Jayne Robbie

Jayne Robbie is an associate professor and course lead for the MSc in advancing practice in peripheral vascular disease at Birmingham City University as well as a diabetes specialist podiatrist at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust. She has been involved with high risk foot care for over twenty five years, and became the first podiatrist in the West Midlands to be accepted onto the Diabetes UK Clinical Champions programme in 2019 and now sits on their Healthcare Professionals Advisory (HPA) Committee and Health Inequalities steering group.  She is also co-chair of the Foot in Diabetes UK executive committee,  and member of the English Diabetes Footcare Network committee and the iDEAL (Insights into Diabetes Excellence, Access and Learning) multi-professional panel as well as the Royal College of Podiatry Vascular Special Advisory Group (RCPod SAG). 

Jayne has been a Diabetes UK Clinical Champion since 2019, and now sits on their Healthcare Professions Advisory committee, Healthcare Inequalities steering group and has been actively involved in the professional conference organising committee since 2022.  In addition, Jayne was the 1st podiatrist to deliver a Named Lecture at the Diabetes UK professional conference when she presented ACT NOW before its too late for the Janet Kinson Lecture in 2025.

Jayne is currently studying for a doctorate researching lived experience of ‘missingness’ and missed opportunities in accessing specialist foot care for people with diabetes.  She is passionate about the unique role of podiatrists in the MDT and has been pivotal in the ACT NOW campaign to raise awareness of early referral of foot problems to specialist centres to reduce amputations.  She was awarded Fellow of the Faculty of Podiatric Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Glasgow in 2022 and elected Dean in May 2025.  She was also awarded Fellow of the Royal College of Podiatrists in April 2023 in recognition of her work.