Belinda Bardsley
Belinda Bardsley is an MS Specialist Nurse with 30 years experience in clinical research and Manager of the Neuro-Immunology Clinical Research, Education and Support Service (N-CRESS) at Austin Health, Melbourne. She is immediate-past President of MS Nurses Australasia, an author of the MS Nurse Care in Australia report, past President of the MS Health Professionals Network, and an Honorary Research Associate at the Florey Neurosciences Institute. Belinda has a keen interest in service delivery improvement in clinical trials. She is also passionate about the need for equitable access to MS Nurses for all people with MS.
Recent articles by Belinda Bardsley
3 October 2022
Specialist nurse care: a no-brainer in Multiple Sclerosis
Specialist Nurses are the lynchpin in modern multiple sclerosis (MS) care but their numbers in Australia are deeply inadequate and declining. A new report confirms that Specialist MS Nurse care reduces symptom severity in this chronic neurological disease, optimises use of complex, effective (albeit expensive) therapies and reduces hospitalisation. Economic studies show substantial cost benefits.