She calls Scotland her "spiritual home" and she returned after four years working as a consultant in Sexual Health and HIV at Chester and as an honorary lecturer at the University of Liverpool.

[1] The vacancy appeared suddenly as Gregor Smith stepped from the Deputy position to be the acting Chief Medical Officer as his boss had resigned after breaking lockdown rules.

[5] In 2021 she was still working as Scotland's Deputy Chief Medical Officer partnering Nicola Sturgeon giving briefings on the continuing restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

[6] She briefed the press on progress – in July 2021 she noted that the majority of people being admitted to hospital in Scotland with coronavirus were those who had not been vaccinated.

[7] At the COVID-19 enquiry in 2024 it was revealled the Nicola Sturgeon's team had regularly deleted their WhatsApp messages to avoid them being found by a Freedon of Information request.