Respiratory Disease Sub Committee

Maria Parsonage

Chair of Respiratory Disease Sub Committee

Pleural Disease Lead

I am a Respiratory Nurse Consultant working across Respiratory Medicine and Pleural Disease at Wirral University NHS Foundation Trust. I have been working in advanced respiratory nursing practice across the Wirral Peninsula since 2002 and I am passionate about evidence based respiratory healthcare. I have been instrumental in developing advanced pleural services across the Trust over the last 10 years and delivering services to patients with both benign and malignant pleural disease. As the pleural nursing lead, I am responsible for nurse led pleural clinics and procedure lists. I have written policy and guidance and I support medical staff and other health care professionals to gain competence with advanced pleural procedures.

Nationally, I am a member of the British Thoracic Society new Pleural Guideline group; on the executive committee for the UK Pleural Society and a member of the British Thoracic Society Lung Cancer & Mesothelioma Specialist Advisory Group. I hope as the ARNS Sub-Committee pleural lead I can inspire others to push forward modern pleural nursing in the ever changing and challenging socio-economic environment.

Beverley Bostock

Asthma Lead

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Beverley qualified as a nurse at St George’s Hospital London. Her qualifications include an MSc in Respiratory Care and an MA in Medical Ethics and Law and she is an independent nurse prescriber.

Beverley is a nurse practitioner in general practice in Gloucestershire. She has extensive education experience as Education Lead at Education for Health in Warwickshire and holds editorial writing and reviewing roles with several journals. These include Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Primary Care Nursing and Consultant Editor for Practice Nurse Journal. She is a visiting lecturer in behaviour change at Imperial College London for the MSc in Preventive Cardiology.

Beverley is a member of the Topic Expert Group which development the Asthma Quality Standards for NICE and sat on the committee for the National Review of Asthma Deaths. She is a nurse member for the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society.

Beverley was made a Queen’s Nurse in 2015.

Sharon Stothard

Bronchiectasis Lead

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I qualified as a nurse in 1990 and have worked in medicine in Sunderland since qualifying. In 1998 I became Junior Sister on an acute respiratory ward and 2 years later became Respiratory Nurse Specialist and Chest Clinic manager.

I gained my Bsc in Nursing in 2001 and Msc in Advanced nursing practice in 2005.

I have developed many services over my 17 years as a respiratory specialist nurse including difficult asthma, sleep service and COPD nursing team. The Chest clinic, it’s activity and personnel have tripled in size. I am a member of the BTS, ARNS, ARTP and ERS and have been for many years. I teach both internally and externally and have recently been speaking at national conferences.

I won the Nursing Times Respiratory Award 2016 for my work with learning disabilities and asthma and received the Trust award for outstanding achievement 2016.

My main interests are asthma, bronchiectasis and TB. I have finally written and article and had it published in the Nursing Times.

Debbie Roots

ILD lead

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Debbie first qualified as a nurse in 1984-first as an enrolled nurse and then converting to a registered nurse in 1998. She has a degree in specialist practice-respiratory nursing and is a non-medical prescriber. She also has completed a heart failure masters module and leadership training.

Debbie is currently a respiratory nurse consultant at Homerton University Hospital in Hackney, London. She manages leads and develops four services Respiratory, heart failure, TB and Allergy.

Her background is in respiratory nursing in both community and secondary care-up to ward manager in Medway Hospital until 2010 when she moved into the community to set up a respiratory service in Bexley. Since then she has lead respiratory services and improved care for respiratory patients.

She is a Queens nurse and also co-chair of the London clinical oxygen network. She is the ARNS lead for ILD and on the respiratory disease subcommittee and the conference committee for PCRS.

Debbie is passionate about respiratory care and aims to improve services and support better care.

Emma Rickards

Acute Care Lead

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Emma is a Respiratory Nurse Consultant who works for Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Knowsley Community Respiratory Service and she is passionate about reducing health inequalities in respiratory care.

Emma qualified as a nurse with a Bsc (Hons) in Nursing studies then soon after completed her Msc in Professional Practice with a pathway of difficult asthma. As a keen researcher/ practitioner Emma is a PhD student studying End of Life Care for patients with COPD in ED and as part of her studies has undertaken her Mphil, advanced respiratory nurse practitioner, NMP. Internship at UCLAN for CLAHRC.

Emma started her career working at the Northwest Lung Centre working in acute respiratory care. Emma has a passion for research were and she was fortunate enough to gain a post at the Clinical Trial Service Unit in Oxford. In 2007, she moved back to the North West Lung Centre, but this time worked in respiratory research at the Medicines Evaluation Unit.

In 2008 she was joined the respiratory team at Whiston Hospital providing acute in reach care. The integration of services led Emma to work across both the community and hospital setting where she later became to Oxygen Lead for Knowsley and Liverpool Heart & Chest as well as the Early Supported Discharge clinical Matron. During this time Emma has gained numerous qualifications in advanced respiratory care, COPD, Spirometry, Oxygen, diabetes, asthma, research and various management and leadership qualifications. She also has a variety of publications and abstracts surrounding different elements of respiratory care.

Emma is the Respiratory Nurse Acute Care Lead for ARNS and is on the British Thoracic Advisory panel.

In addition, she received Florence Nightingale research scholarship 2017/2018 and again 2018/2019.