Jane Scattergood
About Jane ...
Jane is the Director of Health and Care Integration (Place Director) for South Cumbria within the NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB.
Jane qualified as a registered nurse in 1990, a midwife in 1992 and a specialist community public health nurse (health visitor) in 2002. Jane is a community practice teacher for post-registration students and an independent non-medical prescriber.
Graduating from the NHS Management Training Scheme in 1996 and having served two terms as registrant panel member with the Nursing and Midwifery Council for fitness to practise hearings, Jane has a special interest in maximising the contribution of nursing, nurses as leaders, public health nursing and professional regulation and discipline.
Jane brings expertise in public health interventions for the population, particularly in the fields of maternity, early years and population screening programmes and has a special interest in quality assurance, quality improvement and demonstrating the impact of strategies and interventions. Jane is a standing member of the NICE Quality Standards Advisory Committee. She was awarded the title Queens Nurse in 2019 and is an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health.
Jane led the pandemic response Covid-19 Vaccination Programme in Lancashire and South Cumbria, and leads the ICB in vaccine preventable disease, she has a keen and proactive focus on equity and minimising health inequalities. Clinically Jane is particularly interested in safeguarding, families affected by drug and alcohol use, families affected by offending behaviour, families affected by parental mental health, infant mental health, families affected by poverty, breastfeeding, public health midwifery, improving outcomes by influencing the health of the pregnant population, health of pre-school looked after children. Jane is Chair of ICON, a national charity – a programme to drive down the incidence of abusive head trauma in infancy.
Jane lives in South Cumbria and had worked clinically for many years in Barrow-in-Furness, in the community, in out of hours primary care and in acute care. Jane was a volunteer custody visitor at Barrow police station on behalf of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cumbria and now chairs Cumbria Constabulary’s Community Scrutiny (Ethics and Integrity) Committee.
