Members of CoPED
Dr Jane Brown FRPharmS
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Jane is Pharmacy Dean for NHS England North West and leads the School of Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation. She is post-registration pharmacist lead for English Pharmacy Deans. Jane joined HEE in December 2018 as Associate Dean for advanced practice pharmacist training. Prior to this she was the North lead for the clinical pharmacists in general practice training pathway for CPPE. Previous roles include Director of Policy and Implementation at the National Prescribing Centre where she led the development of the Single Prescribers’ Competency Framework.
During a role as a primary / secondary care interface pharmacist Jane undertook research leading to the award of PhD investigating the impact of the interface on medicines optimisation.
Nick Haddington
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Nick is Chair of the English Pharmacy Deans and Pharmacy Dean for NHS England Workforce Training and Education in the South West, Nick’s role is that of an expert educationalist, responsible for the commissioning, delivery and quality management of pharmacy workforce training. He holds the positions of Lead Visitor with the Health and Care Professions Council and External Examiner at a UK University, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Royal College of Pharmacy and is annotated as an Independent Prescriber. With previous roles as Director of Taught Postgraduate Programmes at a UK university, and as an active prescriber in the NHS, he has a particular interest in education reform and workforce transformation, with a focus on prescribing training.
During a role as a primary / secondary care interface pharmacist Jane undertook research leading to the award of PhD investigating the impact of the interface on medicines optimisation.
David Gibson
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David is Pharmacy Dean for NHS England North East and Yorkshire and leads the School of Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation. He is Early career pharmacist and education quality lead for English Pharmacy Deans. David has worked across the North East and Yorkshire for over 25 years, initially working clinically developing specialism in acute medicine. With various further leadership roles. He has always been passionate about the role of education in developing the pharmacy professions.
Atif Shamin
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Atif Shamim is the Pharmacy Dean for London at NHS England Workforce Training and Education, nationally leading on the implementation of the Initial Education and Training of Pharmacists reform programme, and the Foundation Trainee Pharmacist National Recruitment Scheme (commonly known as Oriel), which places pharmacy trainees into foundation training posts across England and Wales. Regionally, Atif leads a team to deliver on strategic aims and workforce priorities, aligned to national programmes, and works closely with system leaders and stakeholders to deliver on workforce planning, development and transformation. Atif has experience across multiple areas of practice including community pharmacy and academia, and has an MBA in Leadership.
Elen Jones
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Elen Jones is the Pharmacy Dean at Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW). She leads the strategic development of pharmacy education and workforce transformation across Wales, ensuring the profession is equipped to meet the needs of a modern healthcare system.
Elen is also an Honorary Professor of Pharmacy at Swansea University, reflecting her commitment to advancing pharmacy education and research.
Prior to joining HEIW, Elen served as Acting Director of Pharmacy across Great Britain at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), alongside her substantive role as Director for Wales. During her time at RPS, she led national policy and practice initiatives and was project manager and lead author of Pharmacy: Delivering a Healthier Wales, the ten-year vision for pharmacy in Wales published in 2019.
Her career spans community pharmacy management, clinical governance, health policy and academic teaching. She has lectured at Cardiff University and holds a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy as well as being a Fellow of the RPS.
Lisa Smith
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Lisa is Postgraduate Pharmacy Dean at the Northern Ireland Centre for Pharmacy Learning and Development (NICPLD), where she leads workforce development and continuing professional development programmes for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians across Northern Ireland. Through medicinesNI, she also oversees the provision of learning and development opportunities for a wider range of healthcare professionals.
Prior to joining NICPLD, Lisa worked in pharmacy regulation at the GPhC. She continues to contribute to professional assessment and quality assurance activities as an associate of the GMC. Her earlier career included a range of hospital pharmacy roles in both England and Northern Ireland, as well as experience in general practice pharmacy. Throughout her career, education, training and professional development have been central themes, with a consistent focus on supporting learners and advancing professional practice across healthcare settings.
Laura Doyle
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Laura has been working as Associate Pharmacy Dean at HEIW (and formerly WCPPE) for 13 years. Within this time, she has transformed the foundation training programme in Wales as well as supporting the evaluation of the multi-sector foundation training programme. She has most recently been working with the Higher Education Institutes in Wales to develop the Funded Undergraduate Placement Programme through the implementation of Entrustable Professional Activities as well as implementing the changes required in Foundation training so that trainee pharmacists can prescribe upon registration from 2026. Laura also works as an associate for the General Pharmaceutical Council as a member of the Board of Assessors and a Team Leader for the Accreditation and Recognition Panel. Laura is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal College of Pharmacy.
Andrew Sturrock
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Andrew Sturrock is the Director of Pharmacy and Postgraduate Pharmacy Dean at Public Services Delivery Scotland. Andrew moved to his current position in 2023 having previously held roles as an Associate Professor of Public Health and Primary Care at Northumbria University and Programme Leader for the MPharm at the University of Sunderland. Andrew is a Visiting Professor at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde and Honorary Professor at the School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Robert Gordon University.
Fiona Needleman
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Paul Duell
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Kat Hall
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Kat is the Acting Dean at NHS England South East. She has a background in academia, having worked as an Associate Professor of Clinical Education leading a team to deliver a portfolio of programmes including inter-professional Independent Prescribing and Advanced Clinical Practice. She has previously worked with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society as hosts of ‘A Competency Framework for all Prescribers’, and ‘A Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners’, to promote ways of using the frameworks to support prescribing competence. She is active in international workstreams committed to providing guidance towards the mutual and continued development of the global pharmacy technician workforce, and until joining NHS England she maintained a clinical commitment as an independent prescriber. She is currently treasurer of the Association for Prescribers, an NHS Health Research Authority research ethics committee member, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pharmacy. Her research focuses on the experience of clinical practitioners working in academia.
Dalgeet Puarr
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Leanne Clews
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