Hirminder Kaur Ubhi

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The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital

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United Kingdom

1. Current Status, Position

Mrs Hirminder Kaur Ubhi (MPharm MRPharmS, Clinical Dip. in Prescribing and therapeutics, Cert Advanced Clinical practice) started working at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist, in March 2017.

Up until recently she worked in a tertiary referral acute care Children's Hospital, including a period as an advanced clinical practitioner, working as a member of the Hepatology medical team reviewing, examining and presenting patients as part of the consultant ward round. She has previously worked for a large Community Pharmacy Company. Followed by a period in Industry with Trinity Chiesi Pharmaceuticals, whilst the launch of the new CFC free Beclomethasone, Clenil modulite, as part of the clinical and therapeutic review team. Mrs Ubhi left to work in Family Doctor practices undertaking clinical therapeutic reviews for asthma, as an independent prescriber.

2. Education

Mrs Hirminder Kaur Ubhi worked at the Birmingham Children's Hospital for 7 years, during which time she completed her diploma in Clinical therapeutics, in July 2013, having already qualified as an Independent Prescriber in 2008, from Keele University. Later, Mrs Hirminder Kaur Ubhi studied at Warwick medical school and achieved a Certificate in Advanced Clinical Practice, in July 2015.

3. Research Area

Mrs Hirminder Kaur took part in the initial three centre pilot, for Health Education West Midlands (HEWM). This involved looking at prescribing pharmacists, with their current skills, working in a Paediatric Emergency Department and whether they could have greater involvement in the patients care and management and establishing whether further training may be needed to deliver this. They devised standards to review patients, which were then repeated in an adult Hospital's Emergency Department. This initial pilot was successful and was followed up in a national project by Health Education England (HEE), across 49 Emergency Departments in the United Kingdom.

4. Conflict of interest: none