Louella Vaughan is Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Nuffield Trust and a Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine at the Royal London Hospital. Her research interests include health systems, especially smaller, rural and remote hospitals, and the care of the acutely unwell patient. She is a co-author of the recent independent report, commissioned by the NMC, on the regulation of advanced practice in nursing and midwifery.

Louella’s undergraduate medical degree was undertaken at the University of Queensland and she trained in General (Internal) Medicine at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. She has an MPhil in the History of Medicine from the University of Cambridge and received scholarships from the Wellcome Trust and the Overseas Research Scheme to complete a DPhil in Early Modern History at the University of Oxford.

She is also the first female Harveian Librarian of the Royal College of Physicians and is an elected member of the RCP Council. She sits on the Board of the Medical Education Redistribution Programme. She has had a number of other national roles, including Research Lead for the Society for Acute Medicine and membership of the NICE Clinical Guideline Development Group for Sepsis and the Funding Board for the NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, and is an External Clinical Advisor for the Parliamentary Ombudsman.