Community Pharmacy Subcommittee

Nishali is a Cancer Services Pharmacist at UCLH with 4 years’ experience in the speciality. She is also a Clinical Lead in the Digital Medicines Programme at NHS Digital. She has recently completed a Darzi fellowship in 2018 (obtaining a post graduate certificate in healthcare leadership) where she looked at the administration of subcutaneous Herceptin by community pharmacists.

Nishali is passionate about utilising community pharmacy’s potential as core community healthcare hubs in primary care to deliver clinical services and advice to patients for prevention, living with and beyond cancer. She is also interested in digitally enabling patients and clinicians to optimise patient outcomes from their medicines, health and wellbeing.

I am a superintendent pharmacist director of my own award winning community pharmacy I am delighted to have become a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 2017. I have worked in many pharmacy disciplines, starting my career at the Royal Free Hospital in London, moving on to complete a PhD in targeting anti-cancer drugs at De Montfort University, then to WCPPE for a year, then on to formulation science in the Pharmaceutical Industry and eventually to purchasing my own pharmacy in Devon. I have run my pharmacy for 21 years.
Over the last decade I have specialised in looking at how community pharmacy teams can help their patients on the cancer pathway. This work has culminated in a project on early diagnosis entitled Not Normal For You? and a current e-learning project launched April 2021 entitled Let’s Communicate Cancer.