Currently working freelance, setting up a digital mentoring service for adult registered nurses with support provided by a network of senior nurses who have extensive clinical and managerial experience from a wide range of disciplines and clinical settings. This service is privileged to be supported by Hexitime.com, who were a previous Q exchange winner.

My background as a senior nurse working in diverse clinical settings, spans Acute, Community and Primary Care in both Sussex and London. Most recent employer has been the largest Community Healthcare Trust in London working as a Cardiology Clinical Nurse Specialist for the sub-specialties of heart failure and cardiac rehabilitation. Prior to this, working in an Acute NHS Trauma Trust as Specialist Nurse Practitioner in Acute Frailty supporting patients diagnosed with a surgical condition who had unmet frailty needs. And previously, working as a Senior Case Manager and Community Matron, based in Primary Care, to both implement and develop an integrated care service for a London Community NHS Trust in partnership with the CCG. And additionally, by working as a Clinical Site Manager and in several nurse specialist posts, for Heart Failure and as Thrombosis and Anti-coagulation nurse specialist, has added to the diversity of my clinical practice and provided a solid foundation during the 5 years I worked for the Harmoni referral management service, prior to the initiation of NHS 111.

The completion of a BSc in Clinical Practice following a Cardiology pathway, extensive training in long-term conditions, together with Prince 2 Project Management training, an MSc in Improvement Science, plus leading and participating in clinical research has equipped me with the skills to initiate and develop clinical services.

I have been privileged in previous roles to lead clinical research to improve the quality of life for people with heart failure by the use of exercise, sponsored by CLAHRC NW London; participation in the International study, led Dr Foster Intelligence, Global Comparators, to examine the 'weekend effect' for Heart Failure admissions: as project manager to help improve communication and ways of working between a Central London Community NHS Trust and Primary Care for the benefit of their patients; by undertaking a comparable study to examine the differences between patients supported by Cardiology or Elderly Care, 'Do all heart failure patients need to be under the care of a cardiologist', which led to successful publication in a Cardiac Nursing journal; by the collection of robust clinical data which helped to secure funding for a Frailty Consultant within the surgical division of a large Trauma hospital; and by streamlining processes in several clinical roles within the NHS to improve service delivery benefiting both patients and staff.