Janet Thatcher

Mrs Janet Thatcher

Job title: Lecturer in Adult Nursing/Surgical Care Practitioner, School of Nursing and Midwifery (Faculty of Health, Education and Society)
Email: janet.thatcher@plymouth.ac.uk

Role
Programme Lead for Post Graduate Diploma Surgical Care Practitioner

Qualifications & background
RGN, BA(Hons) Nursing Education, C&G 730, ENB 176 Operating Department Nursing

Professional membership
National Association of Assistants in Surgical Practice
Association for Perioperative Practice

Roles on external bodies
NAASP Surgical Care Practitioner Education Committee (previously NAASP Education Director 2002-2007)
NAASP Advanced Scrub Practitioner Teaching Faculty

Publications
Thatcher J (1996) Follow -up after Day Surgery: How well do patients do ? Nursing Times 92: 37, 30-32

Thatcher J (1999) Great Expectations Nursing Times 95-9, 30

Thatcher J (2002) Assistants in surgical practice: what's in a name? National Association of Assistants in Surgical Practice Newsletter September, 2

Thatcher J (2003) Assistants in surgical practice: what's in a name? British Journal of Perioperative Nursing 13 (5):210-213

Thatcher J (2004) Letters: why are we having this discussion? British Journal of Perioperative Nursing 14(3): 98

New Ways of Working in Surgery Curriculum Framework Planning Group(2005) The Curriculum Framework for the Surgical Care Practitioner: a consultation document Dept of Health [Co-author]

DH (2006) The Curriculum Framework for the Surgical Care Practitioner Dept of Health [Co-author]

Contributing Author to the following NAASP Documents:

National Association of Assistants in Surgical Practice (2003) Surgical Practitioner Core Syllabus NAASP [Co-author]

NAASP (2003) Surgical Practitioner Personal Profile NAASP [Co-author]

NAASP (2003) Basic Surgical Skills for Non-medically Qualified Practitioners NAASP 1 st and 2 nd editions [Co-author]

NAASP (2004) Advanced Scrub Practitioner Toolkit NAASP [Co-author]

NAASP (2004) Surgical Care Practitioner Orthopaedic Specialty Syllabus NAASP [Co-author]

Formal presentations:

2003:

• Presentation - Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Scientific Meeting, Manchester, Thatcher J Delivering a national education strategy for surgical assistants

• Presentation - Proprius Conference, Torquay, Thatcher J NAASP curriculum: an update

2004:

• Presentation - NAASP 2 nd Annual Conference, York, Thatcher J, Ward P, Slim F, Gillard E Education – where are we today?

• Presentation - NHS Modernisation Agency, Action On General Surgery and New Ways of Working in Surgery, Joint Event, London, Thatcher J Future opportunities and developments

• Poster - NHS Modernisation Agency, National New Ways of Working in Surgery Conference, London, Thatcher J and Spittles H, NHS Modernisation agency Changing Workforce Programme NWWS Surgical Practitioner Pilots – The University of Greenwich

• Presentation - NHS Modernisation Agency Redesigning General Surgical Services, London Groves H and Thatcher J Redesigning roles in surgery

• Poster - Euro-Regional conference, “Health in Europe: Which way forward?”, Unversite Catholique de Lille, France, Thatcher J Developing a clinical practice programme to support an emerging profession for health care practitioners within surgery

2005:

• Poster - NAASP 3rd Annual Conference, Cardiff , Thatcher J Designing a flexible programme for developing roles

• Presentation - NAASP 3 rd Annual Conference, Cardiff , Thatcher J

• Surgical Practitioner Education Update 2005

• Presentation – Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Scientific Meeting, Glasgow Thatcher J Education developments to support new curriculum framework