Catherine Graham

I am a Nursing and Midwifery Council-registered adult nurse. Post-qualification, I worked for eight years in post-operative colorectal surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne. First as a staff nurse rotating between the post-operative ward and high dependency unit care, then as a colorectal specialist nurse caring for patients who had undergone bowel resections with formation of stomas.

For the following eight years, I worked in specialist palliative care in the inpatient unit of the Marie Curie Hospice in Newcastle upon Tyne. Here, I cared for patients with palliative diagnoses and patients who were at the end of life, and their families. I have extensive experience in palliative and end-of-life symptom management and the provision of holistic patient-centred care.