Patient Partner and Advocate

Carol Munt, SRN. ONC.

Lived Experience Partner NHSE

Passionate about Patient & Public Involvement and Co-Production, believing that people with lived experience are a valuable asset to the Health Service.

Carol is a Doubleday Affiliate.

She is an Experience of Care Partner and Mentor at the NHS Leadership Academy and sits on the following NHSE DrEaMing National Strategy group,

National Steering Group Maximising Leadership Learning in the pre-registration curriculum.

An entertaining and informative public speaker, the recording of her talk on Co-Production at the King’s Fund still forms part of the Open University Health & Social Care degree course.

Following her BMJ article about Covid visiting restrictions she was asked to address the All Party Parliamentary Committee Covid Enquiry

Before moving to Kent, as co-Chair of the NHS Thames Valley Patient Experience Operational Group, Carol sat on the board of the NHS Thames Valley Strategy Group and was part of the Oxford AHSN Leading Together programme team

She worked closely with Health Education Thames Valley and Reading University on the e-version of the ‘Dementia Handbook for Carers and Care Providers’ having been part of the team behind the original printed version.

She remains one of HSJ Top 50 Patient Leaders.

In 1982 Carol was a passenger involved in a road traffic accident in France, sustaining a fractured skull, and brain haemorrhage resulting in coma.

She was subsequently diagnosed with Narcolepsy and Cataplexy as a result of the trauma.

Medication keeps her long-term condition reasonably stable.

Carol has a daughter, a son and 5 grandsons, lives in Tunbridge Wells and lists travel, photography and meeting new people as her main interests.