Specialist Nursing

Hilary Alba

Hilary Alba Hilary in the news Hilary hosts conference on Human Trafficking On a wall in her office within Glasgow’s Princess Royal Maternity Hospital, Hilary Alba has hung a massive world map. She looks at it from her desk, pinpointing where the women she works with come from. “Syria, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Albania, Vietnam, and…

Debra Vickers

Debra Vickers Debra Vickers, the NHS Western Isles Nurse Consultant for Cardiology, and her small team are working to transform the way heart disease is managed in a remote and rural island setting. The nurse-led services she and her team have developed are delivering world-class care, and preventing deaths from heart disease. “Without the input…

Anne Burns

Anne Burns Anne in the news Anne attends Royal Garden Party Anne Burns works for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde based in Renfrewshire and has been one of the people at the forefront of implementing the Family Nurse Partnership model (FNP). Her job involves what she describes as ‘a structured intensive home visiting programme’…

Women’s Health and Wellbeing

This collaborative project will look to support women working within lap-dancing bars as women involved in the sex industry are in need of considerable support. This outreach work aims to empower women and support them to access services such as health, welfare, employability and criminal justice services, thereby improving their health and social care outcomes.

Moving On

This project is an evaluation of a Community Psychiatric Nurse-led, public and social partnering practice-based study, aimed at helping people make the transition from homelessness care services to local community networks.

Managing Catheters in the Community

This project sought to explore the experiences of patients, carers, community nurses and other health and social care staff in relation to issues with indwelling urinary catheters in the community setting that trigger unplanned district nurse visits.