2025 Speakers

Beverley Bostock
Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Long-Term Conditions
Mann Cottage Surgery Moreton in Marsh

Bev is an ANP and prescriber working in general practice in Gloucestershire. She has a special interest in long-term conditions, including diabetes, chronic kidney disease (CKD), cardiovascular disease, and heart failure. She is a Council Member for the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society, with particular responsibility for diabetes and CKD, and is Editor in Chief of Practice Nurse Journal. She has contributed to national CVD working groups, is a regular speaker at national conferences and has authored articles on the management of long-term conditions. Bev has developed and delivered accredited modules in cardiorenal metabolic disease for organisations such as the Open University and is a PhD researcher with Edinburgh Napier University.

Carol Stonham MBE
Respiratory Nurse Practitioner
NHS Gloucestershire ICB

Following 26 years nursing in general practice Carol now works at Gloucestershire ICB Respiratory Clinical Programme Group and is CYP Asthma Clinical Lead. Carol is also a co-clinical lead of the NHSE Southwest Respiratory Network. Carol is past Executive Chair of PCRS – the first non-doctor and first female to take the chair. She is current a trustee of the charity. She is vice chair of the Lung Health Task Force and also co-chairs the Taskforce early and accurate diagnosis group. Carol received Queen’s Nurse award in 2007 and in 2016 was awarded an MBE for Services to Nursing and Healthcare

Darush Attar-Zadeh
Clinical Fellow
NWL ICB, RightBreathe

Darush is a clinical fellow respiratory lead pharmacist for NWL ICB, NWL Asthma Network (Children & Young People) and NHS RightBreathe.

As part of his various roles, he supports 45 PCNs across NWL on the sustainability agenda. He has presented at various national & international conferences and was asked to help review the National Training Standards for Smoking Cessation. He is an active teacher and follower of the IPCRG Asthma Right Care social movement and enjoys spreading positive messages on how people can live much better with asthma.

Laura King
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Paediatric Asthma
Royal London Hospital

Laura is a nurse specialist in children and young people's asthma, with a decade of experience. During this time she has worked in primary through to tertiary care, South to North-East and outer London and will soon be moving closer to home in Essex. Laura is a passionate advocate for families experiencing the impact of inequality, whether that is financial, cultural or environmental. Her expertise lies in risk profiling, acute asthma (her background before specialising was paediatric emergency care), network building and accessible information. Laura was part of the innovative Asthma Practitioner Pilot recently, aiming to minimise the impact of inequalities on CYP asthma and embed the NHSE bundle of care. She has a keen interest in the impact of neurodivergence and adolescent health. She will often be found rabbiting on about an article or book about the teenage brain. After her children are in bed, she is just as likely to have her nose in dystopian fiction, poetry or anything with dragons! In her free time Laura is also a self-published children's author and illustrator - The Lady & The Thing which supports bereaved children or those facing loss - and a series of books about asthma which introduce concepts like inflammation, prevention versus rescue, peak expiratory flow and asthma plans through creative illustrated stories (again, dragons!).

Ravijyot Saggu
Lead Pharmacist - Respiratory & Medicines Optimisation
London

Ravijyot has worked across sectors and has a portfolio of roles. Aside from respiratory, she has policy, strategy, commissioning & medicines value experience. She is an honorary clinical lecturer and was Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s clinical fellow (‘21/’22 at NHSE). She is chair of the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association respiratory committee and has been part of national/European guideline & working groups (NICE/BTS/ERS/Greener Practice). She continues to lead and contribute to national workstreams and sits on a range of committees including NHSE Sustainability board/Respiratory clinical reference group with various publications and research interests. She is a coach (including for National Respiratory Audit Programme), NICE Associate and council member for ALUK. She is passionate about sustainable, personalised, holistic care for patients and population health to reduce health inequalities

Ren Lawlor
Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Academic Tutor,
South East London Training Hub Director at The Good Practitioner - Education and Training

Ren Lawlor is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Independent Prescriber in London and the south east. She currently works as the academic tutor and advanced practice lead for the South East London Training Hub and is a visiting lecturer for various universities including the University of Greenwich. Ren has a special interest in respiratory disease in primary care and is the vice chair for executive committee, and the chair for the education committee for the Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS-UK). Ren is the founder and director of The Good Practitioner - Education and Training.