Dr Toby Capstick
Consultant Pharmacist - Respiratory Medicine, St James's University Hospital, Leeds
Dr Toby Capstick is Consultant Pharmacist - Respiratory Pharmacist at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He is a Chair of the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association Respiratory Group, and is a member of the UK Inhaler Group and the British Thoracic Society Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Clinical Advice Service.
Toby is an independent non-medical prescriber and runs clinics in the Leeds Interstitial Lung Disease and Tuberculosis Clinics. He works one day a week for NHS Leeds CCG to improve respiratory medicines optimisation, addressing variation in the quality of care and prescribing in patients with asthma and COPD to improve outcomes, as well as providing training to up-skill the existing workforce in primary care, including GPs, practice nurses and pharmacists.