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Amy has worked within APTUK since 2018 where she has held roles including National Officer - Foundation Frameworks and Director of Education.
Amy has worked in Pharmacy since 2005 in a variety of sectors, all of which led her to academia and her passion for developing and implementing pharmacy courses to support an inclusive and diverse workforce that aims to ensure the safety of medicines for patients and our society.
Having moved into an academic role in 2013, Amy now works at West Suffolk College, part of the Eastern Education group. Since 2019 Amy has led on the implementation of Science Manufacturing Technicians and Science Manufacturing Process operatives within technical services.
Rebecca Bastable has worked within pharmacy for 26 years, and as qualified pharmacy technician for 15 years. She has worked in a variety of roles, across different pharmacy sectors including acute hospital, community pharmacy, the BNF, and in an integrated role. As the NHS England Pharmacy Technician Programme Lead for the South East, she helps to support and grow the pharmacy technician and pharmacy support staff workforce by supporting employers, ensuring there is a robust educational infrastructure in place, as well as governance and quality assurance processes.
Rebecca is passionate about building a sustainable pharmacy technician workforce, ensuring they are appropriately trained and supported, allowing them to have the knowledge and skills to provide a service which supports patients care throughout their journey.
Philip Jones has worked in Pharmacy for over 20 years, starting in community pharmacy in Abergavenny, South Wales before making the move to work in technical services in 2001, at Bath ASU based in Bath University. He then started working in the Parenteral Services Unit at UHBristol and Weston Foundation Trust, where he became a senior Pharmacy Technician and Training Lead. Achievements in this role have been, helping to organise and run the initial covid vaccination hub in UHBW, becoming a registered Product Approver for PN and completing the PTQA Post Graduate Diploma in 2023.
Phillip is now part of the Pharmacy Workforce Development South team as Programme Director for all Technical Services programmes, and in this role has the privilege of being involved in other projects which involve Supervisory Skill training for TSET/Leeds University, and national aseptic projects like the recent review of the EL Audit on behalf of APTUK, as well as being involved in the Infusions and Special Medicines Board Workforce Strategy project, and supporting the re-launch of the APTUK Technical Services Branch.
Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging - currently vacant
Vicky’s background is founded on a business studies degree and throughout her career she has gained extensive commercial operational experience including customer/client service, process development and implementation, marketing, and team leadership, primarily in service orientated businesses. Vicky has been working in the healthcare arena since 2011, which has provided a keen interest in the rapidly changing patient care landscape.
Vicky works as the Operations Lead for APTUK, the purpose of which is to oversee the leadership and management of APTUKs professional business operations and to support the development and setting of the strategic direction, including key objectives, priorities, and goals.
Louise has worked within the pharmacy sector since 2002, starting in community pharmacy then onto specials manufacturing and later in technical services. Louise started working in hospital pharmacy 18 years ago and qualified as a Pharmacy Technician in 2012. Upon registration she began working in a medicine's optimisation role within mental health across Devon. Louise changed roles in 2021 to join a PCN where she had a key role in the Covid-19 vaccination programme and created a collaborative working approach within primary care, focusing on patient safety.
Louise also holds a role with Pharmacy Workforce Development South as a Programme Support Officer, supporting learners through a variety of medicines optimisation programmes. In 2024 Louise graduated from the University of Exeter, with a degree in Responsible Business Management.
Lynn has worked as the Membership Coordinator for APTUK since taking early retirement. Lynn initially worked as a community Pharmacy Technician for a large multiple pharmacy chain, and later worked as the Area Pharmacy Administrator covering 50 stores, with the same company. She completed 38 years in total within community pharmacy.
Lynn has been a career long supporter of APTUK, joining as a student member and was an early registrant with the GPhC when it was launched. As the APTUK leadership structure evolved, and following the significant investment in the website, Lynn’s role expanded to include Secretariat work and support with the financial processes. Lynn values being part of the Executive Committee, supporting it in a variety of ways, whilst still maintaining her focus on helping members with all queries around their membership payments & website access. Lynn’s priority is accurately maintaining APTUK members’ records and interacting with as many members as possible.
Trudy has been a Pharmacy Technician for 25 years and has a background in community, Ministry of Defence but predominantly in the acute setting. She is currently the Responsible Person and Professional Lead for Pharmacy Technicians and part of the Senior Leadership Team at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust where she has worked for more than 20 years. During her time at UHP Trudy has been involved in almost all areas of Pharmacy including medicines optimisation, procurement, digital, supply and commercial and regulatory activity. In 2022 Trudy was the first pharmacy technician to be selected to be part of the Chief Pharmaceutical Officers Leadership Development Programme.
Warren has worked in pharmacy for over 20 years, both in community and in hospital. He now specialises in Pharmacy ICT and robotics and works as a Senior Analyst for the encompass pharmacy build team, who are introducing a digital integrated care record across health and social care. This will replace many of the paper based or outdated technology systems used by all Trusts in Northern Ireland and is anticipated to transform the way people are cared for in the region.
Warren began working as a volunteer for APTUK in 2019 as the NI National Officer, to help bring regulatory change to enable the same career opportunities as pharmacy technicians across the rest of the UK, as a result of being recognised as a registered profession. The foundations have been put in place that will now allow registration to become a reality in NI over the next few years and it is this potential that continues to motivate Warren in his post as APTUK Professional Lead for Northern Ireland.
Linda has been a Pharmacy Technician for 30+ years. She spent the early part of her career in Acute Care sector in Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC), working in the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Inverclyde Royal Hospital and the Western Infirmary in Glasgow. She also worked for a year with the Ministry of Defence as a Pharmacy Technician. Linda moved into Primary Care in 2008 working as a Prescribing Support Technician, and has worked in different settings in Primary Care including GP Surgeries, Intermediate Care Units and Care Homes. At the beginning of the pandemic she had the opportunity to work as part of the team to deliver a Pharmacy Service for the Scottish Nightingale Hospital called the Louisa Jordan Hospital.
Linda was one of the Scottish Clinical Leadership Fellows (September 2021-September 2022). Her project for that year was to define advanced practice for Pharmacy Technicians. This led to a further secondment opportunity in NHS Education Scotland (NES) to work with the National Pharmacy Technician Group Scotland (NPTGS) to create a development pathway for Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacy Support Staff.
Professional Lead, Wales - currently vacant
Kristy has been a pharmacy technician working in the NHS for over 20 years, mostly in medicines management and optimisation positions within acute hospital environments.
For the past 5 years she has been a Medicines Safety Pharmacy Technician within Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. During this time Kristy has also been involved in secondment opportunities in EPMA as a Lead EPMA pharmacy technician and designing and implementing a new pharmacy technician lead service within adult mental health as Lead Medicines Administration Pharmacy Technician.
Kristy has passion and drive for education and training and has spent many years coaching and mentoring pharmacy technicians and other professions within the workplace to increase their confidence and passion for their careers and personal development. She uses her experience and knowledge to support and empower pharmacy technicians to reach their goals and maximise their potential and is a strong advocate for the pharmacy technician profession and for driving the profession forward.
Diane has been a qualified Pharmacy Technician for 35 years, working mainly in the Southwest of England. She currently works as a medicines optimisation pharmacy technician with Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust working across both mental and physical health wards including older adults mental health and stroke rehabilitation.
Diane is looking forward to working with the rest of the editorial team to produce the Pharmacy Technician Journal.
Elspeth has been in pharmacy for 12 years, starting out in a community pharmacy gaining her pharmacy technician qualification and then ACPT qualification in 2016. She then moved to manage a busy high street chain pharmacy which she loved. Elspeth is now working as a civilian pharmacy technician in a military medical centre. She has been in this role for 5 years and it consists of clinical and non clinical aspects. Her passion is pharmacy education and therefore has recently taken up a role with CPPE as a clinical demonstrator for Clinical Procedural skills.
With a career spanning over three decades, Mel began her journey as a part-time Saturday counter assistant, which led her to complete the Pharmacy Technician course while working in community pharmacy. In 2002, Mel transitioned to the Oxleas NHS Mental Health Trust, where she worked as Deputy Dispensary Manager and Education and Training Lead, continuing her mental health career with Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) in 2010.
Currently serving as the Lead for Education and Training, Mel balances this role with her clinical responsibilities, providing expert care within community teams and crisis teams. Her passion for patient safety and service improvement has driven her involvement in transformative initiatives, including the workforce expansion program and the piloting of the cross-sector program for Pre-registration pharmacy technicians. In addition, Mel supports the Medway School of Pharmacy in delivering training programs for trainee pharmacists. Her commitment to excellence and innovation continues to enhance the quality of pharmacy education and patient care in mental health services.
