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Health Education England trainee wins prestigious fellowship

Dr Chantelle Tomlinson, who recently completed a fellowship on Health Education England's Future Leaders Programme in Yorkshire and the Humber, has since been awarded a Churchill Fellowship.

Chantelle was one of 150 new Churchill Fellows selected from 1,000 applicants. The fellowships are awarded by The Winston Churchill Memorial Fund to provide and fund unique opportunities for UK citizens to travel overseas to bring back fresh ideas and new solutions to today's issues. They allow fellows to maximise what they can achieve in their lifetime as leaders and role models to inspire others and in personal development terms.

Currently Chantelle is a final year trainee in neonatal medicine based at the Jessop Wing in Sheffield. Having trained in Cambridge, London and the East Midlands she is hoping her forthcoming fellowship can make a real difference to the most vulnerable members of the community.

Over the next 12 months Chantelle will spend time in Japan and Canada examining, understanding and investigating a variety of aspects of neonatal intensive care. She will be exploring the use of technological advances, practical aspects of family integration in the neonatal units, approaches to team dynamics and medical errors, as well as exciting approaches to quality improvement across a neonatal network.

She says: "I'm absolutely thrilled to be a Churchill Fellow. I am incredibly passionate about the project I've proposed and can't wait to begin planning my travels. I envisage this being an incredible personal journey and one that just wouldn't be possible without the support. I hope to bring back some tangible, practical ideas to the incredible teams we have in the NHS and look at how we can integrate these towards improving outcomes for babies in the UK."

Dr Chantelle Tomlinson is thrilled to be a Churchill Fellow.


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