Martin Stephens
Panel of Fellows
Martin
Stephens graduated from Nottingham University in 1979, undertaking his
preregistration training in South Warwickshire Hospitals, including a
six-month placement in mental health. He worked as a junior pharmacist
in the West Midlands with time at Kidderminster, The Queen Elizabeth
Hospital Birmingham and Birmingham General Hospital; roles included
introducing clinical services in learning disability units, medicines
information, education and training, and clinical services in acute
medicine.
Martin became Chief Pharmacist at Wolverhampton, developing clinical
and directorate pharmacy services there and being actively involved in
the Keele based clinical training programme. In 1997 he was appointed
Chief Pharmacist for Southampton Teaching Hospitals where he oversaw the
extension of clinical pharmacy, expansion of aseptic services and the
appointment of consultant pharmacists for intensive care and
anti-infectives. In 2006, Martin took on a broader clinical leadership
role alongside the leadership of clinical effectiveness in the trust.
Martin was appointed National Clinical Director for Hospital Pharmacy
for 2008 to 2011 working on pharmacy’s role in thromboprophylaxis,
safer transfers of care and better use of medicines. His final full-time
role was as Chief Executive of Wessex Academic Health Science Network
where he oversaw the set up and licencing, establishing the medicines
optimisation programme and the successful initiation of a range of
improvement workstreams.
Following retirement from full time work, Martin was chair of the
pharmacy local professional network 2015 to 2020, visiting professor at
the University of Portsmouth and chair of the Chief Professional
Officers Medicines Mechanisms board. He also is lead of the learning
groups for the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Clinical Fellows.
Martin has contributed to a number of publications, is author of
Strategic Medicines Management (Pharmaceutical Press 2005) and editor of
Hospital Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Press, 2nd edition 2011). Martin has a
masters in health economics and management and he is a registered RPS
mentor.