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…
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Lesley Wylie
Lesley Wylie Lesley Wylie is the manager of a dementia specialist home in Bishopton run by the charity Erskine, who have been caring for Scotland’s veterans since 1916. Proud of the relationship-centred culture within the Erskine Park Home, Lesley is motivated to promote care home nursing role as an innovative and developing area of practice.…
Madeline Wilson
Madeline Wilson Madeline Wilson works as a Clinical Team Lead for District Nursing and is committed to ensuring that the people of Renfrewshire receive the highest quality and standard of community nursing care and treatment. My Journey As far as I can remember, I had always wanted to be a nurse. My parents used to…
Caroline Porter
Caroline Porter Caroline Porter works for Children’s Hospices Across Scotland – better known as CHAS – as a Diana Children’s Nurse, named in honour of Princess Diana to commemorate her life and work. Caroline brings palliative care nursing expertise to babies, children and young people and their families. My Journey Nursing wasn’t always something I…
Brenda Kirk
Brenda Kirk Brenda Kirk has been working in child health for almost 30 years and is now a Clinical Nurse Specialist and Team Leader for the disability nursing team for Specialist Children’s Services in Renfrewshire. Regularly called on within the team for advice, she is also the key contact for other agencies because of her…
Lorraine Haining
Lorraine Haining Specialist Nurse Practitioner Lorraine Haining has been leading a multidisciplinary dementia team from her base in Dumfries since 2012. My Journey As a small child, I attended nursery at a very early age. The nursery nurses wore very traditional nurses’ uniforms with aprons, cuffs and hats. The matron in charge wore a very…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
