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Mark Heathfield

Mark is a Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist who works within the Neurodisability team at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

Mark graduated from Keele University in 2006 with a DipHE in Children’s Nursing. He worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital on the Spinal and Orthopaedic Ward for three years before being promoted to Senior Staff Nurse, looking after complex paediatric orthopaedic patients. In 2011 he left to help set up and manage the Neuro Rehab ward at The Portland Hospital for three years. Mark returned to GOSH in 2014 to take up his current role as Clinical Nurse Specialist for Children with Osteogenesis Imperfecta.

Specialisms

Mark has worked as Staff and Senior Staff Nurse within the Orthopaedic and Spinal surgery wards at GOSH, gaining experience in working within a Multidisciplinary team, with children with complex needs, with children with mobility restrictions and dietary and feeding difficulties. He joined the Wolfson Neurodisability Service in April 2014 where he worked within the Sturge Weber Service alongside the Highly Specialised Service for Osteogenesis Imperfecta before becoming full time in 2017. Mark is currently working towards his Msc in Advanced practice.

Qualifications

  • DipHE in Children’s Nursing, Keele University, 2006
  • BSc (Hons) Children’s Nursing, London Southbank University, 2015

Membership of professional bodies

  • Nursing and Midwifery Council
  • Royal College of Nursing
  • NMC Mentor
  • Brittle Bone Society Medical Advisory Board (MAB)

Research Interests

  • Avulsion injuries in paediatric Osteogenesis Imperfecta
    • Authors: Emilie Hupin, Mark Heathfield, Alistair Calder, Belinda Crowe, Jeremy Allgrove, Moira Cheung, Andreas Roposch, Catherine DeVile (2024)

  • Management of bisphosphonates in Osteogenesis Imperfecta at transition to adult care
    • Authors: Mark Heathfield, Martyn Dudley, Sophie Barlow, Judith Bubbear, Richard Keen, Belinda Crowe , Catherine DeVile. (2024)

  • A Dual Centre Transition Clinic for Young People with Osteogenesis Imperfecta
    • Authors: Mark Heathfield, Martyn Dudley, Sophie Barlow, Dr Friederike Baldeweg, Dr Judith Bubbear, Professor Richard Keen, Dr Catherine DeVile (2023)

  • Taking a psychosocial approach
    • Authors: Charlotte Barran, Anita Freeman, Mark Heathfield, Jeremy Allgrove, Zoe Bowman Bayles, Tracy Connolly, Belinda Crowe, Emilie Hupin, Clare Rapier, Catherine DeVile (2023)

  • Skull fractures, cervical spine fractures and intracranial injuries in children with Osteogenesis Imperfecta: a cohort study
    • Authors: Georgina Williams, Jeremy Allgrove, Alistair Calder, Belinda Crowe, Mark Heathfield, Catherine DeVile. (2022)

  • The GOSH Osteogenesis Imperfecta Team: Taking a Psychosocial Approach
    • Authors: Charlotte Barran, Anita Freeman, Mark Heathfield, & Catherine DeVile. (2022)

  • Living with Osteogenesis Imperfecta: A qualitative study exploring experiences and psychosocial impact from the perspective of patients, parents and professionals
    • Authors: Melissa Hill, Jennifer Hammond, Mithila Sharmin c, Celine Lewis, Mark Heathfield, Belinda Crowe, Cecilia G€otherstr€om, Lyn S. Chitty, Catherine DeVile. (2021)

  • Osteogenesis imperfecta type 15 with neurological phenotype associated with homozygous WNT 1 mutation and uniparental isodisomy for chromosome 12.
    • Authors: Crowe B, Heathfield M, Edwards K, Clark C, Hupin E, Bultitude A, Riddington M, Calder A, Lees M, Liesner R, Allgrove J, DeVile C. (2019)

  • Value of an Osteogenesis Imperfecta Clinical Nurse Specialist to families and external consultants in the UK
    • Authors: Mark Heathfield, Ian Tucker, Jaskiran Sahota, Lauren Rayner, Gemma Greenacre. (2019)

  • Use of Lego® to explain genetic variations in Type 1 collagen – a pilot study.
    • Jeremy Allgrove, Mark Heathfield, Karen Edwards, Chris Clark, Emilie Hupin, Megan Riddington, Alex Bultitude, Belinda Crowe and Catherine DeVile. (2019)

  • Management of Scoliosis in Children with Severe, Complex and Atypical Osteogenesis Imperfecta
    • Authors: Catherine DeVile, Jeremy Allgrove, Alex Bultitude, Belinda Crowe, Karen Edwards, Mark Heathfield, Emilie Hupin, Ramesh Nadarajah. (2019)

  • Evaluation of a Four Centre National Osteogenesis Imperfecta Service Using a Patient Reported Experience & Outcome Measure.
    • Authors: Lisa Mills, Dr Christine Burren, Kirsty Rynincks, Dr Vanessa Garratt, POINT Members. (2017)

  • Evaluation of Outreach Visits for Newborn Babies with Severe Osteogenesis Imperfecta.
    • Authors: Donnelly K, Heathfield M, Crowe B, DeVile C. (2016)

  • The London Osteogenesis Imperfecta Team: Offering Highly Specialised Tertiary Care across the South East of England.
    • Authors: Riddington, M., Heathfield, M., Donnelly, K., Clark, C., Mason, F., Hupin, E., Edwards, K., Brickell, J., Parekh, S., Calder, A., Roposch, A., Crowe, B., Brain, C., Allgrove, J., DeVile, C. (2016)

  • Central Venous Access Device (CVAD) complications in children with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI).
    • Authors: Heathfield M, Crowe B, Allgrove J, DeVile C. (2016)

Contact

Email: Mark.Heathfield@gosh.nhs.uk

Telephone: 020 7405 9200 Ext: 5824