Membership – members have been invited and will be confirmed at the first Board meeting /
  • Chair: Chief Nurse RM: Eammon Sullivan
  • Head of School: Dr Catherine Wilson
  • School Lead for Quality and Standards: Dr Antonia Lannie
  • Nominated staff member from School (rotational basis – 12 months):Maggie Uzzell
  • School Business Manager:Hannah Drinkwater
  • RM Associate Director, Financial Operations: Karry Tymieniecka
  • RM Assistant Director Organisation and Development: Tanise Browne
  • RM Lead Cancer Nurse/Divisional Nurse Director (rotational appointment): Mo Carruthers
  • Academic Partner: Head of School SGUL: Julia Gale
  • Academic Partner: Representative UEA:Zoe Butterfint
  • DGH Representative: Nicola Beech, Lead Cancer Nurse Croydon University Hospital
  • Local Commissioner: Debbie Dzik-Jurasz, Deputy Director, Education Academy, Barts Health
  • AHP representative/strategic advisor: Iain Beith, Head of School of Rehabilitation Sciences, SGUL/KU
  • AHP representative: Vimal Sriram, Learning and Improvement Fellow/NICE Fellow NIHR CLAHRC Northwest London
  • RM School Commmunity Services Representative: Debbie Lindon-Talor, Divisional Nurse Director, RM Community Services
  • Research: Dr Theresa Wiseman, Strategic Lead for Health Servcies Research, RM

Chair / Chief Nurse
Secretariat / PA to Head of School
Quorum / 5members must be present, including 1external to The Royal Marsden (RM) and 2 external to the School
If a member is unable to attend, they shall nominate a deputy to attend the meeting in their absence. The nominated deputy shall have voting rights for that meeting and will provide the relevant comments/feedbcak to the member they are representing.
Frequency of Meetings / Quarterly
Main Aims / The School Board shall provide The Royal Marsden School with assurance, strategic advice and support to ensure that high quality, contemporary, clinically relevant education is offered and delivered.
Duties and Responsibilities / To provide the Head of School with support, advice, approval and governance in relation to The School’s:
Educational Activity
  1. Monitor and review progress of the School’s 5 year Strategy (2015-2020). Suggest, recommend, approve any amendments required to respond to changes in health care and health education
  2. Scrutinise reports on the School’s educational activity eg student feedback; complaints; progression reports; outcomes; stakeholder engagement; feedback from relevant commissioners and purchasers. Approve action plans, recommendations from investigations, as appropriate
  3. Consider any internal and external factors such as changes in healthcare policy) which may have implications for the curriculum and other educational activity in the School
  4. Monitor the quality of provision through scrutiny of HEE quality contract performance indicators, activity, HENWL feedback and action plans
  5. Discuss, scrutinise and approve local School policies, as required
  6. Monitor progress of achievement of key performance indicators
  7. Support and advise the Head of School and the School’s Senior Leadership Team to deliver high quality education and student experience
Business and Marketing Strategy
  1. Review, discuss, monitor, the School’s Business and Marketing Strategy
  2. Annual review of the School’s Risk Register
  3. Consider the School’s position, challenges, opportunities and performance in the context of the wider health education agenda
  4. Contribute updates and awareness of the needs of the workforce and provide insight into the current challenges and future priorities facing health and social care

Relationships with other committees /
  • Programme Board (SGUL)/Course Committee(UEA)
  • Clinical Advisory Group
  • Academic Partner Executive meetings
  • Any other relvant Committees

Recording / All key decisions and action points will be recorded.
Responsible/Accountable to / The Royal MarsdenWorkforce and Education Committee
Reports / Notes and action plans from School Board meetings will be shared with relevant staff and committees in the School and acedemic partner if required
Minutes of meetings will be made available to HENWL
Agenda, papers and minutes / The agenda will be drafted by the Board Secretary(PA to Head of School) in collaboration with the Board Chair, Head of School and the School’s Business Manager if required.
Agenda and papers will be sent out 5 days before the meeting
Minutes will be taken at the meeting, and prepared by the Board Secretary (PA to Head of School) and circulated to the group for comments.
Process for declaring and managing conflicts of interest / All members should declare any conflcit of interest at the start of every meeting and will leave the room when issues where any conflict of interest arise are to be discussed.
Date created / April 2014 – Revised September 2014.
Reviewed March 2015; revised membership September 2015
Revised terms of reference: September/December 2016
New Chair appointed February 2017 revisions to Ts Of R March 2017
Revision date / Three months after the first meeting of the revised Board (April 2017), to ensure that the Terms of Reference are fit for the agreed purpose – then annuallyeach Septmber or if required before then.

Ts of R RMSchoolBoard Revised December 2016 Revision of Chair Feb 2017