Professor Bee Wee CBE

Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Harris Manchester College, Oxford University

Professor Bee Wee is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine in Oxford. She was National Clinical Director for Palliative and End of Life Care at NHS England between 2013-2023. In that role, she provided strategic leadership for palliative and end of life care across England and co-chaired the Ambitions Partnership for Palliative and End of Life Care which has 34 national partners across health, social care and voluntary sector. In 2025, she was a member of the Commission on Palliative and End of Life Care. She was awarded the Presidential Medal by the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare for academic, policy and clinical contributions to person centred healthcare in 2017, an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Oxford Brookes University in 2018, and a CBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours 2020 for services to palliative and end of life care.

Originally from Malaysia, Bee trained to become a doctor, then a GP, in Ireland, before moving into palliative care. Throughout her career, caring for people at home has been a core part of her work, and it remains her preferred care setting. She considers it a privilege for her and her co-workers to be allowed into the person’s home and life at such a significant time in their, and their family’s, lives.

Dominic King-Carter

Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Carers Trust

Dominic is Director of Policy and Public Affairs at Carers Trust, a national charity with a network of 135 local carer organisations who collectively reach 1.1million unpaid carers. He has a dozen years of experience working in roles across health and social care (including the Homecare Association), with a particular focus on community based support, end of life care and condition specific issues including dementia. At Carers Trust he oversees the policy, public affairs, evidence and involvement functions, with the ultimate ambition of seeing better returns for carers on their enormous contribution to society. Key areas of policy include service sustainability and quality, data, poverty and work, and young and young adult carers. Dominic was also a young carer himself.

Sinead Barclay

Director & Registered Manager, Barclay Specialist Care

Sinead is the Clinical Director for a national complex care provider, leading with a strong commitment to safe, person centred practice. Under her clinical leadership, the organisation achieved a coveted outstanding rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), reflecting her dedication to excellence and her belief that delivering the “brilliant basics” in care forms the foundation for truly transformative outcomes.

Passionate about advocating for each individual’s right to live the life they choose, Sinead combines clinical rigour with a deeply human approach. She champions safe, high quality care while ensuring that every person’s voice, goals, and aspirations remain central to decision making. Her philosophy is simple yet powerful: when teams consistently get the fundamentals right, they create the conditions for extraordinary results.

Known for her approachable style, strong values, and unwavering drive to improve lives, Sinead continues to influence care practice nationally, shaping services where people are not only supported, but empowered to thrive.

Neale Conner

AHP Team Lead / Senior Specialist Occupational Therapist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

Neale graduated from Oxford Brookes University in 1998 with a BSc (hons) in Occupational Therapy. From there she worked in trauma and orthopaedics, general medicine in the Northwest and London before moving back to Oxford to work at the John Radcli e Hospital.

During this time, Neale worked as Team Lead for Trauma and Surgery working across surgery, trauma, cardiac units and women’s centre, emergency department, haematology. Discovering her passion for palliative care she joined the Hospital Palliative Care Team in 2001 and moved to Sobell House Hospice as a Clinical Specialist OT. This role then evolved into Team Lead for Oncology, Haematology and Palliative Care, where a Macmillan funded therapy service was set up to provide rehabilitation for patients with prostate cancer and primary brain tumours.

In 2015 Neale took up a new role as Team Lead for Day Service and AHP, working with the MDT to develop the Day Service into a new 12 week model. After the merger with Katherine House, she took the opportunity to move to a new role as AHP Team Lead.

Since 2004 the therapy team In palliative care has grown from two OTs and a part time Physio to an establishment of 16 Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants, working across the two Inpatient units, community services including rapid response, and a living well service.

Fleur Crussell

Mental Health Nurse, Complex Care, Barclay Specialist Care

Fleur is an experienced professional in the field of specialist and complex care, working at Barclay Specialist Care, a clinically led complex healthcare provider based in Northamptonshire, that provides personalised care packages for individuals in their own homes across the UK.