Gaynor Kershaw

Gaynor qualified as a health visitor in 1983 and works for NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale.

Gaynor takes a positive and forward looking approach in regards to the government’s health agenda. She says that the NHS is forever changing, so it is important that practitioners keep abreast of the wider NHS agenda.

The North West has had some excellent chairs over the years, she will endeavour to carry on their good work, especially that of her successor, Dave Munday who now works as a professional officer for Unite/CPHVA.

In the mid 1990s, Gaynor was seconded to a SRB initiative (Partnership Education Project). From 1998 until July 2007, she was the nurse member on the Professional Executive Committee (PEC) of the PCT, between September 2005 and July 2007 she held the position of board nurse.

Gaynor has recently taken up the position of Chair of the Editorial Board.