Carol Munt ONC, SRN

Carol Munt is a Patient Partner and Advocate at the Freelance. Later, as Chairman of the Parish Council, was instrumental in saving the village shop from closure. There is much more to tell, as you may have gathered she has an interesting and varied background.

Until her recent move to Kent, among other roles, Carol was Chair of South Reading Patient Voice and in 2013 responsible for the 'Dementia and Elderly Care Conference' sponsored by the CCG. A Patient Partner at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, with a colleague, successfully campaigned for Dementia to be a module in the Thames Valley University Nursing course and for Dementia training to be firmly embedded at the RBH. When their Mothers both developed Dementia, finding it difficult for carers to obtain helpful information, they proposed and worked with carers and clinicians on the 'Dementia Handbook for Carers' in West Berkshire. She was a member of the Reading Borough Council Carers Group.

She then applied for and got one of the two newly formed lay member positions with NHS Thames Valley, became Co-chair of NHS Thames Valley Patient Experience Strategy Group then the overall Patient Experience Operational group, a member of NHS Thames Valley Oversight Board, and a member of the Oxford Academic Health Science Network Clinical Innovation & Adoption Team. She was also a member of the steering group for the University of Reading Physician Associate Course.