Speakers

Biography

Sanjay has been a practice based pharmacist for the past ten years working in practices in Blackpool and North Lancashire. He is an Independent Prescriber and works across many Long Term Conditions (Asthma, COPD, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease). He is currently working as a Clinical Pharmacist at St Pauls Medical Practice in Blackpool.

Sanjay has also worked for Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale CCG, in the recent past gaining experience of working at a more strategic level and introducing pharmacists into general practice.

Sanjay has a very good understanding of the changing nature of general practice and the challenges it faces having worked in practices of varying size and in different locations. He has in depth knowledge of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), Enhanced services in practice and EMIS systems.

Biography

Hetal Dhruve is a specialist respiratory pharmacist and is the Clinical Respiratory Lead for City and Hackney CCG. She works across the borough seeing high risk asthma and COPD patients, as well as supporting her colleagues in primary care to improve the quality of care for respiratory patients.

She has a clinical diploma and MSc in pharmacy practice and is a certified practitioner for spirometry testing and interpretation (Level 3). Additionally, as well as teaching the multidisciplinary team in City and Hackney, Hetal is part of the education committee at the PCRS and teaches undergraduate pharmacy students at Kings, pre-registration students at UEA and post graduate pharmacists and physiotherapists at UCL.

Biography

Dominika Froehlich-Jeziorek is a pharmacist from North West England.  

She is an independent prescriber, a lead for asthma and COPD in the practice and runs clinics for complex polypharmacy and chronic pain patients. She has extensive experience working at a community pharmacy and CCG level around medicines optimisation agenda. Over the years, she has acquired a very good understanding of the changing nature of general practice and the challenges it faces by working in practices of various sizes across Lancashire and Merseyside.

She is passionate about clinical education and is working within the pharmaceutical industry to develop and deliver high-quality and accessible training for primary care professionals. Her main mission is to improve outcomes for patients through the joint working at the neighbourhood level and the development of integrated services.​

Biography

After 16 years in mainstream NHS organisations, Tina Teague left NEW Devon CCG to take up the post of Chief Operating Officer for East Devon Health (EDH) in September 2016. EDH is a newly established federation in Devon with a membership of 13 practices, covering just over 120,000 patients. She is working closely with the Federation Chair to develop the federation into a well-established, viable organisation. Currently EDH’s main focus is to develop and deliver a range of projects on the use of technology to improve healthcare after a successful Estates and Technology Transformation Fund bid.

Tina’s experience includes senior commissioning in PCTs and CCGs. Tina has also worked in the acute sector, with previous operational roles in Cancer Services and Cardiology Services in local acute trusts. Before leaving the CCG, Tina led the transforming community services programme for the Eastern Locality in NEW Devon CCG.

Biography

Carol Stonham qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1986 in Bristol and has worked in Primary Care in Gloucestershire since 1990. Following 26 years working as a Nurse Practitioner in General Practice, she now works at Gloucestershire CCG on the Respiratory Clinical Programme Group as Senior Nurse Practitioner (respiratory), as well as running a locality-based FeNO service. She also enjoys teaching and mentoring.

She is an active member of PCRS, and is Vice Chair of the organisation and of the Education Committee. She is the Primary Care Nurse Representative for the National COPD Audit, UK Inhaler Group and UK Lung Cancer Coalition. She has also been awarded the Queen’s Nurse title and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours list in 2016 for Services to Nursing and Healthcare.

Biography

Fin McCaul is currently the Long-Term Conditions Lead for Bury CCG. He works with GPs, primary care providers and secondary care providers to improve the pathways for clinicians and outcomes for patients. The focus is on collaboration and integration, ensuring the commissioner gets best value and the patients get the best care.

Graduated from the Liverpool School of Pharmacy in 1986, he has practiced pharmacy for most of his career and is also Managing Director of Prestwich Pharmacy in Manchester. Fin was a past founder and Chairman of the Independent Pharmacy Federation and now represents Pharmacists on PSNC.

Fin was awarded fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 2016 for his service to pharmacy.