Katherine qualified from Leeds University in 2000. She originally did a Medicine Rotation acquiring her MRCP before settling into General Practice. Since qualifying she has worked as a Locum GP and as a Partner and is now enjoying life as a salaried GP. Over the years Katherine has developed a keen interest in Respiratory medicine and is Respiratory Lead for West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership. She also works extensively with the Priamry Care Respiratory Society. Outside of work Katherine spends most of her time running around after her three small children. She also enjoys cooking and baking and has recently rediscovered her love for singing and joined a choir.

Deborah qualified as a pharmacist in 2000 with a first class degree. She has had a varied career starting off in community pharmacy and moving on to regional and national training roles within Lloyds Pharmacy and then into primary care in 2009, holding clinical pharmacist roles for Sheffield PCT, South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit and most recently for the Medicines Optimisation team at Sheffield CCG.

In 2016 Deborah qualified as a pharmacist independent prescriber and during that training chose respiratory as her clinical area of interest. She was appointed as respiratory lead for the Sheffield CCG Medicines Management Team in 2016. Since then she has led on many pieces of respiratory work such as the development of the Sheffield asthma guideline and the Sheffield COPD inhaled corticosteroid withdrawal protocol. She has also developed many initiatives for inhaler optimisation for the city.

Deborah is a member of the PCRS Service Development Committee and Conference Organising Committee and is a core member of the Asthma Right Care team. She has contributed to various PCRS documents including Asthma Guidelines in Practice – A PCRS consensus. She has a passion for respiratory care and is focussed at putting the patient at the centre of care.

Outside of work Deborah likes to go to play hockey and run having run 3 full marathons including her favourite, the London marathon. She also likes to spend time with her family and particularly enjoys travelling.

Lisa Cummings is an Registered Nurse (Adult), Queens Nurse, Independent Nurse Prescriber and has completed the General Practice Specialist Practitioner Qualification. She is currently completing an MSc in Primary Care Health.
Lisa is employed by Black Country Integrated Care Board on an NHS England pilot as Senior Specialist Paediatric Children & Young People’s Asthma Practitioner. In this role the team provide education and support to Primary Care colleagues on early and accurate diagnosis, the delivery of essential asthma care and risk stratification across the Black Country.
With a background in Primary Care working as a Practice Nurse within Wolverhampton she has been involved in the development of new services to improve accessible services for our patients including Post Attack Reviews, PCN Respiratory Diagnostic Hubs and PCN Contraception services. Prior to this she worked within community Substance Misuse services, working with difficult to engage groups in both a voluntary and criminal justice setting.