Miss Jagjot Chahal
Jagjot specialised in Clinical Haematology at the tertiary centre of Barts Health NHS Trust. She has actively been involved in the training of clinical pharmacists in anticoagulation clinics across the Trust. As an independent prescriber, she supported the development of pharmacists to empower patients in decision making of their anticoagulation therapy. This has, in recent years, extended to training practice based pharmacists and primary care network pharmacists across North East London.
Jagjot has worked at the interface of primary and secondary care to improve population health and optimise interventions for cardiovascular prevention across the system. Working in collaboration with external partners such as primary care clinicians, commissioners and Academic Health Science Networks has been the key to her developing the delivery of optimising medicines for cardiovascular prevention and treating patients closer to home. She participates in atrial fibrillation (AF) awareness campaigns within the voluntary services, for which she was awarded Healthcare Pioneer by detecting AF outside of a healthcare setting amongst high risk people with a language barrier to address health inequalities.
She has extensive experience of developing evidence based guidelines, formulary applications and frequently liaises with commissioners regarding high cost medicines. Jagjot was a NICE guideline committee member for the update of Venous thromboembolism in over 16s: reducing the risk of hospital-acquired deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism. She was also a Quality Standard specialist advisory committee member for NICE, therefore has experience of prioritising areas for quality improvement and recommending appropriate measures.
Reason for applying for the scheme
Jagjot’s motivation for applying for the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer Fellowship stemmed from the exciting opportunity to learn from senior leaders at a national level. Being able to understand the dynamics from strategic decision making to implementation at frontline services within healthcare is a keen interest of hers. In addition, she seeks to experience how large organisations collaborate given their own priorities. She understands this role exposes individuals to new ways of working and different leadership styles, from which she aspires to develop with the primary aim to improve patient care and outcomes. She feels this is an exciting time to undertaken the fellowship given the changing landscape of the NHS.
