Amanda Williams

Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Amanda qualified as a nurse in 2010. She spent the first few years working her way up from staff nurse to senior sister on the gastroenterology and endocrinology ward at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. 

She moved into diabetes specialist nursing in 2014 as a junior inpatient DSN and soon became the lead DSN covering inpatients, outpatients and the insulin pump service. Amanda is a non medical prescriber and completed her MSc in diabetes in January 2023 with a study into the impact of wearable diabetes technology on sexual activity in type 1 diabetes.

Amanda is currently the lead DSN for East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust across 3 hospital sites.

Amanda set the DSN Forum up in 2018 and won QiC diabetes healthcare professional of the year in 2019. She also won two QiC awards in 2021 for her work within the Diabetes 101 twitter team. Amanda was also invited to 10 Downing Street in 2019 as recognition for her work within diabetes care.

Amanda's son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2015 and this is one of the reasons why Amanda set up the DSN Forum UK.