Professor Natalie Pattison
Professor of Clinical Nursing, Imperial College London
Natalie Pattison is Professor of Nursing at Imperial College London and holds an honorary Nurse Consultant position in Critical Care at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
As a clinical academic, she leads a research programme in critical care supportive care, involving critical care recovery, access to critical care (including people with learning disability), end-of-life care in critical care, deteriorating patients and workforce issues, including large-scale evaluation of nursing workforce, with data-linkage to patient outcomes using large routine datasets. Her clinical expertise is in critical care recovery, and she works clinically in this area, and leads national work around this.
She holds several NIHR grants, including two as Chief Investigator, examining safe staffing in critical care and admission decisions for people with intellectual disability. Her research methods expertise centre on mixed methods research, and qualitative research (including realist evaluation). She serves on an NIHR funding committee and is part of, and has chaired, several independent steering committees, including for NIHR HTA-trials.
She obtained her undergraduate European Nursing degree (with Dutch) from University of Brighton in 1998, her MSc (Health Sciences) from St George’s University of London in 2002, and her Doctorate from University of Northumbria in 2011. She was awarded the national Marjorie Simpson award for her doctoral research (End-of-life care in critically ill cancer patients) and has won several prizes since. She spent two decades at the Royal Marsden, working in critical care, and latterly leading the critical care recovery service, as well as being Trust lead for Patient, Public Involvement (PPI). Natalie was appointed Florence Nightingale Foundation Chair of Clinical Nursing Practice Research in 2017, and until 2026 she worked as a jointly appointed Professor at the University of Hertfordshire/East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, leading PPI and developing/leading the critical care recovery service. Her clinical expertise is in critical care recovery and outcomes, and she has recently led the national minimum dataset development for critical care recovery services in the UK.
Natalie was the first woman and nurse to chair the UK Critical Care Research Group (2020-2022), was interim Chair for the NIHR National Specialty Group for Critical Care, on which she served from 2019-2025. She is current co-Chair of the National Outreach Forum and the End of Life and Palliative Care in Intensive Care Network. She was also Chair of the UK Critical Care Nursing Alliance (2021-2023) representing all critical care nursing organisations, leading several clinical practice guidelines and statements.
As a Clinical Professor, Natalie supports capacity development at ICHT, developing and supporting nurses/AHPs to become clinical academics. She supports several post-doctoral/doctoral and pre-doctoral fellowship students across all health professions.
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