The Osteopathic Foundation | About The Osteopathic Foundation
ABOUT
THE OF
OUR CHARTIABLE AIMS
The Osteopathic Foundation is the charitable trust dedicated to advancing osteopathic practice for the benefit of the public’s health.
We do this by funding education and research, and by promoting productive relationships both within and outside of the profession.
For over 70 years, The Osteopathic Foundation has established a reputation for supporting the profession through the provision of grants and has provided almost £854,000 of support since 2001.
We also fund the work of the National Council of Osteopathic Research and work closely with key stakeholders across the profession to promote and maximise our funding investments.
Supporting osteopathic research, education and collaboration
OUR BOARD
The governance of The Osteopathic Foundation is the responsibility of the Institute of Osteopathy (iO), which is the corporate trustee for the charity. The Council of the Institute has established the Osteopathic Foundation Board with delegated authority to manage the affairs of the Foundation, including the consideration and distribution of funds.
The Board meet at least quarterly. Its appointed members have a broad spectrum of senior osteopathic and general health experience, as well as management and governance skills to ensure the Foundation grows and evolves in line with its charitable aims.
Dee Sissons, Chair
Dee Sissons, Chair
Dee was appointed Chair of the Osteopathic Foundation in June 2022. She brings a strong healthcare career and has extensive leadership experience. She has held a variety of senior NHS nursing roles, as well as serving as Chair of the Royal College of Nursing and is at present Chief Executive of Rainbows, the children’s hospice. Of her appointment, Dee said: ‘I am delighted to be a part of the future of the Osteopathic Foundation. In my various roles, I have witnessed first-hand the difference a tailored, whole-person approach to health can make and understand and appreciate the important role that osteopaths play in healthcare. I am committed to helping drive the foundation’s important work forward and excited about helping guide their ambitious plans for the future of the profession.’
Tim Allardyce
Tim Allardyce
Tim is a qualified osteopath and physiotherapist who regularly lectures to General Practitioners through local networks and the Royal College of General Practitioners. Tim also recently presented a workshop at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang on behalf of the International Olympic Committee, and Tim himself has worked at four Olympic Games, one World Games, one Commonwealth Games, one European Games, and several World Championships.
Tim runs a group of osteopathic clinics with a team of osteopaths and physiotherapists. Tim’s clinics provide NHS provision of osteopathic care in Wandsworth CCG, Croydon CCG (as part of an MSK Pilot), and indirectly in North East Hampshire and Farnham CCG. The clinics operate out of 15 locations and in 2017 treated over 40,000 patient appointments.
As part of their growth, the team have developed their own rehabilitation software and apps to aid patients in self-rehabilitating and to assist the practitioners onsite with prescribing exercise software. Tim and his team are working hard on innovation and have a number of technology solutions to healthcare problems, some of which have recently started to gain traction in the NHS as well as private practice.
Peter Brogden
Peter Brogden
Peter is a qualified accountant and holds a degree in Management Sciences. He retired from full-time employment in February 2020 after a career in financial management within multi-national groups spanning a variety of industrial and commercial sectors. For the last 12 years, he was UK Finance Director and Company Secretary for a global public transport provider. In retirement, he is keen to use his professional skills and experience to help not-for-profit organisations whose objectives he supports.
Prof. Duncan Empey
Prof. Duncan Empey
Duncan is a Consultant Respiratory Physician who worked in East London and was the Medical Director of Barts and The London NHS Trust. He became an Associate Director of the Performance Development Team at the NHS Modernisation Agency and later Dean of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Postgraduate Medical School. More recently, he has served as a Trustee of the British Lung Foundation. He has published papers on respiratory medicine and medical management topics and was Editor of the British Journal of Diseases of the Chest. His youngest daughter is a practising osteopath.
Obi Hasan
Obi Hasan
Obi is the Founder and Director of Clarity Transformation.
He is a transformation director, financial recovery expert, and business growth mentor for organisations in both the private and public sectors. He specialises in delivering large complex transformation and integrated care programmes in the NHS, and growing entrepreneurial SMEs in the private sector with a special focus on healthcare.
He is passionate about leading the transformation towards integrated care services for the benefit of patients.
He is also a Finance Advisor and Business Growth Mentor to ambitious entrepreneurial businesses to manage their finances whilst accelerating growth, and delivers leadership development programmes and mentoring for senior executives and leadership teams.
Obi is a Deloitte qualified Chartered Accountant, an MBA from the London Business School and a member of the Institute for Turnaround and Transformation.
Nadine Hobson
Nadine Hobson
Nadine qualified in 1978 and is the principal of two group practices in Surrey. Her special interest is in women’s healthcare, including pregnancy, postnatal and menopause-related conditions.
For many years she was a consultant osteopath at the Birth Unit at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in London until its closure in 2010. Nadine also worked at Hyde Park Veterinary Centre for 20 years as part of their multidisciplinary team. She has lectured internationally and co-wrote two chapters, the Dog and the Cat, in the groundbreaking book, Animal Osteopathy, published in 2020. She is a founder member of the Association of Animal Osteopaths (AAO)
In recent years Nadine has become increasingly involved in the politics of healthcare to ensure the future of Osteopathy and its ability to support the health of the nation. She is chair of the Osteopathic Alliance (OA), a collective of post-registration providers and represents the OA on the Institute of Osteopathy’s Council.
Kerstin Rolfe
Kerstin Rolfe
Dr Kerstin Rolfe is the Principal at the British College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM). She started her career as a nurse working on a busy gynaecological ward. Her interest in research grew when she was appointed as an MRC Clinical Research Nurse to project manage a multi-centred surgical trial and a pharmaceutical trial.
During this time she undertook a part-time BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences. Her working career moved to running an ovarian scanning unit for women at high risk of developing ovarian cancer. Following attainment of her BSc (Hons) she was awarded a scholarship to undertake a PhD in molecular pathology in a gynaecological cancer unit which she did at the Royal Free Hospital whilst registered at UCL.
Her postgraduate career involved studying tissue regeneration, wound healing and adhesion formation in tendons and skin. Kerstin is the Editor for BTRI. She has supervised a number of surgeons, helping them attain their postgraduate qualifications. Kerstin has further studied and been awarded a LLM in Medical Law and Ethics.
Manjeet Kaur, Grants Manager
Email: osteopathicfoundation@iOsteopathy.org
Manjeet Kaur, Grants Manager
Spent over 10 years working for the National Lottery helping to distribute funds, across multiple programmes, to good causes as well as managing grants. Also worked on RoSPA’s home safety programmes, at the Citizen’s Advice Bureau as a Gateway Assessor and Advisor and more recently at Patient’s Know Best as a Project Manager.
OUR HISTORY
The Osteopathic Education Foundation (OEF), was founded in 1947 with the belief that the future of the osteopathic profession is dependent on its academic advancement and its ability to demonstrate therapeutic credibility.
In 2017, the charity’s board decided to step down and entrust the management of the funds to the stewardship of the Institute of Osteopathy whom it was felt was best placed to administer the fund on behalf of the profession.
The charity renamed The Osteopathic Foundation, continues to utilise its resources and build upon the remarkable heritage of the OEF’s work. The Foundation Board seek to maintain the legacy of the foundation as well as adapt to meet the challenges and opportunities of the future.
The official signing of stewardship in 2017 with (from left to right) Maurice Hills, former Chairman of The Osteopathic Education Foundation, Dr. Jonathan Shapiro, former Chairman of the Osteopathic Foundation and Robin Lansman, former President of the Institute of Osteopathy.