Gill Staton

Gill Staton was appointed as Head of Nursing for Patient flow and Discharge at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust in 2018. In this role Gill is responsible for leading improvement programmes in support of the urgent and emergency care work streams – reducing the number of ‘stranded’ patients, reducing the number of readmissions to hospital and working with health and social care partner organisations to develop new integrated ‘Home First’ services for patients. Gill is a registered nurse – before moving into a number of clinical and change management roles within acute and tertiary centres she specialised as a cardiac nurse. Gill is committed to multidisciplinary and multiagency approaches to system change and is passionate about reducing the amount of wasted time in the patients journey.