She is a founding member of the United Kingdom Association of Supportive Cancer Care and acts as treasurer.
Elaine has been a cancer nurse for over 30 years. She held positions of clinical lecturer in the New South Wales College of Nursing and was invited to help set up a bone marrow transplant programme in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. After 10 years Elaine returned to the United Kingdom and began a role as a clinical nurse specialist in chemotherapy at University Hospital Southampton. It was here she began to study a MSC degree in nursing at Portsmouth university and on completion was appointed the senior nurse for the care group.
Elaine was appointed consultant nurse in 2004 and held a joint appointment with the University of Southampton as senior lecturer and academic practitioner. .Along with her colleague Alison Keen she Co authored a book on women’s cancers and has written numerous book chapters on SACT and has over 50 publications in academic journals .
Elaine had an opportunity to study an MSC in healthcare leadership through the NHS leadership Academy which she completed in 2017 .Her dissertation is called board to bedside looking at how senior managers hear the patient voice.
Elaine was an elected UKONS board member and currently sits on the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care committee. Furthermore Elaine has recently developed an online train the trainer programme for nurses on biosimilars which is in the process of being translated into 6 languages.
Elaine represented Wessex on the NHS England chemotherapy reference group and was a frequent peer reviewer of services.
Elaine was awarded a post doctoral fellowship in 2017 to examine the use of the ipsilateral arm for chemotherapy in breast cancer and is currently a Chief investigator of a study called My risk examining antiemetics and risk factors for CINV.
