Speakers

Currently Deputy Director and policy and practice lead for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) in Scotland, Aileen has had a varied career in many sectors of the profession. After pre- registration training in hospital she became a community pharmacy owner for seventeen years before moving abroad where she had a short spell in industry and clinical trial work with Hoffman La Roche.  On returning to the UK she worked as a prescribing support pharmacist in Yorkshire before relocating back to Scotland working out of hours as an NHS 24 pharmacy advisor before joining the then regulator RPSGB as a policy lead. She subsequently had a senior manager position as the primary care co-ordinator in NHS Lothian before returning to policy in the new professional body, RPS.

Frances has an MSc in clinical pharmacy and she is a pharmacist independent prescriber. She has a special interest in the development of the role of the pharmacist within the intermediate care setting and preventing hospital admissions in this group of patients. Frances has extensive experience in this area, having taken a four year secondment to establish the role of the pharmacist within intermediate care teams in North, South and East Ayrshire. She currently manages the pharmacy teams working within the three newly established Health and Social Care Partnerships. One of the most recent challenges for her has been to manage the service through integration between health and social care

Sharon started her professional life in community pharmacy and went on to have a varied career in academia, industry, Centre for Postgraduate Education, pharmaceutical training consultancies and the NHS. Her first NHS posts were as Community Pharmacy Development Officer and then Public Health Advisor for North Nottinghamshire Health Authority which sparked her interest in public health leading to her studying for a Masters degree in Public Health.

She moved to Scotland in 2001 to take up post as Consultant in Pharmaceutical Public Health in NHS Highland and was the Board lead for Pharmaceutical Services, Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer and Sexual Health. She successfully completed rotational training and portfolio development across the ten competencies of public health practice to enable registration as a Generalist Specialist on the UK Public Health Register.

Sharon currently has roles as Chair for the Scottish Reference Board for Pharmacy Management,  Consultant in Pharmaceutical Public Health for NHS Highland, National Clinical Lead for the Area Drug and Therapeutics Committee Collaborative and the Robert Gordon University School of Pharmacy. 

Angela Shepherd works for NHS Education for Scotland as a Nursing and Midwifery Practice Educator. The focus of her current role is to provide and facilitate access to education to support key national priorities, and support patient centred care and quality improvement through the development and delivery of specific education for care professionals in their area of expertise. 

Angela is a first level Registered Nurse and has worked in medicine for the elderly, acute medicine and coronary care, where she was a Senior Charge Nurse. Angela completed an MSc in Nursing and holds a Post Graduate Teaching Certificate. She has a keen interest in the concept of compassion in nursing and the question of whether compassion can be taught. Angela undertook the role of Lead Clinical Educator for the NHS Tayside Health Literacy Demonstrator Programme, which was set up as one of the main recommendations of the Health Literacy Action Plan to identify and address health literacy issues across various clinical areas of the health service.

Millie is a hospital pharmacist with ten years experience working in secondary care. She is a pre-registration tutor, an independent prescriber and has a keen interest in developing extended clinical roles for pharmacists. Her most recent post is within cancer services as a highly specialist clinical oncology pharmacist. She is currently setting up a joint nurse – pharmacist clinic for review and prescribing of oral chemotherapy for malignant melanoma and lung cancer patients in NHS Grampian.

In 2016 Millie was one of the pharmacists to take part in the first Clinical Leadership in Pharmacy Programme in Scotland. 

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Gordon is active at a national level, sitting on the Scottish Government’s Psychological Therapies Monitoring and Implementation Group, the Health and Social Care Action Group of the Scottish National Action Plan on Human Rights and the Our Voice Delivery and Oversight Group. He has been a member of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme’s Mental Health Delivery Group as a service user representative since its inception in 2013. He was recently appointed as a Board member of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland by the Minister for Mental Health.

Johnathan is a community pharmacy manager working in rural Aberdeenshire. He has been qualified for ten years and is an independent prescriber. Johnathan has an interest in managing patients with asthma. He currently manages asthma patients in his local GP practice and is working towards managing this caseload of patients within the community pharmacy setting.

Future read/write access to the patient records, increased autonomy for pharmacists and promotion of the important emerging role of community pharmacy independent prescribers are topics of interest. Johnathan co-edits the pharmacy magazine website in Scotland called Pharmacy in Practice.

Ted has been with the organisation since its inception in 1985.

Pharmacy Management started life with the publishing of the quarterly Journal of Pharmacy Management (JoPM) which is still in existence today. The company developed from publishing in to delivering Conferences in all four nations in the UK and has created the Pharmacy Management Academy www.pharman.co.uk/pm-leadership/pm-academy which offers pharmacists training in personal and developmental skills.

Allied to the Academy is the Clinical Leadership in Pharmacy programme www.pharman.co.uk/pm-leadership/clip which launched first in Scotland in 2016.

Pharmacy Management is a Partner of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society /United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association and the Medicines Optimisation/Innovation Centre of Northern Ireland.

Ted is now based in Australia where the company is about to commence working with the Australian Society of Hospital Pharmacists.

Elaine is currently Team Leader for the Dundee Locality Pharmacy Service and has a clinical commitment in General Practice and Intermediate Care. Her main area of interest is prescribing in frail older people, living in care homes.

Lucy has been a pharmacist for 20 years and started her career in hospital pharmacy as a basic grade in Aberdeen after completing her pre-registration year at Kings College Hospital, London.

Lucy, following some community pharmacy locums, decided to change career and undertake roles in community pharmacy full time, working in a busy high street pharmacy.

She took a break from pharmacy in the UK to travel around Asia and Australia. While in Australia Lucy registered in two states and worked as a pharmacist, funding her travels. On returning to the UK in 2003 Lucy returned to work as a community pharmacy locum before securing her current post as Substance Misuse pharmacist.

Lucy has worked across many sectors of pharmacy including hospital, community pharmacy & primary care. She has gained a wealth of experience in her current specialist field of addictions both from the clinicians and teams she has worked with and nationally through collaborating with the SPISMs (Specialist Pharmacists in Substance Misuse group for Scotland)

Lucy is motivated and passionate in her job with a natural ability to want the best for everyone no matter what the health issue or chronic illness they may be suffering from. She has recently re-invigorated her passion for community pharmacy and is embracing the rewarding interactions working as a locum brings.

“I am so glad that OTC/prescribed dependence is finally getting the attention it deserves”