Joanne King
Chair
Joanne qualified in 1991 and has been a senior nurse at Frimley Health NHS Trust since 1996. She became a Respiratory Consultant Nurse in 2016.
Joanne has restructured the respiratory services in Frimley Health NHS Trust to form The Frimley Adult Integrated Respiratory (FAIR) Service consisting of two teams – AIR and RITS providing respiratory services across primary and secondary care, integrating community and hospital trusts in providing a seamless journey to the patient. The service offers expertise to patients with COPD, Asthma, ILD, and home oxygen needs, Bronchiectasis, specialist physiotherapy and provides pulmonary rehabilitation including maintenance classes. As the clinical lead for The Frimley Adult Integrated Respiratory (FAIR) Service her current role is to provide support, guidance, management, and clinical leadership whilst developing services in respiratory care in both acute and community care sectors including the implementation and development of Acute Respiratory Virtual Ward. Joanne is also the Respiratory Elective Recovery and Transformation Lead for Frimley Integrated Care System.
Joanne has obtained qualifications in Asthma, COPD and spirometry as well as being a non-medical prescriber. She has also received a BSc (Hons) in Nurse Practitioner Studies from Buckinghamshire University and an MSc in Clinical Health Care from Oxford Brookes University.
Joanne is the Association of Respiratory Nurses (ARNS) Chair. She is also a member of the National Asthma and COPD Audit programme Board, the COPD / Pulmonary Rehabilitation advisory group and a member of the Respiratory Delivery Board. Joanne is a member of the Early and Accurate Diagnosis taskforce group and a national member of ACT on COPD working group. She chairs the respiratory forum and specialist nursing group locally.
Joanne was awarded respiratory Nurse Leader at ARNS in 2018 and the Queens Nurse title in 2023.
