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Valerie completed her initial nurse training at Great Ormond Street in 1993, where she worked as a staff nurse before gaining a BSc (Hons) degree in Anatomy and Human Biology, from the University of Liverpool. Valerie worked as a biologist for several years before returning to practice as a Registered Children’s Nurse. Since then she has worked in the Paediatric High Dependency Units at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, and at the NIHR Children’s Clinical Research Facility, Manchester.