Shazia over 21 years’ experience working in the NHS as a clinical pharmacist in a variety of pharmacy sectors not traditionally associated with pharmacy as a career in many peoples mind. She graduated from Kings College London and started work as a hospital pharmacist at Kings College Hospital before moving to Leicester and working at the University of Hospitals of Leicester as a specialist pharmacist in Critical Care and Anaesthetics whilst completing an MSc in clinical pharmacy.
After a short career break she returned to a primary care role as a Care of the elderly pharmacist in Northamptonshire in addition she has been the project lead on a number of care home projects delivering high quality medicines services to care homes within Leicestershire. This experience provided a valuable insight and understanding of the growing needs and the demands of an ageing population with the impact this can have on primary care services and the importance to support staff working in social care, this then led her to in addition to her commitment and work in the NHS set up an independent company delivering medication training and audits for care services.
Currently Shazia works for a clinical commissioning group within Leicestershire and was recently an interim Head of prescribing within the organisation. Some of her recent work has received national recognition as part of a collaborative working team to improve the antibiotic prescribing in older people receiving national awards from the national antibiotic guardian and presQIPP an organisation working for improvement in the optimisation of medicines and recently shortlisted for the British Medical Journal award for older people.
Shazia is married with 3 children and like all women aspires to push the professional boundaries, strives to excel within her chosen career whilst aiming to be a positive role model for her children and has throughout her professional and personal life enjoys mentoring and motivating others.
