Biography

Luis Machado is the Department Manager for the Eye Casualty at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Luis obtained his Nursing degree in 2014, in his home country of Portugal. That same year, Luis made the decision to move to the UK, where he began his career as a staff nurse on an acute Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary surgical ward. In 2016, he commenced his first managerial role as Deputy Charge Nurse on a surgical admissions ward, and in 2017, wanting to further develop his leadership skills and take on a new challenge, he returned to his Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary roots, where he had started his career in the UK, as the Deputy Charge Nurse. No two days were the same in this role, and Luis thoroughly enjoyed the fast paced, challenging environment of such a specialised surgical unit.

COVID-19 has come at a time when Luis was 7 months into his current role in the ophthalmology department, a specialty in which he has no clinical background. Although this is not his first leadership and management role, he has led successful reorganisation and restructuring of the Eye Casualty clinical environment.