{"id":353288,"date":"2025-11-14T05:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/?page_id=353288"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:39:22","slug":"meet-brendan-mccormack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/about-us\/our-team-of-experts\/meet-brendan-mccormack\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Brendan McCormack"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"page-banner hero-banner responsive-banner-block_0161da8378b8fc7fd650e8a1552ab892 image-focal-point-right\"\n\t\t style=\"--hh-banner-overlay: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(0,0,0,0.3) 0%, rgba(0,0,0,0) 60%);--hh-mobile-banner-overlay: linear-gradient(rgba(0,0,0,0.3), rgba(0,0,0,0.3));\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"d-flex flex-column gap-s col-lg-6 justify-content-center py-lg-11xl py-4xl align-items-lg-start align-items-center min-h\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"text-white fw-bold m-0 text-6xlarge text-shadow-hard text-lg-start text-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMeet Brendan McCormack\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<img width=\"1920\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x744_5.webp\" class=\"hero-lcp-image\" alt=\"Meet Brendan McCormack\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 968px, (min-width: 992px) 968px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x744_5.webp 2560w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x744_5-300x87.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x744_5-1024x298.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x744_5-768x223.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x744_5-1536x446.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/visiting-care_2560x744_5-2048x595.webp 2048w\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<section class=\"container my-md-11xl my-2xl\">\n    <div class=\"row flex-row gap-lg-11xl gap-m\">\n        \n        <div class=\"col-lg-7 col-12\">\n                <div class=\"d-flex flex-column gap-lg-l gap-m\">\n\n    \n        <!-- Column 1: Text -->\n                    <h2 class=\"text-purple fw-bold text-start text-4xlarge m-0\">About Me<\/h2>\n        \n        \n    \n                    <div class=\"acf-wysiwyg-reset text-start\"><p>Professor Brendan McCormack <em>D.Phil (Oxon.), BSc (Hons.) Nursing, FRCN, FEANS, FRCSI, PGCEA, RMN, RGN, FAAN<\/em> is currently Head of The Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery (inc. Sydney Nursing School) and Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sydney.edu.au\/medicine-health\/about\/our-people\/academic-staff\/brendan-mccormack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Sydney<\/a>, Sydney, Australia; and Honorary Nurse Consultant at Erskine Care, Scotland.\u00a0 He also holds additional professorial positions at universities in Ireland, Norway, Slovenia, South Africa, Austria, Denmark and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>His research has specifically focused on person-centred practice, and over a period of 22 years he has developed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Brendan_Mccormack3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">models, theories, frameworks and evaluation instruments<\/a> that have been adopted globally in policy and practice.\u00a0 In addition, he has led the implementation and evaluation of person-centred practices in a variety of clinical settings and in healthcare curricula.<\/p>\n<p>Professor McCormack has particular expertise in gerontological nursing (nursing of aging) and the adoption of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11974134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">person-centred practices<\/a> with older people.\u00a0 The impact of his research in person-centred practice is far reaching and his work has been adopted in over 28 countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n        \n        \n        \n        \n        \n        \n\n        \n    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n                    <!-- Column 2: Media -->\n            <div class=\"col-lg-5 col-12\">\n\n                                    <div class=\"w-100 h-100 position-relative overflow-hidden rounded-4 hh-defer-wrap\">\n                        \t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Brendan-McCormack-On-page-image.webp\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Brendan-McCormack-On-page-image.webp 370w, https:\/\/www.helpinghandshomecare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Brendan-McCormack-On-page-image-260x300.webp 260w\"\n\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"100vw\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"A man with short hair, glasses, and a small goatee smiles slightly whilst standing outdoors. 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