Helen is a Senior Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist in Tees Valley and strategically leads on diabetes for the North East and North Cumbria (NENC) ICB. Helen is co-chair of the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association Diabetes and Endocrinology Committee. Recently Helen has completed a clinical research fellowship with the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration NENC focussing on diabetes and frailty and remains an associate lecturer at Newcastle University.