Katie Hawksley

Katie started her nursing education in London in 2008 achieving a Diploma and subsequently a BSc honours degree in Children’s nursing. After achieving her qualifications Katie progressed to a Senior Staff nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where she gained extensive experience in nursing children in protective isolation, receiving haematopoietic stem cell transplants for life-threatening cancers, immunological, rheumatological and metabolic disorders. Katie also cared for young patients receiving novel CAR T-cell therapy.  

Katie is incredibly passionate about nursing and aims to provide unwavering support to families during their most challenging times. As both a paediatric oncology CNS and our clinic coordinator, Katie is committed to working with children and their families as part of the Synthesis Clinic team, to support implementation of our personalised care plans and to provide evidence based information and guidance on the range of treatments and therapies that can be offered to improve quality of life of children, teens and young adults.