Sad passing of Anne McGettigan

December 3, 2021

It is with great sadness that former colleague, Anne McGettigan has passed away from cancer.

Anne first started at what was then Dudley Road Hospital in the early 80s as a pharmacist for clinical services. She left in 1986 and moved to the Alexandra Hospital Redditch, followed by Selly Oak Hospital. She then came back to SWB in 2007, taking up a post as the anti-microbial pharmacist, and then moved to become the lead pharmacist for surgery.

As the lead pharmacist for surgery she worked closely with the consultants and senior nursing colleagues to establish safe medication working practices. She was an inspirational clinical pharmacist, taking care to support and teach many more junior pharmacists over the years. Anne retired in 2017, partly on ill health grounds however she did remain active in retirement, playing bridge and tennis, learning Italian and Spanish, and starting to learn the piano, amongst other activities.

Her funeral is scheduled for Monday 6 December at St Thomas More Church, Sheldon with her family asking for any donations to be donated to cancer research.