• United Kingdom Associates of Forensic Nurse & Paramedics
• Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine (Associate Member)
• Lifetime Freeman Member of The Worshipful Company of Nurses
• Royal College oNursing

Sandra has worked in both the NHS and private sectors for 39 years starting her career in ITU where she developed a passion for neurosciences. She then worked for over 12 years in a private community based neuro-rehab setting providing care for people with brain injuries and challenging behaviours as well as catastrophic brain injury.  She opened the first community based ventilator unit in Nottinghamshire working with the Mid-Trent Intensive Care Forum to reduce ITU bed blockages.

Sandra has worked in NHS commissioning as a contract compliance manager having a portfolio of 90care/nursing homes and domiciliary care providers, working closely with the Care Quality Commission and Local Authorities to support providers to meet regulatory and commissioning standards. This led to her managing her own business to work predominantly with law firms and banks in mitigating risks and implementing improvement plans for private nursing and care home providers where regulatory enforcements had been instigated.

Sandra worked for over 5years as a clinical advisor and panel member to NHS England in relation to continuing healthcare funding decisions. She has also worked as a continuing healthcare practitioner.  More recently Sandra has successfully worked with law firms on retrospective claims recouping monies owed to families for unsatisfactory decisions on continuing healthcare funding.

Sandra has several published articles in peer-reviewed journals, the most recent being in 2023.   She supported Headway UK by editing patient and family learning materials about head injuries, receiving commendation from the BMA.  

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She has co-edited a chapter entitled “The Management of Medicines” in a book published by Riley & Sons that was written for nursing and care home management on the topic of medicines management.  She has also provided expert advice to TV producers working on medical-based scenes.

Sandra has worked as an Expert Nurse Witness for over 7-years supporting claims for breach of duty reports predominantly in nursing/care homes.

Sandra has worked for over 10years as a senior healthcare professional in police custody forensic medicine and is now the Governance and Development Lead at a national level for Care& Custody Health Limited (a Mitie Company).

Care & Custody Police Services predominantly provide forensic healthcare in police custody sites, however they also provide custody detention services, immigration services and sexual assault referral centres covering over 21 police forces in the UK.

Sandra’s role is to provide strategic oversight of compliance with clinical and integrated governance processes.  Her role includes the management for all training and development to over 600 staff. She regularly teaches forensic medicine at Level 7 standard at the Forensic Training Course held at the University of Teesside.

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