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,…
2017
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…
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…
Gemma MacDonald
Gemma MacDonald Gemma MacDonald was driven to work in maternal and infant healthcare following her own experience of having her first baby aged 19 and feeling that the support she needed wasn’t always available. When she became a mother for the second time a year later, the experience was very different. “I felt listened to,…
Delia Howlett
Delia Howlett Delia Howlett has worked in the community since 1999, becoming a district Nurse in 2003. In 2016, Delia became team leader for Berwickshire and Cheviot which created a dual role of nurse management and district nursing. Based at Coldstream Health Centre, District Nurse Delia Howlett is team leader for the seven groups of…
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…
Clare Stiles
Clare Stiles Great Skuas are wheeling high in the sky over Burrafirth beach on the northernmost tip of Unst, itself the most northern of the Shetland Islands. Known locally as Bonxies, these large birds are fierce in their defence of their territory, and will maim and kill if they can. Watching them swoop down to…
Barbara McFadzean
Barbara McFadzean Barbara in the news Barb shares her experience in Webinar It is 8.30am on a Monday morning, and the members of the district nursing team based at Crosshouse Area Centre in Ayrshire are starting their day. Student nurse Katy Chan is on the telephone, picking up messages left overnight. Among them is a…
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’…
Ally Lister
Ally Lister The old matron’s house at Fleming Cottage Hospital in Aberlour is buzzing with activity. In the kitchen, tea is on the boil and biscuits are being arranged on plates. In the waiting room, a group of ladies is busy putting paperwork in order: there is a laptop computer on the desk, and a…
