Jilly Croasdale

Jilly Croasdale is head of radiopharmacy and associate director of healthcare science at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. She explains: “As Head of Radiopharmacy I run the operation for making medical isotopes for use in Nuclear Medicine studies. My role as Associate Director of Healthcare Science involves acting as Lead Scientist for the Trust and representing all the Healthcare Scientists who work for us.

Jilly has worked her way up to her position, starting her career at City Hospital. She said: “Getting into Radiopharmacy was kind of a happy accident! I had studied to be a pharmacist and applied to work at City Hospital. I mentioned Radiopharmacy in my application and was offered a Radiopharmacy job.

Jilly has plenty of career highlights to match her enthusiasm for the job, including working with the Cancer Research team at the Royal Free Hospital in London developing new treatments for patients, and she has been working with her colleagues nationally to improve standards. She is continuing to make improvements in her current role. She said: “I get a lot of satisfaction from driving forward new ideas and from getting things done. The team of people I have in my Radiopharmacy is brilliant. We’ve worked together to bring about real change and improvements in quality. I love being in a busy and energised environment and thrive on new challenges.