Miss Gemma Wareing
Gemma studied Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham and was a junior pharmacist training at Nottingham University Hospitals completing a residency program and a PGClinDip in Medicines Management. Since then she has had several clinical roles including A&E pharmacist practitioner and lead intensive care pharmacist, working across the country, gaining knowledge in both large teaching hospitals and smaller district generals.
Gemma has been in her current post at University College London Hospital for three years in the role of theatres and anaesthetics pharmacist. Her role provides a clinical service, ensuring compliance with the trust formulary, applying for new medicines where appropriate alongside clinicians, guideline writing, but also an efficient service delivery to the department. With the governance lead for the department, she leads on medicines safety and governance within the division and links with the wider senior trust pharmacy team. She has completed the independent prescribing course, specialising in acute pain and lectures on pharmacology at the trust acute pain study days.
In addition to clinical work, she has managerial responsibilities including reviewing and presenting the division’s medicines finance data to the management team each month, reviewing and investigating incident reports, giving feedback and learning at governance meetings.
The trust recently launched an electronic system, Epic©, where she was a subject matter expert, providing vital information about medication used in theatres.
Gemma strongly believes that pharmacists should be proactively involved in leadership and decision-making, related to policy, strategy and finance. Given the significant development of clinical pharmacy over the last 20-25 years, with pharmacists gaining important skills in communicating within an MDT, complex decision making and cross-sector working, she is looking forward to gaining exposure through the fellowship to the decision-making processes at a very senior level to allow her to better understand the overall national healthcare policies and priorities aimed at the current challenges facing the NHS. She is excited about the opportunities the fellowship will present so that she can apply this knowledge to become a strategic leader of the clinical pharmacy service, develop collaborative networks, and educate the future workforce to make a safer, more innovative and cost-effective NHS.
