Miss Hasina Patel
Hasina Patel is an enthusiastic Physiotherapist, with over 10 years' experience in the NHS and private sectors, over a wide range of trusts and specialties. She currently enjoys her role as a Senior Specialist in Chronic Pain at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, where she has refined her communication, resilience and people management skills due to the complexity, mental health and learning needs of this population. She eagerly took on the new role of project lead for a successful quality improvement initiative: the rapid design and implementation of a virtual pain management programme due to COVID-19 restrictions on face to face care.
Hasina is very passionate about bridging healthcare gaps to address inequalities and has founded a business which helps populations who may not be able to access health advice or Physiotherapy. The reach includes BAME communities who are limited by language and cultural barriers, sportspeople with a focus on prehabilitation and new parents at ante and postnatal stages. This became more impactful as access issues worsened over the COVID-19 pandemic; and many were helped to optimise their physical and mental health with online education and exercise classes which consequently built self-supportive communities.
She highly values the role of research and education in the healthcare system and this has taken her to achieve authorship on a range of research which have been published in the British Journal of Pain and Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. She thoroughly enjoys being creative with teaching and most recently taught a masters module at UCL.
Reason for applying for the scheme
Hasina is excited to continue her leadership journey in the NHS with more oversight, having recently enjoyed exploring her own leadership style and skills. In 2022, Hasina achieved a distinction in a Team Lead Level 3 Leadership apprenticeship with Hawk Training and the Chartered Management Institute, whilst continuing her full time work and episodes of redeployment over the COVID-19 pandemic. She credits this to her keen interest in the course and feels all three modules (Personal effectiveness, Interpersonal effectiveness and Operational management) have given her building blocks of leadership skills and knowledge. She is eager to use and develop these at a higher level and feels this fellowship is the perfect opportunity to do this.
Her early experience as a Chartered Physiotherapy union representative alongside clinical work gave her an appreciation of the role of policies and strategy in clinical face to face work and therefore the importance of staff and patient participation in decision making at all levels.
She strongly feels a vital part of her recent leadership development is due to honest introspection and self reflection as a leader. She believes this developed her emotional intelligence which she aims to continue through this fellowship in order to gain the most from the experience.
She is excited at this unique combination of leadership fellowship and face to face clinical work to gain experience of system leadership, transformation and service improvement, in order to continue to strive to lead and support the complex and integrated NHS of the future.
