Career spotlight

  What is your role now? I am a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist based in Primary Care in North NHS Highland. I specialise in frail, elderly, complex polypharmacy, care home and care at home patients. I also work with the local multidisciplinary integrated team via its “Huddle” and contribute to rapid response falls team assessments. I […]

  What is your role now? Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner in primary care. I carry out medication reviews for all patients in the practice and set up CMS prescribing for those suitable, making sure appropriate monitoring is carried out at the practice. Also medicines reconciliation for patients discharged from hospital or attending outpatient clinics, and I […]

What is your role now? I have a split role, I work two days a week as Lead Pharmacist for North Highland which involves developing primary care pharmacy services and supporting safe, effective and cost-effective prescribing. I also have Highland-wide Lead Pharmacist portfolio roles for dispensing practices, care at home and the Scottish Patient Safety […]

  What is your role now?Infrequent locum and freelance writer — I author Clinical Knowledge Summaries for the NICE CKS website, write for a number of pharmacy publications, consumer healthcare companies, marketing companies and anybody else that will have me. I also run Pharmacy in Practice with Johnathan Laird. What roles did you do to […]

WHY is international experience beneficial to the pharmacy profession? Pharmacy’s rapid progress during the last decades showed us that worldwide there are more and more challenges for pharmacists. Because of this international experience is essential to incorporating new concepts, improving healthcare services and education and helps us gain higher levels of proficiency by using approaches […]

Roshani Patel THE registration examination is over now, but what next? Have you thought about this? Let me propose a few further questions to you all: Are you feeling confused? Not sure about your next career move? Or not sure what needs to be done? It’s okay if you are feeling all the above. But, something […]

WHEN I heard the clang as the gate was closed behind me for the first time, I have to admit that I was a bit nervous. Would there be serial killers walking around all over the place? Would there be fights left, right and centre and where was the pipe I could escape through if […]