Meet the team
Theresa Porrett, MSc, RGN - Consultant Editor
Terri is Nurse Consultant in Coloproctology. She was a ward sister at St. Marks Hospital before she joined the Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 1991 as Clinical Nurse Specialist in Stoma Care. Terri has been instrumental in developing a range of Nurse Led colorectal services for patients at the Homerton.
In 2006 the Homerton Colorectal Nursing Department was accredited as an Academic Department of Advanced Colorectal Nursing Practice by City University.
Terri is currently undertaking a PhD, exploring the coping and help seeking behaviour of women with Pelvic Floor Dysfunction. She is a visiting Lecturer for the Burdett Institute, Kings and City University. Terri has published two textbooks embracing all aspects of colorectal nursing practice, and has been published extensively in medical Colorectal and nursing Gastrointestinal Journals.
She is currently Clinical Director of the North East London Bowel Cancer Screening Centre.
Andy Escott - Editor
Editorial board
Pat Black - Consultant Nurse, Coloproctology, The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Warren Chapman - Nurse Consultant and Endoscopy Clinical Lead, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Joanne Cooper - Nursing/AHP Research and Development Facilitator, Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln
Alison Coutts - Senior Lecturer, City University, London
Carol Cox - Professor of Nursing, City University, London
Dawn Elliot - Upper GI Nurse Specialist, Wansbeck General Hospital, Northumberland
Elaine Macleod - Stoma Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, The Southern General Hospital, Glasgow
Angela Narbey - Liver Nurse Consultant, South London Healthcare NHS Trust, London
Yvette Person - Colorectal Nurse Consultant, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust Foundation Trust, Wales
Terri Porrett - Nurse Consultant, Homerton Hospital, London
Julia Robathan - Hepatology Clinical Nurse Speialist, Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury
Graeme D Smith - Lecturer/Specialist, University of Edinburgh
Julia Williams - Senior Lecturer, Burdette Institute of Gastrointestinal Nursing, Harrow
