Director of Nursing, Allied Health Professionals and Governance, BrisDoc Healthcare Services, England

Rhys Hancock is the Director of Nursing, Allied Health Professionals and Governance for BrisDoc Healthcare Services. A Social Enterprise organisation, BrisDoc delivers General Practice and Integrated Urgent Care services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Rhys’ previous background is as a paramedic and in clinical leadership for the ambulance sector. This has borne a passion for collaborative working; he holds a strong belief that working together can achieve more for patients, colleagues and the system. The Integrated Access Partnership (IAP) brings this alive, delivering an innovative approach to urgent mental health care across the South West. Bringing together expertise from multiple partners – weaving together clinical, digital, governance and operational threads – the IAP provides a single co-ordinated response, and thereby meets the patient’s needs as early in the pathway as possible. This has created multi-faceted benefits for patients, workforce, hospitals, ambulance, and police services alike.