The founders and creators of Busynurse.com are Dave Dawes and Ali Handscomb. We are both nurses who set up the European Nursing Leadership Foundation (ENLF) in early 2003. The ENLF is a social enterprise which means it uses its profits for the good of nursing. The ENLF provides free resources and development for nurses. Busynurse.com is the latest initiative we have launched to help nurses in the UK and beyond.Ali's biography
Ali is a Director of the ENLF, an Associate of Leeds University, Centre for the Development of Healthcare Policy and Practice (CDHPP) and an Associate of OPP. She was the national programme manager for Leading Empowered Organisations (LEO) and the RCN Clinical Leadership Programme at the NHS Leadership Centre. She has been responsible for facilitating networks of trainers and programme administrators across the country and for ensuring that over 34,000 nurses went on the programme.
She jointly led the NHS e-learning programme which won the Institute of IT Training Award for e-learning project of the year. She worked in clinical practice in a variety of settings, her last role being as a regional HIV/AIDS counsellor. She has worked within higher education as a lecturer and has developed programmes across a range of clinical pathways. She has written a number of new courses within higher education at Diploma and Degree level and has extensive experience in facilitating both large and small groups. As a former Company Secretary of a television and audio production company, Ali has worked on numerous multi media projects. She has edited newspaper articles for publication in the national press and produced and edited promotional videos. She has also published articles in professional journals and is a reviewer for Nursing Management.
