Margaret Bannister,

Assistant Professor

Biography

Nurse Consultant and Diabetes BSc/MScPathway Lead,

Programme lead for Professional Health Care Practice -MSc., PGD and PGC

Margaret has 30 years’ experience indiabetes care including 13 years as a diabetes specialist nurse in Wakefield and 15 as NurseConsultant in Bradford. She was a member of the RCN diabetes forum 2004–2012and Chair 2006–2010, Chair of the National Nurse Consultant Group 2008–2010 andnurse representative in the 2008 NICE Type 2 diabetes guideline consensusgroup.As the nurse consultant inBradford and Airedale from 2002-2017 she clinically lead the community diabetesteam that supports the intermediate care service across the district. She wasclinically based in the community but worked across all levels of the service.Her particular areas of clinical interest are patient-focused care delivery andeducation, particularly of other healthcare professionals. Her lecturingcommitments at the university include leading the BSc and MSc diabetes pathwaysincluding delivery of a diabetes specific modules and structured diabetesrelated input into pre-registration nurse training. Multidisciplinary workingand the delivery of integrated diabetes care remains the primary focus for herwork. Her clinical focus was predominately with patients with type 2 diabetesexperiencing problems with treatment regimes, resistance to therapy change oradherence challenges. Since retiring from her full time NHS clinical role in2017 she has been working with diabetes teams across Yorkshire providingclinical leadership and support for a variety of projects aimed at improveaccess to care for people living with diabetes plus education and developmentof health care professionals involved in diabetes care delivery