PIAPA introduces new Chair and Vice Chair

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to you. I would also like to say farewell to the former chair of PIAPA, Yvonne Senior, who has taken the organisation from a few colleagues supporting each other to the amazing association that it is today. She has given so much of her time and efforts to PIAPA without complaint and with good grace, even when times have been hard. I can only hope to fill her shoes. With the support of our representatives and members, I know that PIAPA will continue to grow and develop.

My background is a general nurse since qualifying as a state registered nurse in 1987, and I have worked in many specialties including many years as a band 7 ward sister. I opened Chamonix clinic in 2008 with no clients but the unwavering belief that it would work; not a perfect business plan, but it shows what hard work and determination can do, and these are things that I have tonnes of. Over the years, Chamonix expanded and we later introduced a training branch, which has also developed rapidly through sheer enthusiasm and hard work. It is this hard-working positivity that I hope to bring to the association.