Sue Clarke came up with the idea for the AllergyWise course back in 2005 when she was working for Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust, combining her roles as a senior child and family nurse and health visitor. Her aim was to ultimately reach every school and nursery in the country, with an intensive one-day course designed to improve the quality of life for children with allergies.
'My own son has a severe allergy and I remember how when he was young, he could only attend nursery if I stayed with him the whole time, because staff were not equipped to deal with a reaction,' she says.
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