Hilary worked previously as an advanced practitioner (ANP) in women’s health before she pursued a career in academia and ultimately became a researcher and author. Her career interest focuses on issues concerning the narrative understanding of general practice and how it happens. As the editor of The Journal of Health and Social Care and member of two nursing journal editorial boards she has written extensively on issues relating to advanced practice nursing, primary care, law and research. Her book Practice Made Perfect: Higher Aspirations for Practice Nurses, Quay Books, embraces challenges specific to UK advanced nursing practice in six brief chapters. Previous teaching experience includes leading on Masters ANP programmes in primary care, and being instrumental in setting up the first Physicians Assistant programme in Britain. Hilary is currently chair of the research ethics committee within the Faculty of Health in Wolverhampton University and she is chair of the Black Country NHS Research Ethics Committee.She received her doctorate in Swansea University in (2009)

• Research in primary care
• Research in women’s health
• Research in general practice

• Member of Universities Board for the Development of Medical Care Practitioners (Physician Assistants)
• Member of Collaborative Universities Group for Advanced Practitioners
• Member of Advanced Nurse Practitioner West Midland Group
• Recorded Nurse Tutor
• Registered Midwife  
• Registered General Nurse – General Nursing Council  

• DNSci                                    
• Cert Ed (FE)                                
• MSc Advanced Nursing Practice     
• BSc (Hons) Nursing            
• Diploma of Professional Studies in Nursing
• Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Authority

Publications

• Paniagua, H. (2012) The ethics committee: a facilitator or barrier to research? Practice Nursing, Vol. 23, Iss. 2, 03 Feb 2012, p 95 - 98
• Paniagua, H., Reilly, C., Evans, J., Bond, P. (2011) Driving health promotion into the community: an initiative evaluated. British Journal of Nursing 20(12) p728-731
• (July)
• Paniagua, H. (2011) Advanced nurse practitioners and GPs: what is the difference? Practice Nursing 22(7) p383-388
• (July)
• Paniagua, H. (2010) Reviewing the concept of advanced nurse practice. Practice Nursing 21(7), p371375
• Paniagua, H., Bond, S., Sallah, D. (2009) Zero tolerance in general practice: a policy in conflict.  Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care. 2(2) p30-36
• Paniagua, H., Bond, P., Thompson, A.(2009) Providing an alternative to zero tolerance policies. British Journal of Nursing. 18(10) p 619-623
• Bond, P., Paniagua, H., Thompson, A. (2009) Zero tolerance of violent patients: Policy in action. Practice Nursing 20 (2) p 97-99
• Bond, P., Paniagua, H. (2009) Law and accountability. Practice Nursing.
• Bond P., Paniagua H., (2009) Zero Tolerance of Violent Patients: A partnership Approach to Evaluating the Impact in General Practice . Journal of Health and Social Care. Vol, 1., No.3
• Arguello, M, Des, J., Fernandez-Prieto, M.J., Perez, R.,Paniagua, H. (2009
• Executing Medical Guidelines on the Web: Towards Next Generation 
• Healthcare. Knowledge-Based Systems, ScienceDirect, Elsevier, 22 (p545-551)
• Arguello, M, Des, J., Fernandez-Prieto, M.J., Perez, R.,Paniagua, H. (2008) Enabling Reasoning on the Web: Introducing a test-bed Simulation Framework. International Journal of Simulation Systems, Science & Technology. p 469-475
• Paniagua, H. (2006) Knowledge of cervical cancer and the HPV vaccine. British Journal of Nursing. 15(3) p126-127
• Paniagua, H., Callwood, I. (2005) Creating a new health-care practitioner. Practice Nursing. 16(11) p538-541
• Paniagua, H., Stewart A. (2005) Medical care practitioners: introducing a new profession into the UK. Practice Nursing 14(7) p405-408
• Paniagua, H .(2004) Can the underlying principles of art be applied to nursing? British Journal of Nursing. 13(4)p 220-223
• Paniagua, H (2003) Developing practice nurses’ political voice. Practice Nursing. 14(1), p34-37
• Paniagua, H (2001) Planning research: Methods and ethics. Practice Nursing.  Vol 13(1), p22-25
• Paniagua, H (2001) Challenges and benefits: Why do research? Practice Nursing. Vol 12(10), p412-414
• Paniagua, H (2001) Avoiding the pitfalls in data collection. Practice Nursing Vol 13(5), p208-210     
• Paniagua, H (2001) Making the most of your data with analysis. Practice Nursing, 13(7), p317-319
• Paniagua, H. (1995) The Scope of Advanced Practice: Action potential for Practice Nurses British Journal of Nursing Vol. 4 No. 5 Page 269-274
• Paniagua, H. (1995) Magister: Women’s Health Parts 1, 2 and 3 Distance Learning Programme Publishing Initiatives (Europe) Limited
• Paniagua, H. (1995) Practice Nursing - Will it survive?  Editorial British Journal of Nursing Vol. 4 No. 20 Page 1173
• Paniagua, H. (1996) Over The Rainbow: Practice Nursing Vol. 7 No. 6 Page 31-32Paniagua, H.  (1997) Cervical Screening: Smearing the Surface Practice Nursing Vol. 8 No. 1 Pages 29-31
• Paniagua, H.  (1997) Are Nurse Practitioners a Viable Option?  Editorial British Journal of Nursing Vol. 6 No 5 Page 245
• Paniagua, H. (1997) Consultations: The Process Practice Nursing Vol. 8 No. 7 Pages 18-20
• Paniagua, H. (1997) Consultations:  Practice Nursing Vol. 8 No. 8 Pages 20-22
• Paniagua, H. (1998) Cultural attitudes to the menopause.  Practice Nursing Vol. 9 No 3 pages 30-32
• Paniagua, H. (1998) New Horizons in Cervical Screening.  News feature, Practice Nursing Vol. 9, No 6, pages 14-16.
• Paniagua, H. (1998) The US Experience of Advanced Practice. Practice Nursing Vol. 9 No. 19 pages 8-11.
• Paniagua, H. (1999) How to take a cervical smear. Practice Nursing Vol10 No 16 p16-22
• Paniagua, H (2001) Practice Made Perfect: Higher Aspirations for Practice Nurses. Quay Books. London

Conference Presentations

• M. Argüello, J. Des, A. Thompson, H. Paniagua, M.J. Fernandez-Prieto, and R. Perez: Enabling smooth integration between HL7 CDA and Medical Guidelines on the Web with an initial focus on Women's Health in General Practice. Third IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2008), London 2008.
• R. Gacitua , M. Argüello, P. Sawyer, J. Des, R. Perez, M.J. Fernandez-Prieto, and H. Paniagua: A Collaborative Workflow for   Building Ontologies: A Case Study in the Biomedical Field.
• R. Gacitua , M. Argüello, P. Sawyer, J. Des, R. Perez, M.J. Fernandez-Prieto, and H. Paniagua: A Collaborative Workflow for  Building Ontologies: A Case Study in the Biomedical Field. The Third International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2009), Quarzazate (Morocco), 2009. The paper is available  from the IEEE Xplore Digital Library
• M. Argüello, J. Des, R. Perez, M.J. Fernandez-Prieto, and H. Paniagua: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) standards and the Semantic Edge: a  case study of visualising clinical information from EHRs. 11th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation (UKSim  2009) [In Internet Modelling, Semantic Web and Ontologies], Cambridge  (UK), 2009. The paper is available from the IEEE Xplore Digital Library
• M. Argüello, J. Des, M.J. Fernandez-Prieto, R. Perez, and H. Paniagua: Enabling Reasoning on the Web: introducing a test-bed simulation framework. 2nd UKSim European Symposium on Computer Modelling and Simulation (EUROSIM-UKSim 2008), Liverpool 2008. The paper is available from the IEEE Xplore Digital Library
• M. Argüello, J. Des, A. Thompson, H. Paniagua, M.J. Fernandez-Prieto, and R. Perez: Enabling smooth integration between HL7 CDA and Medical Guidelines on the Web with an initial focus on Women's Health in General Practice. Third IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2008), London 2008.
• M. Argüello, J. Des, M.J. Fernandez-Prieto, R. Perez and H. Paniagua: Enabling Reasoning on the Web: introducing a test-bed simulation framework. 2nd UKSim European Symposium on Computer Modelling and Simulation (EUROSIM-UKSim 2008)
• M. Argüello, R. Gacitua, J. Osborne, S. Peters, P. Ekin, M.J. Fernandez-Prieto, H. Paniagua, and P. Sawyer: Semantic Web Descriptions for Skeleton-based Parallel Programming: Experiments to Improve Biomedical Term Extraction from Large Scale Corpus. Accepted for Regular Session at UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008 (AHM 2008), Edinburgh, UK, September 2008 
• Speaker for Advancing Practice Conference - 6th July 2006 - Hilton London Metropole
• Speaker for RCN Nurse Practitioner Association Conference, 7^th September 2006 Harrogate
• Chair of Celebrating Success Conference at Coventry University, 5^th July 2007
• Member of Primary Care Research West Midlands North Steering Group
• Referee for NIHR Service Delivery and Organisational Programme (2009/2011)

Journals

Mathew N, Sernat L, Paniagua, H (2017)The impact of HIV stigma in accessing Sexual Health Services among black Sub-Sahara African woman and gay men: A Systematic Literature Review. Journal of Health and Social Care. (on line journal)

• Reviewer for the NIHR
• Editor of Wolverhampton University’s online Journal Journal of Health and Social Care Improvement
• Chair of the NHS  Black Country Research Ethics Committee
• Nurse Prescriber
• Chair of the University of Wolverhampton Sub Ethics Committee School of Health and Wellbeing.
• Commissioning Editor for Quay Books
• Reviewer and member of Editorial Board for the Practice Nursing Journal, British Journal of Nursing and Journal of Advanced Nursing
• Lecturer in Practice Nursing, UCE, Birmingham
• Part-time Lecturer for Wolverhampton University, Visiting Lecturer for the University of Central England in Birmingham, Staffordshire University, Solihull and Shropshire Health Authority and the Medical Audit Advisory Group of Shropshire, Marie Curie Facilitator
• Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Team Leader, Woodside Medical Practice, Telford, Shropshire
• Ward Sister of private Nursing Home
• Class Teacher in British School, El Salvador, Central America
• Clinical Teacher, Pilgrim Hospital, Boston, Lincolnshire
• Sister of ITU, Copthorne Hospital, Shrewsbury
• Staff Midwife, Copthorne Hospital, Shrewsbury
• Staff Nurse, Women’s Hospital, Wolverhampton

External Examiner for Grad Dip/BSc General Practice Nursing. Swansea University

Postgraduate Research Activity

Referee for NIHR Service Delivery and Organisational Programme (2009/2018)

2017 – BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants 2017-18 Round - Oh, Jeremy Corbyn! - A discourse analysis of contemporary political chanting used in British protests

2015 - ERAS Project - Experiences of GPs Working with Mental Health Patients

2012 - Evaluation of Urgent Care Services - An Evaluation commissioned by South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust

Postgraduate Research Supervision 

DoS  The effect of medicine information (MI) answers provided to primary care prescribers on patient care. (current)

DoS  Listening at the Window: A narrative inquiry describing student nurses’ experience of learning in clinical practice (current)

DoS  Grandmothers and Neonates (current)

DoS  The Discursive Construction of Talk in Ethnically Matched and Mismatched Therapeutic Encounters. (current)

DoS   The long and winding road to reflexology: a post-structural narrative inquiry. (current)

DoS  Contemporary notions of nursing knowledge (current)

DoS  Surviving studenthood through the eyes of nursing undergraduates and their children: A multidimensional critical complex bricolage study (current)

SS   School Nurses Perspective of Leading Clinical Practice for the School Aged Population; a Focused Ethnographic Approach (current)

SS    Reproductive Issues in South Asian Female Patients with Inflammator Bowel Disease  (current)

SS    An investigation into the lived experiences of elective abortion among unmarried British South Asian Women (current)

SS    The performance of professional socialisation by adult student nurses (current)