Trained as a Registered General Nurse at Pontefract and Pinderfields Hospitals (1986)
Qualified as a Registered Sick Children's Nurse in Hull (1988)
Has worked extensively in paediatric bone marrow transplantation in London, both in haematology and in metabolic diseases
Since 2001 has worked in the north of England within paediatric and adult palliative and end-of-life care with special interest in neurodegenerative and haematological conditions