Pharmacy Technician Subcommittee

The primary purpose of the BOPA pharmacy technician sub committee is to promote excellence in the pharmaceutical care of patients by advocating the role of technicians and supporting specific education and training aimed to improve opportunities for pharmacy technicians.

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Melanie Lowe

Chair

Melanie Lowe

Lead Pharmacy Technician at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Mollie Bishop

Chair

Mollie Bishop

Mollie Bishop is the lead Haemato-oncology pharmacy technician at the Royal Marsden Hospital.
Mollie completed her pre-registration pharmacy technician course at the Royal Marsden in 2014 and progressed up to a band 5 medicine management technician over the next year. In this role Mollie completed the ACPT and HEE medicines optimisation courses and worked on all inpatient wards on the Sutton site before settling in haematology. Mollie then left the trust taking on a new role at St Georges as a Clinical Transcribing Technician. This involved setting up a new service of pharmacy technicians transcribing discharge prescriptions. After this, Mollie returned to the Marsden to take up her current role. In this role she has started up new practices within the haematology team and found a love for this area of oncology. She is due to finish her level 4 clinical diploma in March 2023.

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