Kirsty originally trained as a nurse and works in the Urgent Community Response Team at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. In 2022, Kirsty received the OAHP Research Development Award to fund the last stage of her Health and Sciences Open Awards MSC at Oxford Brookes University, which included a module on Advanced Research Design.

Kirsty shares her experience of trialling diagnostic tests that look for c-reactive proteins in a patients’ blood to quickly determine whether they have a bacterial or viral infection and reduce the risk of prescribing the wrong drugs which contribute to antibiotic resistance.

Read the article in full on the OAHP website.