Jo has over 13 years in stoma care, trained in London and has spent most of her working life in the stoma industry in various clinical roles. After qualifying, spent a year working in a street clinic in Calcutta, India.
Has been stoma care specialist nurse in a number of hospitals including London and has been in her current position in Kingston and Richmond community for over 15 years where she leads a very busy service in the community.

Particularly interested in peristomal skin disorders and sucessful discharge from the acute to the community sector. Her real passion is education- passing on her knowledge especially to developing countries and worked with a charity in Romania that involved teaching and mentoring nurses in stoma care. Now teaches occasionally and examines on the stoma care course in London.

Presented at both international and national stoma care conferences. Published numerous articles in key UK nursing journals and published 2 chapters for stoma care books.
Since 2008 been involved in stoma care clinical seminars for qualified nurses including WOCNs in many countries including Japan, Iran and South Africa.

Served from 2006-2010 as an honorary officer for WCET UK and is now on the global WCET Educational committee. Recently became a trustee for the ASCN UK

Natasha Rolls began her nursing career at St Thomas’ hospital in London and, after qualifying, worked in both medicine and surgery before becoming a ward sister and then taking the post of stoma care nurse, covering both sites at guys and St Thomas’.

She then left the capital as her family grew and took a career break to raise her children, before completing a ‘back to practice’ qualification in 2012.

She returned to colorectal surgical nursing at Gloucester Royal Hospital and then took a post of Stoma Care Nurse Specialist at UHBW, Bristol Royal Infirmary, in 2015.

In 2017 she progressed to Lead Stoma Care Nurse Specialist and has been focussed on her determination to bring service improvement and positive recognition to the team. As a leading member of a task force committed to raising the profile of the stoma care nursing profession Natasha has co-authored a paper which provides guidance for leaders in commissioning best practice services and exposing the value of expert stoma care nurses. This work led to Natasha and her co-authors being awarded BjN stoma care nurse of the year 2020.

She presents regularly, winning ASCN best oral presenter in 2019, and has written and presented through many mediums including national webinars on a variety of stoma care related subjects such as skin health, using validated tools and helping ostomates to adapt and thrive following stoma formation. Natasha is an enthusiastic advocate for patients, is passionate about ‘busting the stoma stigma’ and is determined to improve services with the patient at the front and centre, believing that this can only happen through collaboration with ‘experts by experience’.

She has also been known to contribute to a podcast, or two, and is as passionate about the nursing profession as she is about nursing and will mount her soap box on the subject given even half a chance.

In her spare time, she has 4 (nearly adult) children, 2 dogs, 5 ducks and a very patient husband, is an Agatha Christie devotee and red wine connoisseur.

I have been a qualified nurse for over 40 years, the last 24½ years working as a Senior Specialist Nurse within the Stoma/Colorectal Nursing Team at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

During my career within the specialism, I have developed and enhanced my experience, skills and knowledge, utilising these within my multi-faceted role, primarily in the provision of patient centred care. I gained my BSc degree in Gastro-intestinal Nursing in 2012. I provide help and support to The Kangaroo Club, which is a support group for those patients who have undergone ileo-anal pouch surgery.

I have a particular interest in those patients undergoing Small Bowel Transplantation, publishing an article in Gastrointestinal Nursing Journal in 2013, and presenting at various regional and national stoma nurse group meetings, also internationally at the World Council of Enterostomal Therapists World conference in Gothenburg in 2014 and a European stoma nurse symposium in 2016.

Additionally, I have collaborated with colleagues, other healthcare professionals and Stoma Industry colleagues in the development and progression of the sphere of stoma care. I reviewed and updated the ‘Stoma’ chapter within the textbook ‘ Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nursing Manual’ published summer 2025. I have been an abstract reviewer for a nursing journal and an international congress. I represented ASCN on a Department of Health and Social Care Expert Reference Group, also writing and reviewing guidelines, and peer reviewing educational materials, amongst other activities.

I had the honour of being awarded ASCN UK Stoma Nurse of the Year in 2018.

Melanie is the lead Stoma Care Nurse Specialist at Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust, with over 20 years experience in stoma care. She feels passionately about the vital role stoma nurses play within the lives of patients when they are at their most vulnerable, advocating for, and empowering them to physically recover and psychologically adapt. To that end, for the last 6 years, her team have developed and run well-being classes, teaching exercises for core strength and encouraging a return to fitness, and providing a forum for patient discussion.

More recently she has developed the specialist nursing role within the IBD and Ileoanal Pouch Surgery centre at Chelsea and Westminster, and is undertaking a Quality Improvement Project working with Dermatologists to audit and develop a pathway for peristomal ulceration.