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LTH Pharmacy Services, Leeds (2026)

13/01/2026

We were delighted to welcome Shirlyne (Senior Pharmacist) to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to find out more about the work we do. Shirlyne visited from Kitale County Referral Hospital in Kenya as part of the ongoing Kitale Leeds Antimicrobial Stewardship Partnership (KLASP).

Spending time with teams in Pharmacy, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, and Infection Prevention and Control, Shirlyne was impressed by the teamwork, communication, and focus on quality improvement at the Trust.

The visit was a great success - thank you to everyone who supported 😊

05/01/2026

Thanks to the MMPS Green Group and wider work in the department, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first in the country to achieve Gold status of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Greener Pharmacy Toolkit ⭐

The group have demonstrated good practice against six domains: people; clinical practice; operations and strategies; resource use; information and communication technology; and travel, with relevant schemes including the medicines return system and optimising the recycling of cardboard.

This is a great reflection of the commitment and passion teams have shown towards sustainability at the Trust - very well done! ♻️

30/12/2025

The revamped dispensary in Boots Outpatients, Bexley Wing was officially opened by Brendan Brown (Chief Executive).

The new robot, ‘Wall-B’, boasts greater performance, increased storage capacity and automated stock management to encourage increased efficiency.

This is a great achievement for our teams who worked extremely hard to finish this project. Many congratulations, and a big thank you to Boots for kindly funding this work 💊

24/12/2025

12 Days of MMPS: Day 12 🎄

To round off our festive social media initiative, the MMPS Comms Team would like to wish a heartfelt thank you to each of our followers and colleagues for their support this year.

Merry Christmas to those that are celebrating and wishing you all a happy and healthy 2026 ❤️

23/12/2025

12 Days of MMPS: Day 11 🎅

"The Pharmacy Workforce Development Team is shaping the future of pharmacy at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust!

Our team manages learners and formal training programmes across MMPS, supporting everything from apprenticeships to advanced pharmacist development. We work hard to ensure our workforce strategy meets the growing demand for pharmacy professionals and adapts to evolving education and training requirements.

Every day, we help learners progress through their journey – from Level 2 Pharmacy Services Assistant apprentices and Trainee Pharmacists to Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technicians, Accredited Accuracy Checkers, and Foundation Pharmacists. We also support undergraduate students and advanced practitioners, creating clear career pathways and development opportunities.

Since 2020, we have enrolled 61 Pre-Registration Pharmacy Technicians, making us one of the largest Pharmacy Technician training sites in the UK! Through our public engagement events, we have met over 18,000 people in the past year, inspiring the next generation of pharmacy professionals.

This year, we ran our inaugural Pharmacy Experience Day in May, welcoming 32 attendees for hands-on activities, including guided tours, mock medication history taking, and aseptic preparation. October’s event built on this success, attracting 46 students from seven schools and colleges. Activities included dispensary and aseptic unit tours, simulation exercises, and Q&A sessions with professionals. Feedback was excellent for both events, averaging 4.5 out of 5 stars, with many confirming pharmacy as their future career choice.

In 2026, we look forward to hosting more experience days while continuing to advance pharmacy education, develop our existing workforce, and build a team ready for the future."

23/12/2025

Congratulations to Karen (Pharmacy Technician) who has won the Best Innovation Poster Award at the recent Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group Conference!

Her poster, titled Improving Immunisation Uptake Through Pharmacy Technician-led Interventions, focussed on upskilling Pharmacy Technicians to encourage open conversations about immunisations in our youngest patients and signposting parents and carers to further sources of information whilst in a healthcare setting.

Karen continues to take this project from strength to strength, reflecting not only creativity and dedication but also her commitment to improving patient care at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Inspiring 👏

22/12/2025

12 Days of MMPS: Day 10 🎁

"Merry Christmas from the Leeds Anticoagulant Service Pharmacy Team!

Our Pharmacy Technicians, Vicky, Fi, Lynne and Jade, and Pharmacists, Marie, Kimrin, Tsz, George, Amy and Katherine, have been working hard this year supporting our patients on anticoagulation. We are very grateful for the support from the TRACT Pharmacist Team and Angela (Advanced Clinical Pharmacist) - thank you 😊

The team work alongside medical, nursing, admin, pathology and phlebotomy colleagues to look after Leeds patients on Vitamin K antagonists (mainly warfarin but also acenocoumarol and even phenindione - the most expensive anticoagulant ever!) who are aged 16 and over. Big shout out to the Paediatric Pharmacy Team who look after the younger patients!

These drugs need frequent monitoring as they are affected by lots of things, such as changes in diet, alcohol, and being unwell, which can increase or decrease the levels in the body. This is checked by an International Normalised Ratio (INR) test. Common Christmas anticoagulation questions involve whether you can have cranberry sauce while you are on warfarin (yes but not ladleful’s) and whether brussels sprouts will affect the INR (yes if you eat a lot or if they are the only green things you ever eat, but if you actually like them have a few). You can imagine this time of year keeps the team busy!

The Pharmacy Technicians go out to clinics across Leeds to see patients as close to home as possible, from Rothwell to Otley, Hunslet to Yeadon and many places in-between. They will discuss the INR results with the patient and make a plan for their dose and next appointment. They also run a successful self-testing service where they will train patients to test their own INR and call in the results. They have recently started a pilot in-reach project with the rest of the multi-disciplinary team, helping the medical teams on elderly and oncology wards manage warfarin more safely.

The Pharmacists work in outpatient clinics at St James's, seeing patients new to warfarin, that have unstable INRs, that have come out of hospital, or need to stop warfarin for a procedure and receive low molecular heparin instead. Shout out to the Pharmacy Bridging Clinic Team who see those patients needing their warfarin stopped for surgery under a general anaesthetic! The Pharmacists also discuss different anticoagulant options with patients, monitor those who may need both direct oral anticoagulants and low molecular weight heparin, and give advice to primary and secondary care on anticoagulation.

We are a friendly team who enjoy helping our patients stay as safe as possible on the right anticoagulation for them. If you want to come and see what we do we’d love to show you.

Thank you to all that have supported us this year - have a very happy Christmas and a great 2026!"

19/12/2025

12 Days of MMPS: Day 9 ⭐

"Here in the Business Support Team, we provide a wide range of administrative functions to support colleagues across MMPS. Given recent staffing changes in the team, we thought there were no better time to reintroduce ourselves!

In the GM Office with Wayne and Jemma (Service Managers), sits the lovely Lisa (Business Manager).

In the PA Office, you will find Brenna (Business Support Manager), Bernie and Lauren (Assistant Business Managers), as well as Diane, Maria and Shanese (Personal Assistants).

The main BST Office is home to Erin, Karla and Nabile (Secretaries), and Saniya (Clerical Officer) who also covers our LGI Office two days a week.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all 😊"

18/12/2025

12 Days of MMPS: Day 8 🎄

"The Cancer Services Pharmacy Team provide a 7-day service to the patients of the Leeds Cancer Centre, supporting their cancer journey in various specialties. We also help to manage a variety of non-cancer conditions within our haematology speciality.

Everyday our Pharmacists and Specialist Pharmacy Technicians work with the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure that each patients anti-cancer treatment is safe, effective and available where and when they need it. In an incredibly complex area of practice, the experience and knowledge that our team brings to the service is invaluable.

Our Pharmacy Technicians and Senior Pharmacy Services Assistants work on the busy oncology and haematology day case unit ensuring anti-cancer treatments are ready for patients attending our units, as well as issuing supportive therapies to help them in their treatment.

Also, some of our patients do require admission to hospital and our team is on the ground 7-days a week ensuring they receive the medications they need. Our Pharmacists can also see patients in clinic, using their skills to work alongside the Doctors and Nurses to prescribe future cycles of treatment.

Throughout the festive period, we will continue to deliver anti-cancer treatment to hundreds of patients. Our team will be working hard every day to make all visits to us in Bexley Wing as smooth as possible. Thank you to the team for all the hard work they put in, especially at this very busy time of year."

17/12/2025

12 Days of MMPS: Day 7 🎅

"Today, the Pharmacy Procurement Team said goodbye to Rajinder as she takes her well-earned retirement from the Trust. Rajinder started work at Moor House in 2007 as a Pharmacy Procurement Business Clerk and has worked tirelessly ensuring that strict records were kept for the Invoicing Teams and making sure that post got to the right teams, not just her own!

In 2020, Rajinder had flown to India to visit her family and while she was there both the UK and India went into lockdown. Rajinder’s original plans were to visit from March to April, but she was not able to return until May when she finally got a call with a two-hour window to get to the airport to return home!

Rajinder, like many others, was deeply upset by the passing of the Queen in 2022, and decided to make the journey to London. Rajinder came into work that morning and left directly from Moor House, joining the queue at 6pm and finally entering The Great Hall at 8am the next morning. She said that she would remember that moment for the rest of her life.

Rajinder is well-known for her cooking skills and over the years she has fed many of the staff at Moor House. Whenever we have an occasion to celebrate, there is always question on whether Rajinder is cooking her sprout curry - there are never any leftovers!

When it was Rajinder’s 60th in 2017, she celebrated with her colleagues at Moor House and enjoyed her first European holiday to Rome with her daughters and friends.

Rajinder has been a well-respected and valued member of the Procurement Team and has played a fundamental role. She will be sadly missed by all her colleagues and friends that she has made over the last 20 years. We thank Rajinder for her service to the Trust and wish her every happiness and well-deserved rest in her retirement!"

16/12/2025

12 Days of MMPS: Day 6 🎁

"Meet two incredible members of our General Management Team - Wayne and Jemma (Service Managers).

Wayne and Jemma bring a wealth of NHS experience, with Wayne working at the Trust for 13 years and Jemma for an amazing 22 years. Their leadership spans a wide portfolio of services, driving operational excellence, strategic development, and continuous improvement across our service.

Wayne and Jemma lead the general management of MMPS, balancing the demands of daily operations with strategic planning, service development, and continuous improvement. They oversee business units, manage performance, workforce and financial planning, and ensure services run safely, efficiently and in line with Trust priorities. Their leadership supports business continuity, resource allocation, pathway redesign, and delivery of key quality and financial targets, while resolving day-to-day operational challenges and enabling frontline teams to focus on patient care.

They also act as change leaders, coordinating improvement projects, analysing complex service information, proposing new ways of working, and maintaining strong relationships with clinical, operational and corporate colleagues. Alongside this, they champion staff wellbeing and professional development, foster inclusive and collaborative working environments, and help embed a culture of excellence across MMPS and the wider Trust.

Jemma’s outstanding leadership was celebrated at the Paraceta-Ball, where she received high commendation following multiple nominations. Wayne’s dedication and impact were acknowledged through nominations for both the Time to Shine Awards and the national Nursing Times Awards.

They are incredibly proud of the dedication, skill, and commitment shown by teams across MMPS throughout the year. Their work ensures colleagues have the support, systems, and leadership needed to deliver outstanding care every single day!"

15/12/2025

12 Days of MMPS: Day 5 ⭐

"The festive season is all about bringing people together. Leeds Medicines Advisory Service (LMAS) is the team that is here to support everyone across MMPS.

Just like our elf ‘Winston’, we are an incredibly flexible team:
✨ Our Safety Team is here to guide you through incidents and challenges in your area to prevent problems sn*******ng and keep patients safe!
✨ The Commissioning Team are always here to help keep your CSU’s cheerful and bright by making sure our medicines are funded and our purse strings aren’t too tight over Christmas!
✨Jane (Prescribing Advisor Pharmacist) is keeping everyone joyful and ensure we are singing from the same hymn sheet as primary care!
✨Rosie (Leeds Formulary Manager) and the Drug & Therapeutics Group are making sure your wish list of medicines is safe and efficacious before adding to the formulary.
✨ Last but not least, the Medicines Advice Hub Team are busy in their workshop, training up new staff, solving your medicine mysteries. and giving the gift of proactive information.

The LMAS Team are wishing everyone a warm, safe and restful festive period! We can’t wait to continue our great work into 2026."

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