She is an honorary member of the Association of Tongue-tie Practitioners (ATP), former chair and current Treasurer. It was during her time at East Surrey that Deb completed her training as a Tongue-tie Practitioner, completing the Wolverhampton University Postgraduate Course ‘Advanced Clinical Skills in Tongue tie (Ankyloglossia) Management’ and worked within a small NHS team of practitioners to support a weekly tongue-tie clinic, providing breastfeeding support, tongue-tie assessment and division when required.ĭeb is now working freelance as an ANNP, lactation consultant and tongue-tie practitioner. Furthering her professional career she transferred to East Surrey Hospital in 2015 where she was able to take on a more teaching and supportive role whilst still maintaining clinical skills working on the middle grade medical rota. After starting her professional career as a staff nurse on the neonatal unit at RVI in Newcastle she took the opportunity offered by St Georges Hospital Tooting London in 2009 to complete the Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) programme at London South Bank University. Deb has worked within neonatal services since qualifying as a paediatric nurse in 2002. Please meet Deb Wilson, an Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, Independent Prescriber, Tongue-tie Practitioner and Lactation Consultant. Louise lives with her husband locally in York and enjoys walking and meeting up with friends socially. Louise is a member of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), the Association of Tongue Tie Practitioners (ATP) and an associate member of the lactation consultants UK. The clinical practice was at the tongue-tie clinic in the Russell Hall hospital in Dudley which is one of the largest specialist clinics of its kind in England. Pursuing her interest and passion in helping mothers with their choice of infant feeding, Louise trained to Masters level in the practice of frenulotomy (tongue-tie division) at the University of Wolverhampton. Louise currently leads the ‘Baby Friendly’* accreditation of a university midwifery programme. Having a passion for teaching, Louise become involved in working as a university lecturer overseeing student midwives in their training where she still practices today. It was here she developed experience with all aspects of infant feeding. She facilitated antenatal education classes in the community and visited many mothers during their first few weeks after birth helping them with breastfeeding. After working in hospital Louise became a community midwife working in a team that provided holistic midwifery care throughout the whole childbirth continuum attending many home and hospital births. Right from the beginning of her midwifery career, Louise developed an interest in infant feeding and helping mothers get breastfeeding off to a good start. She qualified as a registered nurse in 1984 in Sheffield before undertaking her midwifery education at St Mary’s hospital in Paddington, London.
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