Co-Clinical Lead CYP Asthma

The Children and Young People’s Alliance, NHS South Yorkshire ICB

Deborah studied pharmacy at the University of Bradford qualifying in 2000 with a first class honours degree.  She has held various roles in the private sector and joined the NHS in 2009 holding clinical pharmacist roles for Sheffield PCT, South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit, Sheffield CCG and currently South Yorkshire ICB.

In 2016 Deborah qualified as a pharmacist independent prescriber from Robert Gordon University Aberdeen and during that training chose respiratory as her clinical area of interest.  She was appointed as lead pharmacist for respiratory for the Sheffield Medicines Optimisation Team in 2016.  Since then she has led on the development of local guidance for asthma and COPD.  She has also developed many initiatives for inhaler optimisation.  Deborah chairs the Sheffield Sustainable Respiratory Group and the medicines subgroup of the South Yorkshire Respiratory Clinical Network.  She is Vice Chair of the service development committee for the Primary Care Respiratory Society. She is also part of the PCRS Asthma Right Care core team and sits on the PCRS Policy Forum.

Most recently Deborah has been appointed as Co-clinical Lead for CYP Asthma for South Yorkshire.