Committee Members 2008-2009
For each committee member, a brief profile and declaration of interests can be found by clicking on the members name.
Officers:
Chairman - Ian Maidment
Vice Chairman - Dawn Price
Treasurer - Michael Marven
Secretary - Marina Davidson
Members:
Stephen Bazire
Justine Raynsford (co-opted, as Bulletin editor)
Pat Morgan
Claire Gaskell
Elaine Weston
Bev Faulkner
Trudi Hilton (co-opted as Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists)
Stephen Guy (co-opted as CMHP President)
The College of Mental Health Pharmacists Council consists of:
Stephen Guy
Dave Branford
Catherine Mortimer
Jane Riley
Lynn Haygarth
Helen Shaw
Steve Bleakley
The 1998 UKPPG AGM approved a motion that all future candidates for election to the UKPPG committee will be required to make a declaration of potential financial and other interests including:
- details of employer
- research grants
- sources of honoraria or consultancy fees in the previous year if this is in excess of £2000pa from a single source
and that, once elected, members will also make an annual declaration. There is no requirement to declare invitations declined.
Committee members are voted in annually pre-AGM, and stand for three years. There is no limit to the number of times a person can stand for re-election. The committee chooses its own officers, including the post of Vice Chairman, who holds this office for two years and then becomes Chairman for two years. You can read the full UKPPG constitution by following the link.
To stand for election to the committee, please consult the UKPPG Committee election form, follow the instructions and submit it to the secretary by July 31st each year.
Profiles of UKPPG Committee members:
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Chairman: Ian Maidment MRPharmS, MCMHP, Senior Pharmacist, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, Eastern and Area Coastal Office, St Martin's Hospital, Littlebourne Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1AZ Tel: 01227 812115 Fax: 01227 812389 e-mail (work) ian.maidment @ nhs.net e-mail (home) maidmentian @ aol.com Current committee membership 2005-2008 |
Ian Maidment is Senior Pharmacist / Head of Research and Development with 5 main areas of responsibility: Clinical Lead for Research and Development within Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, project Work within the pharmacy team, lead for Education on Medicine Management within the trust, lead for Research on Medicine Management and deputising for the Chief Pharmacist.
He was previously Chief Pharmacist for East Kent Partnership Trust, formerly being Pharmacy Services Manager (Mental Health) based at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital. Prior to working in Kent, Ian spent two and a half years working as a ward-based Clinical Pharmacist at Hellesdon Hospital, in Norwich. Previous experience includes working in the acute sector, community pharmacy and pharmaceutical industry.
In total, Ian has spent 15 years working in psychiatric pharmacy. He has published widely, including over fifteen articles in peer-reviewed journals. Ian is involved in training and education and is an honorary lecturer at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Ian's interests include the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar, and the training and education of support staff and other professions, such as occupational therapists and social workers, involved in the care of patients with psychiatric problems. Other interests include Parkinson's disease dementia and the reduction of clinical risk associated with medication.
In his spare time, Ian was a season ticket holder at Priestfield, where he supported Gillingham FC, but family commitments meant something had to go.
Declaration of potential financial and other interests:
- Employer: MHRN, South London and South East Hub Lead.
- Research Grants: Principal investigator on MAGD clinical trial (memantine in agitation dementia), Parkinson's Disease Society to co-author a Cochrane review on Parkinson's Disease Dementia
- Sources of honoraria or fees:
- Occasional lectures at Christchurch University College, Canterbury
- Telephone consultancy for Simon Koucher, Safe medications Practices Inc, (1.04)
- Hospitality from Lilly conference in Copenhagen, 20-22 May 2004
- Consultancy for Lilly (06.04)
- Consultancy for Librapharm (06.04)
- Consultancy for Shire Pharmaceuticals (06.04)
- Funding from Shire Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer/EISAI, Novartis, Lilly and BMS to attend the 9th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders in Philadelphia, and present a poster on Parkinson's Disease Dementia (July 2004) partly funded by Pfizer, BMS and Lilly
- Poster and talk at conference in Salzberg (Oct 04)
- Lecture AZ monies to Trust, Hospitality Lilly and BMS.(4-7.05)
- Accepted consultancy invitation from Novartis, Janssen Cilag Eli Lilly and Shultz Pharmaceuticals; hospitality from Janssen Cilag, Servier, Eli Lilly and Bristol Myers Squibb; attended a sponsored BAP meeting about Adult ADHD. Lecture for Astra Zeneca. Declined consultancy invitations from Eli Lilly, Shire & Lundbeck (6.05)
Dawn is Head of Clinical Pharmacy, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Mental Health Trust, based at St George's Park Hospital in Morpeth but currently Acting Chief Pharmacist for Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Chester. Dawn has worked in mental health since 1997, in posts ranging from clinical pharmacist, Deputy Chief, Clinical Pharmacist through to Honorary Lecturer, University of Sunderland. She qualified in 1991 and is a registered independent prescriber. Outside work her interest are skiing (on snow and plastic!), other outdoor pursuits and motor racing.
Declaration of potential financial and other interests: (1.06)
- Employer:
- Research Grants: Nil
- Sources of honoraria or fees:
- Shire Advisory Board, Servier, Pfizer dementia board (6.05)
- Accepted invitations to advisory boards for Shire, BMS; hospitality from Wyeth.
- Accepted a place from Shire at a Vascular Cognition conference
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Michael Marven, BPharm(Hons) MRPharmS DipClinPharm ACPP MCMHP |
Michael is Chief Pharmacist at Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health FT Trust. He studied pharmacy at King’s College London and qualified in 1990, completing his Clinical Diploma in 1994. He originally started working in mental health in 1993 at Severalls Hospital in Colchester and after a spell in acute hospital pharmacy moved back to mental health in is current post. Outside his clinical work his main interest is playing rugby.
Declaration of potential financial and other interests: (6.05)
- Employer: Oxford and Buckinghamshire Mental Health FT Trust
- Research Grants: Nil
- Sources of honoraria or fees:
- Consultancy: Silver Fern Research (October 2004), Analytica US (November 2004), Eli Lilly (February 2004)
- Training: Oxford Brookes University (Ongoing), Thames Valley University (Ongoing), Denfleet Pharma (September 2004), Novartis (January 2005)
- Conferences: Eli Lilly (ECNP, Stockholm October 2004), Janssen Cilag (Zurich, May 2004), BMS (Paris, June 2004)
- Clinical Trials: GW Pharma, Organon, Lundbeck, Ongoing clinical trial support
- Pharmacy Practice Research: Astra Zeneca (ongoing support for research project started 2003)
- accepted consultancy invitation from Janssen Cilag, honorarium for a Jansen Cilag meeting, accepted invitation from Astra Zeneca to attend Pittsburg Bipolar conference (6.05)
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Claire Gaskell BPharm MRPharmS Current committee membership as co-opted member. |
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Justine Raynsford BPharm MRPharmS |
Justine works for Leeds mental Health Trust as lead research and audit pharmacist. She started work with the trust in 1996 after a stint as a VSO volunteer in Zambia teaching pharmacy technicians. Her special interests include service user and carer information and involvement. Outside work she enjoys rock climbing, walking and playing an African xylophone.
Declaration of potential financial and other interests: (5.07)
- Employer: Leeds Mental Health NHS Trust
- Research Grants: Nil
- Sources of honoraria or fees: Nil
Stephen Bazire is currently Chief Pharmacist for Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (having arrived via a teacher-practitioner post at Bath University and as the Staff Pharmacist at Barrow Hospital in Bristol). The Trust provides mental health services to Norfolk and north-east Suffolk. He is also Honorary Professor for the School of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich. His is a past Chairman of the UKPPG (1999-2001) and helped form the European Pharmacists for Psychiatry and Neurology group which is now active. He was heavily involved with the consultation process, publicity, competencies assessment paper and launch of the College of Mental Health Pharmacists Board, of which he is a full member.
His special interest is user and carer information and education on drugs, with his informative web-site (www.nwmhp.nhs.uk/pharmacy). His main claims to fame include being author of the "Psychotropic Drug Directory", of which there have been 22 editions and over 450,000 copies sold (including a Spanish translation, two American versions and three editions of the GP version, the "GP Psychotropic Handbook", and there is a background "Frequently Asked Questions page).
His outside interests (so as not to be too boring) include playing in a ceilidh/barn dance band called "Shindig", railways (especially garden live steam ones, as a member of the Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge Railway Modellers and the Southwold Railway Society) and very occasional morris dancing in Norwich, Bristol and Bath. He also enjoys going to Norwich City Football Club matches. What he enjoys rather less is actually being at the matches and trudging back afterwards.
Declaration of potential financial and other interests: (4.08)
- Employer: Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Also Honorary Professor for the School of Chemistry and Pharmacy at University of East Anglia, and visiting Fellow at the School of Life and Health Sciences (Pharmaceutical Sciences), Aston University, Birmingham but no money involved in those.
- Research Grants: None
- Sources of honoraria or fees:
- Commission for book sales. The "Psychotropic Drug Directory" and "GP Psychotropic Handbook" have been purchased in bulk from the publishers by Lundbeck (UK) and other companies. To clear up a popular misconception, this book is NOT "sponsored" by Lundbeck. There is little direct contact between Lundbeck and the author, and the book can be purchased in book shops. The author received a percentage of the Publishers selling price direct from the Publishers.
- I work occassionally as an independent pharmaceutical consultant in psychiatry. In the past three years this has involved consultancy/advisory work for Janssen-Cilag (3.07), Lundbeck (9.06), Servier (2.07), Wyeth (3.07); Day consultancy for Servier (22.2.08), Day Consultancy for Schering-Plough/Organon (27.2.08), Nursing Awards ceremony in London, via Wyeth (27.3.08). Also non-promotional lectures for BMS, Serono, Wyeth, Janssen-Cilag, AstraZeneca, Lilly, Lundbeck, Biogen, Sanofi and Denfleet
- I have written articles or reviews for the following: Organon, BMS/Otsuka
- Over the last three years I have received fully-funded trips to International conferences from the following:
- - Attended 2005 ECNP in Amsterdam with Janssen-Cilag (Oct 2005)
- Attended 2006 ECNP in Paris with Janssen-Cilag (September 2006) - The above excludes talks given as part of Trust activities, and those for RPSGB branches, CPPE, PCGs, University of East Anglia, MIND, care workers, MS Trust, NICE, Ombudsman reviews etc, which are either expenses only, insignificant fee, nothing at all or might even cost me a bit. If it's for service users/carers I do it in my own time.
Elaine Weston,
Chief Pharmacist,
Leeds Mental Health Teaching Trust
Management Suite,
Newsam Centre,
York Road,
Leeds LS14 7BE
Tel: 0113 305 6474
Fax: 0113 305 6302
e-mail emweston @ supanet.com
Elaine's CV is awaited.
Bev Faulkner,
Pharmacy Services Manager,
Oxford and Buckinghamshire MH Partnership NHS Trust,
Unit 46,
Sandford Lane Business Park,
Kennington,
Oxford OX1 5RW
Tel 01865 455714
Fax 01865 455720
e-mail beverley.faulkner @ obmh.nhs.uk
Bev is currently employed by the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust as the Pharmacy Services Manager, with a special interest in the development of technical services to support new ways of working across the healthcare professions.
Pat Morgan,
Pharmacy Department,
Nevill Hall Hospital,
Abergavenny,
Monmouthshire NP7 7EG
Tel: 01873 732278
Fax 01873 732282
e-mail pat.morgan @ gwent.wales.nhs.uk
Pat is a mental health Trust pharmacist from Wales, and was awarded the UKPPG lifetime achievement award in 2006. She started in mental health as Therapeutic Drug Monitoring clinical pharmacist and developed an interest in 1993 in lithium monitoring. Her MSc was on lithium therapy and how it can be improved. She moved to Abergavenney in 2000 and has been a co-opted member since July 2007. Outside work she enjoys rambling, playing piano in a trip, collecting ceramics, film and the 1920s.
Stephen Guy,
Pharmacy Department,
Knockbracken Healthcare Park,
Saintfield Road,
Belfast BT8 8BH
Email: stephen.guy@sebt.n-i.nhs.uk
Stephen is President of the CMHP.
Stephen graduated from Queen's University of Belfast in 1983 and worked in community pharmacy for 16 years. He owned and ran his own community pharmacy in Belfast for seven years before moving into mental health in 1999. He was a Council member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland for 6 years.
Stephen was co-opted to the CMHP committee in 2005 and was stood successfully for election in 2006, taking over as President in 2007. He is a passionate believer in the role of the Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist and the role the College has to play in helping deliver high quality mental health across the United Kingdom.
In his spare time, Stephen enjoys building and flying control line model aircraft and maintaining and driving his red AC Cobra kit replica car.
Marina Davidson, Dip RSA, BA(Hons.)
Admin manager,
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust
Medical Directorate
Wellfield Mews
Cherry Knowle Hospital,
Ryhope, SR2 ONB
e-mail marinadavidson @ sky.com
Tel: 07503 445025
Marina Davidson is UKPPG secretary, facilitating the bi-monthly meetings. She would thus be interested to hear from anybody interested in sponsoring future meetings.
23, Danehurst Road,
Wallasey CH45 3JJ
Fax +44 151 638 3237
e-mail (home) denny.humphries @ virgin.net
Denny Humphries is Conference Organiser, and also carries out other activities and tasks for the UKPPG, for which she is thoroughly appreciated.
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Trudi Hilton is on the Guild Board as mental health representative, and should be linking with the UKPPG committee. |
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Former committee members
These include Celia Feetam, Juliet Shepherd, Carol Paton, Mary Allen, Dr. Jennie Day, John Donoghue, Dr. David Branford, David Taylor, Diane Booth, Alan Pollard, Siobhan Drummond, Morag Martin and Peter Pratt. The UKPPG has no paid officers, but Denny Humphries is conference administrator and does many other such tasks (admirably).