Pharmacy Education Symposium 2009

Dr Catherine Duggan

Dr Catherine Duggan holds a joint appointment between the National Health Service (NHS) and The School of Pharmacy, London. She is the Associate Director for Clinical Pharmacy, Development and Evaluation for East and South East England Specialist Services (NHS) and a Senior Clinical Lecturer based in the Education Directorate at The School of Pharmacy.

Currently Catherine’s works involves the development of higher level practitioners and supporting a culture of evaluation in practice. She brings together experienced practitioners and pharmaceutical scientists to promote academic support in practice settings. She is also involved in developing and implementing new programmes to support practitioner development, including MSc portfolios for advanced level practice and higher degrees for advanced and consultant practitioners.

She devises strategies for evaluating medicines utilisation and management that contribute to safe, clinically effective and cost-effective patient care. She advises on and supports clinical pharmacy elements relating to service development and evaluation, and ensures that learning is shared across the wider geography. Also, she advises NHS management on the specialist area of development and evaluation.

Catherine has research expertise in improving communication across the healthcare interface, developing ways to measure patients’ medicines-information needs and using research findings to influence health policy.

Currently Catherine is Chair of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association and a member of the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

She has worked with primary care research networks, and with academics and practitioners nationally and internationally. She has wide experience of lecturing, developing and delivering options for both undergraduates and postgraduates, as well as leading and teaching prescribing courses for other disciplines in healthcare.

Catherine has Department of Health R&D experience and until mid 2007 sat on an ethics committee. She regularly reviews papers for academic journals and grant applications, locally and nationally. She has published over 50 papers and articles and is regularly invited to speak nationally and internationally.