Ms Horne is the first Filipino nurse to join the NHS England team as the workforce race equality standard clinical research fellow with a focus on international staff; she is also a deputy associate director of nursing at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust. She is chair of the ethnic minority group staff network at the trust.

She was recognised for her major contributions to patients and the nursing profession and received the Silver Chief Nursing Officer Award in 2021.

Ms Horne’s contribution to nursing has been recognised nationally; she was a Nurse of the Year 2022 finalist at the National BAME Health & Care Awards and she was listed as one of HSJ’s 50 most influential black, Asian and minority ethnic people for health 2022. In addition, she is a PRINCE2 practitioner, a qualified mental health first aider and an RCNi editorial advisory board member.

Outside her role, Ms Horne is an active officer of the Filipino Nurses Association UK. She is also a leading member of Filipino Senior Nurses Alliance, formed in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide a forum for senior Filipino nurses in the UK to network and discuss issues of collective interest.