Advanced Pharmacist Assessment Panel (APAP)

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has established an Advanced Pharmacist Assessment Panel (APAP) as part of its education governance structure.

APAP’s role will be to oversee all RPS advanced and consultant pharmacist assessment and credentialing processes and will report to the RPS Education and Standards Committee.

More specifically APAP will:

  • Set the standard for advanced and consultant pharmacist credentialing assessments
  • Quality assure the advanced and consultant pharmacist credentialing assessments
  • Ratify advanced and consultant pharmacist credentialing assessments
  • Set the standard for consultant pharmacist post approval
  • Quality assure consultant pharmacist post approval

Members of APAP were recruited through an open process with a large number of high quality applicants from across the UK and pharmacy sectors. 

Members

  • Andrew Radley, Professor of Pharmaceutical Public Health, University of Dundee 
  • Debra Roberts, Associate Pharmacy Dean, Head of Programme Development and Advanced Practice, HEIW
  • Dula Alicehajic-Becic, Consultant Pharmacist Frailty, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Teaching Trust 
  • Gareth Nickless, Programme Leader, Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy for Secondary and Tertiary Care, Liverpool John Moores University 
  • Gordon Rushworth, Consultant Pharmacist General Practice - Director of Pharmacy Education & Research, NHS Highlands
  • Kerry Street, Senior Lecturer & Programme Lead for Clinical Pharmacy Practice (Primary Care & Community), University of Bath 
  • Laura O'Loan, Associate Postgraduate Pharmacy Dean, Northern Ireland Centre for Pharmacy Learning & Development (NICPLD) 
  • Ramandeep Sandhu, Head of Pharmacy, South Docs Services 
  • Ricarda Micallef, Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University 
  • Stephen Tomlin, Director - Children's Medicines Research & Innovation Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital 
  • Susan Roberts, Associate Director (Pharmacy), NHS Education for Scotland
  • Umar Chaudhry, GP and Clinical Teaching Fellow, St George's, University of London