- RGN-Registered General (Adult)Nurse: Newcastle upon Tyne School of Nursing, Freeman Hospital (1983-1986)

- 1987-1988-Brook Hospital, Shooters Hill. London SE18 (now all services at Greenwich)

- ENB Course 148 in Neuro-medical and Neurosurgical Nursing

- 1998 RSCN-Registered Sick Children’s Nurse- University of Northumbria at Newcastle

- Nursing qualifications registered with Nursing and Midwifery Council: RGN & RSCN

- Member of Royal College of NursingNO-1943731

- Safeguarding Level 4 Training(adults and children)

- Serious Incident Investigator trained

- Former member of Neuroscience Benchmarking Group

- Published academic papers on avoidable factors in deaths In adults and children due to brain injury whilst working with Professor AD Mendelow & Professor J Eyre

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I am a confident and experienced Manager, Specialist Nurse in Adult and Paediatric Neurology, experienced Director of Nursing & Quality with 41 years’ experience of working in NHS, private, and charitable sectors in complex care environments, both locally and multisite nationally.

I am a Specialist Nurse in Acquired Brain Injury, adult and paediatric neurology & neuromuscular genetics, degenerative neurological diseases and adult and paediatric complex disability. I maintain my registration as an RGN and RSCN with adults, elderly and young, adolescents, children, and infants.

I have always worked in the most complex health care environments and have a passion for working with whole of life service, including patients with the multiple complex needs such as cognitive impairment, complex behaviours and high dependency & intensive care, including ventilated patients and people of all ages with progressive, degenerative and rare diseases, including complex early onset dementias.

I am equally experienced in general accident and trauma, end of lifecare, including all safeguarding aspects of this area. My focus is always to improve the experience of the person receiving care and to work on their goals no matter how small to enable them to maintain as much independence as possible and to contribute and maximise the choices they have regarding their care.

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Alongside my specialist nursing career, I have worked as a Case Manager, both for a large company and independently since 2008, assessing complex clients and writing expert and case management reports, coordinating and managing care packages and directing specialist brain injury and neurological services and complex care packages, including progressive disease and end of life care in the private, charitable sector and community.

I have written multiple expert case management and care expert reports whilst working as a Brain Injury Case Manager both for a Case Management Company and working for the NHS as a Specialist Nurse, Senior positions including Director of Nursing & Quality in the Private Sector in multisite Neurorehabilitation Centres and independently as a Specialist Nurse and Brain Injury Case Manager

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Example outside of Case Management work:

Expert report for the court and coordinating expert reports to assist the court in making a decision regarding a brain injured client who wished to contest her DoLs application, placing her in a nursing home.

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I coordinated the appropriate experts, including Consultant Neuropsychologist, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, OT and provided expert contacts and collated and suggested edits to the reports before submitting to the client’s Solicitor and consulted the clients Barrister and Solicitor throughout.  

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The client had been contesting her DoLs for 2 years with the Local Authority prior to my involvement in the case. Her DoLs were lifted three months after I offered to get involved, despite the Local Authority’s Barrister’s objecting to the judge’s request for my involvement.

The Judge disagreed and following my input, the lady moved into her own home.  Relevant long standing expert experience in the clients’ condition and building a rapport with the client was key to establishing accurate details for the reports submitted to the court.