Alison Leary MBE FRCN is a Chair of Healthcare & Workforce Modelling at London South Bank University.
[2] She worked in engineering and biomedical sciences in the National Health Service for ten years before studying a Diploma of Higher Education in adult nursing at St Thomas' Hospital.
[2][3] In 1997 she was awarded a Master's degree in biomedical science at United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals.
[8][9] She has questioned the protection of the job title of nurse, emphasising that it is important to use it only for the highly trained specialists within the National Health Service.
[3][17] In this capacity she helped the football club deploy emergency healthcare, and studied what roles are required for the most effective response team.
She has served as non-executive director of several charities, including the National Lung Cancer Forum for Nurses, the Millwall Community Scheme.