Mandy Rumley-Buss

Mandy trained at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT and has over 30 years of experience in healthcare. She has had a varied career working in nursing and leadership roles in primary, community and secondary care, including as a Nurse Consultant in Emergency & Urgent Care, a Senior Lecturer, and General Manager. Within these roles, she has led to transformational change across many healthcare systems. Mandy is a non-medical prescriber and was an acute trust lead in prescribing and the development of an academy of prescribing within Dorset. She has also led to the development of Nurse Practitioners in emergency care and developed one of the first Emergency Care Practitioner degree courses.

An expert in frailty and ageing, Mandy is a contributor to the Silver Book and RCN BEST staffing tool. More recently, she has been involved in the development of RCN emergency care competencies to care for older people. Mandy is prolific in sharing best practices and has presented at several national and international conferences on clinical and managerial subjects with many published articles relating to older people and emergency care.