HSJ Awards 2025: Clinical Leader of the Year

This nominee represents an exceptional leader who seamlessly combines clinical excellence with innovation and advocacy to drive meaningful improvements across NHS care. As a wheelchair user and highly specialist respiratory dietitian, she brings invaluable lived experience alongside deep clinical expertise to address healthcare inequalities and champion transformative change.

Her contributions span multiple areas of impact. She has enhanced nutritional care for patients, improved accessibility provisions for disabled people, and established national networks that support NHS staff and facilitate the spread of best practice across trusts. Her achievements range from award-winning research initiatives to comprehensive hospital-wide infrastructure improvements, consistently delivering measurable outcomes.

What distinguishes this candidate is her inclusive vision, inspiring leadership approach, and the far-reaching nature of her impact on NHS services. These qualities combine to make her an outstanding candidate for recognition through this award.

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