Mrs Janine Lane

(she/her)

Biography

Janine Lane PhD Research Student MSc BSc(DN) RGN QN BIO 2025.

Consultant Nurse for Dementia.

Subject-matter expert for Dementia in the UK and overseas. A Registered General Nurse with 38 years of experience and a Queen’s Nurse, she has a first-class BSc Honours degree in Primary Care, an MSc (with distinction) in Dementia Studies, an Alumni of King’s College, London Pre-Doctoral Fellowship and PhD Researcher at the University of Cardiff.

Janine received an award from the Queens Nursing Institute in 2024 for leading on an Innovation Programme to Embed Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments into Care Homes to Reduce or Reverse Frailty and Improve Wellbeing.

She has specialised in dementia since 2010, writing a dissertation on improving generalist nurse knowledge of dementia to improve the health and social care journey of those living with dementia. Janine’s MSc dissertation is a clinical literature review looking at health and care inequalities for people living with dementia and how the research could influence policy and care pathways.

With board approval, she was responsible for the development of the dementia post at Your Healthcare in 2015. Janine is now a Consultant Nurse for Dementia, Frailty and Care Homes at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust.

Janine is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Roehampton and the University of Surrey, and a member of a research team at the University College London.

She has been involved in China since 2016 and, as Head of Operations and Training, set up a specialist dementia centre in Shanghai in 2018. She co-founded a family support group in Shanghai in 2018, which currently supports 500 families living with a person who has dementia and was given an award by an NGO in Shanghai in 2019 for Outstanding Voluntary Contribution.

Janine has presented at several international conferences and is published. This includes a Letter to the Editor published in the International Journal of Psychiatry - title: Bridging the gap in implementing non-pharmacological interventions in dementia during the Covid-19 pandemic: What more can we do to implementing individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) in dementia? (2021).

Honours and awards

•      2025 – Awarded a PhD Studentship with the University of Cardiff and the Welsh Graduate School of Social Science.

•      2024 – Acceptance of an abstract for poster presentation at the BMJ International Forum, Utrecht, Netherlands. How do we care for older LGBTQ+ people at risk of developing cognitive decline or dementia?

•      2024 – Acceptance of an abstract and poster presentation at the International Collaboration Community Health Nursing Research conference, City University London. How do we care for people with dementia?

•      2024 – Led on a Focus Group Event to explore the perceived barriers and facilitators of people from the LGBTQ+ community accessing statutory health and social care services.

•      2024 – Contributor to ‘A clinicians survival guide to District Nursing’ (Gunowa & McBride, 2025).

•      2023 to 2024 – Acceptance and completion of a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship at Kings College London.

•      2023 to 2024 – Project Lead for a Queens Nursing Institute Innovation Project – Embedding Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments into Care Homes to reduce or reverse frailty and improve wellbeing.

•      2023 to date - Member of NHSE London Clinical Leadership Group for Frailty.

•      2022 to date - Visiting Lecturer at the University of Surrey.

•      2022 to date - Member of NHSE London Clinical Leadership Group for Dementia.

•      2021 to date - Visiting Lecturer at the University of Roehampton.

•      Nov. 2021 - Co-author of a Letter to the Editor published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry – Bridging the gap in implementing non-pharmacological interventions in dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic: What more can we do to implementing individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) in dementia?

•      July 2020 – Awarded the title of Queens Nurse.

•      2020 to 2022 - Vice Chair of Your Healthcare CIC Membership Council.

•      Nov. 2019 – Received an award for Outstanding Voluntary Contribution in Shanghai, China.

•      2018 to date - Co-Founder of Jian Ai Family Support Group, Shanghai, China 2018.

•      2005 to 2012 - Parent Governor and named Governor for Child Protection and Looked After Children, Chase Bridge Primary School.

•      2000 to 2005 - Trustee for Chase Bridge Pre-School. 

•      1999 to 2014 - Adult Leader in Girl Guiding UK.

Professional memberships

• 2024 to date - British Geriatric Society
• 2020 to date - Queens Institute of Nursing
• 1990 to date Nursing and Midwifery Council 

Academic positions

• 2023 to date - Visiting Lecturer at the University of Surrey
• 2021 to date - Visiting Lecturer at the University of Roehampton

Speaking engagements

2022 - Guest speaker for The Caring View – discussing Bridging the gap in implementing nonpharmacological interventions in dementia during the Covid-19 pandemic: What more can we do to implementing individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) in dementia?

2021 – UKRI, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) – presented a video followed by Q+A with regards to Woubot and AI for lower limb, harder to heal wounds.

2021 – Sector 3 Digital – presented the philosophy and value of Wellness Activity Centres to reduce the risks of dementia. 2021 – BioMedEng21 Conference – poster presentation of Diagbot and Woubot.

2021 – Architects for Health – panellist discussing innovations for ‘health on the high street’.

2019 – Kingston CCG and Your Healthcare CIC Board – Cost benefit analysis of the community dementia service and projected future requirements to meet the needs of growing dementia community in the Royal Borough of Kingston.

2018 – Keynote Speaker at the 10th Shandong Ageing Industry Expo., China – presenting Dementia and the Ageing Population in China.

2018 – Keynote Speaker at Shanghai Mental Health Centre International Conference, China – presenting Person-centred Care and Localisation for People with Dementia in China.

·2018 – Gaoqiao 80’s Conference, China – presenting Dementia and an Ageing Chinese Population: The Impact of the One Child Policy on Elderly Care.

Committees and reviewing

• 2023 to date - NHS England (London) Clinical Leadership Group for Frailty
• 2022 to date - NHS England (London) Clinical Leadership Group for Dementia