Join us for an inspiring one-hour session as we hear from Karen, who shares her personal journey through cancer treatment and the profound difference that vascular access services made to her care
From early chemotherapy experiences to her more recent treatment, Karen’s story powerfully illustrates how advances in vascular access have transformed the patient’s experience by bringing safety, comfort and reassurance during some of life’s most challenging moments.
This free to attend, one hour webinar is part of our patient story-led webinar series designed for NHS professionals to attend during the festive season. They are all created to highlight opportunities for improvement, and celebrate the outstanding work carried out by NHS staff.
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Andrew Barton, Consultant Nurse in IV Therapy and Vascular Access and NIVAS Chair, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Explore an inspiring patient journey through vascular access and oncology
Karen Britton, Patient with Lived Experience
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Question and answer sessions
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Close of webinar
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First-hand patient experience
Andrew is the Founder and Lead Nurse Consultant for the Hospitals’ Intravenous and Vascular Access Services (IVAS) unit where he manages: a large team of vascular access specialist nurses delivering a 7-day service; infusion specialist staff who provide same day IV infusions and other IV therapies; and home infection management nurses.
Andrew is expert in placing ports and renal catheters as well as PICCs and places catheters in adults and paediatrics.
His specialist interest is vascular access technology and he is an early adopter of new concepts technology including infrared vein location, biphasic vein amplification, PICC placement and catheter securement.
Andrew is an experienced national and international speaker and has published extensively in scientific and research journals in the field of vascular access and IV therapy.
He is the chair of NIVAS, the national infusion and vascular access society of the UK. He is a board member of MEDUSA the national electronic injectable medicines guide, and a global committee member of the World Congress of Vascular Access (WoCoVA). He is an expert advisor for the health technologies evaluation programme for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and an independent consultant for the UK MHRA. (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) and for the Health Technology Wales (HTW), a government funded, but independent, health technology assessment organisation.
In 2022 he published The Benefits of a Nursing Led Vascular Access Service Team: A White Paper to outline a standardised structure and approach for the NHS to deliver vascular access services in every hospital and in 2024 launched the UK National Extravasation and infiltration toolkit.
In 2023 Andrew was a finalist in the HSJ Clinical Leader of the year and the Nursing Times Nurse of the year.