About Yawoa Mawuli Foli Awli

Yawoa Mawuli Foli Awli is an NHS Respiratory nurse leader with over 14 years of specialist experience across acute, community and integrated Respiratory care. She combines deep clinical expertise with operational leadership, specialising in admission avoidance, discharge, complex case management and the delivery of integrated services for patients with long term Respiratory conditions.

Clinical Leadership and Service Delivery

Yawoa currently works across senior nursing and system leadership roles, including Lead Respiratory Nurse, Discharge Team Matron and Advanced Nurse Practitioner. She has extensive experience caring for patients with asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis and those requiring long term oxygen therapy, while also leading services that improve patient flow, reduce avoidable admissions and support safe discharge.

Her background includes nurse-led Respiratory care, urgent and community interface work, spirometry and diagnostic assessment, and the management of complex patients across multiple care settings. She has also supported virtual ward and rapid response pathways, giving her a practical understanding of how integrated models must work in real world conditions.

Expertise in Integrated Respiratory Care

Yawoa has a strong track record in delivering coordinated Respiratory care across hospital and community boundaries. Her expertise includes complex case management, admission avoidance, oxygen therapy, discharge pathway design, patient education and service delivery under pressure.

She understands the challenges facing frontline teams, including workforce capacity, variation in care and rising system demand. Her approach is grounded in delivering services that are clinically robust, operationally realistic and centred on patient need.

What Yawoa Brings to The Respiratory Network

At The Respiratory Network, Yawoa brings a frontline leadership perspective on how Respiratory services can reduce hospital pressure while improving patient outcomes. She offers practical insight into admission avoidance, discharge, virtual wards and integrated care delivery, highlighting what it takes to make pathway redesign work safely and effectively in practice.