Lee Wadsworth RGN MSc V300
Lee qualified as an RGN in 1988. His early years were spent working within general medicine, A&E and intensive units in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
In 1998 Lee trained as a Nurse Practitioner whilst developing a Preoperative assessment service in the UK. Whilst in post Lee presented at the National Day Surgery conference in 2000 at York and was published in the Nursing Standard in 2002.
Lee founded A & L Healthcare Consultancy in 2003 to provide clinical training & consultancy services primarily in Preoperative assessment and Advanced Skill-sets for Nurses.
One of Lee's main passions is to promote preoperative assessment as a dynamic speciality and encourage staff to develop clinical expertise through training and mentorship.
In 2014 Lee co-authored National Training Standards and competencies on preoperative assessment in 2014 on behalf of the Preoperative Association. Lee did assist with the design and delivery of the Preoperative Association Competency-based training programme which is primarily aimed at Nurses and allied health professionals. He recently contributed to the new edition Pudners Surgical Nursing textbook on Preoperative Assessment and continues to facilitate clinical skills workshops at National Conference. Lee trains both nationally and internationally. He was an integral member Preoperative Association Board since 2006. A post which he left in 2021.
Lee maintains some clinical practice as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Nurse Prescriber working in both primary care and an NHS preoperative assessment unit.
Dr Nick Lavies FRCA
My initial medical degree was from Bristol University, graduating in 1976. After obtaining full registration I began anesthetic training in Salisbury in 1978 and continued basic training in Plymouth. After spending 2 years as anaesthetic registrar at St Batholomews Hospital and obtaining the fellowship of the Royal college of Anaesthetists, I went to work in Durban, South Africa for one year. On return I went to Leicester as senior registrar and obtained my CCT in 1989. In 1990 became consultant anaesthetist at Worthing District General Hospital initially specializing in intensive care. In 2001 I became the departmental lead for preassessment.
In 2006 I was elected to the board of the Preoperative Association where I remained until 2017, having edited 2 editions of the Preoperative Association Guidelines in 2012 and 2017. In 2021 I edited the 3rd edition with Dr Rob Hill and this is still current. I retired from the NHS in 2018 and since then I have been preassessment clinical lead at BMI Goring Hall Hospital in Goring-by-Sea.
Dr Bernard Gallagher PhD
Bernard Gallagher (PhD) has spent most of his 40+ year career teaching, supervising and researching in university social work departments. His specialist areas of work are child protection, domestic abuse, victimization more generally and research methodology – topics on which he has published quite extensively. His most recent post was at the University of Huddersfield. Before this, he worked at the universities of Manchester, East Anglia and Cambridge. He has also conducted research while employed by the NSPCC and the National Institute for Social Work. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a residential social worker (unqualified) in a number of children’s homes in London and the South East. He is currently working as an independent researcher, and the bulk of his time at the moment is focused on writing a book on domestic abuse, which is to be published by Routledge in 2026.
His role with A & L Healthcare mainly involves providing advice on the format of training and the accreditation of courses, and support during online training.
