Nicola Collins

Clinical Lead Physiotherapist Paediatrics

Royal Brompton Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Nicola is a paediatric respiratory physiotherapist with over 20 years’ experience. She has an extensive background in service development and is looking forward to the fellowship helping her develop the authority to advance change. She is also eager to develop a network of Quality Imporvement colleagues to share experience and learn from.

Nicola’s special interest is long term respiratory conditions, and her project centres around the provision of care for children with bronchiectasis (non Cystic Fibrosis/ non Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia bronchiectasis). These families were recently surveyed, and 100% highlighted discontent in their ability access to physiotherapy, with waiting lists of more than 1 year. She hopes to improve patient satisfaction and clinical outcome by addressing this inequality, and recommend a new model of multidisciplinary care and specialist physiotherapy provision. She wishes to develop a service that is in line with other disease groups (CF/PCD/asthma) and European recommendations.