Chiropractic Awareness Week 2024 – Meet the speakers

Amanda Hensman-Crook, Consultant MSK Physiotherapist

Amanda has 30 years’ NHS experience across primary, community, and secondary care. She has a passion for workforce transformation and innovation, leading to improved quality and impact for service users in the context of personalised care. Amanda is currently completing a PhD in investigating consultant practice education across non-medical professions. She developed First Contact Practice (FCP) in 2014 and pioneered the national standardised FCP data template used for national evaluation of physiotherapy FCP for NHSE, leading to the implementation of physiotherapy under the ARRS scheme. As the HEE national clinical fellow from 2019 to 2021, she led the development and implementation of the MSK, OT, podiatry, dietetic, and paramedic FCP training and development roadmaps, along with the national roadmaps supervisor infrastructure to support them.

She also contributed to the development of the UK Advanced Practice MSK standards and played a key role in establishing the UK MSK Partnership group. Additionally, she serves as the Chair and Programme Lead for the national MSK conference at the Therapy EXPO, and she chairs the CARPE research advisory board.

Cait Allen, BCA CEO

Cait has an extensive career history working with organisations across healthcare and the third sector, including NHS England and NHS Trusts. After a fast-growing career in PR and marketing, Cait moved into wider leadership roles in reputation management and influencing, before taking her first CEO role at the age of 35. Experienced in influencing policy, she has worked with different Government departments across Whitehall to develop policy and deliver change. Specialising in leading organisations in making a positive impact, Cait joins the BCA at a pivotal time following its major repositioning project, which had two core objectives: to support the serious strain on musculoskeletal (MSK) issues facing the UK, whilst equipping members with the tools to increase recognition within the mainstream healthcare community. 

 

Daniel Moore, Chiropractic Course Lead, Teesside University

Daniel is a registered Chiropractor and BCA Member who is currently the Course Leader for the chiropractic degree programme at Teesside University. Daniel has a strong interest in undergraduate and postgraduate education & training, and highly values the impact higher education institutions can have on the professions and community they sit within.

 

 

 

Faye Deane, Senior Lecturer Teesside University, MPH, FRSPH, FRCC, World Federation of Chiropractic Public Health Committee member, BCA Board Member

Faye has 16 years’ experience in private practice and working as 1st team chiropractor for Leeds United and Sheffield United football clubs. Since 2021, Faye has worked as a Senior Lecturer at Teesside University and has been involved in co-writing the MSci Chiropractic degree and leading the development of the placement provision. She holds a Master’s degree in International Public and is currently undertaking a PhD in integrated musculoskeletal care.

Having interned in both Malawi and Chile, working in primary, secondary and tertiary musculoskeletal healthcare settings and with indigenous communities, Faye believes all chiropractors should act as public health advocates and sits on the World Federation of Chiropractic’s (WFC) Public Health Committee, representing the UK and Europe. Her research interests are integrated healthcare, aging, co-morbidity, chronic pain and the microbiome.

 

Glenn Winslade, Sport Educator Lead at AECC University College

Glenn is a Sport Educator Lead at AECC University College and Consultant Chiropractor in sport. He took a key part in this year’s pop-up clinic event that AECC organised in Bournemouth, which provided free multidisciplinary health and support services to the community, including free mental, physical, social care, lifestyle and exercise health support for all. Glenn will take part in this BCA Session to share the learnings from the pop-up clinic with members.

 

 

James Power, Chiropractor and BCA Member

During his career James has worked for a professional cycling teams, golfers, tennis players, CrossFit goers, and an IBF Boxing Champion. Over the past 15 years he has developed his  knowledge, learning the most up to date chiropractic techniques and gaining a better understanding of how these stresses and strains can affect the human body whether sitting at a desk or running 26.2miles. Improving human function and movement in order to optimise personal sports performance, is at the forefront of his treatment.

 

 

 

 

Laura Clough, Public Affairs Specialist

Laura is a Public Affairs Account Manager at Tendo Consulting. She focuses on government engagement, relationship building, policy analysis and influencing including political communications and campaigns for a range of clients. Prior to this, she worked as a parliamentary researcher for a member of parliament.

She is active in the Labour party, sitting on the committee for Labours Campaign for Human Rights and Labour’s foreign policy group including their working group on China.

 

 

Nick Jones, Chief Executive & Registrar of the GCC

Nick started his working career in social housing and was drawn to a career in regulation; working first for the housing regulator and then within system healthcare regulation, ending up at the Care Quality Commission in 2010. Before joining the GCC he was a Director at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the government regulator responsible for making sure fertility clinics and research centres comply with the law.

He believes that regulation undertaken well incentivises improvement and high-quality care for patients, which is its fundamental purpose. He lives in north London with his partner and three sons.

 

Robert Crowley Jr, Clinic Director at the LSBU Student Chiropractic Clinic

Robert is originally from Chicago, IL USA.  He has always been fascinated by the human body and performance.  He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago and received a BSc in Exercise Physiology in 1998.  In 1999 he enrolled at the National University of Health Sciences and received a Doctorate of Chiropractic in 2002.

Robert practiced in the US from 2002-2008. He served as Clinic Director in a multidisciplinary clinic working alongside medical doctors and physical therapists. Additionally, he worked as an Assistant Team Physician for several area High School American football teams.

Robert has practiced in the UK since 2008. He practices inside a CrossFit gym in Norwich. He worked as Clinical Lead at the CrossFit Games European Regionals in Copenhagen and Madrid from 2014-2017, as well as a Senior Rocktape instructor from 2014-2020, teaching kinesiology taping, IASTM and myofascial cupping courses.

Robert began lecturing at London South Bank University in the Integrated Masters of Chiropractic program. In 2023 he began work as Clinic Director of the LSBU Student Chiropractic Clinic in Croydon. The mission of the LSBU Student Chiropractic Clinic is to provide quality, low-cost musculoskeletal care to the Croydon and South London Communities. The Clinic provides outreach to many community groups including Evolve Housing Charity. The students provide chiropractic care to Evolve Housing clients residing in Croydon’s long-term residential facility.

Tim Button, BCA President

Since 2003, Tim has established Cleve Chiropractic as a multidisciplinary clinic and now leads a highly experienced and knowledgeable team. He founded Cleve Chiropractic at Cleve Rugby Club and the Old School GP surgery in Bristol in 2003, before moving the practice to a shop unit in Mangotsfield in 2010. In 2014, he created a physiotherapy, exercise and rehabilitation clinic to run alongside the chiropractic clinic. In November 2019, Tim moved again to a larger clinic in Mangotsfield that amalgamated the two clinics and has been practicing with a team of 20 health care professionals ever since.

Over the years, Tim has not only worked hard to build successful local businesses, he’s also forged a strong reputation as a specialist in the elite sporting field. He has been the official chiropractor for Bristol Rovers Football Club since 2003, a role he also held with Premiership Club Bath Rugby for the best part of a decade. For the London 2012 Olympic Games, Tim was selected for the chiropractic team at the sailing village in Weymouth and was subsequently selected to work as a chiropractor for the London IAAF World Athletic Championships in 2017 and the Commonwealth Games in 2022.

Tim had a great time working for the British, Dutch and Australian national Skeleton teams in the 2018 World Cup and in preparation for the 2018 Winter Olympics. In 2012, as one of Britain’s youngest ever chiropractors, Tim became a fellow of the Royal College of Chiropractors Sports Faculty. He also currently runs the BCA chiropractic ski trip.