Claire graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2005. After a short time in surgical wards, she moved to OPAT in Greater Glasgow & Clyde, in a Clinical Nurse Specialist role in 2009.
She became a non-medical prescriber in 2015 and in 2016 she took over as Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist for the OPAT service in Greater Glasgow & Clyde.
In 2020 she left to undertake her Advanced Nurse Practitioner training which she completed in 2021 and returned to the Glasgow OPAT service in 2022 in the role of OPAT ANP.