Janine Hood

Janine has been a nurse for 33 years and has worked in the field of Respiratory Nursing for almost 25 years. During that time her passion for, and experience in Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) care has grown. She completed the MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice in 2015 and is a full time Respiratory Advanced Practitioner for East Lancashire NHS Teaching Hospitals, based in Secondary Care. She intends to take early retirement and return on a part-time basis in May 2023. Since 2013 Janine has been improving services for ILD patients in East Lancashire; the local ILD service has grown from a local DGH with no subspecialty in ILD to now being part of the Lancashire & South Cumbria Regional ILD Network. This is a Specially Commissioned service to enable the MDT to take place to confirm diagnoses and then prescribe anti fibrotics without the need for local patients to travel long distances. She is the lead ILD Nurse for the Network. Janine’s daily work is very much outpatient focused with 3 clinics per week, 2 MDT’s and managerial responsibilities. She works within a very busy respiratory service and until recently was working in the pleural service and covid follow up clinics too. Janine has been a member of the ILD-IN committee for an extended period due to covid and currently holds the position of Secretariat and her tenure will be over in 2024.