Meet our Hospital Expert Advisory Group
Roger Fernandes (Chair)
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Roger Fernandes (Chair)
Roger is Chief Pharmacist and Clinical Director at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He has been a Trust Chief Pharmacist for over 17 years managing Pharmacy departments in acute district general hospital, teaching hospitals and tertiary specialist centres. He has over 27 years of total NHS experience which includes various management and specialist clinical pharmacist posts.
He has won two HSJ Awards for developing innovative Pharmacy services that has benefited patient care through collaboration with health and social care and delivering best practice. He represents London Chief Pharmacists at various regional and national Committees and is Chair of the RPS Hospital Expert Advisory Group.
Roger is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and is the current systems lead on the Pharmacy and Medicines workstream in the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative Integrated Care System.
Richard Bateman
Melanie Bryan
Osman Chohan
Melanie Dalby
Melanie is the clinical academic research lead for the pharmacy department at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She has worked in hospital pharmacy her whole career of over 15 years. The majority of this time she has worked for large London teaching hospitals, but she also has experience in local general hospitals too, specialising early on in cancer.
Melanie completed her PhD in 2022 looking at the optimisation of the cancer patient journey. This involved testing the feasibility of community pharmacy staff to support patients taking oral anticancer therapy as well as understanding the cancer patient experience.
She holds an honorary title of senior lecturer at King’s College London and was recently recognised as a Royal Pharmaceutical Society Fellow. Melanie is a co-chair of the research sub-committee of the British Oncology Pharmacy Association.
Oweikumo Eradiri
Stuart Evans
Susan Gibert MRPharmS Ind Presc
Director of Customer Experience, Sciensus Pharma
Susan has a background as a hospital and community pharmacist in both France and England. She has worked in a variety of hospital specialist roles, including oncology, radio-pharmacy, small scale manufacturing, thrombosis and latterly pharmacy procurement, specialising in the clinical homecare medicines sector.
She has held positions locally in NHS Trusts, regionally in the Thames Valley and Wessex, Regional Pharmacy Procurement Service (TVW PPS) and nationally as the chair of the National Homecare Medicines Committee (NHMC). Susan led the NHS homecare response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In 2023, after 21 years of continuous service to the NHS, Susan took the decision to move into the private clinical homecare medicines sector to become the Director of Customer Experience at Sciensus Pharma. Patients have always been at the heart of everything that she wants to achieve, so this role gives her an ideal opportunity to impact the lives of patients and the NHS in a positive way. She is able to take feedback from patients, the NHS as well as pharmaceutical manufacturers to influence the service that patients receive.
She remains a homecare representative on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Hospital Expert Advisory Group (RPS HEAG) and is a member of the Board of the National Clinical Homecare Association (NCHA).
Susan is passionate about clinical homecare medicines services and would like the NHS to maximise the benefits that can be realised by improving patient access to medicines whilst prioritising medicines optimisation initiatives.
Gareth Kitson
Gareth has been qualified as a pharmacist since 2012, working in teaching hospitals across London. He specialised clinically as a paediatric pharmacist but has most recently held senior leadership roles across the Pharmacy profession.
His current position is as Associate Chief Pharmacist for Integrated and Specialist Medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust with a portfolio comprising Community Services, Acute and General Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Population Health, HIV and Sexual health and a variety of medical specialities such as Dermatology, Rheumatology and Diabetes and Endocrine.
Immediately prior to this position, he was Deputy Chief Pharmacist at Whittington Health NHS Trust. In addition to his hospital leadership roles, Gareth has previously completed a Darzi Fellowship focusing on workforce development and foundation pharmacy training and has previously worked at the RPS, leading on local engagement across England.
Gareth hopes that his role with the Hospital Expert Advisory group can support the future development of integrated workforce programmes across the Pharmacy profession, whilst also incorporating his passion for EDI and the pharmacy profession.
Linsay Lawless
Patricia McCormick
Dr Patricia McCormick is the Deputy Chief Pharmacist; Transformation at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. In this role, she leads on initiatives to transform the pharmacy department and deliver a co-produced departmental vision. Key programmes include the development and roll out of initiatives to improve recruitment and retention (such as designing career pathways for pharmacy staff), developing a culture of data-driven pharmaceutical care, and the development of a joint pharmacy strategy with a neighbouring trust and strategic partner.
Dr McCormick’s career spans over a decade of roles across hospital, community services and academic sectors. In clinical roles she has worked as a Specialist Domiciliary Pharmacist and has led Integrated Care teams. This experience has driven her to push for collaboration and integration of services in different sectors to ensure a safe transition of care for patients.
As MSc Advanced Pharmacy Practice Programme Lead at University College London, she oversaw the delivery of a programme focused on developing skills in management, leadership, education and research; ensuring that individuals who completed the course had skills and experiences to ensure they became effective clinical leaders.
Dr McCormick holds a PhD from UCL investigating the value of domiciliary medication reviews. Her research has shaped understanding of the value and impact of pharmacist interventions in domiciliary care, earning her recognition through publications in journals and presentations at conferences.
Dr McCormick is a dedicated educational supervisor and mentor, who enjoys supporting others to undertake and publish their research and improvement projects.
Eilis Rahill
Eilis is Deputy Chief Pharmacist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where she leads strategic oversight of Formulary and Commissioning, Pharmacy e-Hospital, Procurement, Stores and Distribution, Medicines Information, and the Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Transformation work stream.
With a strong interest in the life sciences sector, Eilis has collaborated with partners across the Cambridge Biomedical Campus to shape innovative medicines strategies, including infrastructure for cell and gene therapies. She was the pharmacy lead for CUH’s pioneering virtual ward pathways and has contributed to regional service development through the neurosciences strategy within the specialist provider collaborative.
Eilis is a passionate advocate for the pharmacy profession’s role in enabling agile, patient-centred medicines optimisation across the NHS.
Eilis is also a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.
Amandeep Setra
Amandeep is the Lead Pharmacist for Medication Safety at University College London Hospitals, and has over 17 years’ experience working within hospital pharmacy across a number of clinical specialities.
As Trust Medication Safety Officer, she is passionate about systems level thinking, ensuring safe & effective patient care, and has a special interest in human factors.
Amandeep chairs the London Medication Safety Officer Network, and the UKCPA Medication Safety & Quality Group.
Rahul Singal
Inderjit Singh
Inderjit initially joined University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in 2001 following clinical training in London. As Chief Pharmacist at one of Britain's largest healthcare organisations, he oversees comprehensive pharmaceutical services and strategic development.
Following roles as operational manager and Associate Director for Pharmacy Clinical Services at UHB, Inderjit departed in 2007 to join a collaborative procurement hub as strategic pharmacy lead. During this three-year tenure, he provided procurement and service development support to 18 Trusts, delivering £30m in savings.
Returning to UHB in 2010, he established new commercial pharmacy initiatives as Associate Director before appointment to Chief Pharmacist in 2013. His leadership was instrumental during the Trust's merger with Heart of England Foundation Trust, where he assumed the Chief Pharmacist position for the combined organisation.
As Managing Director of Pharmacy@UHB Ltd, established under his guidance in 2011, Inderjit directs operations across five locations. His responsibilities encompass Trust-wide pharmacy services, medicines governance and commercial strategy, alongside strategic support to Heath Trust Europe, a Birmingham-based procurement hub.
His leadership has driven innovative service delivery partnerships and robust pharmaceutical governance frameworks. This expertise has led to prestigious academic recognition, with appointments as Honorary Professor at Aston University and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham in 2020.
Throughout his career, Inderjit has demonstrated exceptional acumen in healthcare leadership, combining clinical expertise with commercial insight to enhance pharmaceutical services across the West Midlands healthcare landscape.
Holly Stokes
Adam Walker
Adam is an NHS Pharmacist and QP working in both Pharmacy and Advanced Therapy Manufacturing Facilities.
Adam is also supporting the Head of Quality at the North East and North Cumbria Provider Collaborative’s Medicines Manufacturing Centre (MMC).
Adam has established an MHRA compliant PQS from scratch at Northumbria’s licensed facility, and has worked as Head of Quality at Newcastle Specials, a large NHS manufacturing facility managing a large and well established PQS.
In his spare time, Adam enjoys creating YouTube video content often involving his motorcycle and messy garage, and is the current NENC MMC Go-Kart champion!
See Mun Wong
See Mun is the Digital & Quality Improvement Specialist in SPS, with prior experience as the Interim Regional Pharmacy Procurement Specialist for the North West. For over four years, she chaired the Digital Strategy Subgroup of the National Homecare Medicines Committee whilst leading the outsourced Medicines Supply Service in the region.
She provided professional leadership, fostering collaboration between the NHS and the homecare industry to advance digital innovation. This included developing strategic partnerships with the National Clinical Homecare Association (NCHA), the trade body for the homecare industry.
Passionate about digital transformation, See Mun completed the NHS Digital Leadership Academy program and earned a postgraduate diploma from Imperial College in 2023. Her background in hospital pharmacy includes roles in procurement at Alder Hey and specialised in HIV, respiratory, and cancer services.
In her current role, See Mun is focused on building a robust digital infrastructure for SPS, facilitating collaborative work across multiple host Trusts. She champions digital tools and solutions that drives quality improvement and is actively involved in the digital upskilling of the SPS workforce, ensuring that SPS remains at the forefront of digital health innovation.