Mrs Inderpreet Kaur
Inderpreet graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2012. Since then she has completed her postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy, independent prescribing in chronic pain and CPPE primary care pharmacy education pathway while holding a full-time position in her clinical role. She has worked in various sectors during her career such as in community pharmacies, hospital, Clinical Commissioning Groups and general practice.
At her previous role as the Shropshire CCG Central Locality Lead, she led a cost improvement project covering a population of 300,000 patients. The evidence showed that educating patients on self-treatable conditions and signposting to local community pharmacies can save GP appointments, prescription costs and visits to A&E. She presented on Shropshire BBC radio on “Self-Care awareness campaign”. The project aimed to educate patients on self-care conditions, change prescribing habits of their clinicians as well as patients' behaviour, and tackle expectations of the population.
In her current role as the PCN lead pharmacist, she took the initiative to develop a safe prescribing policy across all practices in her PCN. In addition, she has provided a fresh perspective on building a pharmacy workforce model to the GP partners and practice managers. The model includes training pharmacy students, foundation pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacy technicians. The pharmacy workforce model aims to build mentoring skills, leadership skills and continuous career progression in the PCN. She also runs regular diabetes clinics, leads quality and safety projects, manages junior clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, and supervises others.
Reason for applying for the scheme
Participating in this scheme will allow Inderpreet to work with strong national influential leaders and understand how different organisations come together to improve patient care and NHS services. The scheme is an excellent opportunity for pharmacists like herself who would like to learn and improve their leadership skills. She has special interests in transforming and integrating clinical service. She strongly feels that it is essential that services align themselves with the changing landscape of healthcare delivery as Integrated Care Systems and PCNs develop as agreed in the NHS Long Term Plan. The scheme will allow her to step outside the box and out of her comfort zone to understand challenges and the implementation process.
