PIP Learning Editorial Board

Editorial board

The role of the editorial board is vital to ensure that all materials produced on PIP learning are of the highest standard. Although the board members do not have direct input into the creation of the content they will help steer the future direction and give robust feedback when appropriate.

Dr Catherine Duggan

Dr Catherine Duggan is the Director of Professional Development at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. For the past seven years in her role, she has been responsible for the delivery of professional advice and support to all members across all sectors; the development of strategies to share and showcase good practice across the profession and development and implementation of professional standards for pharmacy. Since 2012, Catherine has led the development, implementation and strategic embedding of RPS Faculty and Foundation programmes into continuing professional development. Most recently, Catherine has led programmes of leadership and mentoring as well as the full portfolio of RPS accreditation services, the Vision for the Workforce and the Roadmap for Advanced Practice, that have all built into the education strategy for RPS. During 2016, Dr Duggan undertook a dual role at RPS as Director for PD as well as Interim Director for RPS England, during a period of change at RPS, overseeing strategic and operational delivery across team England, and supporting the EPB. Now, in 2017, she has a consolidated role in professional development: science, education and professional standards and the RPS international strategy that builds on our international partnerships across countries as well as supporting the close working of RPS with FIP. Catherine has published widely and presented at national and international meetings and has a wealth of people and programme management experience. She is a recognised leader in the profession working with many networks within and across the profession and, more widely, health and business.  Catherine has worked in community, primary care, hospital and academia.  She held joint appointments between clinical practice and academia between 1999 and 2009, supporting professional development and evidence-based practice, developing courses and support alongside supporting research and evaluations in practice at all levels, having published widely and supported many doctoral and masters research projects. Between 2007 and 2009, Catherine was the Chair of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association and an elected member of the Council of the RPSGB. She has been awarded Fellowships of both the RPS and the UCL School of Pharmacy and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Micheal Holden FRPharmS FRSPH

Following a number of years employed in various practice and management positions to a senior level, Michael established his own community pharmacy group in England. In 2005 Michael became the Chief Officer of the Hampshire and Isle Of Wight Local Pharmaceutical Committee. He was appointed as the Chief Executive of the National Pharmacy Association from January 2011 to October 2014. Michael has a significant understanding of policy, legislation and regulation relating to pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry in addition to the experience of working across the world. He is one of the principal drivers behind the development of the Healthy Living Pharmacy initiative, is an active advocate of an expanded role for the profession in health and wellbeing and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences Michael established MH Associates in December 2014 and in February 2016 collaborated with The Tipping Point Ltd to establish Pharmacy Complete to enable pharmacy for a healthier future by working with community pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. Michael was honoured as a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in March 2011 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health in 2017. He is married with three daughters and lives in Hampshire, England.

Dr Toby Capstick

After qualifying in 2000 Toby has had a number of hospital pharmacy jobs including roles in professional development and advanced clinical pharmacist in rheumatology. He currently works as an advanced clinical pharmacist in respiratory medicine in Leeds teaching hospitals NHS trust. In this role, he provides advanced and highly specialist pharmaceutical care to patients with respiratory diseases in both an inpatient and outpatient setting. I am an independent pharmacist prescriber at ward and clinic level. His current interests include asthma, COPD, tuberculosis, inhaler technique training, medicines optimisation and adherence. His current role involves working in the Leeds Difficult Asthma Clinic, where he is currently researching the role and effectiveness of pharmacists across the primary and secondary care interface in improving asthma control and quality of life in patients with difficult asthma. He has worked with clinicians in the Leeds Tuberculosis clinic since 2007, where he promotes patient education and adherence to ensure that antituberculosis drugs are used effectively. Previous research has centred around scoping problems concerning the availability of suitable drugs for treating tuberculosis, and identifying measures to ensure consistent drug supplies with a multi-disciplinary working group. He has provided education to a wide range of healthcare professionals across primary and secondary care on a regional and national level on a range of subjects, included inhaler technique, asthma, COPD, pharmacology and tuberculosis. He has been chair of the UK Clinical Pharmacy association respiratory group since 2014.

Beth Ward

Beth is currently the head of professional development in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. In this role, she is responsible for the development and ongoing delivery of the RPS Foundation and Faculty Programmes – post registration professional development programmes for pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists. Previous to this she was interim head of Foundation and faculty when she was responsible for the development and ongoing delivery of the RPS Foundation and Faculty Programmes – post registration professional development programmes for pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists. Between 2014 to 2016 she was the foundation programme manager where she led the development and implementation of the RPS Foundation Programme. This included the development of assessments, curricula, peer support networks, an accreditation programme to quality assure existing education and training aligned to the programme and resources for Foundation pharmacists and their tutors. Previous to this she held a number of clinical pharmacy hospital roles in the UK and Australia including most notably Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Cardiac Services, The Heart Hospital.

Osenadia C. Joseph-Ebare

Osenadia is currently a final year pharmacy student at King’s College London (KCL). He is a past executive member of the British Pharmaceutical Student Organisation (BPSA), and currently is appointed onto the RPS Industrial Pharmacists Forum (IPF) to represent the student perspective on pharmaceutical industries, and pursue their interests. He chairs the IPF student group, a team of KCL and UCL pharmacy undergraduates to achieve these objectives. Osenadia is also a prolific public health activist and led cross-professional student conferences, workshops and national public health campaigns to raise the awareness of Antimicrobial Resistance and the threat it poses to society. His current focus is centred upon designing innovative services to improve the quality of care within the NHS.

Fin Mccaul

Fin is Managing Director of Prestwich Pharmacy. His role at Greater Manchester LPC involves leading on contractor engagement. He has worked with a variety of public health groups and is currently the Long-Term Conditions Lead for NHS Bury CCG, working with GPs, other primary care providers and secondary care. Fin also speaks and delivers training at local and national events on smoking cessation, weight loss, professional development, and change management. Fin was made a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 2016 in recognition of his service to pharmacy. He was appointed to the board of PSNC in January 2017. Fin has other areas of expertise which include independent pharmacy practice, long-term conditions management, pharmacy service delivery, communication skill and change management. His other roles include chairman of Independent Pharmacy Federation (2007-14), NHS Bury CCG Long-Term Conditions Lead since 2012, works alongside the NPA board, promoting the benefits of independent pharmacy while supporting members and PSNC Regional Representative North West since 2017.

Sharron Gordon

Sharron is passionate about the role of pharmacists in caring for patients. In over 20 years in NHS practice, she worked in both specialist posts and senior manager roles initiating therapy as a prescribing pharmacist. Her work has been shortlisted for two Health Service Journal awards and won 3 awards from patient charities. She currently spends her time split between improving anticoagulant therapy and running a Winchester based aesthetics clinic.

Stephen-Andrew Whyte

Stephen an Advanced Paediatric Practitioner. Stephen has worked in the pharmacy industry for over a decade, gaining experience in community, hospital and academic settings, and is a specialist pharmacist in paediatrics and neonatology with a sub-speciality in paediatric intensive care. Identified by his peers as a trailblazer, Stephen was the first pharmacist in the UK to be recognised as an Advanced Paediatric Practitioner (ACP) in paediatrics, and the first Health Education England Clinical Fellow in Urgent and Acute Care from a pharmacy background. He is passionate about advancing pharmacy professionals’ knowledge and skills of children and young people and how medicines relate to them. In addition to this, he has also led an innovative pilot that trains pharmacists as Advanced Clinical Practitioners to work in urgent care centres and emergency departments across London and the South East. Stephen undertakes regular clinical work as a senior clinician in the paediatric department of a busy London teaching hospital; assessing, diagnosing and treating children presenting with a plethora of illnesses independently. Outside of work, Stephen enjoys the theatre, eating out and long rambling country walks with his Scottie dogs, Angus and Oona.

Luvjit Kandula

Luvjit currently works as the Chief Officer of Leicestershire and Rutland Local Pharmaceutical Committee. Her role involves advancing community pharmacy in the local NHS whilst representing Community Pharmacists interests. Currently seconded to NHS digital to support pharmacy integration, PCPA  community pharmacy chair and APPG diabetes group specialist advisor. Luvjit has extensive experience working as a Community Pharmacist also having worked in hospital pharmacy and industry both in the UK and abroad. Previous roles include Head of Pharmacy Services and Management of the Pre-registration Programme and also Chairing Warwickshire Local Pharmaceutical Committee.

Francesca Aaen

Francesca is an independent pharmacist consultant and owner of Aaen Care which delivers medicines and healthcare related training, consultancy and advice to both private and public sector providers of health and social care services across the UK. She writes articles and resources for national and international training providers and provides advice and mentoring to the pharmaceutical industry. Francesca has an MSc in Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice. She is an independent prescriber and runs polypharmacy clinics in care homes on a sessional basis. Francesca has broad experience in working in pharmacy services across the NHS and in community pharmacy as well as teaching in non-medical prescribing and MSc courses and speaking and chairing at learning events. She has a particular interest in improving dementia care and reducing inappropriate prescribing in older people. She was an associate of the Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling and, as Care Homes Lead Pharmacist in NHS Lanarkshire, was the winner of Innovation and Change in Pharmacy Practice Award at the Scottish Pharmacist Awards 2016 for the development of an innovative pharmacist prescriber service for care homes.

Victoria Rutter

Victoria Rutter MPharm PGDipClinPharm FFRPS MRPharmS is Executive Director, Commonwealth Pharmacists Association is widely recognised for her involvement in the pharmacy professional development arena at a global level, both through publication and presentation of her work at numerous international conferences and events. After spending 10 years practicing in Singapore and developing several cross-country partnerships to support the development of the profession overseas, Victoria’s current role as the first executive director of the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA), supporting the development of the profession across the Commonwealth, seemed a natural progression to her career when she relocated to the UK in April 2016. In the same year, she was also appointed as the representative for non-government organizations on the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Health (CACH). Liaising closely with the Commonwealth Secretariat and the CPA’s Executive Committee, her work is currently focused on initiating and developing projects and activities supported by the organization, particularly around antimicrobial resistance, substandard and falsified medicines, and provision of accessible and affordable post-graduate education and training. Victoria is also a master practitioner of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and consults for the pharmacy communications and leadership training company Pharmacy Management.