Mrs Aileen Parke
Aileen has recently held a system-wide role as an integrated care system (ICS) pharmacy project lead and prior to that she was employed as a clinical pharmacy team leader in a central London NHS teaching hospital. Aileen holds a master's degree in Clinical Pharmacy and is a certified independent prescriber in Paediatrics and in addition she has a broad range of skills including leadership, team management, expert mentoring, clinical informatics, drug expenditure reporting, horizon scanning, cross site guideline development, governance & risk management, medicines optimisation, education & training, research & audit, specialist clinical knowledge in W&C services, CCG and NHS commissioning.
Aileen has a working knowledge of ICSs and the integration of pharmacy sectors across the healthcare system including newly appointed PCN pharmacist roles. Aileen developed ICS medicines optimisation metrics and dashboards to measure pharmacy key performance indicators across an ICS. Aileen considered the use of healthcare data in relation to system wide population health needs and a centralised approach to medicines optimisation.
Aileen jointly led a Trust a wide drug expenditure programme(DEP) and in doing so supported cross cutting projects, biosimilar & generic switches and the development of cost avoidance strategies for specialist services. The DEP programme was nominated for a Health Service Journal award in 2018.
Aileen has extensive experience in clinical, financial and managerial multidisciplinary team working and forged links with key stakeholders such as divisional heads of nursing, medical directors, divisional risk, & governance leads, general managers, finance teams and other external stakeholders.
Reason for applying for the scheme
Aileen applied for the fellowship to gain a unique insight into the wider healthcare system and to work in a national organisation. She is excited to have the opportunity to work with senior leaders in both the NHS and other arms-length organisations to develop her leadership, management, strategy, health policy and project management skills through leading on system, regional and national projects. She is extremely interested in learning more about the different theories behind leadership and how best to utilise her skills, behaviour and mindset to develop as a leader within the NHS.
Aileen was keen to work for the GPhC as it provided the opportunity to implement change at a national level. Aileen is interested in collaborating with other national arms-length bodies to achieve better health outcomes and address health inequalities through the delivery of system-wide policies and frameworks that meet the changing needs of patients and the public. Working at GPhC, she can apply her previous managerial, independent prescribing, project management and systems medicines optimisation experience to the fellowship role.
Given the significant developments in clinical pharmacy services across all sectors of the pharmacy profession Aileen is looking forward to gaining a better understand of the decision-making processes at a very senior level which are informed by national healthcare policies and priorities.
