Clare Addison has recently retired after 42 years in the NHS. She qualified as a specialist neuroscience nurse in 1989 at The National Hospital Queen Square. She was Neurosurgical Ward Sister before moving to the Atkinson Morley Hospital as Nurse Lead for Paediatric Neurosciences in the 1990s.

Since then, she has worked in a variety of senior nursing roles both in the UK and Bahrain, including ward management, practice development, surgical matron and latterly as lead nurse for adult safeguarding. She has a MSc in professional leadership in healthcare and is passionate about high quality service delivery and compassionate care.

In 2016 Clare was diagnosed with Parkinson’s and is now a committed ambassador for Parkinson’s UK, former co-lead of the Parkinsons UK Southeast Excellence Network and co- founder of the NHS Professionals Living with Parkinsons group. She currently sits on the NHSE CRG for Neurology, is a member of Kings College Hospital Parkinsons expert patient group promoting PPI, and a member of the KCL KERRI Research database management Committee.