Jeremy Kwan

A clinically trained and patient-focused pharmacist with experience across primary care, community, and multidisciplinary healthcare settings. Skilled in structured medication reviews, medicines optimisation, and safe prescribing, support better patient outcomes while ensuring cost-effective use of NHS resources.

Background in managing high-risk drugs, leading clinical audits, and developing prescribing policies to improve safety and compliance. With strong leadership and problem-solving skills, Managing community pharmacy teams and services under high-pressure circumstances, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Committed to continuous professional development and delivering high-quality care.

Clinical Pharmacist - Easington Central PCN

(2022-05)

• Deliver structured medication reviews for patients with polypharmacy, frailty, LTCs, and co-morbidities.
• Provide prescribing support to GPs, nurses, and patients, ensuring safe and cost-effective use of medicines in line with ICB guidelines.
• Lead medicines optimisation initiatives including antimicrobial stewardship and safer prescribing.
• Reconcile medicines on transfer of care, ensuring accuracy and patient safety post-discharge.
• Manage prescribing budgets, formulary compliance, and high-risk drug monitoring (anticoagulants, DMARDs).
• Conduct clinical audits, contributing to QOF outcomes, working towards POS targets and CQC compliance.
• Develop local prescribing protocols, policies, and practice guidance.

Manager (Ashington) - Well Pharmacy - Ashington

(2020-10 - 2021-11)

• Liaise with nearby Surgery to provide optimal services for patients.
• Provide advanced services such as New Medicine Services, Discharged Medicine services and CPCS to aid ease Surgeries' work load.
• Complete PQS through actions such as engaging with PCN lead for business continuity and Flu jab services. Held clinical audit regarding weight management.
• Managing the Clinical Certificate programme studying outside working hours.
• Provided immunisation services such as FLU and Pneumonia jab.
• Ability to use clinical knowledge, rapidly changing guidance and professional judgment to overcome challenges and solving problems from extreme circumstances during Covid-19 pandemic.
• Motivate/ lead team during extreme pressure from short staffing/ unusual high demands from patients/ customers.

Relief pharmacist Store manager - Well Pharmacy, Region 12

(2019-09 - 2020-10)

• Covering Well pharmacies across region 12 to aid stores meeting their goals, targets, and standards.
• Motivate/ lead teams during extreme pressure from short staffing/ unusual high demands from customers.

Responsible pharmacist - Station Road Pharmacy, Consett - Consett

(2017-12 - 2019-07)

• Managing staffing and holidays when the owner is away.
• Lead and motivate the pharmacy team to provide better and more efficient services for a pharmacy averaging 12000 items per month.
• Built great relationship with local health care providers such as local GP surgeries, Alcohol and drug dependence clinic, care home and out of hours services etc.
• Responsible for clinical governance and annual clinical audit of the pharmacy.
• Help to ensure correct endorsement had been made for NHS prescriptions for the correct payment.
• Dispense and supervise against FP10MDA for 20-30 patients daily.
• Interact with other healthcare professionals to improve patient care.
• Deal with patients'/customers' enquiries and take appropriate actions if necessary.

Pharmacist Independent Prescribing - Pharmacy - Sheffield Hallam University (2025)

Clinical Pharmacy Practice Certificate - Pharmacy - University of Keele (2024)

MPharm - Pharmacy - University of Sunderland (2016)