Expert Author: Lesley Barton
Highlights
- Board Director of the Continence Foundation of Australia and previously Industry advisor to the board for 22 years to current.
- Developing and designing the Clinical Care Connections Program to support the team, customers, and our business.
- Clinical Excellence award, Clinical Hero award, Youth Leadership award achieved.
- Developing and delivering Continence and Wound Care seminars and workshops.
Experience
Lesley has over 40 years of experience in healthcare with across multiple positions like, Registered Nurse, Midwife, Orthopaedic Clinician. She then moved into sales and account manager positions for healthcare companies where she took her clinical knowledge and applied it to continence, wound care and medical consumable products. In 2004, Lesley worked at Sanicare as Regional Manager which was then bought by Bunzl in 2007. She remained the Regional Manager until 2010 where she was offered her current position of National Clinical and Training Manager.
In her current position, Lesley identified the need to improve the offering and support of customers, working on developing tools to improve this for Bunzl. She also started Clinical Care Connections (CCC) which is an outcome-based management program built on best practice principles providing education in continence, skin and wound care management, and medical consumables. The CCC program was developed to include Atlas McNeil Healthcare.
Education
· Diploma of Nursing -Registered nurse
· Qualified Midwife
· Clinical Educator
· Continence Nurse Specialist Qualification
· Workplace and risk assessor
· Postgraduate in Business
· Postgraduate in Quality Auditing
· Postgraduate Diploma of Education & Training /Teaching
· Postgraduate Diploma of Training Design & Development
· Infection Prevention & Control accredited
· Governance certification
· Clinical Governance diploma
· Advanced Wound Management certification
· NDIS assessment
About Atlas McNeil Healthcare Community
Atlas McNeil Healthcare is part of the global Bunzl Group of companies, established in 1854 and now a FTSE 100 listed company [LON: BNZL]. Atlas McNeil Healthcare provides medical supplies, tailored solutions and personalised service to those in the health care and home care community.
In 2019, we merged with Victoria Healthcare Products, combining 20 years of industry experience with leading distribution channels and a broader product range. For our customers, this created an increased ‘Community’ offering led by dedicated experts within the consolidated Atlas McNeil Healthcare business.
Our continued commitment to developing positive relationships within the industry has enabled us to offer a diverse range of quality products that meet the changing needs and expectations of our customers.
Atlas McNeil Healthcare Community works with accredited government subsidy schemes like NDIS, HCP, HEN and CAPS.