Laura has worked as a Primary Care Manager since leaving University with her degree in Business Studies and MBA. Laura is presently Area Manager of North Area of the Shropshire County Primary Care Trust Her remit extends from Oswestry and the Welsh border across the county to Market Drayton.

The North Area PCT is responsible for bringing health improvements to the population of northern Shropshire by providing quality community based health facilities through a range of independently contracted doctors and allied health workers, including pharmacists, opticians and dentists together with appropriate nursing and administrative support. The work is re-enforced by an array of partnerships with other local organisations and a strategy to promote preventive medicine through healthy eating, physical activity and a healthy life style. Diet is an essential part of personal health care.

Laura lives in Chester, commutes to the office in Oswestry and travels over the north and across the County as she also has the lead responsibility for Diabetes in Primary Care in Shropshire and is Chair of the county wide Coronary Heart Disease task group. There is a correlation between unhealthy eating habits and diabetes and obesity is a high risk factor in inducing chronic heart disease and strokes.