The Board of Directors is responsible for the strategic management and direction of UKCPA and for ensuring that the company meets its statutory obligations. You can read more about how UKCPA is structured and governed through our Articles of Association and what our strategic plan is for 2023-28.
We are also part of the UK Pharmacy Professional Leadership Advisory Board to foster closer collaboration between pharmacy professional leadership bodies and specialist professional groups to enable and support pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to meet the opportunities and challenges ahead. You can find the proposed Vision and common purpose for this collaboration here.
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Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice (Placements Lead) & Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner
Keele University
Experiential learning, advanced pharmacist qualifications & credentialing, renal pharmacy, pain management.
Polypharmacy & deprescribing; patient-centred care through shared decision making; education & training; advocating for the skills that the pharmacy profession adds to the health system
Travelling (helps create new neuronal pathways!); destressing at the gym and with yoga and pilates; cooking from scratch
Pharmacy ICU and neonatal oncology; pharmacy professional development; event management
Travelling (aiming to visit four new countries per year!); house renovation
Business and account management; project management; event management
My two dogs; reading; visiting West Norfolk as much as possible
Passion projects: Gardening & houseplants; exercising outdoors whatever the weather; travelling
Gardening & houseplants; exercising outdoors whatever the weather; travelling
MPharm Programme Director & Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Keele University
Higher education, professional development, mentoring.
Senior Clinical Lecturer – Pharmacy, University of Manchester
Driving forward education, training and scholarship in clinical pharmacy.
Chief Pharmacist
HCRG Care Group
Clinical Governance, Transformation and service improvements, Clinical substance misuse
Being a Director of UKCPA… “is extremely rewarding and something I am proud to be a part of. Supporting UKCPA provides me with a great sense of pride and achievement. It gives me a platform to share my knowledge and it is a great way to work with colleagues across the healthcare system.
As the Chief Pharmacist for HCRG Care Group I lead on medicines optimisation, non-medical prescribing, transformation and pharmacy leadership. I also represent Independent Healthcare Providers (IHP) on the National SPS PGD Service Advisory Board. Wearing a number of hats allows me to support large scale change within the profession.”
Lead lung cancer & clinical commissioning support pharmacist
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Paediatrics & Neonates, Neurosciences, Research
Being a Director of UKCPA…“is an enormous sense of privilege. Through various positions and responsibilities I have gathered the opinions of healthcare professionals on possible improvements in the delivery of clinical pharmacy services in the UK. The UKCPA provides me with the platform to action these ideas and suggestions by developing workable plans with clear targets.”
Divisional Director of Professions & Clinical Pharmacy Manager of Surgery and Cardiac Services
University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Critical Care, Professional leadership, education
Being a Director of UKCPA… “coach, facilitate, distil and develop the inspirational educational content of the next few years with the educational committee members and the wider UKCPA membership.”
Assistant Chief Pharmacist & Operational Services Manager
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Leadership, Strategic development of clinical pharmacy services