I think I should give a short explanation of where or who or what I was or am … ie the person inside…or under the bonnet!

I was an accountant after I left University which was of course after school !

Then sometime after our children got to their teens I was a secondary maths teacher.

Then, I was a patient…that is it really, but for completeness here is a bit of a list:

• Patient Representative for the National Bladder and Bowel Health Project NHS England and Excellence in Continence Care Board – Chair Patient and Carer forum https://www.england.nhs.uk/author/jacq-emkes/
• Bladder Health UK – Patient Rep Trustee https://bladderhealthuk.org/
• University of Southampton with Professor Mandy Fader Margaret Macauley advisor for the website known as https://www.continenceproductadvisor.org/
• Attendee at All Parliamentary Political Group (Bladder and Bowel Health) http://www.appgcontinence.org.uk/
• NICE Guidelines CG 171 women’s Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Organ Prolapse.
• Co applicant NIHR project bid: NIHR CPOP study Co-Applicant NIHR151938 explore the feasibility and acceptability of conducting a study comparing the effectiveness of colpocleisis with sacrospinous fixation (SSF) in women with AP.
• Co applicant NIHR project bidNIHR 158130 VESPER TRIAL NIHR158130 IntraVESical Preparations for Recurrent Urinary TrAct Infection Prevention (The VESPA Study): a multi-arm, multi-site open label randomised superiority trial.
• The Colley Project: dedicated to continence assessment, treatment and management. https://www.continenceassessment.co.uk/colley_model/
• KE7 Hospital Patient Focus Group (London)
• Advisor to BABCON continence app to support people with continence issues by Bristol Health Partners’ Bladder and Bowel Confidence Health Integration Team (BABCON), UWE Bristol and associated health partners.
• Pelvic Floor Health Programme. Patient representatives to share their perspective and experience as well as champion women and families’ viewpoints and voices:Pelvic Floor Oversight Group
• Board member of Bladder Interest Group. https://bladderinterestgroup.co.uk/
• Steering Committee Clinical and cost-effectiveness of alternative urinary catheter design (CaDeT)Multicentre trial of the clinical and cost effectiveness of a novel urinary catheterdesign in reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infection compared with thetraditional Foley design for adults requiring long-term catheterisationSponsor University Hospital Southampton (UHS)
• WASHOUT The British Urology Researchers in Surgical Training (BURST) Collaborative  a study to assess the impact of difference management pathways in emergency admission of patients with haematuria (blood in the urine) in order to improve patients outcomes.
• PRIME Pharmacy Bladder and Bowel Service workshop 2service specification
  PRIME Research Fellow Alan Uren
  UWE, Glenside Campus
• MultICath Trial Steering Committee  University of Southampton NIHR 131172 Southampton Clinical Trials Unit    
• Publications include:
• A consensus statement on when to start clean intermittent self-catheterization: An untapped resource?Christopher Chapple, Paul Abrams, Thomas Lam, Altaf Mangera, Mohammed Belal, Carmel Curtis, Jacqueline Emkes, Sarah Hillery, Karen Irwin, Karen Logan, Polly Weston, Ann YatesFirst published: 11 December 2023https://doi.org/10.1002/nau.25353