OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
Professor Harry McQuillan, CEO Community Pharmacy Scotland pictured with this years recipient, Fiona Reid and Stuart Kearney, Account Manager, Community Pharmacy, EMIS Health
FIONA REID F
iona Reid was named the eleventh recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Pharmacy Practice Award.
Fiona began her career in the early eighties when she undertook her pharmacy degree at the University of Strathclyde, graduating with First Class honours in 1984.
She then conducted her preregistration year at Stobhill General Hospital in Glasgow before making the move East to take up a Resident Pharmacist post at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh and whilst there, completed her MSc in Hospital Pharmacy at Heriot Watt University.
On completion of her MSc, Fiona was promoted to Senior pharmacist – Haematology and, very soon after, to senior pharmacist Clinical Services – General Medicine, still within Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary. At this time, Fionoa’s ability as a tutor began to come to the fore as both preregistration
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and MSc students came under her wing and a desire to play a greater role in pharmacy education arose.
This then led to Fiona taking up the post of Principal Pharmacist – Education, Research and Development at Lothian Health Hospitals and Clinical Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde three days a week, whilst still combining this with being the Cardiology Clinical Pharmacist at the Royal Infirmary.
She completed her Advanced Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Teaching at the University of Leeds during this time and the supervision of undergraduate, preregistration and MSc students continued, including the collaboration with academic colleagues at Norway’s University of Tromso that resulted in her final year undergraduates completing her projects within the NHS. In June 2001, Fiona returned to NHS Lothian as the Principal Pharmacist for Cardiovascular
Management and, over the next decade, she firmly established the role of a pharmacist as an equally competent and effective prescriber. She completed her supplementary prescribing qualification in 2003 and subsequently became an independent prescriber in 2007 after completing courses at Robert Gordon University.
‘Some achievements of note during this period,’ Professor Harry McQuillan said in his citation, ‘include the fact that Fiona was the first pharmacist to practise as a prescriber in Scotland. She was also responsible for the design, development and implementation of the UK’s first pharmacist-led hypertension/cardiovascular risk management clinic and also secured firstly the funding of and the provision of the UK’s first pharmacist-led heart failure clinic designed and delivered within primary care. This development was highlighted in the Scottish Government’s Pharmacy Strategy – The Right Medicine in February 2002 and very much paved the way for our profession’s progression.
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