Louise McMullen

Louise McMullen - Belong Atherton - Village Nurse Manager

Louise was appointed to the nursing team at Belong Warrington in 2023, after a four-year track record as Village Nurse Manager at the CQC Outstanding rated village, Belong Atherton. With over a decade’s experience in nursing, she is a qualified mentor of student nurses and is an instrumental member of the village’s leadership team.

Louise's nursing career began at the age of 22 at the Royal Navy as part of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service. She completed her nurse training at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for 3 years, and once qualified, she was promoted to Leading Naval Nurse and was posted to Fort Blockhouse in Portsmouth, where she worked at Queen Alexandra Hospital.

In 2008, Louise was deployed on an operational tour to Afghanistan, working at the multinational, UK-LED Role 3 hospital in Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, caring for injured soldiers, opposition forces as well as the local Afghanistan villages and children. This hospital outperformed all UK major trauma centers with a survival rate of 98%!

Louise then spent six months in Afghanistan and has worked on the RFA Argus, the primary casualty receiving ship which has a 100 bed medical complex onboard.