Maria is the clinical lead for the PRSAS accreditation programme and serves as clinical lead and service manager for the West Herts Community Respiratory Service at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust in Hertfordshire. This is a large, integrated community respiratory service delivering nine respiratory services, including pulmonary rehabilitation (PR).

Prior to her current role, Maria was the quality lead for PRSAS, where she led on assessor training, supported services through the accreditation process, and undertook accreditation assessments, building extensive expertise in quality assurance and service improvement. In 2025, she provided clinical leadership for the comprehensive review and revision of the PRSAS accreditation standards, working closely with stakeholders across the devolved nations, patient organisations, and specialist societies.

Maria qualified in 1988 at Kings College Hospital and has built a broad clinical career working predominantly in London, as well as in the USA and Australia. She joined Central Middlesex Hospital in 1997 as a clinical specialist, and went on to become an integrated consultant physiotherapist in 2005, working across North West London Hospitals Trust. She completed an MSc in Cardio-Respiratory Physiotherapy at UCL in 2023 and has been actively involved in pulmonary rehabilitation since 1997, across both acute and community settings.

Maria has played a key leadership role in PR at regional and national levels. In 2010, she led on PR for the London Respiratory Team, benchmarking PR services across London. She subsequently led PR work within the London Respiratory Network and was instrumental in establishing the London PR provider network.

Beyond her clinical roles, Maria has contributed extensively to national respiratory policy and quality improvement initiatives. She has served on the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Education Committee, advised on the BTS Hospital at Home Guidelines, and contributed to the CSP PRIME tool for PR commissioning. She has also supported the BTS PR Quality Standards review and currently acts as the East of England home oxygen contract clinical lead.

Enya is the quality lead for the PRSAS accreditation programme. She is also the senior physiotherapist within the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Pulmonary and COVID rehabilitation team, contributing to leading the service. This is a large specialist service providing rehabilitation to those with chronic respiratory disease and long COVID.

She qualified as a physiotherapist in 2014 at Coventry University and progressed through respiratory services within the midlands. She joined the University of Leicester in 2016 as a research physiotherapist, completing her PhD on symptom management for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in 2020. Since then she has worked as a clinical academic physiotherapist merging her research skills alongside her clinical skills. This has allowed her to integrate up-to-date current evidence into the PR service and lead on pioneering work for rehabilitation in long COVID.

Enya is the current chair of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Pulmonary Rehabilitation Specialist Advisory Group and contributed to the BTS clinical statement for PR (2023). This role ensures Enya is able to contribute to PR initiatives nationally and will be well placed as the quality lead for PRSAS.