The CMHP is delighted to announce that Juliet Shepherd and Sarah Harris have been appointed Fellows of the CMHP.
Juliet Shepherd is Lead Pharmacist for Mental Health at Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust. She is a credentialed member of the CMHP and served on CMHP Council between 2015-21, including as serving as President.
Whilst on CMHP Council she set up the CMHP accreditation processes of rigorous quality assurance to ensure that relevant resources meet the CMHP’s standards of excellence. CMHP accreditation assures that resources will promote best practice in mental health and support improved patient care.
Additionally, she represented CMHP working with ASH to generate The Stolen Years report which highlighted the disproportionately high rates of smoking among people with a mental health condition, and paved the way for an ongoing partnership on addressing smoking in mental health that remains in place today.
Her work as a clinical pharmacist is varied, inspirational, and of local, regional, national and international value and is always high quality. She is a passionate advocate for mental health pharmacy, the CMHP and for patients. She embodies the everything we hope for in a specialist mental health pharmacist and making her an obvious choice to be a CMHP Fellow.
Sarah Harris is Lead Clinical Pharmacist - North Network at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. She is a long-standing member of CMHP.
Sarah has taught undergraduates, foundation year students and numerous junior pharmacists encouraging them to develop their knowledge and skills in mental health. She has taught pharmacy teams in acute trusts and has supported teaching at Manchester and Bradford Universities.
Sarah has always been very research, audit and quality improvement active having led numerous pieces of work. She has presented posters and oral presentations at numerous conferences including at CMHP in particular around medicines safety.
Sarah is an NMP and her clinical leadership and clinical knowledge is immense. She is the lead pharmacist for a network but also the clinical pharmacist for an in-patient unit. Consultants, nurses and all other staff know her and speak very highly of her.
Sarah has dedicated her whole pharmacy career to improving the care provided to patients. She has inspired pharmacists and pharmacy technicians across the country. Due to retire in 2024, it is a fitting end to her career to becom a Fellow of the CMHP.
CMHP President Karen Shuker presented Sarah and Juliet with their Fellowships at the CMHP Annual Conference in Glasgow in October 2024.
She highlighted their numerous achievements and contributions to mental health pharmacy and warmly congratulated them both on behalf of the College.