Liz Plastow
Liz has had extensive experience in the National Health Service, Education and more recently at the Nursing and Midwifery Council and secondment into the Chief Nursing Officers Team (England) working on the revised Child Health Promotion programme and the 2006 Review of Health Visiting. Liz began her career in residential social work, before training as a mental health nurse. Having developed skills in primary care with both children (CAHMS) and the elderly she then undertook specialist public health nurse training and began a career in public health. Her first experience in academia was as Senior Lecturer for independent nurse prescribing in 1997. Since then has been involved in the development of extended and supplementary nurse prescribing and the growth in non-medical prescribing; as a prescriber, an educationalist and more recently at a strategic level with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, and working closely with the Department of Health, the MHRA and the RSPGB. Culminating in the writing of the Standards of Proficiency for Nurse/Midwife Prescribers and the Standards for Medicines Management at the NMC.
Having successfully completed a Masters degree in1995,she worked as a member of a General Practice research team until 2004. Research interests included primary care and prescribing. In addition to numerous publications in which she is first author, she also has contributed to many others, writing chapters on public health nursing, community care, medicines management and she regularly reviews articles for the Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing and sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of School Nursing. She is a Visiting Fellow of London South Bank University.
Liz currently work as an independent consultant in public health nursing, medicines management and regulation. She is currently undertaking a review of health visiting and school nursing in Northern Ireland, re-designing and commissioning 0-19 services in South West Essex and is the health visiting and school nursing advisor to the DH National Support Team for Childhood Obesity.
