Nurse consultant

Claire is a Macmillan Nurse Consultant with the complex cancer team at St Mark’s Hospital and also works as a lecturer and researcher. She has dedicated her career to developing colorectal cancer nursing for which she was awarded an MBE in February 2020. Claire’s work includes setting up the UK’s first network for colorectal cancer nurses 23 years ago which she currently chairs, allowing colleagues to meet and exchange best practice.

Zarah Perry-Woodford supports the team at NHS Collaborative Procurement Partnership working on the ‘Ostomate Project’ which focuses on the procurement of stoma care services nationally. Her first nursing post on qualification in 1999 was as a military nurse serving in the Royal Air Force on a general/colorectal ward. She subsequently spent a year as a senior staff nurse on the colorectal ward at St Mark’s Hospital in London, one of the UK’s largest single centres for stoma and ileo-anal pouch …