PROFILE
Looking to a future of further enabling pharmacy
WITH AN EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE PORTFOLIO WITHIN COMMUNITY PHARMACY, DR JOHN MCANAW HAS RECENTLY JOINED THE SCOTTISH PHARMACY BOARD AS THE NEW CHAIR.
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ailing from St Andrews, Dr McAnaw has been a qualified supplementary prescriber since 2004.
During that time, he was involved in the delivery of a range of novel pharmacy services and ran a supplementary prescribing clinic for patients with hypertension.
He also has a keen interest in the evolving chronic medication service and sees it as a key opportunity for community pharmacy in Scotland to become a key contributor to the management of long term conditions.
Dr McAnaw registered as a pharmacist in 1991 having completed my preregistration training with Boots the Chemist. He worked full-time for Boots until 1997 which included a maternity cover for 9 months as
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a Boots Teacher Practitioner at the University of Strathclyde.
“This experience was great fun, and re-ignited my desire to return to the University of Strathclyde to study for a PhD and in 1997,” he says. “I was employed there as a Graduate Teaching Assistant which involved a lot of teaching, but also allowed me to work towards achieving my PhD in Pharmaceutical Care in 2003.”
In 2002 he joined a community pharmacy practice in Cupar, Fife, owned by a leading-edge community pharmacy practitioner who was pioneering a range of clinical services within the pharmacy, allowing for the opportunity to further develop his own pharmaceutical care practice.
He was one of the first pharmacists to qualify as a Supplementary Prescriber
and delivered community pharmacy (and GP Practice) based prescribing clinics in cardiovascular disease.
In 2003 he was successful in gaining a half-time position as a Lecturer in Clinical Practice in the School of Pharmacy, University of Strathclyde thereby splitting his time between the community pharmacy and the University allowing each side to benefit the other.
In 2006 he was appointed Head of Pharmacy for NHS 24 and in 2007 this was extended to include a pharmaceutical advisor role with the Scottish Ambulance Service, both of which he continues to do now and he has helped develop both services over the years. He also currently leads the Tele-healthcare & Mobile Technology work stream under Prescription for Excellence.
“I was first elected to the Scottish Pharmacy Board in 2012, served as Vice Chair 2014-2015 and I am now Chair and enjoying every minute.”
Before looking to the future, Dr McAnaw turns to what he perceives as having been the biggest issues community pharmacy in Scotland has faced in the past twelve months.
“It has to be the 'short supply' of medicines issue which has not only impacted on the level of pharmaceutical care the pharmacist is able to give to patients, but it has resulted in pharmacists and contractors having to spend endless hours of their time trying to source the medicines that are desperately needed by patients,” he says.
“This, against the increasing volume of prescriptions year-on-year, is putting
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