Laura is a nurse specialist in children and young people's asthma, with a decade of experience. During this time she has worked in primary through to tertiary care, South to North-East and outer London and will soon be moving closer to home in Essex.
Laura is a passionate advocate for families experiencing the impact of inequality, whether that is financial, cultural or environmental. Her expertise lies in risk profiling, acute asthma (her background before specialising was paediatric emergency care), network building and accessible information. Laura was part of the innovative Asthma Practitioner Pilot recently, aiming to minimise the impact of inequalities on CYP asthma and embed the NHSE bundle of care.
She has a keen interest in the impact of neurodivergence and adolescent health. She will often be found rabbiting on about an article or book about the teenage brain. After her children are in bed, she is just as likely to have her nose in dystopian fiction, poetry or anything with dragons!
In her free time Laura is also a self-published children's author and illustrator - The Lady & The Thing which supports bereaved children or those facing loss - and a series of books about asthma which introduce concepts like inflammation, prevention versus rescue, peak expiratory flow and asthma plans through creative illustrated stories (again, dragons!).