Jena Davies Lead Nurse Mental Health and Learning Disability NHS Dumfries and Galloway What inspired you to work in the community? I qualified in 2003 where my nursing journey began working in Secure Mental Health Services. I absolutely loved my job however often those I worked with had missed opportunities for earlier intervention that may…
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Sally Walton
Sally Walton Senior Charge Nurse (Community Children’s Nurse Team) NHS Dumfries and Galloway I originally worked in a hospital but moved into the community as a Health Visitor. I have always felt that you get to know families a little better at home and in a different way. Being in a home environment lets you…
Keara Farrell
Keara Farrell Charge Nurse Thornhill Community Hospital, Dumfries and Galloway From an early age, I looked after my grandparents when their health got worse and then my neighbour asked me to help look after her father. My first summer job as a teenager was looking after an older person in their home. My friends couldn’t…
Emma Visca
Emma Visca Senior Health Visitor NHS Dumfries and Galloway I grew up in a council house scheme and I’ve always loved that sense of community. All your neighbours looked out for you, and it was like a big family, the sense of a diverse group pulling together to help one another. It was the nursing…
Jeanie Gallacher
Jeanie Gallacher Community Mental Health Nurse Annandale and Eskdale I work in the Community Mental Health Service in Annandale and Eskdale, a scenic rural area in Dumfries and Galloway. We are based in the town of Annan but cover small towns and villages across a wide and remote landscape. There is a lot of travel across the locality where I oversee mental health services. We…
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…
Hazel Hamilton
Hazel Hamilton When she took up her post as Senior Charge Nurse for community nursing in Annandale and Eskdale, top of Hazel Hamilton’s to-do list was reorganising the service from a single-practice focus to larger area-based teams. Annandale and Eskdale is a large rural patch in South West Scotland with scattered farms, quiet villages and…
