Our People

Diane Romano-Woodward became interested in OH in the mid1980s when acting as a Safety Representative for the Royal College of Nursing.

Christina has experience of OH management at UK and international level in a variety of organisations.

JW is a former CEO of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and has experience of setting up a charity and chairing two boards of trustees.

Elisabeth was originally an A&E sister before moving into OH to work as the Store Sister at Debenhams, Oxford Street.

Fiona's current position is working at HS2 as Head of Occupational Health and Wellbeing, where she is pioneering different health strategies.

Joanna Elliot is the Chief Nursing Adviser, Lead practitioner and OH manager in Health and Social Care, Justice and the communications industry.

Andrew is an independent Management Consultant specialising in Occupational Health. He commenced his working life in management roles for a leading FTSE 100 retailer, including HR, Customer Service, Sales and General Management. He moved into an NHS OH business management role in 1997, leading and developing a large team of OH professionals. In 2008 Andrew joined NHS Plus as Operations Director, a Department of Health project aimed at improving the quality of NHS occupational health provision.

Andrew was a founding director of Syngentis in 2012, an occupational health community interest company and later became Executive Director of the business. Andrew is now self-employed with a portfolio of key clients – he is the Network Manager for the NHS Health at Work Network and a Lead SEQOHS Assessor for the Faculty of Occupational Medicine. Andrew joined the FOHN as Governance Director in the summer of 2019.

Lyndsey has worked as an independent nurse practitioner since 2007 and established her own company, Phoenix Occupational Health in 2011.

David is currently employed as Occupational Health Clinical Manager for RPS Group, David has developed his career in Occupational Health (OH) from starting in the specialism as an OH Technician in 2005. David took a break from Occupational Health to pursue other interests and undertake his Nurse training, returning to OH in 2013 for British Airways Health Services as an OHN.

David has worked in a range of roles and industries (including but not limited to) Maritime, Aviation, Manufacturing and Construction, but enjoys the challenges involved with learning about industries where his knowledge is not as strong. David’s Nursing background is primarily Community Rehabilitation, Emergency Department and Occupational Health, he is currently (2017 – 2019) studying for the OH Diploma at The University of the West of Scotland which will award him Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (OH) on Part 3 of the NMC Register.

Susanna is currently working as a freelance OH Nurse & Safety Consultant with a special interest and expertise in OH and safety management systems and health surveillance, particularly hearing and noise.