Each accreditation or recognition process is undertaken by a team drawn from the GPhC's accreditation and recognition panel.
The size and make up of an accreditation team varies depending on the type of course being accredited.
Accreditation team members must abide by a code of conduct and declare any potential conflicts of interest with the course being accredited.
The pannel's membership includes three different teams, follow the links below to find out more details:
Accreditation and recognition panel membership
Accreditation team leaders
| Name | Area of expertise | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmed Aboo | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses (Also a team member for prescribing courses accreditation) |
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| Professor Antony D'Emanuele | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Professor D'Emanuele's biography |
| Professor Chris Langley | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses (Also a team member for prescribing courses accreditation) |
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| Dr James Desborough | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Dr Desborough's biography |
| Laura Doyle | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Laura's biography |
| Dr Mathew Smith | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Dr Smith's biography |
| Rebecca Chamberlain | Pharmacy technician and level 2 pharmacy support staff courses | Download Rebecca's biography |
| Professor Ruth Edwards | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses (Also a team member prescribing, pharmacy technician and level 2 pharmacy support staff courses) |
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| Professor Steve Howard | MPharm degree and OSPAP course | Download Professor Howard's biography |
The table above includes names and details of the team leader members of the accreditation and recognition panel.
Note: Level 2 Support staff courses are those to train dispensing/pharmacy assistants and medicines counter assistants.
Accreditation team members
| Name | Area of expertise | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Andrew Sturrock | MPharm degree, OSPAP and prescribing courses | Download Dr Sturrock's biography |
| Anum Iqbal | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Anum's biography |
| Arshad Patel | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Arshad's biography |
| Ausaf Khan | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Ausaf's biography |
| Dr Brian Addison | MPharm degree, OSPAP and prescribing courses | Download Dr Addison's biography |
| Carl Stychin | MPharm degree, OSPAP and prescribing courses | Download Carl's biography |
| Professor Catherine Whittlesea | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Professor Whittlesea's biography |
| Catherine Roberts | Pharmacy technician and level 2 pharmacy support staff courses | Download Catherine's biography |
| Dr Cathy O'Sullivan | MPharm degree, OSPAP and prescribing courses | Download Dr O'Sullivan's biography |
| Charles Odiase | MPharm degree, OSPAP and prescribing courses | Download Charles biography |
| Charlotte Collins | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Charlotte's biography |
| Charlotte Patterson | Pharmacy technician and level 2 pharmacy support staff courses | Download Charlotte's biography |
| Clarissa De Souza | Pharmacy technician and level 2 pharmacy support staff courses | Download Clarissa's biography |
| Dafydd Rizzo | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Dafydd's biography |
| Daniel Grant | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Daniel's biography |
| Fiona Barber | MPharm degree, OSPAP, prescribing, pharmacy technician and level 2 pharmacy support staff courses | Download Fiona's biography |
| Dr Fran Lloyd | MPharm degree, OSPAP and prescribing courses | Download Dr Lloyd's biography |
| Dr Gemma Quinn | MPharm degree, OSPAP and prescribing courses | Download Dr Quinn's biography |
| Dr Hamde Nazar | MPharm degree, OSPAP courses | Download Dr Nazar's biography |
| Hannah Poulton | MPharm degree, OSPAP and prescribing courses | Download Hannah's biography |
| Dr Hayley Wickens | MPharm degree, OSPAP courses | Download Dr Wicken's biography |
| Jerry Herring | Pharmacy technician and level 2 pharmacy support staff courses | Download Jerry's biography |
| Justine Carame | Pharmacy technician and level 2 pharmacy support staff courses | Download Justine's biography |
| Katherine (Katie) Carter | MPharm degree, OSPAP and prescribing courses | Download Katie's biography |
| Katie Brankin | Pharmacy technician and level 2 pharmacy support staff courses | Download Katie's biography |
| Lesley Johnson | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Lesley's biography |
| Liz Harlaar | MPharm degree, OSPAP, prescribing and pharmacy technician and level 2 pharmacy support staff courses | Download Liz's biography |
| Professor Luigi Martini | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Professor Martini's biography |
| Lyn Hanning | MPharm degree, OSPAP and prescribing courses | Download Lyn's biography |
| Maeve Sparks | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Maeve's biography |
| Mairead Conlon | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Mairead's biography |
| Marianne Rial | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Marianne's biography |
| Dr Marisa van der Merwe | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Dr van der Merwe's biography |
| Mira Jivraj | MPharm degree, OSPAP and prescribing courses | Download Mira's biography |
| Olivia Fisher | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Olivia's biography |
| Parbir Jagpal | MPharm degree, OSPAP and prescribing courses | Download Parbir's biography |
| Rav Savania | MPharm degree, OSPAP and prescribing courses | Download Rav's biography |
| Shahzad Ahmad | MPharm degree, OSPAP, prescribing, pharmacy technician and level 2 pharmacy support staff courses | Download Shahzad's biography |
| Sheetal Jogia | Pharmacy technician and level 2 pharmacy support staff courses | Download Sheetal's biography |
| Simmy Daniel | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Simmy's biography |
| Stephen Doherty | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Stephen's biography |
| Dr Tania Webb | MPharm degree and OSPAP courses | Download Dr Webb's biography |
The table above includes names and details of the team members of the accreditation and recognition panel.
Note: Level 2 Support staff courses are those to train dispensing/pharmacy assistants and medicines counter assistants.
Rapporteurs
Each accreditation team is accompanied by a rapporteur who will attend the accreditation event to take notes and write the accreditation report. Rapporteurs are not decision-making members of the accreditation team.
| Name | Biography |
|---|---|
| Alison McVitty | Download Alison's biography |
| Professor Brian Furman | Download Professor Furman's biography |
| Dr Ian Marshall | Download Dr Marshall's biography |
| Jane Smith | Download Jane's biography |
| Juliette Morgan | Download Juliette's biography |
| Marcia Fernandes | Download Marcia's biography |
| Richard Calver | Download Richard's biography |
The table above includes names and details of the rapporteur members.