Rosa Benato

Senior Lecturer, Education Development

 

tel: 020 7040 5436

email: r.m.benato@city.ac.uk

  

Career summary

Rosa Benato is Senior Lecturer (Education Development) in the Public Health, Primary Care and Food Policy Department (http://www.city.ac.uk/sonm/phpcu/) at City University’s School of Health and Community Sciences. She leads or teaches numerous modules on the MSc in Primary Care (http://www.ihse.qmul.ac.uk/chs/courses/primarycare/index.html) and the MSc in Public Health (http://www.ihse.qmul.ac.uk/chs/courses/publichealth/index.html) .

 

Rosa’s primary research and teaching interests include primary care and public health policy and management; the implementation of effective systems to manage long term conditions in primary care; commissioning; the facilitation of learning through peer support; the concept of the interprofessional teaching general practice; and the care of transgendered people. Her PhD study is on identity and sexual behaviour in female to male (FTM) transmen.


After a career as a landscape gardener, Rosa trained and worked as a practice manager in a Hackney practice for many years, developing an interest in organisational theory and primary care policy and its implementation. She began teaching on the Centre for Health Sciences’ Primary Care Staff Training programmes in 1995.  Subsequently, she worked in the Centre’s Clinical Effectiveness Group (CEG), overseeing the development and facilitation of clinical guidelines and computer templates for long term conditions across north east London. Rosa was a Primary Care Tutor for 3 years in City and Hackney, facilitating education for GPs and acted as a link between the CEG and City and Hackney PCT board. As a consultant for the New Ways of Working Together HAZ-funded project in east London, Rosa facilitated early inter-practice collaboration and introduced the concept of sharing data and information between practices to improve care.

 

Rosa is a national and international surveyor for the King’s Fund Health Quality Service (formerly the Organisational Audit) and facilitates an educational peer support group for young GPs.

 

Publications

  • Bailey, JV; Benato, R; Owen, C; Kavanagh, J (2008)
    Vulvovaginal Candidiasis in Women Who Have Sex With Women. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 35(6):533-536, (June 2008.)
  • Benato, R; Bryar, R; Hill, M; Lack, V; Richards, S. (2006)
    Education for Primary Care and Public Health Practice. In National Association of Primary Care Review (Nursing Supplement), Summer 2006. pp6-7.
  • Benato R, Carter YH, O’Hara J, Wright B, Mott S, Clarke M. (2003)
    Personal Development Plans: implementing PDPs into general practice. In Education for Primary Care (2003) 14; 202-206.
  • Benato,R, Holt,V, Lack,V: Collective Working. In Doyal, L (1998). “Women and The NHS”. Chapter on collective working and benefits for staff and patients.
  • Book Review: Benato, R (2008).  S., Cropper A., Porter G., Williams S., Carlisle R., Moore M., O’Neill C. Roberts H. Snooks (eds). 2007: Community health and wellbeing: action research on health inequalities. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 256 pp. In Primary Health Care Research & Development , Volume 9, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 166-167