1. Current Status, Position

Stephen Tomlin is Consultant Pharmacist – Children’s Services.

2. Education

Stephen Tomlin has worked in the field of children’s medicines for over 20 years. He is an Honorary Clinical Reader at King’s College London University and his main fields of expertise are paediatric medicines safety, medicines compliance and competence of the paediatric pharmacy workforce.

As the professional secretary of the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group (NPPG), he represents paediatric pharmacy on many national forums and within the media. He works closely, advises and sits on many committees with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Department of Health. He sits on the British National Formulary (BNF) strategy group, the publication board of the BNF for Children and works with NICE on the Evidence Summaries Of Unlicensed and Off-Label Medicines.
Locally, he is chair of the Paediatric Medicines Safety Forum, nationally represents pharmacy on the NHS England Children’s Patient Safety Expert Group and has just picked up the winning medicines project award for the Health Service Journal – Care and Safety Award for his work on providing safe infusions in children.

He writes and reviews many papers and is the lead for the formulary within the European Blue Book for Paediatric Infectious Diseases. He is also an Associate Editor of the Education & Practice edition of Archives of Diseases in Childhood.

Stephen is well known in the field of paediatric medicines safety and has presented at many national and international conferences on the topic.

3. Research Area

• Medicines safety;
• Medicines compliance;
• Competence of the paediatric pharmacy workforce.

Conflict of interest: None