Joanne Anderson Until recently, Joanne Anderson was the General Practice Nurse at Beith Medical Centre in North Ayrshire. After 21 years in practice nursing, Joanne has just been appointed NHS Ayrshire & Arran’s Senior Nurse for Primary Care. My Journey I remember a conversation with my guidance teacher at school around career choices and wanting…
Generalist Nursing
Lorna Dhami
Lorna Dhami Lorna Dhami is the practice nurse, and practice manager, of one of the four practices at Easterhouse Health Centre in Glasgow. It’s something of a family business, as the single-handed GP who is Lorna’s boss is also her husband, Dr Dav Dhami. “We know lots of our patients really well, we know their…
Lesley Paterson
Lesley Paterson Children have been a career theme for Lesley Paterson, who worked as a nanny in her native Northumberland before going into nursing. After a stint as a Staff Nurse in acute medicine, she transferred to Edinburgh’s Sick Children’s Hospital, then the children’s ward in Perth Royal Infirmary. Working in the paediatric outpatient department…
Kitty Millar
Kitty Millar Campbeltown, situated at the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, may be only 60 miles from Glasgow as the crow flies, but it’s a world away in many other respects. It takes more than three hours to drive into the city, flying is expensive, and ferries to the mainland are few and far…
Kelvin Frew
Kelvin Frew Kelvin in the news Kelvin’s choir launches new charity single for mental health Community Mental Health Nurse Kelvin Frew is team leader of the NHS Dumfries & Galloway Crisis, Assessment and Treatment Service. As well as managing the service, and working part time on the crisis response team, he carries a small caseload…
Kate McConville
Kate McConville Kate McConville is the Peripetetic Clinical Service Manager in Glasgow for Advinia Healthcare and takes a very hands-on approach. “I spend a lot of time watching how care is delivered and listening to how it is received,” she says. “It has to be the very best it can be, and I take a…
Julie Churchill
Julie Churchill Julie Churchill is at North Berwick Group Practice, visiting one of the community nursing teams that she works with. It’s the first time they have been together since it was announced that she is now their permanent Team Manager. For the previous year Julie had been acting team manager, and is therefore familiar…
Joan Gracie
Joan Gracie The welfare of children has always been close to Joan Gracie’s heart, and as Team Leader for School Nursing in NHS Forth Valley, she feels she is making a real difference. “There are so many young people in need of help,” she says. “Here we are determined to see they get it, hopefully…
Jess Davidson
Jess Davidson Jess in the news Jess awarded top honour The custody suite below St Leonard’s Police Station in Edinburgh can be an intimidating environment: windowless corridors are lined both sides with thick metal doors, well-worn whiteboards bearing the names of the people behind them. There is a busy charge bar, where people who have…
Ian Hall
Ian Hall Ian in the news Ian receives Long Service Award at ceremony in Orkney Ian Hall says he is drawn to extreme remote and rural nursing practice. His last big job saw him help establish the first-ever healthcare and community development project for nomadic Tuareg people, deep in the North Niger desert. These days,…
