The story
I started my career on the ward, not in a lab. As a Learning Disability Nurse, I saw first-hand how the right technology can transform patient outcomes — and how the wrong technology gets ignored in a drawer. That gap between what clinicians need and what developers build became my obsession.
During COVID-19, I led the deployment of telehealth solutions that reached over 10,000 patients, using AI-powered predictive analytics to keep vulnerable people safe at home. That experience convinced me that nurses shouldn't just use technology — they should build it themselves.
So I coined the term Nurse Citizen Developer — the idea that frontline clinicians can create their own digital tools without a CS degree. I co-chaired the Chief Nursing Officer's Digital Strategy Working Group, serve on the BMJ Future Health Committee, and lead the European Hub for the Nursing Now Challenge. Now I spend my evenings fine-tuning LLMs and building open-source clinical AI that any nurse can fork.
★ Recognised as a Rising Leader in Keele University's "75 Faces of Keele" and featured in the Florence Nightingale Foundation's 90th anniversary celebrations.
