I am a registered nurse with 40 years' experience in both clinical critical care and critical care education. I am passionate about improving quality of life during and post critical illness for ICU survivors and their families. My doctoral work (2012-2016) revealed that many ICU survivors have little recall of the factual events of their critical illness, but relatives have lived the whole event in a very real and ingraining manner. This can result in family members and survivors experiencing very different versions of the critical illness episode.

As a Churchill Fellow (2019) I have been able to visit ICUs in the USA, Australia and New Zealand to witness best practice in ICU survivorship in support of critical illness survivorship here in the UK. Latterly, Covid-19 has spotlighted the deficits in post intensive care rehabilitation. In my role as trustee to the UK charity ICUsteps we have launched a #RehabIsCritical campaign.

My day job is as Deputy Director of NMC reviews, working on behalf of the Nursing and Midwifery Council in providing quality assurance to nursing and midwifery programmes across the UK.