James Andrews

Guildford, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Lead pharmacist

Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals

Champions medicines use and safety at every contact to ensure medicines are considered during service redesign and taking on new business. Co-authored medicines, prescribing and patient group direction policies with the chief pharmacist that direct the activity over 5,000 staff nation-wide. Responsible for developing and delivering a national medicines safety audit; in 2014 this collected nearly half a million data points and allowed me to benchmark sites, services and regions, and identify medicines safety trends across the organisation. Active member of the organisation’s national clinical governance meeting for medicines. Sought out within the organisation to advise on medicines...