Sara Glover

Director of Finance and Support Services
Joined Saint Francis Hospice - 04 June 2007
Sara started her career in the private sector before moving into the third sector to work for charities such as Tearfund and Age Concern.  Prior to coming to Saint Francis Hospice Sara worked for the NHS for 10 years, lastly as a Deputy Director of Finance for a Primary Care Trust (PCT).
Her project management and finance skills were put to good use straight away.  Sara’s first day at the hospice required her to hit the ground running thanks to a £600,000 Department of Health grant to refurbish the hospice.  She liaised with all departments to ensure that the work was completed with minimum disruption to patient care and was finished on time, and within budget – something she is very proud of.  Managing projects like this is just a small part of Sara’s role, but she takes great pleasure in seeing the benefits for staff and patients that a major project like this achieves.

Dr Corinna Midgley MB, BS, MRCGP, FRCP

Medical Director (Consultant in Palliative Care, Lead for Clinical Governance)

Corinna trained to be a doctor at University College and then as a GP within the London based vocational (GP) training programme. She worked as a GP for several years before spending a year in a hospice doing specialist palliative medicine. The specialty captured her and she went on to complete specialist training in 2001. At first Corinna worked as a part time Consultant at Saint Francis Hospice but in 2005 she became a full time Palliative Medicine Consultant and Medical Director.

Corinna retains a real passion for caring for people with complex needs and works clinically, predominantly on our inpatient unit. She also has a strong interest in education, becoming training programme lead for specialist (higher) training in Palliative Medicine for NE London in 2008, and over the last few years has linked the hospice into two local GP vocational training schemes, which allows local training GPs to gain core skills in palliative care as they train.

She has also been proud to develop the Consultant and Associate Specialist team here to meet the increasing number of patients we support both in the hospice and at home. She and her fellow Directors have worked with the hospice care team to develop better access to timely support for people with advanced cancer, also for people with advanced non cancer illness, and to develop a special interest in supporting vulnerable people such as people with learning disability who develop a serious illness. Corinna was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in 2008.
 

Jane Sutherland RGN

Director of Patient Services (Registered Manager for Care Quality Commission)

Jane qualified as a nurse in 1979 after completing a comprehensive three year training programme.  For the first 13 years of her 32 year nursing career Jane specialised in acute neurosurgical nursing at the Brook Hospital in South London.  Caring for high dependency patients with a range of neurological conditions, cerebral tumours and brain injuries led to her developing a special interest in the provision of quality end of life care within a busy acute NHS unit. This work fuelled an ongoing passion for specialist palliative care and in 1992 resulted in a career move into palliative care and the hospice movement.  Jane has now specialised in palliative care for 19 years working in clinical nursing and managerial roles in three hospices - in Kent, Oxford and since 1994 here at Saint Francis Hospice as Director of Patient Services and Registered Manager for the Care Quality Commission. Jane remains enthusiastic about, and committed to, developing high quality specialist palliative services through clinical teambuilding and enhanced teamworking. 
 

Jane Frame Dip DM

Director of Fundraising and Marketing

Jane Frame is a member of the Institute of Direct Marketing and the Institute of Fundraising as well as a board member of NAHF (the National Association of Hospice Fundraisers).

Jane started her career in direct marketing working on national and international campaigns for Lloyds of London, before moving to Informa plc and then on to Butterworths (part of the Lexis Nexis group).  Jane moved to Australia for a year and then upon her return to the UK managed the direct marketing accounts for the Economist and Financial Times.

In 2003 Jane moved from the commercial sector into the charity sector to become Fundraising Manager for an international charity.  In 2006 Jane joined the team at Saint Francis Hospice as Director of Fundraising and Marketing.