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TELER Limited Company information

Registered office: Ryknield House, Alrewas, Burton on Trent, DE13 7AB
Company registration (England and Wales) number: 4295915.
VAT registration number: GB 806 6135 41.

The members of the Board of Directors of TELER Limited are:

Chairperson: Dr Sue Mawson
Managing Director: Mr Bunny le Roux

The members of the TELER team are:

Mrs Margaret Jater
Mrs Sue Barnston
Mrs Elaine Scott

Mailing address

Longhand Data Limited
1 Welburn Business Park
Greets House Road
Welburn, York
YO60 7EP
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 (0)1653 619444

Email office@LonghandData.com

Dr Sue Mawson

Dr Sue Mawson is a Reader in Health and Social Care Research in the Health and Social Care Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, and a Research Lead for the Professional Services Directorate at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. She has a Diploma in Physiotherapy, a Certificate in Health Care Research, a BSc (Hons) degree in physiotherapy, and a PhD degree in physiotherapy. Dr Mawson has also attended courses in various aspects of physiotherapy, in the design of research projects, and the collection and analysis of research data.

Dr Mawson has worked as a physiotherapist in hospitals in London and Sheffield, and in children's hospitals in Johannesburg and Cape Town. She has carried out funded and unfunded research, has been a consultant for research projects, and has supervised MPhil and PhD students.

Dr Mawson has attended national and international conferences on physiotherapy and research in physiotherapy, and presented papers at many of them. She is the author of chapters in books on neurological physiotherapy, and has written a number of papers published in peer reviewed academic journals.

In December 2007 Dr Mawson was seconded to the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for three months, to lead the South Youkshire application to become a pilot National Institute of Health Collaborative Leadership in Applied Research and Health Care. And in March 2008 Sheffield Hallam University awarded Dr Mawson the title of Professor of Rehabilitation.

Mr Bunny le Roux

Mr Bunny le Roux is a full-time member of the TELER Team. He has a BSc degree in pure and applied mathematics, and an MSc degree in mathematical statistics. Bunny (as Mr A A le Roux) was the owner of the TELER copyright until he assigned it to TELER Limited. Bunny conceived and developed the ideas of TELER, and with the assistance of a large number of therapists developed the use of these ideas in the treatment of patients. He continues to develop the use of the ideas of TELER, particularly in the management of a service.

When he left Sheffield Hallam University in 1996 to become a full-time member of the TELER Team, Bunny was Principal Lecturer in Social Statistics in the School of Computing and Management Science, and Course Leader for the Certificate in Health Care Research and Director of Studies for an MPhil in Midwifery in the School of Health and Social Studies. For more than twenty years he taught applied statistics and research method on School of Health and Social Studies courses in nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, radiography, midwifery, community psychiatric nursing, health care research and social science. Bunny was also an advisor or director of studies for a number of higher degrees in health care.

For three years from 1986 Bunny le Roux was on part-time secondment to the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Unit at Middlewood Hospital in Sheffield, to develop a method for assessing the effectiveness of care, and for seven years from 1990 he was a visiting lecturer in the Institute of Nursing Studies at the University of Hull, teaching on the ENB 870 Research Methods Course.

Bunny has attended many national and international conferences in health care, reading papers on the use of statistics in health care at most of them, and for 1996 was a Fellow of the Otago Southland Physiotherapy Trust in New Zealand. He has been a partner in a number of research projects, and has carried out commissioned research.

Mrs Margaret Jater

Mrs Margaret Jater is a member of the TELER Team on a part-time basis. Now in retirement, she was the Physiotherapy Manager for the Bassetlaw Hospital and Community NHS Trust. Her primary role on the TELER Team is to make consultancy visits to TELER users.

In 1985 Margaret became involved in the development of TELER, along with the other members of the Bassetlaw Physiotherapy Research Interest Group. In 1990 this group obtained Regional funding for a one-year project to evaluate the efficacy of physiotherapy. The work of developing indicators (formerly known as POEM) continued, supported by Trust funding. Since then Margaret has developed an expertise in defining TELER indicators, not only in physiotherapy, but in other clinical areas as well.

The indicators developed by physiotherapists in the Bassetlaw Hospital and Community NHS Trust have been published by TELER Limited under an Agreement with the Trust, and are available from TELER Limited under the title Catalogue of Bassetlaw Indicators for Use with TELER.

Helped by Bunny le Roux, Margaret has developed an Excel spreadsheet for using the TELER Index.

Mrs Sue Barnston

Mrs Sue Barnston is a member of the TELER Team on a part-time basis under an arrangement with her employer, the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, where she is Stroke Nurse Co-ordinator.

Sue Barnston trained as a general nurse in the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, and in 1976 qualified as a State Registered Nurse. A year later, after working in medicine and haematology, she enrolled on and completed a one year midwifery course at St James Hospital, Leeds. Sue then worked in a variety of clinical areas, including general surgery at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, oncology at Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield, and midwifery at Jessop Hospital, Sheffield. In 1986 Sue moved to Doncaster to work in rehabilitation, and in 1992 took up the post of Senior Sister on the Stroke Unit in Tickhill Road Hospital, Doncaster where she became interested in TELER when she saw how successfully physiotherapists were using it on the Stroke Unit. This led her to develop the use of TELER on the Stroke Unit to the extent that all members of the multi-disciplinary team were developing the use of TELER, and all members of the nursing team were using TELER as their sole form of documentation.

Sue has attended a variety of courses for nurses including a Care of the Dying course at St Gemma's Hospice, Leeds, a two-day Bobath course for nurses, an Advanced Diploma in Counselling at the University of Leeds, and a Certificate in Health Service Management.

As a Member of the TELER Team Sue Barnston's responsibility is to facilitate the use of TELER by nurses. A requirement of her membership of the TELER Team is that all contact with Mrs Barnston in that capacity must be through the TELER Office.

Mrs Elaine Scott

Mrs Elaine Scott is a member of the TELER Team on a part-time basis under an arrangement with her employer, the charity Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. She is the coordinator for the Charity's North Star Project, and has the key role of facilitating the development of the 'North Star Clinical Network for Paediatric Neuromuscular Disease'. The aim for the Network is that it will provide standardised and optimised management and care of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Elaine trained at the Grampian School of Physiotherapy, and qualified in 1986. She is a Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, and in 2003 was awarded an MPhil degree in physiotherapy by Sheffield Hallam University for her work on functional electrical stimulation for the enhancement of gait in subjects with incomplete spinal chord injury. Elaine used TELER to collect and analyse the data she needed for the purposes of her MPhil degree.

In 1986 Elaine took up a Staff Physiotherapist post at Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, and in 1988 was appointed to the post of Senior Physiotherapist, Paediatrics. In 1989 she moved to the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, to the post of Senior Physiotherapist, Spinal Chord Injuries. In 1993 Elaine was appointed to the post of Superintendent III/Clinical Team leader, Spinal Chord Injuries, a post she held until taking up her current post in 2004.

Elaine has attended many courses, conferences and meetings which focussed on research, professional developed and management, and presented papers at some of them.

As a member of the TELER Team Mrs Scott's main role is to facilitate the use of TELER in paediatric physiotherapy.

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