Sean MacBride-Stewart

Digital Pharmacy Expert Advisory Group (DPEAG)

Sean is a Senior Pharmacist in the Pharmacy Service, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. His responsibilities include the development and implementation of education, prescribing indicators and written materials/digital tools used in the implementation of prescribing strategies by pharmacy teams. 

His main areas of interest are patient safety, quality indicators, digital prescribing processes, digital tools for clinical audit or improvement projects, drug utilisation research, quality improvement evaluation, mental health service, prison and police custody healthcare, independent prescriber training, leadership, team development and the ecological impact of medicines use.

His past experiences include community pharmacy, pharmaceutical sales and marketing, academic detailing, formulary management and practice pharmacy. 

Sean is chair of the Prescription Data, Information, Intelligence and Systems Group (Scottish Pharmacy Practice and Prescribing Advisers Association) and the GP IT Systems Prescribing Advisory Board (NHS National Services Scotland Information Technology Strategic Business Unit).  He is an expert member of the West of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 4 (REC4), a committee member of European Drug Utilisation Research Group (EuroDURG) and a committee member of Prescribing Research in Medicines Management UK & Ireland (PRIMM).