Meet the Team

James Cooper

Nursing Officer

James qualified as a Registered Nurse (Adult Health) in September 2000. The following month, he started his basic training as a soldier at the Army Training Regiment Lichfield. His first assignment to Frimley Park Hospital (Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit) included his first Operational Deployment to Afghanistan on OP FINGAL. In the subsequent years, he completed numerous deployed operations on JACANA, TELIC, HERRICK, and GRITROCK.

Between deployments, he completed a BSc (Hons) as a specialist practitioner in Burns, Plastic, and Reconstructive Surgery. In 2010, he was commissioned as an Officer and served in numerous hospital Units, the Field Army, and Birmingham City University, where he completed an MSc in Education. He was then appointed as the Nurse Education Advisor (Army) at the Defence Medical Deanery for three years.

He is currently the Deputy OC Nursing at Frimley Park Hospital (Joint Hospital Group—South East) and is moving to 1 Medical Regiment as the Senior Nursing Officer in 2024. He lectures on polytrauma, burns, plastic and reconstructive surgery and ballistic injury wound care. He maintains an academic role as an external examiner and provides through life learning as a professional development facilitator.

Louise Jones

Paediatric Nurse

Louise qualified as an adult nurse in 1986 (Oxford) and as a children’s nurse in 1988 (Birmingham). Most of her career to date has evolved in London within Paediatric Intensive Care, but she changed speciality recently to work in Paediatric Emergency Dept. Her roles have included being a matron and lead nurse for a large acute service, but she has maintained her clinical skills and understanding of the challenges seen in patient facing roles by working regular shifts at the bedside throughout.

Louise only joined the military 7 years ago, passing out of Sandhurst as a proud Capt. As a Paediatric Nurse in the Army Reserves, she serves with 306 Hospital Support Regt. Despite no previous military experience, she has taken every opportunity to advocate for nurses and patients in Defence, including during her 3-year term of office as Specialist Nurse Advisor for Paediatrics (Army). Although Louise hasn’t yet had the opportunity to deploy, she worked under pressure and at pace with NHS and military colleagues to help set up the London Nightingale Hospital during the first wave of the COVID pandemic in 2020.

Louise enjoys keeping fit by cycling, running and playing a bit of tennis, although not to a very good standard. She is married with two successful grown-up children.

Neil Gilbert

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Rebecca Crisp

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Suzanne Turner

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