Tina is the chief pharmacist at Devon Partnership NHS Trust and works as the Associate Director for Medicines Optimisation. She is also faculty Lead for the Getting the Medicines Right work stream within the South of England Improving Quality and Safety in Mental Health Collaborative. She sits on the national Council and is Honorary Secretary of the College of Mental Health Pharmacists UK (CMHP-UK). Tina is a member of the Q Community.
 
Tina trained as a Patient Safety Officer at the IHI in Boston in 2008; she has experience of and has been actively involved in and led a variety of QI projects at local, regional and national level.  Special interests include medicines reconciliation, reducing harm from missed or omitted doses, Global Trigger Tools, developing and operating an open and learning culture. She has experience of running and participating in SCORE and other safety climate surveys.  Just recently this list of interests has expanded to include an interest in human factors and simulation and she has recently successfully completed an advanced simulation instructor training course through Bristol Medical Simulation Centre (April 2016). Current projects include testing transferability of simulation train the trainer programmes into mental health settings and helping to embed QI into the core design of our organisations Quality Delivery Plan.