Pam Dalrymple

Pam initially qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1994 and has extensive experience of working within Specialist Palliative Care services. She is a Specialist Practitioner in Palliative Care and won the Anne Weatherall prize for top graduate in 2001 at QMUC in Edinburgh. She has been a non-medical prescriber since 2005 and in 2020 completed a post graduate studies in Advanced Practice. She has also undertaken post graduate studies in Management & Leadership in Health Services at the University of Glasgow.

She was research nurse manager with the University of Edinburgh and retains an interest in research and is a member of the LCNUK Research Interest Group as well as being involved in the steering groups of a number of research projects across the UK.

Pam has been working as an Advanced CNS in Lung Cancer since 2020 at IRH in Greenock and supports patients and their carers from Pre diagnosis and through the diagnostic pathway, having developed a Prehabilitation service for all patients with a high suspicion of a lung cancer at IRH. She works alongside the consultant oncologist undertaking clinical consultations and prescribing of SACT, TKI's and Immunotherapy. She also continues to support patients following treatment and under surveillance.

Pam is a committee member of LCNUK and is currently chair of the Scottish Lung Cancer Nurses Forum. She is also on the Ruth Strauss Scientific Advisory Committee and a facilitator on their training Programmes for clinical staff across the UK. She also regularly presents at conferences both nationally and internationally.

More recently Pam is the nurse advisor on a national project working with Action on Asbestos introducing pleural nurse posts across Scotland.