Rona Inniss
Neurofibromatosis Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) and ACORN Clinical Nurse Fellow
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT
rona.inniss@nhs.net
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery; King’s College University; MSc in nursing
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery; King’s College University; PGDip in nursing with registration as an adult nurse
School of Architecture; Oxford Brookes University; PGDip in architecture part II
School of Architecture; Oxford Brookes University; BA Hons in architecture part I
Nursing and Midwifery Council
January 2016–Present; Neurofibromatosis Clinical Nurse Specialist; Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
February 2024–February 2025; ACORN Clinical Nurse Fellow [secondment]; Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
January 2023–December 2024; HEE/ICA Pre-doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellow [secondment]; Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust/King’s College London
October 2013–January 2016; Parkinson’s Research and Clinical Nurse Specialist; King’s College Hospital NHS Trust
October 2012–October 2013; Staff Nurse; King’s College Hospital NHS Trust
September 2010–October 2012; Health Care Assistant; NHS Professionals (bank)
February 2010–September 2010; Health Care Assistant; Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
September 2008–September 2009; Part II Architectural Assistant; Atkins, Exeter
June 2005–June 2006; Office Assistant; Building Control, Plymouth City Council
September 2004–June 2005; Part I Architectural Assistant; McCaren Architecture
Publications
Inniss, R. (2024). Facilitating patient and staff collaboration. British Journal of Nursing, 33(19). DOI:10.12968/bjon.2024.0278
Proceedings of the 6th UK and Ireland implementation science research conference. Implementation Sci 19 (Suppl 1), 21 (2024). DOI:10.1186/s13012-024-01341-3 (P76)
Inniss, Rona. (2022). The impact of hospital design on patients and staff. British Journal of Nursing. 31(21), 1078-1078
Sauerbier, Anna & Sivakumar, Chaamanti & Klingelhoefer, Lisa & Martinez-Martin, Pablo & Perkins, Lauren & Inniss, Rona & Rizos, Alexandra & Trivedi, Dhaval & Leta, Valentina & Min Wan, Yi & Parry, Miriam & van Wamelen, Daniel & Reichmann, Heinz & Chaudhuri, K Ray (2019) Restless legs syndrome - the under-recognised non-motor burden: a questionnaire-based cohort study, Postgraduate Medicine, 131:7, 473-478, DOI:10.1080/00325481.2019.1658506
Sauerbier, Anna & Martinez-Martin, Pablo & Politis, Marios & Rizos, Alexandra & Trojanovic, Natalija & Mulholland, N. & Vivian, Gill & Corcoran, Benjamin & Trivedi, Dhaval & Perkins, Lauren & Inniss, Rona & Chiwera, Theresa & Barreto, Rui & Parry, Miriam & Martin, Anne & Dimitrov, Nikolay & Brown, Richard & Ray Chaudhuri, Kallol. (2016). Fatigue in Parkinson's disease and striatum dopamine transporter scan (DaTscan) uptake. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 22(2): e161-162, DOI:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.10.384
Rizos, Alexandra & Martinez-Martin, Pablo & Pal, Suvankar & Carroll, Camille & Martino, Davide & Sophia, Rani & Falup-Pecurariu, Cristian & Kessel, Belinda & Sauerbier, Anna & Martin, Anne & Parry, Miriam & Inniss, Rona & Parkins, Lauren & Trivedi, Dhaval & Chiwera, Theresa & Odin, Per & Antonini, Angelo & Ray Chaudhuri, Kallol. (2016). The First Parkinson's Disease Pain Questionnaire (King's PD Pain Quest) – an interim analysis of a multicentre study of the patient's perspective. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 22(2):e41, DOI:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.10.067
Klingelhöfer, Lisa & Rizos, Alexandra & Sauerbier, Anna & Trivedi, Dhaval & Inniss, Rona & Perkins, Lauren & Reichmann, Heinz & Ray Chaudhuri, Kallol. (2016). Usefulness of Parkinson's KinetiGraph in a Parkinson's disease clinic – Survey of 82 patients. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 22(2):e37, DOI:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.10.051
Grilo, Miguel & Trivedi, Dhaval & Moti, Elisa & Barreto, Rui & Sauerbier, Anna & Rizos, Alexandra & Perkins, Lauren & Inniss, Rona & Chiwera, Theresa & Ray Chaudhuri, Kallol. (2016). Assessing the non-motor symptom burden progression in a longitudinal study of 411 Parkinson's patients, using the non-motor symptom questionnaire. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 22(2):e38, DOI:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.10.055
Sauerbier, Anna & Klingelhöfer, Lisa & Ray Chaudhuri, Kallol & Jitkritsadakul, Onanong & Bhidayasiri, Roongroj & Zis, Panagiotis & Brown, Richard & Parry, Miriam & Martin, Anne & Inniss, Rona & Perkins, Lauren. (2014). Comparison of clinical non-motor symptoms profile between Thai subjects with Parkinson's disease and white Caucasians in London, UK: Exploration of possible ethnic differences. Conference: 4th Asian and Oceanian Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Volume: 29
Presentations and posters
ACORN Research Link Practitioners pilot programme, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust ACORN Nurse and Midwife Research Showcase 2024 [presentation]
Patient experience of anxiety related to appointments, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Nurses Day, 2024 [poster]
Patient experience of changes from face-to-face to remote appointments throughout Covid-19, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Nurses Day, 2023 [poster with Natalie Smith and Susie M.D. Henley]
Patients’ views on appointment changes during Covid-19, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Nurses Day, 2023 [poster with Natalie Smith and Susie M.D. Henley]
Access to healthcare in Covid-19: evidence from a specialist acute service, 6th UK and Ireland implementation science research conference, 2023 [presentation]
Case Study: A retrospective assessment of a telephone clinic, Nurse clinics 2019 Annual Conference, 2019 [presentation]
Neurofibromatosis, King’s Health Partners Neurosciences - First Annual Neuroscience Nursing Conference, 2018 [presentation with Mary Thomas and Sally Trump]
Neurofibromatosis type 1 CNS telephone clinic, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Nurses Day, 2018 [poster with Mary Thomas, Sally Trump and Vanessa Everett]
Transition for NF1 Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Nurses Day, 2018 [poster with Mary Thomas, Sally Trump and Vanessa Everett]
Is there a relationship between seasonal changes in daylight hours and clinical measures in patients following deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery? A feasibility study. European Healthcare Design 2016 Congress, 2016 [poster]
Development of a community outreach clinic for older people with Parkinson's Disease, Joint RCN and British Geriatrics Society (BGS) Older People’s conference, 2016 [presentation with Nicky Hayes]
HRA Research Ethics Committee 2023-Present
Parkinson’s UK steering group, ‘Get It On Time’ steering group 2015–2016
ACORN Clinical Nurse/Midwife Fellowship, 2024–2025
HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical and Practitioner Academic (ICA) Programme Pre-doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship (PCAF) scheme, HEE/NIHR, 2023-2024
Health Education England (HEE) Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) Pre-doctoral Bridging Programme for non-medical healthcare professionals across London, King’s College London, 2022-2023
Sir Geoffrey Bateman & Nightingale Fellowship Award Research Internship, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, 2021-2022
GCP (update), NIHR, 2024
IMPARTS–Mental health skills for non-mental health professionals, King’s Health Partners, 2018
Flow Design–Practical Skills workshop, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, 2018
Coaching programme, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, 2017
NMC Mentorship Programme, King’s College London, 2016 (SSSA+P, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, 2020)
BRC Research Methodology Programme–Implementing Patient and Public Involvement, Biomedical Research Centre (Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London), 2016
Nightingale Scholar–Research Scholarship, 2016
Planning and Managing Clinical Trials distance learning short course, Oxford Brookes University, 2016
CRN Scales workshop, Clinical Research Networks South London, 2014
Designing Clinical Research, University of California San Francisco/King’s Health Partners, 2014
CRN Valid Informed Consent, King’s Health Partners, 2014
Human Tissue Act training, King’s Health Partners, 2014
Last updated 01/01/2025