Alison Hopkins Editor

Aby Mitchell, Senior Lecturer in Nurse Education, Adult Nursing Department, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King's College London. Aby's clinical experience spans across burns and plastics, primary care, and physical health in community mental health. Aby is a registered specialist practitioner — in district nursing and has an MSc in Advanced Practice (healthcare education). Aby is committed to improving patient care through nurse education.

Georgina Ritchie, Executive Director and Director of Education at Accelerate. Georgina brings over two decades of experience in clinical practice and education. Her journey from military nursing in the British Army to leadership roles in the NHS and academia has honed her expertise in community and district nursing. Georgina is a registered community specialist practitioner and a V300 non-medical prescriber, holding an MEd, with a passion for empowering confident clinical practice through education.

Alison Hopkins MBE, Executive Director and CEO at Accelerate. With over three decades of experience in wound care, Alison established the leg ulcer service at Tower Hamlet's District Nursing Service in 1989, beginning a life-long passion for compression therapy and community transformation. In 2019 Alison was awarded an MBE for services to Nursing and wound care and holds an MSc in Psychology and Health. In addition to overseeing Accelerate, she continues to contribute to academic journals, and speak at conferences, always seeking to challenge the status quo so that excellent wound and lymphoedema care becomes the norm.