Sadie qualified as an adult nurse in 2008 and has since worked in various critical care departments including hepatobiliary, cardiothoracic, burns and general medical and surgical units. During this time she has progressed from Registered Nurse to her current specialist roles as Advanced Critical Care Practitioner (ACCP) and Lecturer for Northumbria’s ACCP training programmes.
In her current clinical role she works as an autonomous practitioner in a highly advanced non-medical role that is pioneering change in regard to the medical workforce within critical care. On completion of her ACCP training she was awarded Associate Membership status to the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, having completed a FICM recognised ACCP programme here at Northumbria University.
Sadie has always had a great passion for academia, accepting an Honorary Lecturer’s post at Anglia Ruskin University in 2010 to compliment her clinical work. Since then she has developed an extensive teaching portfolio which spans multiple disciplines within undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare education, making a wide range of contributions on local and international levels through the delivery of lectures, seminars, practical workshops and short courses. Sadie was initially an Associate Lecturer at Northumbria University, later having been awarded a Lecturer post in 2018. She is also a Content Expert for PFNA review & Programme Development for the ACCP programme. Sadie’s teaching and learning interests span across multiple disciplines encompassed within critical and acute care of the adult patient.
Sadie has various national links and responsibilities within the critical care field. She is current Co-Lead for Northern Region of ACCPs (ACCPNR), a regional group whose aim is to increase collaborative working of ACCPs to advance practice within critical care, whilst enhancing and supporting training and educational development. Sadie also sits on the North East Intensive Care Society (NEICS) Committee which involves regular networking and engagement with international experts within the field, and collaboration with local critical care leads and practitioners.
Sadie Diamond Fox
MCP ACCP (FICM ACCP member), BSc (Hons) RNA, PGCAHP, NMC RN & V300
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Sadie Diamond-Fox is an Assistant Professor in Advanced Critical Care Practice and Subject Co-Lead for Advanced Practitioner Programmes at Northumbria University, where she leads postgraduate education and research focused on workforce development, simulation, and digital transformation in healthcare. She also practises clinically as an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner with North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust and holds an honorary appointment as Assistant Professor in Advanced Clinical Practice at the University of Nottingham.
Her research portfolio investigates advanced practice workforce sustainability, immersive education, inclusivity, and digital innovation across critical care and broader healthcare contexts. Sadie Diamond-Fox currently leads on ten major national studies:
SUPERVISE-AP – Supervision Evaluation in Advanced Practice, benchmarking national supervision standards against NHSE (2025) guidance.
SPA-AP – Supporting Professional Activities in Advanced Practice, examining equity of SPA time across roles and settings.
MAPPED – Mapping Advanced Practitioners: Practice in England Dataset, analysing Advanced Practitioner workforce distribution and trends.
CRITICAL-VR – Clinical Response and Immersive Training for Intensive Care Assessment and Learning using Virtual Reality.
APEX-VR – Advanced Practice Education using Virtual Reality for Anatomy and Pathophysiology.
ACT-DDONOR – Advanced Critical Care Practitioner Training Needs for Organ and Tissue Donor Care, integrating simulation and digital learning.
INSIGHT-AP – AI-Enhanced Education in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Advanced Practitioners, addressing Core20PLUS5 priorities through simulation and conversational-AI learning.
RECAP – Research Engagement Challenges for Advanced Practitioners, exploring barriers and enablers to research pillar engagement.
SUSTAIN-ACCP – Sustainable Careers in Advanced Critical Care Practice across the UK and Crown Dependencies.
INCLUDE-AP – Inclusion of Transgender and Non-Binary Health within Advanced Practice Education and Training.
Together, these programmes advance understanding of sustainable careers, digital transformation, inclusivity, supervision, and research capacity within advanced and consultant-level practice.
Sadie serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Advancing Practice, advises the Council of Deans of Health Advanced Practice Regulation Strategic Policy Group, and is Co-Chair of the Advanced Critical Care Practitioners Northern & Yorkshire Region (ACCPNYR). She is also a Faculty Member of the UK Academy of Advancing Practice Research, a peer reviewer for BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine and Mark Allen Group journals, and co-editor of several forthcoming Wiley-Blackwell textbooks on advanced practice education, leadership, and clinical decision-making.
Her scholarly interests include simulation pedagogy, immersive and AI-enhanced learning, equality and inclusion in advanced practice, postgraduate education, and workforce policy and sustainability.
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