Current Status, Position

Mr Richard Nuttall is the Lead Electronic Chemotherapy Prescribing Pharmacist at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. He is also the national lead for dose banding chemotherapy for NHS England. 

Education

Mr Nuttall studied pharmacy at the Central Institute of Technology in Wellington (NZ) and completed the Certificate in Pharmacy Practice and the Paediatric Practice Module from the School of Pharmacy in London. He also completed the Mary Seacole Leadership programme from the NHS England Leadership Academy.

Research Area

Mr Nuttall helped develop the Royal Marsden Hospital’s electronic chemotherapy prescribing system and works closely with the clinical trials team and specialist haemato-oncology pharmacists to develop chemotherapy protocols. He led the development of a system for dose banding chemotherapy that has been adopted across NHS England and now leads the team responsible for maintaining this. 

Conflict of interest: none