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 […]