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Registration & Licences
GPhC Registration No. 2048123 — General Pharmaceutical Council, Registered since 2021
Independent Prescriber — GPhC, 2023
MRPharmS — Member, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, 2021
Professional Summary
Dedicated clinical pharmacist with 5 years of progressive experience across retail, primary care, and NHS hospital pharmacy settings in Manchester. Registered independent prescriber since 2023. Spearheaded the implementation of a Computerised Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system that reduced prescription errors by 45%. Skilled in medicines reconciliation, polypharmacy reviews, and antimicrobial stewardship. Passionate about patient safety, medicines optimisation, and the development of the pharmacist prescribing role.
Experience
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT)
- Provide clinical pharmacy services across a 36-bed medical admissions ward and a 20-bed respiratory high-dependency unit, conducting daily medicines reconciliation and ward round participation.
- Led the Trust-wide implementation of a CPOE (Computerised Physician Order Entry) system replacing paper prescribing; project reduced prescription transcription errors by 45% over 8 months (measured against pre-implementation Datix baseline).
- Practise as an independent prescriber in the respiratory virtual ward clinic, reviewing 12–15 patients weekly and initiating, amending, or discontinuing therapy under Patient Group Directions.
- Chair the ward-level antimicrobial stewardship committee; introduced IV-to-oral switch criteria that reduced average antibiotic course length by 1.4 days and saved £28,000 in 2024.
- Supervise and sign off competencies for 2 pre-registration pharmacists; both secured rotational band 6 posts on completion.
Lloyds Pharmacy (NHS Contract Sites), Greater Manchester
- Managed a high-volume community pharmacy dispensing 1,200+ items per day, supervising a team of 5 dispensing technicians and 2 counter assistants.
- Delivered NHS Medicines Use Review (MUR) and New Medicine Service (NMS) consultations; completed 340 NMS consultations in 2022, achieving Trust average adherence improvement of 23%.
- Participated in the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board care home pharmacy review scheme, conducting polypharmacy medication reviews for 60 care home residents quarterly.
- Identified and resolved 18 clinically significant dispensing discrepancies through near-miss reporting; recognised in regional Lloyds Pharmacy patient safety award 2022.
Clinical Skills & Competencies
- Independent Prescribing (GPhC)
- Medicines reconciliation
- Polypharmacy & deprescribing reviews
- Antimicrobial stewardship (IV-to-oral switch)
- CPOE system implementation
- Patient Group Directions (PGDs)
- TPN / parenteral nutrition review
- Renal dose adjustment
- JAC / EPMA clinical pharmacy software
- Medicines Use Review (MUR) & NMS
Education
MSc Clinical Pharmacy (with Prescribing)
Sep 2022 – Sep 2023
University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences — Distinction; Independent Prescribing qualification integrated
BPharm (Bachelor of Pharmacy)
Sep 2015 – Jun 2019
University of Lagos, Faculty of Pharmacy — First Class Honours; valedictorian 2019 cohort
GPhC Pre-Registration Training Year
Sep 2020 – Jun 2021
Manchester Royal Infirmary — GPhC registration awarded June 2021