Rachel Munton, currently Deputy Director for the NHS East Midlands Leadership Academy will be joining CLAHRC as Director in early 2011.
The Collaborative Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) in the East Midlands, one of only nine in the country, is a five year partnership between progressive NHS organisations, the University of Nottingham and both Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County Councils to develop new approaches to healthcare research and enable more research studies to be carried out. It will also ensure that research is focused on patients' needs and that findings can be put into practice more quickly to improve the care that patients receive.
Rachel is currently seconded to the East Midlands Leadership Academy as Deputy Director from her substantive role as Executive Director of Nursing at Nottinghamshire Healthcare. She is also currently Interim Director of Nursing for NHS East Midlands. Rachel will continue the Leadership Academy role alongside her CLAHRC Directorship. She will be relinquishing her roles with Nottinghamshire Healthcare and NHS East Midlands.
Rachel joined the Trust in May 2006 from her former role as Interim Deputy Chief Executive at the Mental Health Act Commission. Previously, she worked at the Department of Health as Director of Mental Health Nursing, and as National Director for the Black and Minority Ethnic Mental Health Programme within the National Institute for Mental Health in England [NIMHE].
Rachel is a Registered Mental Health Nurse and Adult Nurse, who worked as a CPN and a CPN manager before joining the University of Nottingham to lead a number of nurse education programmes. In August 2008, Rachel was awarded the title of Special Professor of the University of Nottingham, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy.
Professor Mike Cooke is Chief Executive at Nottinghamshire Healthcare and Chair of the CLAHRC Board:
“Rachel is a dynamic and professional leader who will bring a new approach to the CLAHRC as it enters a new phase looking at the deployment of research into current NHS Practice. Although we are sad to see Professor Graeme Currie go, as he moves to Warwick Business School, I am confident that Rachel will continue with the success of CLAHRC. Although we are also sad to see Rachel leave Nottinghamshire Healthcare it is good to know that we will still be working together on such an important subject – improving services for the patients in our care.”
