Fiona has been a paediatric diabetes consultant since 2006. In her first consultant post, she set up a paediatric diabetes service from scratch, including an insulin pump service. She initiated a local paediatric diabetes charity and used the monies raised to take the children and young people on local activities and also residential activity weekends.

She moved to Wexham Park hospital in 2011 where the diabetes and endocrine service were modified and use of technology for patients with diabetes became the norm rather than the exception.

In 2021 Fiona moved to Evelina London Children’s Hospital to focus on her specialities, she is currently head of service for paediatric endocrinology and diabetes.

Fiona was one of the founding members of the national Association for Children’s Diabetes Clinicians and became the treasurer, setting up the initial account. She has taken up chair for the association, since May 2023, co-ordinating the annual conference and the guidelines group.

Fiona has been involved with the BSPED for many years. She was a member in the BSPED special interest group looking at the national paediatric DKA guideline, published in 11/2021. During her time working in district general hospitals (DGH) she was the DGH officer on the clinical committee. She was vice chair for the group looking at managing Adrenal crises, the national guideline was launched in November 2022.

Fiona became the treasurer of the BSPED in November 2023.

In 2022/3 she was a committee member for the expert topic NICE sensor augmented pump group which was then converted into a NICE Technology Appraisal.