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Our experienced editorial team of clinical and scientific writers includes pharmacists and science graduates who triage new information, assess evidence and review changes made by other clinical and scientific writers before publication.
Certain content is further assessed by external experts, committees, and may undergo external peer review. These accredited processes ensure that we produce clear, concise, and actionable guidance to support confident decision-making on the use of medicines and effective patient care.
Supported by a skilled publishing team, including those responsible for quality assurance, commissioning and production, our expert editorial team have an unmatched commitment to independently sourcing, evaluating and communicating the most accurate information.
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My clinical background is in hospital pharmacy practice — knowledge that I now use in a publishing environment. Most of my publishing career has focused on the BNF and BNF for Children, working with a passionate and knowledgeable team to transition to enhanced digital delivery of our content while continuing to provide authoritative and trusted guidance to support best clinical practice. I now use that experience to work across all Pharmaceutical Press publications.
As a pharmacist with experience in hospital practice and medicines information, I appreciate how readers use our content and why they value it so highly. After sharpening my editorial skills on Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference, it’s incredibly fulfilling to work with a wonderful team on publications that support patient care every day.
Having joined the editorial team in 1996, I have worked as a writer and editor on both Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference and BNF publications. More recently, I have overseen the team’s training and development. It is a pleasure to part of a team of motivated colleagues, producing well-respected products.
Having extensive publishing experience, I am driven by my determination to deliver continuous improvement through process innovation. My starting premise when seeking to improve workflows is ‘there must be an easier way,’ a mindset that enables me and my team to find and implement focused and effective solutions.
My clinical pharmacist background enables me to design new content sets and point-of-care tools which support health professionals in their clinical decision making.
My background is in both hospital and community pharmacy. I work across the BNF and Projects teams exploring new product development with a focus on digital health, medicines optimisation, and patient safety.
I am a clinical pharmacist with more than 20 years’ experience in a variety of settings. I am passionate about creating and delivering high-quality, evidence-based drug information that helps health professionals to easily make decisions and allows them to improve patient care. I have a special interest in drug interactions.
After a varied background in clinical pharmacy practice, I moved into publishing where I enjoy the challenge of presenting complex information clearly and concisely to create practical resources to support clinicians. I love to support our team of writers in this respect, and help them to develop their editorial skills.
Delivering improvements is exciting and something that I find extremely rewarding. Here at Pharmaceutical Press, I lead a team and drive content improvement projects across the British National Formulary and Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference publications.
I worked as a clinical pharmacist in various hospital settings, then in medicines management in a Primary Care Trust, before joining the BNF Editorial team in 2009. I have been fortunate to have worked in a variety of roles, all within BNF Publications. My current role focuses on BNF governance. This involves overseeing the team’s work on complex content updates, liaising with the BNF governance committees, and engaging with external stakeholders, all of which contribute to the creation of trusted clinical content to support health professionals in their clinical practice and promote the safe use of medicines.
Driving teams to achieve goals whilst mentoring and nurturing talent is something that I love to do each day; being able to deploy these skills for publications which are used in patient care is incredibly fulfilling.
After completing my PhD in endocrinology, I worked in drug development for ten years, followed by spells in medical writing and the NHS. Since joining the BNF in 2005 it has been my pleasure to support amazing people, creating the most highly respected resources in their fields.
I’m immensely proud to work with world-renowned experts and highly skilled editorial teams to shape the delivery of content in the safe and effective use of drugs. With over 14 years’ experience and a clinical pharmacology background, I’m passionate about working with external authors and continuing to explore new opportunities.
Working on brands that are incredibly respected in their fields and connecting with the experts that drive them has inspired me throughout my editorial career. Harnessing that passion with the editorial skill of my team and our expert network as content Lead is a privilege.
Throughout my editorial career I’ve been privileged to be able to work with experts in the field to deliver high-quality content. I’m passionate about being able to provide information which supports health professionals in the incredibly valuable work they do.
I’m passionate about improving patient care, and with my background as a hospital pharmacist I can help create evidence-based, practical drug information to support health professionals in providing the best possible care for their patients.
Before joining publishing, I worked in clinical practice for 20 years, mainly as a specialist hospital pharmacist and Medicines Optimisation pharmacist. Within my publishing role I enjoy leading and working with a wonderful team to create practical, high-quality clinical content to support health professionals in their clinical decision-making.
Since using the BNF in a pharmacy dispensary in my first job and understanding the value of the publication, I am now proud to support the production of print and digital content updates for all Pharmaceutical Press publications.
Working in Medical Publishing since 2013, I’m proud to bring expert content contributions to health professionals, providing editorial guidance to see their publication vision realized and health professionals access to key information. Following my passion for the field, I’m studying Clinical Pharmacology part-time completing my MSc summer 2023.
I have been involved in editing the Palliative Care Formulary since 2000 and have previous experience as a senior hospital pharmacist. I am passionate about ensuring the information we provide is useful in clinical practice so that patients can receive the best possible palliative care.
With a background as a community pharmacist, I have transferred my experience in primary care to the medical publishing space. I am committed to the delivery of high quality medicines information. I also have a special interest in digital health and strongly believe in the potential for digital solutions to improve clinical practice.
To ensure our essential information meets the time-pressured needs of health professionals and those in education and research, we work closely with experts in professional practice and academia.
This support for our content creation process is invaluable and ensures we reflect current practice.
Our skilled team of award-winning journalists and editors are responsible for The Pharmaceutical Journal, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s official journal. Providing news, expert analysis, and educational support for all pharmacy professionals since 1840, this enduring publication continues to connect pharmacists and champion the profession.
The experienced team also creates training and learning content to help support and develop current and future generations of pharmacists and pharmacy-related professionals and is responsible for the RPS Journals published in partnership with Oxford University Press.
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I joined The Pharmaceutical Journal in 2014 from the journal Nature to lead the digital-first transformation. Appointed Publisher in 2016, I am now responsible for the journals, magazine, and academic books programmes at Pharmaceutical Press. I’m always looking to develop new, better ways of working that support the creation of quality editorial content.
As Executive Editor at The Pharmaceutical Journal, I lead the team responsible for the journal’s news and views output. I have covered the healthcare sector throughout my career as a journalist, producing award-winning news and features and developing a strong passion for public interest journalism along the way.
With over 30 years’ experience across a wide range of disciplines and media I feel privileged to work for the RPS. I am primarily responsible for our range of learning content which helps support and develop current and future generations of pharmacists and pharmacy-related professionals.
Driven by a passion for science and twelve years publishing experience that includes managing journals, I lead an editorial team and work collaboratively with subject experts and external stakeholders, to produce educational resources for pharmacists that promote continued professional development and that advance the understanding of clinical and medicines information.
Having worked in healthcare publishing straight out of university, I am now responsible for the production and scheduling of all articles in The Pharmaceutical Journal as the chief subeditor. I am passionate about making sure our content is the best it can be.
I have over 25 years of publishing experience, mainly in product development. Working across the teams in the Pharmaceutical Journal department, I am responsible for making sure our content is available on a variety of platforms and apps and that we constantly evolve to meet member’s needs.
