Associate Professor of Clinical Education
Kat is a committee member of the Association for Prescribers. She is a pharmacist and independent prescriber. She is active in national and international workstreams promoting the varied roles of the pharmacy workforce, including being a member of 2021 Task and Finish Group reviewing the Competency Framework for all Prescribers. She has previously worked with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society as hosts of ‘A Competency Framework for all Prescribers’, and ‘A Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners’, to promote ways of using the frameworks to support prescribing competence. Her current research activities focus on the experience of clinical practitioners working in academia and the effects of COVID-19 on the resilience, wellbeing and burnout of clinicians and academics.
She currently works for NHS England WT&E as the Southeast regional Head of School of Pharmacy. She previously worked in academia as an Associate Professor of Clinical Education, leading a team to deliver a portfolio of programmes including inter-professional independent and supplementary prescribing, and advanced clinical practice. Until the GPhC withdrew the programme, she was also involved in supporting the pharmacist supplementary to independent prescribing conversion module.
