Prof Brian Dolan, OBE, FFNMRCSI, FRSA, MSc(Oxon), MSc(Nurs), RMN,

RGN

Brian Dolan trained as a psychiatric at St Mary’s Hospital, Castlebar, Co Mayo

and as a general nurse at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington and most of his

clinical career was in acute mental health and emergency care as well as in

academic General Practice. He is Director of Health Service 360, UK, and

works in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and Ireland providing leadership and

coaching programs. Since 2005, Brian has held a rolling contract as Director

of Service Improvement in Canterbury, NZ, one of the world’s most

successfully integrated health and care systems.

Brian has published over 70 papers and is author/editor of seven books,

mainly on emergency care and leadership. He is currently working on books

on deconditioning, emergency nursing (4 th edition) and ‘Ward Managers

Survival Guide (5 th edition), all of which will be published in mid-late 2023.

He is Honorary Professor of Leadership in Healthcare at the University of

Salford, and Honorary Adjunct Professor of Innovation in Healthcare at Bond

University, Queensland. He is also the originator of the Last 1000 Days and

EndPJparalysis social movements which are about valuing patients’ time and

encouraging early mobilisation of hospitalised patients.

In the 2019 Queen’s New Year’s Honours List, Brian was awarded an OBE

‘For Services to Nursing and Emergency Care’ and, also in 2019, was

awarded Fellow by Election of the Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery of the Royal

College of Surgeons in Ireland.

In 2021, he became Honorary President of AGILE: the Chartered Society of

Physiotherapists network for physios working with older people - the first

nurse to do so.

Dear Deconditioning: Recognising and addressing the other pandemic