Rachel started as a Transfusion Practitioner (TP) in 2003 and has an adult intensive care nursing background, qualifying in 1991.
As a TP she has worked with many clinical specialities including general medicine and surgery, maternity, trauma, cardiac surgery, haematology & oncology and is currently the Advanced Transfusion Practitioner at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London.
She was also seconded to NHSBT in 2015 and spent 12 months with the Patient Blood Management Team as a Patient Blood Management Practitioner which gave a unique view of the transfusion process from donor to recipient.
Rachel has been involved in many regional, national and international transfusion related committees and working groups and previously led the London Platelet Action Group and sat on the BSMS (Blood Stocks Management Scheme) Steering Group. She sits on the National Transfusion Practitioners Network group, and the Steering Group for the National TP Framework 2026.
In 2015 Rachel presented on the “Role of the TP in the UK” at the ISBT (International Society Blood Transfusion) Annual Scientific Meeting in London. From that meeting Rachel helped establish the ISBT TP Forum (a sub-group of the ISBT Clinical Transfusion Working Party) starting as Deputy Chair and then Chair. Rachel has spoken internationally on the role of the TP including conferences in Europe, Gulf region and Australia. Rachel has co-authored a number of papers on the TP Role in Transfusion Medicine and Vox Sanguinis, and with other members of the ISBT TP Group published a series of podcasts called “TPs around the world”.
Rachel was Chair of the BBTS Paediatric SIG from 2018 – 2023, when she became Deputy Chair of the BBTS ASM committee, becoming Chair of the ASM Committee in 2025.
In 2025 Rachel was awarded the BBTS Gold Medal for services to BBTS and the wider transfusion community.
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