Kerry Lyons

An Admiral Nurse talking with an older woman affected by dementia

A pioneering nursing role: consultant Admiral Nurse for frailty

Kerry Lyons talks about her post in Dementia UK’s first frailty-specific nursing service

Patient consent

COVID-19 vaccine consent and dementia: implications and advice

Gaining consent and supporting people with dementia around the vaccination programme

Nurse innovations transform trust's approach to alcohol harm

A team of nurses has introduced a raft of initiatives to prevent and treat alcohol abuse. Leader Kerry Lyons explains how they made alcohol harm reduction everyone's business - and convinced nurses that screening children as young as 10 is necessary.

Kerry Lyons

1 in 100 babies: why we created a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder pathway

Many women are unaware that even low level alcohol consumption during pregnancy is associated with developmental disability in children. Alcohol team leader Kerry Lyons reveals how she helped create an innovative pathway to identify drinking in pregnancy and inform women of the risks.