About the Faculty


A faculty is the backbone of any training organisation. It is important to us, that our faculty members have first-hand experience in the field they are developing training in. For this reason, each of our faculty members is an experienced clinician working in Primary Care.

The core fundamentals that underpin our training programmes are that each programme is evidence-based, relevant to their practice and enables the clinician to deliver a service that is valuable in Primary Care.



Clinical Pharmacist Academy
Runa Salim

Runa is an experienced senior Clinical Pharmacist Independent Prescriber, the Clinical Lead and the Training and Development manager for Clinical Pharmacist Solutions. Runa is passionate about clinical training, systems development and patient care.

Clinical Pharmacist Academy
Mahmud Yusopov

Senior Clinical Pharmacist IP with experience in running Minor Illness clinic and developing Clinical Pharmacists. Mahmud specialises in developing training structures, systems and procedures that help Clinical Pharmacists deliver safe, efficient and consistent care to patients.


Clinical Pharmacist Academy
Ruhina Kassam

Ruhina is an experienced Lead Clinical Pharmacist Independent Prescriber with 5 years of Primary care experience and the Chief Executive Officer at Clinical Pharmacist Solutions. Ruhina is passionate about helping pharmacists develop to gain knowledge and skills to improve patient care.


Clinical Pharmacist Academy
Sarah Dekmak

Senior Clinical Pharmacist Prescriber with 5 years of Primary care experience. Sarah is an expert in Quality Improvement projects, QOF improvement and implementing Audits in Primary Care. She is passionate about improving quality of care. 


Clinical Pharmacist Academy
Adrian Murphy

Clinical Pharmacist Independent Prescriber with experience in running Minor Illness clinics in Primary Care. Adrian is the Training and Development Lead at CPS, and has got a special interest in conducting evidence-based Clinical Medication Reviews and developing other clinicians.



Clinical Pharmacist Academy
Faisal Shoukat

Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Pharmacist Independent Prescriber with over a decade of Primary Care experience. Faisal has led and developed Pharmacists focused clinical provision in Primary Care across the north of England.


Clinical Pharmacist Academy
Danny Bartlett

Danny Bartlett is one of the first PCN pharmacists. He currently works as a Lead Pharmacist at Horsham Central PCN and Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton. He has trained and supported other PCN pharmacists within his CCG to deliver SMRs and his articles have been published in PJ and C&D.



Angelina Soliman

Angelina is a Lead Clinical Pharmacist Independent Prescriber who enjoys creating clinical content to support Pharmacists joining Primary Care, as well as working with the University of Bath to support the Independent Prescribing course for upcoming Pharmacist prescribers. She's passionate about all patients receiving a high standard of care regardless of their ethnic or social background.




Hamza Khan

Hamza is a Clinical Pharmacist and Independent Prescriber specialising in Minor Illness. Dedicated to patient care and professional development, he excels in training and upskilling pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. With six years of experience, Hamza has significantly contributed to the growth of other pharmacy professionals.

Ihtishaam Hussain

Ihtishaam is a Clinical Pharmacist Independent Prescriber with over 4 years of Primary Care experience. Ihtishaam has a special interest in hypertension and cardiovascular disease, as well as running projects to help improve QOF and IIF targets in Primary Care.

Meropi Stamna

Meropi is a Clinical pharmacist independent prescriber with experience in both community and hospital pharmacy. She has a special clinical interest in women’s health, specialising in HRT and contraception during her independent prescribing course. She is committed to improving patient outcomes and has been involved in many quality improvement projects.

Dr Sohaib Ahmad
Dr Sohaib Ahmad

Dr Ahmad is a senior GP at The Forest Surgery in London with 28 years GP experience. Over the years he had significant input in the training and development of GPs, Nurses and Clinical Pharmacists.

Clinical Pharmacist Academy
Sundeep Gill

PCN Clinical Pharmacist with a wealth of management and leadership experience. Sundeep runs Chronic Condition Review clinics and has a special interest in cardiovascular conditions such as Heart Failure and Hypertension.


Clinical Pharmacist Academy
Sarah O'Connor

Senior PCN Clinical Pharmacist with over four years of Primary Care experience. Sarah has a special interest and expertise in Nephrology and Diabetes. Sarah currently involved in training and development of Pharmacists.


Clinical Pharmacist Academy
Tomisin Adedipe

Lead Clinical Pharmacist Independent Prescriber with four years of Primary Care experience and MSc in Advanced Pharmacy Practice. Tomisin has a special interest in Medicines Optimisation, Anti-coagulation, QOF and Respiratory Conditions.


Clinical Pharmacist Academy
Jiten Mistry

Advanced clinical practitioner, independent prescriber specialises in Minor Illness Clinics

Sahad Naz

Sahad is a PCN Senior Clinical Pharmacist.

He is currently a HHE/NEL clinical lead for SPIN scheme and heads a group of Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians within a PCN.

Specialising in Respiratory LTC (Asthma and COPD), Sahad also aids in other QOF LTC reviews in primary care including non-insulin based diabetes, heart failure, hypertension, mild-moderate depression and anxiety, and atrial fibrillation.

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Kush Bhargava

Kush is a Lead Advanced Pharmacist Independent Prescriber for an acute care hub and is also an anticoagulant specialist pharmacist with a keen interest in cardiology, acute and emergency medication.


Clinical Pharmacist Academy
Charlotte Patterson

Charlotte is an experienced Pharmacy Technician and ACT. Her current role includes Training Hub Pharmacy Technician Facilitator for Birmingham & Solihull training hub. Charlotte has a wealth of experience in community, hospital and primary care. She has special interest in the training and support of Pharmacy Technicians in GP surgeries.