Book your place now: Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire AGM – Evening of Thursday 18th September

To be held at Washingborough Hall Hotel, Church Hill, Washingborough, Lincoln, LN4 1BE at 7:00pm (arrival from 6.00pm for buffet at 6.30pm) on Thursday 18th September 2025. A photo of the venue is below.

Please complete the form here to book your place. The venue require final booking numbers in advance of the meeting.  Therefore, booking will close on Friday 22nd August 2025.

Please book as soon as possible.

If you are not available to attend the AGM, voting forms for independent contractors can be found here. Draft Accounts are available on the website under Finance here (accounts remain in draft until approved at AGM). If you are not an independent contractor, please do not vote using these forms and instead refer to the policy of your umbrella organisation.

The agenda is below. This year we have two presentations, one to support future inclusion of antidepressants in NMS by Kiran Hewitt, Chief Pharmacist at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: Delivering the New Medicine Service for depression – hints, tips, red flags and referrals (please see Kiran’s biography below) and a second, short update ‘Pharmacy First Focus: Claiming for all appropriate consultations’, considering the upcoming changes to PGDs and some hints and tips for success!

Meet our Guest Speaker:

Kiran Hewitt, BSc (Hons), PGDipPsychPharm, MSc Healthcare Leadership

Chief Pharmacist at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

After graduating from Manchester University and completing a hospital pre-registration training year, Kiran started her pharmacist career in community pharmacy. Following a short stint in a large acute hospital in Merseyside, she then agreed to cover a colleague’s maternity leave post for 6 months in a neighbouring mental health trust.

That was over 25 years ago……and she never looked back. The true MDT approach to patient-care and value her role provided to patients with mental health conditions provided the most rewarding specialist pharmacist role she could have wish for.

She jumped at the chance to stay on full-time, and establish herself as a mental health specialist pharmacist, gaining a wide range of experience in a variety of specialities as well as developing a passion for developing and delivering education and training for patients, carers, other healthcare professionals, and for post-graduate courses at the local university school of pharmacy.

A relocation down south took her to Berkshire and onto a clinical services lead role, followed by the deputy chief pharmacist position at their mental health & community health services trust.

Since late 2017, Kiran has been the Chief Pharmacist at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. She continues to be an advocate for reducing health inequalities in those disadvantaged due to poor mental health; the main reason for her joining the international College of Mental Health Pharmacy as a council member since 2019. Locally, she continues efforts to reduce barriers that patients’ face in accessing mental health medication and the necessary physical health care, between the primary-secondary care interface.

We thank Kiran for her support and look forward to welcoming colleagues to the AGM in September.