1. All England Pharmacy Fellows Network
London Leads Meeting
20th July 2017
Melanie Dalby, Darzi Fellow
Gareth Kitson, Darzi Fellow
Emily Wighton, Darzi Fellow

2. Who are we?
Alumni network of pharmacy fellows from the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s (NHSE, NHS Digital, HEE, CPPE, NICE and CQC), Darzi, NIHR/CLARHC, Q and AHSN fellowship schemes
Mid-career/grade Pharmacy professionals who have done or are on a Fellowship (past and present)
PGCert or other qualification / experience in Health Leadership and Management
“proactive, innovative and effective”
Explain acronyms
Mel – bit about CPOs and Darzi
Gareth – NIHR/CLARHC

3. What have we done? Darzi CPO HEE
Integrating secondary care with community pharmacy to support patients who take oral anticancer therapy
Design of a foundation pharmacist training programme across North West London, incorporating primary care & mental health
Developing an education framework for healthcare workers supporting people with diabetes in Lewisham
Detecting cases of undiagnosed dementia in community settings including housing schemes & community health teams
CPO
Development of new learning programmes to support hospital practice and implementation of Carter Review recommendations
Lead on identifying training needs & solutions of building a digital ready workforce
RCP practice guide & toolkit to support junior doctor prescribing
HEE
Safer Diabetes. A review of errors with a view to introducing systems and frameworks to improve safety
Then Gareth, Mel and Emily introduce their own programmes
5 mins each about the project – introduction / title, aims, outcomes/outputs and impact and recommendations going forward inc next steps
The recurrent theme is cross boundary – this links to the STPs

4. How does this link to the broader healthcare context?
STPs
FYFV – next steps
Carter Review
Murray Report
Care closer to home
Cross-boundary working
Modernising Pharmacy Careers
Specialised commissioning

5. What do we do? Purposes of the network are to:
Stay in touch, support each other and collaborate on future work
Spread national messages through our extensive networks
Provide a single point of contact to national and regional organisations
Promote wider system thinking, fellowships and opportunities to other pharmacy professionals
Resource to others, supportive of new fellows
e.g. CPC 17 and RPS

6. What can we offer?
Creativity, energy and innovation in a tough climate of uncertainty
Promoters of collaborative working and cross-boundary relationships
A resource / pool of fellows who can use skills to help Chief Pharmacists achieve their workstreams (support implementation)
Mentorship (leadership and health) to new Fellows and mid-grade pharmacists
Build leadership capability in organisations
Mel to give example of being a mentor
We have come from the front line and are able to bridge the gap between front line and senior management as peers

7. We would appreciate if you:
Include us in your networks for initiatives, campaigns and events
Contact us with opportunities for collaborations, lead projects and potential roles
Identify pharmacy professionals in your departments for fellowships, encourage them to apply and host fellowships
We have biographies of current members of the network for information 
We can be contacted at