Senior clinical pharmacist · Independent prescriber · Manchester
Five years across retail, primary care and NHS hospital pharmacy, focused on patient safety and medicines optimisation — including the Trust-wide move from paper prescribing to electronic order entry at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
Registration & prescribing
Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council since 2021, and an independent prescriber since 2023.
Case study
Prescribing across the Trust was on paper, with transcription errors recorded through Datix.
Aisha led the Trust-wide implementation of a Computerised Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system to replace paper prescribing.
Prescription transcription errors fell by 45% over eight months, measured against the pre-implementation Datix baseline.
Medicines optimisation & safety
Stewardship, prescribing and review work in NHS hospital and community pharmacy in Greater Manchester.
As chair of the ward-level antimicrobial stewardship committee, she introduced criteria for switching antibiotics from intravenous to oral.
Average course 1.4 days shorter; £28,000 saved in 2024
Prescribes in the respiratory virtual ward clinic — initiating, amending or discontinuing therapy under Patient Group Directions.
12–15 patients reviewed each week
Clinical pharmacy across a 36-bed medical admissions ward and a 20-bed respiratory high-dependency unit, including ward rounds.
Medicines reconciliation every day on both units
Took part in the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board care home pharmacy review scheme.
Medication reviews for 60 care home residents each quarter
Delivered NHS Medicines Use Review and New Medicine Service consultations in community pharmacy.
340 NMS consultations in 2022; Trust-average adherence improvement of 23%
Used near-miss reporting to identify and resolve clinically significant dispensing discrepancies.
18 discrepancies resolved; recognised in the regional Lloyds Pharmacy patient safety award, 2022
A clinical pharmacist who cares about patient safety, medicines optimisation and the growth of the pharmacist prescribing role.
Aisha is a Senior Clinical Pharmacist in medicines optimisation at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. Her day-to-day work is medicines reconciliation, polypharmacy review and antimicrobial stewardship. She also supervises and signs off competencies for two pre-registration pharmacists, both of whom secured rotational band 6 posts on completion.
Before joining the Trust she was a pharmacist at Lloyds Pharmacy's NHS contract sites in Greater Manchester, running a dispensary of 1,200+ items a day. She trained at the University of Lagos and Manchester Royal Infirmary, and completed an MSc in Clinical Pharmacy with prescribing at the University of Manchester.
Clinical skills
Experience
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Ward clinical pharmacy and virtual ward prescribing; led the CPOE implementation; chairs the ward-level antimicrobial stewardship committee; supervises 2 pre-registration pharmacists.
Lloyds Pharmacy (NHS contract sites), Greater Manchester
A high-volume pharmacy dispensing 1,200+ items a day, supervising 5 dispensing technicians and 2 counter assistants; NMS, MUR and care home reviews.
Education
University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences
Distinction; independent prescribing qualification integrated.
Manchester Royal Infirmary
GPhC registration awarded June 2021.
University of Lagos, Faculty of Pharmacy
First Class Honours; valedictorian of the 2019 cohort.
Contact
aisha.bello@email.com
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