Full Name
Nicola Greenhalgh
Job Title
President
Organisation
CMHP
Speaker Bio
Having joined the College in 2021, supporting the Education team, Nicola put herself forward to become Registrar where she supported the first Pharmacy Technician through the credentialling process and saw the first pharmacists complete the foundation certificate. She has been working with the Council and RPS on the joint specialist advanced credentialing in mental health. She has represented the College on across a number of areas including working with the Royal College of Psychiatry’s psychopharmacology committee and working with NHS England on the pilot of the New Medicines Service for antidepressants. Nicola is really looking forward to further connections with other organisations as she steps into the role of president.
Nicola is the deputy chief pharmacist at Essex University Partnership NHS Foundation Trust having managed a specialist mental health Medicines Information service for over 5 years and been the lead mental health pharmacist in North East London. Nicola is keen to expand knowledge of mental health across sectors and has provided a number of webinars and articles aimed at increasing pharmacists knowledge around a range of mental health topics including, trauma informed care, ethnicity, perinatal mental health, dementia and schizophrenia.
Her interest in psychiatry started as a student where she chose schizophrenia for a specialist subject and then grew when she first worked closely with a mental health nurse in an intermediate care service and then was asked to write a guide on the use of antidepressants in renal impairment for UKMI. The need to fully appreciate psychopharmacology and the use of pharmaceutical knowledge drew her in as she could see how pharmacists could make a real difference. She started working in psychiatry in the south west 15 years ago and hasn’t looked back.Outside of work Nicola welcomed her second daughter in mid 2024, making it a very busy year, and is a keen baker, often making cakes with her other daughter and loves to travel having taken 6 months out to circumnavigate south America in her early career and has had a number of trips to Africa.
Nicola is the deputy chief pharmacist at Essex University Partnership NHS Foundation Trust having managed a specialist mental health Medicines Information service for over 5 years and been the lead mental health pharmacist in North East London. Nicola is keen to expand knowledge of mental health across sectors and has provided a number of webinars and articles aimed at increasing pharmacists knowledge around a range of mental health topics including, trauma informed care, ethnicity, perinatal mental health, dementia and schizophrenia.
Her interest in psychiatry started as a student where she chose schizophrenia for a specialist subject and then grew when she first worked closely with a mental health nurse in an intermediate care service and then was asked to write a guide on the use of antidepressants in renal impairment for UKMI. The need to fully appreciate psychopharmacology and the use of pharmaceutical knowledge drew her in as she could see how pharmacists could make a real difference. She started working in psychiatry in the south west 15 years ago and hasn’t looked back.Outside of work Nicola welcomed her second daughter in mid 2024, making it a very busy year, and is a keen baker, often making cakes with her other daughter and loves to travel having taken 6 months out to circumnavigate south America in her early career and has had a number of trips to Africa.
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