Mrs C Watson
Governor
Claire Watson is the mother of 14-year-old twins with profound medical needs and physical disabilities. She has extensive lived experience of some of the most complex NHS Services, from the Special Care Baby Unit, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and many other paediatric departments at the Newcastle RVI, to Community Paediatricians and Nursing Teams within Gateshead through to Personal Health Budgets with the ICB.
Claire has completed the NHS England Personalised Care: Peer Leadership Foundation Courses, which explored the changing demands on the NHS, what personalised care is, where it came from, the difference it can make and how it enables culture change in the NHS.
Claire is the Chair the Governors’ Quality of Patient Experience Working Group, and is the Governor Representative on the Trust’s Nutrition Steering Committee.
Her interests include playing guitar, reading, hiking, keeping fit, and she has recently qualified as a Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach. She has also recently become a Trustee for the disabled children’s charity WellChild.
Claire wishes to use her lived experience in her Governor role to ensure the interests and needs of all service users within her community are represented and met.