Miss Denise Rosembert

Denise’s professional career began on the Structured Training and Experience for Pharmacists (STEP) programme during which she completed varied clinical rotations in medicine and surgery at tertiary London hospitals. Later, Denise worked as a rotational pharmacist in Cambridge before assuming the role of Senior Antimicrobials and Informatics Pharmacist working on the digital build, design and implementation of the integrated electronic prescribing system, Epic ©.

Prior to becoming a Clinical Fellow, Denise worked as Lead Pharmacist for Biologics, at Cambridge University Hospitals. Denise has led several significant projects, including: implementing policy, governance, and pathway development; pharmacovigilance with multidisciplinary co-ordination which contributed nationally towards medicines optimisation and which resulted in significant savings in using best value medicines. Denise research in fulfilment of her master’s degree, utilised focus groups and interviews to better understand the perceptions of patients and prescribers on switching to biosimilar medicines. Denise is an experienced qualified independent prescriber with her own clinic in inflammatory bowel disease prescribing and reviewing biological therapies for new and existing patients. Denise also provides leadership of the pharmacy Homecare department which facilitates this. In this capacity Denise has lead on workflow and service improvements resulting in increased efficiencies, including in the number of registered homecare services and the expansion of the trust’s infusion centre.

Denise contributes to the education and training of healthcare professionals locally, nationally and internationally at pharmacy and medical conferences.

Reason for applying for the scheme

Denise is excited to have the opportunity to work closely with senior and inspirational NHS leaders at a national organisation. She hopes to gain a deeper understanding of how national host sites work collaboratively to achieve system- wide outcomes. Denise is keen to embrace the unique skill sets in leadership, management, and national strategy, and to gain a broader understanding of the National Health Service that her Fellowship will afford. At the end of her tenure she expects she will have enhanced her networks and developed the skills required to be a future clinical leader. Denise hopes that this year will enable her to better define her career path and identify further opportunities to apply her professional experiences and learning.