Advanced nurse practitioner - haemoglobinopathies
Haematology nursing
Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
United Kingdom
Neil started work as a clinical nurse specialist in haemoglobinopathies at Guy’s and St Thomas’ in 1994. He became advanced nurse practitioner in 2008. Neill’s role includes managing adult sickle cell patients, both inpatients and outpatients. Neil also manages the clinical nurse specialists working within the adult haemoglobinopathy team. Neil is the acute nurse representative for the United Kingdom Forum on Haemoglobinopathies, and the treasurer of the Forum for Acute Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Nurses (Fast-N). Education and training: Registered General Nurse, Rotherham (1987); children's nurse, Booth Hall Children’s Hospital, Manchester (1989); MSc health of ethnic minorities, King's College University (2003).
Sickle cell disease, priapism (painful erections), pain management in sickle cell disease.