Meet our 2024 Scottish Pharmacy Clinical Leadership Fellows 

Meet our 2024 Scottish Pharmacy Clinical Leadership Fellows 

Six new Pharmacy Fellows join the 2024 Scottish Pharmacy Clinical Leadership Fellowship (SPCLF) programme. 
 
The programme aims to provide NHS Scotland with the next group of senior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who are committed to pharmacy development and have enhanced capability to offer strategic leadership in their workplace and at national and international level. 
 
This is the seventh cohort of pharmacy fellows. This year, the SPCLFs will be supported by host organisations, including NHS Highland, NHS Lothian, NHS National Services Scotland (NSS), the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), NHS Public Health Scotland (PHS), and Scottish Government.

The fellows will work on projects related to:

• developing a sustainable workforce close to patients
• biologics in rheumatology
• digital prescribing and dispensing pathways (DPDP) – patient engagement
• women’s health
• pharmaceutical public health – shaping the future contribution to public health
• prescribing and therapeutics  
  

The six fellows are: 

• Nicola Jarvie (NHS Lanarkshire) 
• Roisin O’Donoghue (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) 
• Steven Bamford (NHS Ayrshire and Arran) 
• Scott Brown (NHS Ayrshire and Arran) 
• Kellie King (NHS Education for Scotland) 
• Hannah Porter (NHS Lothian) 

Leon Zlotos, Associate Postgraduate Pharmacy Dean, NES, said: 

“I’m delighted to launch the Seventh year of our Scottish Pharmacy Clinical Leadership Fellowship and welcome Nicola, Roisin, Steven, Scott, Kellie, and Hannah. They will be working with dental and medical fellows, which will allow them to connect interprofessionally, across Scotland, to build networks that will last their careers. They will collectively undertake the NES leadership and management programme, which will help them develop as leaders and apply these skills in practice through their projects. 

As the health and care system evolves, we see greater importance on service redesign and workforce transformation, including a greater need to utilise advancing technologies to support the workforce pressures and provide the best care to our population.  Effective clinical leaders are essential to deliver the changes required, and this programme aims to develop our clinical leaders for the future. 

The programme combines leadership development, which is personalised to the individual fellows, with completion of a project which allows our fellow to apply, test and develop their leadership skills in practice. Our fellows will strengthen their skills during their year while delivering on important work that is required for the future of pharmacy in Scotland.” 

The Scottish Pharmacy Clinical Leadership Fellowship scheme (SPCLF) was launched in 2018. Since then, it has evolved and has successfully supported the development of future pharmacy leaders and taken forward strategic objectives to improve the pharmaceutical care of patients in Scotland. 

 

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