Specialist Nursing

Steve Mullay

Steve Mullay Dementia Clinical Nurse Specialist Shetland I came into my present role around eight years ago when I joined an innovative nurse-led service to assess, diagnose and treat people with dementia. The service, which is part-funded by Alzheimer Scotland, arose from a redesign led by NHS Shetland and Shetland Islands Council. I work across the…

Maggie Wilkieson

Maggie Wilkieson Macmillan Nurse Campbeltown I live on the island of Gigha and travel by ferry to Campbeltown where I work as Community Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist, caring for people in their homes as well as in our local community hospital. My ‘patch’ is almost the whole of the narrow peninsula of Kintyre, plus the Island of Gigha, with a total population around 9,000 people. I am extremely lucky to live…

Gayle Ridge

Gayle Ridge Health and Homeless Charge Nurse South Ayrshire My post within the South Ayrshire Community Mental Health Team covers five hostels and several hundred temporary furnished homeless flats and I work with any individual experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness. Geographically, South Ayrshire is semi-rural and the issues that clients present with are as…

Kirsten Kernaghan

Kirsten Kernaghan Sexual Health Nurse Edinburgh I have been working in the area of sexual health with a focus on young people now for the past 16 years. My current role is as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner based at NHS Lothian’s Chalmers Sexual Health Service in the centre of Edinburgh. We work hard to ensure we provide services in…

Christina Guinnane

Christina Guinnane Family Nurse Renfrew I am a community midwife working as a family nurse with Renfrew Health and Social Care Partnership and I work within a large area of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC). The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is an intensive home visiting programme for women aged 19 and under having their first baby. Young women are invited to voluntarily enrol…

Alison Bunce

Alison Bunce Senior Palliative Care Nurse Inverclyde Compassionate Inverclyde is a social movement which inspires ordinary people to do things for ordinary people by tapping into our desire to be kind, helpful and neighbourly. When it launched three years ago, there weren’t any volunteers and today there are more than 130 people involved. Inverclyde is situated on the banks of…