Dr Armstrong is an experienced consultant in anaesthesia and pain medicine, with post-graduate training from Edinburgh, Oxford, and Bart’s Hospital London. She became a consultant in 2006 and has since led and established pain services across diverse settings—from Stoke Mandeville spinal injuries unit to remote and rural Scotland.

She came to York and Scarborough NHS Hospitals in 2011 and since 2017 has been Lead Clinician for Pain services across the region. In this role she drives innovative, integrated, consultant-led interventional and multidisciplinary pain management with a focus on patient education and enablement utilising a balanced biopsychosocial approach.

Her leadership aims to create seamless collaboration between hospital and community services delivering coherent, effective and efficient pathways for patients.

In private practice, Dr Armstrong accepts referrals for a broad spectrum of pain conditions—including spinal, neuropathic, musculoskeletal, cancer-related, and complex regional pain syndromes—she offers interventions to aid rehabilitation such as spinal injections, radiofrequency ablation, neuromodulation and advanced ultrasound-guided regional blocks.

Known for her clinical excellence, strategic vision, and compassionate care, Dr Armstrong combines clinical expertise with a patient-centred approach to enable people to regain function and quality of life.