Miss Eleanor Harvey
Eleanor completed her MPharm degree at the University of Nottingham and her pre-registration training at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, qualifying as a pharmacist in 2015.
Upon registration, Eleanor took up a rotational pharmacist post at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital. In 2016, she travelled to China to learn about Traditional Chinese medicine and the role of Western medicine amongst the Chinese population, and to Kazakhstan to learn about their evolving clinical pharmacy practice.
In 2018, Eleanor specialised as Cancer and Nutrition pharmacist at the soon-to-merge University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust. The fast-paced and varied role included working within the pharmacy aseptic team, providing clinical cover to the haematology ward, stepping up as local immunoglobulin pharmacist, being pharmacy representative on the nutrition steering committee and providing pharmacy expertise on the nutrition ward round. Eleanor completed her Independent Prescribing course, focusing on parenteral nutrition and inflammatory bowel disease, which led to her attendance at the European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition in 2019 in Slovenia.
During 2020, Eleanor witnessed how the COVID-19 pandemic affected her patients with cancer and was inspired to write a short article to highlight the importance of care and compassion despite the unknown and the challenging. The article, titled ‘More than socially distanced’, won first prize in the Royal Pharmaceutical Journal’s annual writing competition.
More recently, Eleanor joined the critical care team at University Hospital Southampton NHS FT, where she prescribed parenteral nutrition for intensive and high dependency care patients and expanded her prescribing practice.
Reason for applying for the scheme
Eleanor was motivated to apply to the Clinical Fellow Scheme due to its aim to:
- harness the fellow’s values, enthusiasm and talent for leadership and management and
- develop each fellow, both individually and collectively as a cohort, into dynamic and strategic healthcare leaders of the future.
Having recently completed the NHS Leadership Academy’s Edward Jenner programme, she had begun the journey of understanding more about leadership theory and the current call for clinical staffing groups to engage in health policy and achieve improved quality of care. For her, the Clinical Fellow Scheme adds insight and purpose to her leadership development, and provides a unique opportunity to shadow senior leaders, engage with host organisations and gain insight into national healthcare priorities.
Eleanor is excited to work with public health experts and learn how data is used to track and improve the health of a nation. She looks forward to the various leadership training sessions throughout the year and hopes for opportunities, whether it be through team meetings, publication of papers or public address, to put her learning into practice and inspire excellence in healthcare provision.
