Penny is professionally registered as both a prescribing advanced nurse practitioner and clinical diagnostic radiographer / ultra sonographer. Having worked for over 25 years in both the UK and abroad, either within the NHS or private practice, she has run an complex NHS radiology department in a large London hospital, where the bureaucratic aspects of care had to be balanced with medical care. She has also gained extensive clinical experience within many medical specialisms, including, for example, palliative care, high trauma ED, intensive care, clinical diagnostic radiology procedures and image / scan reporting, oncology care, pain clinics, community end of life nursing, general practice and dermatology nursing.
Her extensive pre- and post-graduate qualifications provide her with a comprehensive knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, psychology and disease pathology, making her a competent practitioner of clinical medicine. Understanding the complexity of many disease conditions such as invasive cancers, post Covid syndrome, ME, various forms of dementia, peri and post menopause, and women’s health issues, generally, helps her to be highly empathetic to her patients from both a physical and emotional perspective.
She regularly undertakes specialised professional training, provided by leading experts in the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and the USA, as she believes that it is vital to gain evidence-based and clinically proven knowledge of new, evolving practices in medicine in the 21st century.
Over the three-year period from 2020 until 2023, she lived in Australia, helping set up, advise and work clinically, on the roll out of the Covid program and with the care of the very sick. She spent many months in remote outback regions of the country, where the populations consisted of diverse cultures, but who desperately needed care during the pandemic.
Although she recognises the immense value and importance of conventional medicine, her holistic and integrative approach to patient care means she welcomes the accessibility of medical cannabis as a form of treatment across various states of ill health, and she will approach problems in a kind, rational and calm manner.