Victoria Gilroy
Sexual Health Nurse Expert Witness
Professional Profile
Victoria Gilroy is an NMC-registered Adult Nurse and Independent Nurse Prescriber with over 17 years’ post-registration nursing experience. Victoria specialises in sexual and reproductive health, contraception, HIV and genitourinary medicine, digital sexual health services, remote prescribing, cervical cytology and general adult nursing.
Victoria currently practises as a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist in Sexual and Reproductive Health and have experience across NHS, community, bank, locum and digital healthcare settings. Victoria's clinical background includes assessment, triage, prescribing, risk assessment, safeguarding, escalation, patient safety and multidisciplinary working.
Victoria accepts medico-legal instructions within my areas of clinical competence, including advisory screening, breach of duty opinions and condition and prognosis reports. Victoria has completed Apex Experts’ internal expert witness training and understands her overriding duty to the court.
Specialisms
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Sexual and reproductive health nursing
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Contraception assessment, advice, prescribing and management
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Subdermal contraceptive implant insertion and removal
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Emergency contraception and contraceptive risk assessment
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Phlebotomy and sexual health clinic procedures
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Safeguarding, risk assessment and clinical escalation in sexual health settings
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General adult nursing in acute medical and surgical settings
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Digital healthcare and remote prescribing
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Cervical cytology
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Remote clinical assessment, triage and escalation
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HIV and genitourinary medicine nursing
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STI testing, triage, treatment pathways, escalation and patient safety
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Independent non-medical prescribing in sexual and reproductive health