Lisa has worked as Parkinson’s disease nurse specialist at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton since 2005, working across neurology and medicine for the elderly running nurse led clinics, working in a multidisciplinary parkinson’s clinic, providing a home visit and telephone advice service and supporting parkinson’s patients admitted to hospital.

She is an independent nurse prescriber, holds a BSc(Hons) Degree in Specialist Nursing Practice and has developed the scope of her practice to include botulinum toxin injections to treat cervical dystonia and sialorrhoea. She sits on the UK Parkinson’s Audit Governance Board and is a committee member of the Parkinson’s Nurse Specialist Association.