Hilary Fanning NIHR Moorfields Eye Hospital
Hilary qualified as a registered nurse in 1985 and specialised in renal nursing. She has worked in both the public and private health sectors in the UK and Ireland. She moved to University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) in 2002 from St Mary’s Hospital Paddington, London, where she held a joint senior lecturer practitioner post with Thames Valley University, providing senior nurse management for St Mary’s Renal Services and leading post-graduate specialist renal nurse education for North West Thames.
During her career in the NHS, she has undertaken a broad range of roles, including in education, clinical operational management, clinical service design, capital programme management, electronic healthcare application design and deployment. Prior to joining Moorfields, she led the Research Development & Innovation Department at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, delivering a range of regional and national programmes including the West Midlands Genomics Medicine Centre and managing flagship NIHR research infrastructure including BRC, CRF HRC, ARC and the West Midlands Secure Data Environment, part of NHSE’s Data for Research & Development Programme. In March 2024, Hilary took on the role of Senior Responsible Owner for the NHSE Data for R&D Programme.
She was awarded an Honorary MBE, Honorary awards to foreign nationals in October 2023, for her services to genomic delivery in the NHS.