The Training Programme Director is simon.hill@nhs.net

Following an undergraduate degree in Physiological Sciences, Dr Simon Hill qualified from Newcastle University Medical School in 2001. He trained in medicine and later Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the North East, with a brief spell at Auckland City Hospital in New Zealand. He is Director of the NIHR Newcastle Clinical Research Facility, Chair of Newcastle Hospitals Medicines Management and Governance Committee, Leads on Curriculum and Assessment for the Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Specialty Advisory Committee and is a member of the British Pharmacological Society. He is a Clinical Toxicologist for the National Poisons Information Service. His research interests include recreational drugs of abuse, hypertension, CBRN threats and advanced therapies.   

Programme Support Officer gillian.conway@nhs.net

People Services Officer, Lead Employer Trust - Bethany Stout (covering for Christian Bennett-Collins).

For Lead Employer Trust queries please use the generic email address:-   nhc-tr.letmedicine@nhs.net

Lead Employer Trust helpdesk number -  01912754782

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics is an exciting training programme involved with providing patients with the application of pharmacological principles. The programme gains interest from this wide scope of practices including: the development of new drugs, prescribing established drugs, managing poisoning by other chemicals and drugs, and the regulation of drug use within populations.

The programme in NHSE NE is mainly based in Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

What would you learn?

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics is a 4-year training programme and it is usually combined with General Internal Medicine. The first two years of the training programme consist of Core Clinical Pharmacology where you will gain the necessary Pharmacological and therapeutic competencies. In your final year you will complete Advanced Specialist Area Modules in CPT. This module allows trainees to focus their training into a specialist area and develop the unique specialist skills that are needed to perform at an expert level in these specialist areas. There are four specialist areas which you can pick from:

• Hypertension
• Toxicology
• Clinical Trials Research
• Research Module

  To gain more information about these topics please refer to the Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Specialist Training Curriculum.

   

  What Careers can you have in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics?

  There are a variety of career paths you can take from this specialty training programme. However, the most common careers are:

• Academic – This could be through a medical school with an honorary NHS consultant contract which would allow you to be a senior lecturer, senior reader or senior professor. Academics in this career usually have a subspecialty interest.
• Drug Regulation (e.g. MHRA)
• NHS Consultant – In pure Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, there are very few consult jobs. Most have NHS consultant careers are usually in other specialties, but the Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics knowledge is used in areas such as drug and therapeutics committees as well as a variety of other committees.  
• Pharmaceutical Industry

   

  To find out more information on the programme please visit the Programme Overview

To find out more about our region and Trusts please visit the Find Your Place website.

To find out more information about current vacancies please view the NHSE NE website