Professional Profile

Katie Mofid is a Registered Adult Nurse with almost 18 years of NHS experience across acute medicine, critical care outreach, patient blood management, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery and neonatal intensive care. She currently practises as a Patient Blood Management Practitioner where she leads specialist initiatives to improve transfusion practice, optimise perioperative anaemia management and enhance patient safety.

Katie has developed extensive expertise in blood transfusion practice, patient blood management, intravenous iron therapy, perioperative anaemia optimisation and advanced clinical assessment. Having completed Master's level Health Assessment training, she independently assesses patients referred to a nurse-led anaemia service, reviews investigation results and determines appropriate treatment pathways to optimise patients before surgery. She also manages major haemorrhage events, supports transfusion governance and leads initiatives to improve clinical practice through audit and education.

Throughout her career, Katie has held senior clinical roles within critical care outreach and acute medicine, responding to deteriorating patients, attending cardiac arrests and supporting ward teams in the recognition and management of clinical deterioration. Her earlier nursing experience includes neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery and neonatal intensive care, providing broad expertise across complex acute hospital services.

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Katie has also led nationally recognised quality improvement initiatives, including introducing reduced-volume blood bottles to reduce hospital-acquired anaemia, making her Trust the first in the UK to implement this practice. Her work has been published in the Bloodline journal and she regularly contributes to local and national audits, education programmes and service development projects.