Project title
‘GPs' perceptions of their role in supporting people with chronic pain.'
Profile summary
I joined Canterbury Christ Church University as a PhD student in 2016, after undertaking an MSc in healthcare management with the NHS Leadership Academy and Birmingham University. I originally trained as a learning disability nurse, and was a Charge Nurse in a long-stay hospital and an Assessment and Treatment service in Essex, before moving to Kent and working for health and social care charities, social services and most recently as a Project Manager in a NHS Clinical Commissioning Group, developing community services for people with long-term-conditions. I developed a local NHS Personal Health Budgets programme for homeless people, people with long-term-conditions, mental health needs and/or Medically Unexplained Symptoms.
I have an interest in Medically Unexplained Symptoms, chronic pain, innovative services, patient empowerment and supported self-management.
For my PhD I am researching how GPs perceive their role and their relationship, in supporting people with chronic pain, and factors which affect GPs’ perceptions; strategies and barriers for support, training needs, supporting self-management and patient activation.
Teaching and subject expertise
Basics of pain and the pain management pathway in the NHS (undergraduate Occupational Therapy)
Personal Health Budgets (qualified nurses and GPs)
Medically Unexplained Symptoms (qualified nurses and GPs)
Other external activities
Disabled Students’ Officer 2017/18: Canterbury Christ Church University Students' Union
Member of the British Pain Society – reviewing documents of conference presentations
Member of the International Association for the Study of Pain