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Appointments to the Occupational Therapists Registration Board
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Mr John Hanily
Mr Hanily is a Principal Environmental Health Officer with the Health Service Executive in Roscommon. He is a highly experienced Environmental Health Professional with a combination of 40 years' experience in the Health Service Executive and 34 years Senior Management experience. His experience lies in the areas of Inspection, Regulation, Compliance and Enforcement in Food Control, Tobacco Control, Pre-Schools, Nursing Homes, Environmental/Local Authority functions, Food and Water Sampling Programmes.
He was previously a member and manager of the successful EHS Team leading the National Standards Authority of Ireland Accreditation - a Quality Management System for Food Control in the Environmental Health Service. He was also a member of Department of Environment & Local Government 'Drinking Water National Monitoring Group'.
Ms Rosemary Smyth
Ms Smyth has extensive experience of working in the healthcare sector, specialising in mental health. She was previously a Director with the Mental Health Commission, the regulatory authority for mental health services in Ireland. She was responsible for the registration of all in-patient mental health facilities, the monitoring of compliance with statutory obligations and the development of standards, rules and codes of practice for specified interventions in accordance with legislation. She has contributed to the development of a range of national health related polices, standards and guidelines. Ms. Smyth is currently the Chairperson of the National Advocacy Service and in addition is serving her first three-year term as Director on the Board of the Rehab Group.
Ms Dawn Johnston
Ms Johnston is an experienced professional healthcare leader, with a wide range of experience and achievements in Midwifery practice, service delivery, governance and most recently in Regulation both in the UK and in Ireland.
Dawn completed her Nurse Training in Dublin and her midwifery training in Surrey in the UK She spent many years working in hospital and community settings working in women’s health. She moved into management and was General Manager/ Director of Maternity Gynaecology and Children’s Services in a large London Hospital Trust. She relocated to Ireland in 2014 to take up the post of Group Director of Midwifery in the West of Ireland.
Dawn was appointed a Board Member of NMBI in 2015 to represent Directors of Nursing and Midwifery in the HSE but resigned from this role when she was appointed to the NMBI staff as Director of Midwifery in 2017.
Dawn has in the past was a Fitness to Practice Panellist for 8 years with the NMC (UK) and has also assisted with reviews of services for the Health Care Commission (UK) and Health Inspectorate Wales.
Ms Eilish Macklin
Ms Macklin qualified as a Registered General Nurse in October 1977 from Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry, Northern Ireland. Ms Macklin subsequently worked as a nurse in South Africa, Letterkenny, Belfast, Saudi Arabia and London. She returned to Ireland in January 1985 and worked in the Meath (now Tallaght) and Richmond Hospitals before moving to Beaumont in 1987. Ms Macklin held a position as Sister in Charge of the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit and Acting Assistant Director of Nursing in Beaumont Hospital.
She was appointed Assistant Director of Nursing in the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH ) Dun Laoghaire in 1997 and Director of Nursing in 1999 and held this position until her retirement in May 2016.
Ms Macklin was a member of the Executive Committee, Ethics Committee and Hygiene Committee during her tenure as Director of Nursing. She led from a nursing perspective on the Project Team for the new NRH which has been operational since June 2020. Ms Macklin served on the Hospital Board from 1997 to 2016 advising the Board on nursing issues such as recruitment and retention of nursing staff and infection control.
As Director of Nursing Ms Macklin was responsible for 100 Registered General Nurses and 80 Health Care Assistants ensuring that a high standard of care was provided to patients and their families following spinal and brain injuries, stroke and amputations. She liaised very closely as a member of the interdisciplinary team with Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech Therapists, Social Workers, Psychologists and Dieticians.
From an academic perspective Ms Macklin holds Diplomas in Nursing from the Royal College of Surgeons and a Management Course from the National College of Ireland.
Ms Macklin has served as a member of the Occupational Therapists Registration Board since February 2019. She was reappointed to the Board of Management of the National Rehabilitation Hospital in January 2020.