Professor Sue Latter

Clinical academic careers

Sue is the University lead for Southampton’s SHA funded clinical academic careers programme; the programme includes doctoral, post doctoral and clinical chair posts and has involved close collaboration with partner NHS Trust employers in initiating and developing these clinical academic posts and the organisational infrastructure that supports them. Sue is also the University of Southampton strategic lead for the Faculty’s NIHR funded MRes awards.

Research

Sue is currently conducting research in a number of multi-disciplinary studies evaluating interventions to promote improved prescribing, medication management and self-management with people with long term conditions. Recent nationally-funded studies include a Policy Research Programme funded national evaluation of nurse and pharmacist independent prescribing, a Diabetes UK funded evaluation of self-efficacy based training to promote patient-centred medicine discussions by nurse prescribers with people with diabetes, a Dimbleby Marrie Curie Cancer Care funded feasibility trial to develop and evaluate an intervention for family carers to support management of pain medicines at home at end-of-life (pending research ethics approval), a RfPB feasibility trial on a nurse-prescriber-led intervention for hypertension following stroke / TIA and a qualitative study of parents’ and health care professionals’ views on parenting services provided for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, as part of a NIHR Programme grant. Sue is also currently lead for the Organization and Delivery of Care Research Group in the Faculty.

Professional and career background

Sue is a registered nurse and health visitor. Following several years in practice as a health visitor in a London Borough, Sue returned to University to pursue an academic career. During the last 20 years she has been employed in a number of senior education and research posts in Universities, pursuing a programme of funded research, publishing and teaching in health care and working closely with clinical colleagues in both primary and secondary health care settings.