lorencatto
Research Associate
Responsibilities include:

• Identifying evidence-based behaviour change techniques (BCTs) and their use in practice
• Assessing differences in BCT use between stop smoking practitioners of different professional backgrounds

Mairtin McDermott
Research Associate
Responsibilities include:

• Stage 2 assessment
• Annual commissioner, manager and practitioner surveys

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NCSCT Delivery

Melanie Chambers
Senior Delivery Manager
Responsibilities include:

• Routes to quit
• Stop Smoking Service Data Collection Improvement

Liz Hughes
Delivery Manager
Responsibilities include:

• Secondary care

Jo Locker
Delivery Manager
Responsibilities include:

• Brief interventions and Second-hand Smoke
• Providing strategic support to the London Regional Tobacco Control Programme
• Very Brief Advice

Isobel Williams
Project Manager
Responsibilities include:

• Audit of local stop smoking services
• Mystery shopping