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Annual Report 2016
Expert Professional Practice & Collaborative Working Relationships
GH is the Chair of the RPS Panel of Fellows, a member of the RPS Faculty Board, and on the Pharmaceutical Sciences
Advisory Panel. She is also a member of the MHRA CPS expert advisory group. GH has been involved in working with RPS
around community pharmacist assessment in case based discussions for the Faculty* and the UKCPA work on the KIT
(curricula) for national training programmes.
Clive Jolliffe, previously Superintendant pharmacist for Morrisons, has attended several national community pharmacy
boards and until recently was a CPPE tutor.
Clive Jolliffe & Karen Gunnell are also members of the UKCPA Education &Training Group committee.
Diane Harris is also a member of the UKCPA Pharmacy Infection Network .
Valerie Sillito, opinion leader in Scotland as a community pharmacist, and represents community pharmacy on the RPS
pharmaceutical sciences advisory panel. Represented the Community Group as expert adviser on the UKCPA work on
Faculty* practice based assessments (REPP) .
Jennifer Archer is an independent consultant in education and training nationally and previous deputy director of CPPE.
Leadership
Consultation response: NICE Community pharmacy promoting health and wellbeing, July 2016: GH submitted a response
on behalf of UKCPA.
GH contributed to RPS Faculty work on community pharmacy curricula.
GH has been very involved in Faculty Board meetings and supporting UKCPA members working towards Faculty.
GH ongoing work on antimicrobial resistance following the previous successful research which has been picked up by
Public Health England to support changing practice.
Management
GH has facilitated the contribution of community pharmacists to national work eg MHRA ad hoc expert working groups.
UKCPA strategy – GH represented the group at the strategy and GC meetings and teleconferences.
Clive Jolliffe delivered a Management worksession at the UKCPA Conference in November 2016.
Education, Training & Development
Delivered a worksession within the Building Effective Relationships stream: Celebration through collaboration (speakers:
Maria Bell and Gill Hawksworth).
Delivered a worksession within the Management stream: Achieving GPhC standards & "managing" inspections (speaker:
Clive Jolliffe).
Research & Evaluation
GH has ongoing successful work on antimicrobial resistance and the research has been taken up by Public Health England
through Phil Howard to help change practice of community pharmacists with regard to antimicrobial stewardship.
Publications
In Practice newsletter:
AKI: Think kidneys; January 2016
Mental capacity and covert administration of medicines; April 2016
Multidisciplinary medicines optimisation; July 2016
Making time; November 2016
The webinar delivered by the Community Group influenced the article written by Tim Denman, Emergency Medicine
Pharmacist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals for In Practice titled ‘Pharmacy & Urgent Care: National Priorities & Local
Experience’.
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