T Humphreys

Tracy Humphreys CNS Diabetic retinopathy

My Nursing career expands back to July 1985 when I started my training at this hospital. I worked on acute medical wards when qualified until I joined the Diabetes Department Team in 1998. Here I worked with both Primary care Gps, optometrists and the Diabetes Consultant team managing a Staffordshire wide Diabetes Register. In addition, in 2000, I was seconded to work with the diabetes CNS team managing my own patient caseload and reviewing in-patients with diabetes.

I came to ophthalmology in 2003 into a newly created post as Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Nurse Specialist and worked alongside the Retinal Consultant and subsequently Dr Brown when he joined our department. I have developed my post over the years working with the Diabetic Eye Screening Service as the main source of the patients that we manage in the Hospital Diabetic Retinopathy Service. During my time in Ophthalmology I have worked on many projects such as the idea behind the diabetic surveillance clinic (this being part of my MSc dissertation) and have co-authored a few publications with the Diabetologists colleagues.

Although I predominantly run my own Diabetic Retinopathy clinics both at County and Royal Stoke, I also support the management of the injection service for the diabetic macular oedema patients. Once weekly, I manage a Naevus ultrasound clinic.

I have a BSc in Nursing studies; ophthalmic nursing certificate; an MSc in Advancing Clinical Practice and am a Non-Medical Prescriber.