Fulbourn
0845 196 5346
angela.cobbold@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications and Memberships

• PGCE
• BSc (Hons) Operating Department practice
• Dip HE Health and Social care
• Advanced Scrub practitioner
• Currently studying a Professional Doctorate in Health Science

• Health Professional Council
• College of Operating Department Practitioners
• Association for Perioperative Practitioners
• Anglia Regional Education Lead for Association for Perioperative Practitioners

Courses

• MSc Minimally Invasive & Robotic Surgery
• Operating Department Practitioner
• Contemporary issues in Operating Room Care
• Care of the Patient in the Surgical Environment
• Decontamination of Medical Devices
• Associate practitioners
• Advanced Scrub Practitioner

Outline of career

Angela qualified as an Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) 1993, whilst serving in the Armed Forces. Her specialist areas include anaesthetics, surgery, laparoscopic surgery, surgical endoscopy, post anaesthetic care unit and with additional qualifications in the Advanced Scrub role.

Her current role at Anglia Ruskin University includes teaching on a variety of modules, primarily pre-registration Operating Department Practitioners (ODP), Associate Practitioners and Post Registration perioperative CPD modules. One additional role surrounds the developing and designing of new modules for decontamination of medical devices technicians and undertaking the Pathway Leadership for the new and innovative MSc Minimally Invasive Surgery and Robotics Surgery.

Prior to joining the Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education in 2009, Angela's careeer has involved undertaking the role of Associate lecturer Allied Health, University Campus Suffolk, Team Leader Surgery and Anaesthetics / Operating Department Practitioner, and Clinical Practice Educator Nuffield Health Ipswich, Heath Road Hospital, Royal Hospital Haslar, Portsmouth, with additional postings whilst serving in the forces such as Gibraltar, Catterick, Aldershot, Woolwich and Germany.

In 2010, Angela was awarded the Ethicon Nurse and Practitioner Educational Trust Fund award for further professional development and enhancing the standard of expertise.

Research Interests

Current research interest surround the importance of standardised education and training for flexible endoscope decontamination, and to ascertain if this will empower staff, improve staff retention and job satisfaction, and ultimately improve infection prevention and control for patients.

The aims of this study would be too research attitudes and experiences of decontamination technicians surrounding education and training, and identify any perceived barriers for technicians and staff employed within the endoscope decontamination departments.

Selected Publications

Journal of Perioperative Practice 2010. Regional Anaesthesia: back to basics.

Foundations in Practice 2010. Regional Anaesthesia. Chapter 5, Association for Perioperative Practitioners, Harrogate.