President, British Pharmaceutical Students' Association

"Nonyelum is the current President of the British Pharmaceutical Students Association (BPSA) 2023/24, and a fourth year pharmacy student at Keele University. As BPSA President, she is dedicated to ensuring the thoughts and best interests of pharmacy students and foundation trainees are well represented in the pharmacy profession. Nonyelum is passionate about advocacy work and strives to make sure diversity and inclusion are at the heart of all the BPSA does, and that these values are reflected across the pharmacy profession."

Managing Director, Superintendent Pharmacist – Whitworth Chemists

Jay is Managing Director and Superintendent Pharmacist for Whitworth Chemists, a large and well-known independent pharmacy chain based in the north of England. He is a National Pharmacy Association board member, Chair of Tees Local Pharmaceutical Committee and a Royal Pharmaceutical Society Fellow. Jay also holds a master’s degree in law.

Community Pharmacist and Lead for RPS LNW

Stephanie is a community pharmacist and lead for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in north-west London. She organises regular educational events that support pharmacists’ CPD for revalidation and has led several award-winning projects for community pharmacists, with the aim of improving patient outcomes. Stephanie is Deputy Chair of the Parkinson’s Disease Specialist Pharmacy Network and a member of Brent and Harrow Local Pharmaceutical Committee.

Senior Clinical Pharmacist in General Practice & Pharmacy Tutor

Chris has experience of working across most sectors of pharmacy, including academia, hospital and prison pharmacy, although he has spent most of his career working in a variety of roles in community pharmacy and primary care. He holds NHS Leadership Academy qualifications and is an Independent Prescriber. He sits on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society West Yorkshire steering group and the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association Community Pharmacy and Education & Development panels.

Senior Professional Advisor Pharmacy Technician Practice – NHS England

Liz has worked across various pharmacy sectors and is a leader in driving the pharmacy technician profession forward. Liz is the Senior Professional Advisor Pharmacy Technician Practice at NHS England and Improvement. She has led many workforce developments to ensure the skills and expertise of pharmacy technicians are recognised. Liz is the immediate Past President of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK and is in her final year of an Executive Masters in Business Administration at the University of Greenwich.

Chief Executive – Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies

Leyla joined the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies as CEO in September 2019, working with the board to set the vision for the organisation and influence the direction of travel for the sector. Prior to this, she worked for the National Pharmacy Association as Director of Pharmacy and Chief Pharmacist and as Medicines Safety Officer for independent pharmacies with fewer than 50 branches. Leyla holds a degree in pharmacy, postgraduate degrees in pharmacy practice, pharmacology and toxicology and an MBA. Her career started in Sweden, before moving to the UK in 2004 and working her way up from Branch Manager to senior management positions within community pharmacy.

Community and Practice Pharmacist

Yasmine is a Clinical PCN Pharmacist working remotely across England. She splits her time over her practices, working in community pharmacy and training the new generation of pharmacists through her Deputy Lead role with the Primary Care Pharmacy Association. She graduated in 2019 at the University of Sunderland receiving the Jemma O'Sullivan award for her determination, care and compassion shown throughout her degree. Within her time as a Pre-Registration and Provisional Pharmacist she won Pre-Reg of the year at both the C+D Awards 2020 and The Pharmacy Business Awards 2020. Her scope of experience started 12 years ago starting as a Pharmacy Assistant and since then has developed countless qualities to encourage and support many around her. She has since been one of our Women in Pharmacy Advisors, featured on the podcast series 'a coffee with' and shared her story at The Pharmacy Show 2021 live.

Associate Director at Pharmacy Complete

Mike is Director of Pharmacy Complete, a training and consultancy organisation. Having run his own community pharmacy group, he became Chief Executive Officer of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Local Pharmaceutical Committee in 2005 and Chief Executive of the National Pharmacy Association in 2011. Mike is a strong and active advocate of innovation in pharmacy practice to expand its role in health and wellbeing and has worked with pharmacy colleagues across the world. Mike became a Royal Pharmaceutical Society Fellow in 2011 and a Royal Society for Public Health Fellow in 2017.

Chair, NPA

Nick, is a third generation community pharmacist; he graduated from Bradford University in 1998, and trained as a pre-registration student in a family run community pharmacy and at St James University Hospital Leeds. Since qualifying, he has worked for an independent pharmacy, as a locum and prescribing advisory for the Newquay doctors group. Nick was the Superintendent Pharmacist of Nick Kaye’s Pharmacy in Newquay in Cornwall a role he took on in 2011 and finished in 2017. Whilst in that role the pharmacy won several awards including, C+D finalist 2013, Pharmacy Business award winner Entrepreneur 2012 and Alphega pharmacy of the year 2013. Nick is an ex-Partner of Veor Group of general practices and was also involved in the Key Note Speaker’s Panel at the Pharmacy Show 2013.

CEO of Kingston and Richmond Local Pharmaceutical Committee

Michael is currently Chief Executive of Kingston and Richmond Local Pharmaceutical Committee (LPC). Previous roles include Chief Executive of Kent Local Pharmaceutical Committee; National Access Manager, Professional Liaison for Pfizer; Operations Manager at The Company Chemists’ Association; and Superintendent Pharmacist at Superdrug. In the past, Michael has also been Chairman of Kingston and Richmond and Director at The Institute of Pharmacy Management International.

Managing Director RxBridge

Seb is an experienced pharmacy finance professional, heading up RxBridge and is on the board of its parent company, TradeBridge. With a background in Asset Based Lending and sector level expertise earned at Pharmacy Partners, Centric Commercial Finance and Shawbrook Bank, his 15 years of experience funding into the sector has helped drive RxBridge’s growth to become the largest provider of discretionary working capital facilities for independent pharmacy businesses in the UK.

Pharmacy and Inclusion and Diversity Lead Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences – University of Oxford

Professor Mahendra G Patel OBE is an eminent pharmacist and academic of national and international profile honouring professorial roles in the UK, Malaysia and USA. He has served as national board member and as Treasurer for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society for many years. He is also a member of the Teaching Faculty for Bioethics at UNESCO. Mahendra has several national and international awards to his credit, notably around supporting evidence-based practice, health promotion and health education, and improving health and health inequalities within ethnic minority and underserved communities. He became one of the first to be awarded a Fellowship from NICE, and through pharmacy he received the prestigious Royal Pharmaceutical Society President’s Charter Award, and also became the first to be appointed International Fellow of the Indian Pharmaceutical Society. Mahendra is one of the UK trial leads at the University of Oxford in the world’s largest and fastest recruiting clinical trials in primary care, with the PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC trials. In the Queen's New Year's Honours 2022, Mahendra was recognised for his outstanding contribution and work in pharmacy and was awarded an OBE.

Community Pharmacist at Bannside Pharmacy

Eoghan is the Elected Integrated Care Partnership Pharmacist for Antrim/Ballymena since 2013. ICPs, are playing a key role in how health and social care services in Northern Ireland are being transformed and are helping to change the way care is delivered. He is a casual lecturer on the MPharm course at Ulster University & Ulster Chemist Association Pharmacy Pre-registration training programme on Enhanced Services, Complementary Medicine and Health & Wellbeing. Eoghan is a second-generation independent contractor, having taken over Bannside Pharmacy from his late father Colm in the County Antrim town of Portglenone in 1993.

Associate Director Contractor Engagement, Community Pharmacy Wales

Aled is a passionate service driven pharmacist with a keen interest in collaboration and a strong belief in the positive impact of community pharmacy on the well-being of local populations. He graduated from Cardiff in 2008, completed postgraduate qualifications at Keele in 2019 and returned to Cardiff last year to complete his independent prescribing qualification. Aled now fits patient facing work around his main role as an engagement officer for Community Pharmacy Wales- providing support for the Welsh community pharmacy network in delivering all elements of their Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework. Twice nominated at the C+D awards for collaborative projects he is passionate about the positive impact of multidisciplinary working. Aled also leads on primary care cluster working for CPW across Wales, supporting the role of the Community Pharmacy Collaborative Leads to ensure Community Pharmacies in Wales are at the forefront of collaborative discussions at cluster level.

Managing Director & Superintendent Pharmacist – PharmaCare Pharmacy

Sukhy is the Managing Director and Superintendent Pharmacist for the independent Pharmacare Pharmacy. This pharmacy was set up as a new contract and it is now one of the Top 20 busiest community pharmacies in the country. She has 23 years of pharmacy experience and has held various external positions including LPC member and PCN Lead for Walsall. She has been a C+D runner up in past years and is a previous winner of three consecutive C+D awards: The Manager of the Year 2020, Team of the Year 2021 & Independent Pharmacy of The Year 2022.

President of APTUK

Claire Steele started her pharmacy career in community pharmacy in her hometown of Keighley, West Yorkshire as a Medicine Counter Assistant. After qualifying as a Pharmacy Technician in 1998, Claire moved to Leeds General Infirmary to commence her hospital pharmacy career in 1999. In 2003, Claire headed north to Inverness to take up what would be the first of many lead Pharmacy Technician roles in Scotland. Claire has specialized in various hospital pharmacy services including clinical trials, procurement and market access and is now at her sixth Health Board, NHS Fife as the Head of Pharmacy for Medicines Supply and Quality.

As a strong advocate for Pharmacy Technicians and pharmacy support staff, Claire joined the National Pharmacy Technician Group Scotland, taking on the role of Professional Secretary and Chair of the Communications Group. Claire joined the APTUK Executive Committee in 2021 when she became the APTUK Professional Lead for Scotland while maintaining her NPTGS roles. Claire commenced her tenure as President of APTUK on 1st March 2022 and is determined to ensure pharmacy technicians are represented at the highest level and that best practice and knowledge is shared across the United Kingdom.

Omnichannel Implementation Manager – Well Pharmacy

Mital is an experienced leader in the community pharmacy sector. He is passionate about innovation and improving patient experience and is an advocate for community pharmacy. Having been a judge for the past three years he is inspired by the fantastic stories and innovations that occur across the Pharmacy landscape and is delighted to see the profession progressing forward. Mital has been previously nominated as the Community Pharmacist of the Year at the C+D Awards 2018 and was part of the winning Team of the Year award in the 2020 C+D Awards ceremony.

Mital's current role focuses specifically on digital innovation, identifying new products, services and partnerships to provide consistent growth opportunities and choices for patients and customers at Well.