ASCNUK26 Speaker Profile
Simon Turley
Honorary Treasurer, ASCN UK
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 was elected to the committee of ASCN UK as Honorary Secretary in 2014-2017, culminating in becoming a Trustee in 2023, which was a real privilege. I had the honour of being awarded ASCN UK Stoma Nurse of the Year in 2018. The role of Honorary Treasurer will be a new direction for me, which I am looking forward to exploring and engaging with. Joining the committee again, will enable me to continue the strong affiliation, connection, interaction and commitment to and with the organisation which I have developed over the years.