Foot In diabetes UK

Please say who you are with a brief biography to date of your work with the foot in diabetes

Rachel Mathison.

After graduating from Salford School of Podiatry in 1994, I worked in the NHS, developing a strong clinical interest in diabetes management.and tissue viability.
In 1999, I moved from Rochdale Primary Healthcare Trust where I gained valuable experience working in the community and also in a research role for the published ‘North West Diabetes Foot Care Study’, to work within secondary care for Stockport NHS Trust as a Clinical Specialist in ‘high-risk’ patient management.

Paul Chadwick

Clinical lead for the high -risk foot team, Salford

I qualified in 1990 from the Northern College of Chiropody and was fortunate to have in my cohort such luminaries as Martin Fox and Louise Morris and was lectured to by Louise Stuart (some things never change!).
Most of my work around diabetes has been carried out in Salford. I started work here in 1995 as a Senior 1 in high-risk liaison that involved developing care pathways and integrated working across the hospital and community trusts.

Lee Hawksworth

Clinical lead Podiatrist, Tameside & Glossop PCT.
PCT Commissioning Lead in the areas of Diabetes, Coronary Heart Disease and Renal.

I have been working within Diabetes and High Risk care for the last 6 years within the north west of England. I have been predominately community-based, with roles within both Diabetes and Vascular multidisciplinary out patient’s clinics

Laurie King
Lead specialist podiatrist in the diabetic foot for Oxfordshire.

I have worked as a podiatrist for the NHS for 27 years and specifically in the field of diabetes for the last 20 years.
At present I am employed by a Primary care PCT and I am seconded to run the Diabetic Foot Clinic at the Oxford Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism in Secondary Care, but also help plan Primary Care at a county level.

Julia Shaw

Podiatry Manager and lead clinician in diabetes in the Regional Endocrinology and Diabetes Centre in the Royal Hospitals in Belfast

I lead a small team of Podiatrists who manage diabetic foot pathologies in both Diabetes and Vascular Surgery. I qualified from the Glasgow School of Chiropody in 1980 and worked for two years as a Senior 11 Podiatrist in primary care in the Belfast area.

Duncan Stang
Chief Podiatrist, Hairmyres Hospital, NHS Lanarkshire

I qualified in 1980 from Glasgow School of Podiatry and have worked in diabetes foot-care for the last sixteen years.
In my current position in Hairmyres Hospital I work solely in Diabetes concentrating on the treatment of the high risk and ulcerated foot running a very busy multidisciplinary foot clinic.

John Timmons

Tissue Viability Nurse Grampian Health Services