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Health & Social Care has announced the appointment of a new Chief Pharmacist.
Beverley Hall has taken up the key position, which has responsibility for providing leadership, operational management and strategic direction of pharmacy and prescribing support services.
Guernsey has been without a Chief Pharmacist - a post which carries the dual role of Chief Inspector - since the long-serving Ed Freestone retired at the end of 2019.
Mrs Hall comes to Guernsey following three years as Pharmacist Specialist for the Care Quality Commission.
Pictured: Ed Freestone retired at the end of 2019, leaving Guernsey without a Chief Pharmacist.
In this role, Mrs Hall was responsible for the oversight and inspection of pharmacy services in 7 UK NHS trusts, promoting the safe management of medicines, regulatory understanding and the assessment of registrations for medicinal cannabis clinics.
Mrs Hall is a Commissioned Army Reservist Officer with the Royal Army Medical Corps. She has been deployed to Iraq as a logistical Pharmacist in 2003 and UK Med Group Pharmacist in 2006; and to Afghanistan as Second Pharmacist in 2010 and Lead Pharmacist in 2012.
The appointment was signed off by the Health & Social Care Committee yesterday.
While the recruitment for the post is led operationally by the Medical Director and the Director of Operations, there is a legal requirement for the Committee to formally sanction the appointment, which authorises the post holder to "exercise all relevant legislative functions."
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