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Our experienced editorial team of clinical and scientific writers includes pharmacists and science graduates who triage new information, assess evidence and review changes made by other clinical and scientific writers before publication.
Certain content is further assessed by external experts, committees, and may undergo external peer review. These accredited processes ensure that we produce clear, concise, and actionable guidance to support confident decision-making on the use of medicines and effective patient care.
Supported by a skilled publishing team, including those responsible for quality assurance, commissioning and production, our expert editorial team have an unmatched commitment to independently sourcing, evaluating and communicating the most accurate information.
*Jan-Nov 2025
My clinical background is in hospital pharmacy practice — knowledge that I now use in a publishing environment. Most of my publishing career has focused on BNF and BNF for Children, working with a passionate and knowledgeable team to transition to enhanced digital delivery of our content while continuing to provide authoritative and trusted guidance to support best clinical practice. I now use that experience to work across all Pharmaceutical Press publications.
As a pharmacist with experience in hospital practice and medicines information, I appreciate how readers use our content and why they value it so highly. After sharpening my editorial skills on Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference, it’s incredibly fulfilling to work with a wonderful team on publications that support patient care every day.
Having joined the editorial team in 1996, I have worked as a writer and editor on both Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference and BNF publications. More recently, I have overseen the team’s training and development. It is a pleasure to part of a team of motivated colleagues, producing well-respected products.
Having extensive publishing experience, I am driven by my determination to deliver continuous improvement through process innovation. My starting premise when seeking to improve workflows is ‘there must be an easier way,’ a mindset that enables me and my team to find and implement focused and effective solutions.
My clinical pharmacist background enables me to design new content sets and point-of-care tools which support health professionals in their clinical decision making.
I am a clinical pharmacist with more than 20 years’ experience in a variety of settings. I am passionate about creating and delivering high-quality, evidence-based drug information that helps health professionals to easily make decisions and allows them to improve patient care. I have a special interest in drug interactions.
After a varied background in clinical pharmacy practice, I moved into publishing where I enjoy the challenge of presenting complex information clearly and concisely to create practical resources to support clinicians. I love to support our team of writers in this respect, and help them to develop their editorial skills.
Delivering improvements is exciting and something that I find extremely rewarding. Here at Pharmaceutical Press, I lead a team and drive content improvement projects across the British National Formulary and Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference publications.
I worked as a clinical pharmacist in various hospital settings, then in medicines management in a Primary Care Trust, before joining the BNF Editorial team in 2009. I have been fortunate to have worked in a variety of roles, all within BNF Publications. My current role focuses on BNF governance. This involves overseeing the team’s work on complex content updates, liaising with the BNF governance committees, and engaging with external stakeholders, all of which contribute to the creation of trusted clinical content to support health professionals in their clinical practice and promote the safe use of medicines.
Driving teams to achieve goals whilst mentoring and nurturing talent is something that I love to do each day; being able to deploy these skills for publications which are used in patient care is incredibly fulfilling.
I’ve enjoyed a varied and rewarding pharmacy background to date, spanning hospital practice, medical publishing, and more recently NHS local commissioning. I’m fortunate to work within an expert and highly committed team to create BNF and BNF for Children content that supports clinicians to deliver safe, effective, and confident medicines use at the point of care.
After completing my PhD in endocrinology, I worked in drug development for ten years, followed by spells in medical writing and the NHS. Since joining the BNF in 2005 it has been my pleasure to support amazing people, creating the most highly respected resources in their fields.
I’m immensely proud to work with world-renowned experts and highly skilled editorial teams to shape the delivery of content in the safe and effective use of drugs. With over 17 years’ experience and a clinical pharmacology background, I’m passionate about working with external authors and continuing to explore new opportunities.
Working on brands that are incredibly respected in their fields and connecting with the experts that drive them has inspired me throughout my editorial career. Harnessing that passion with the editorial skill of my team and our expert network as content Lead is a privilege.
Throughout my editorial career I’ve been privileged to be able to work with experts in the field to deliver high-quality content. I’m passionate about being able to provide information which supports health professionals in the incredibly valuable work they do.
I’m passionate about improving patient care, and with my background as a hospital pharmacist I can help create evidence-based, practical drug information to support health professionals in providing the best possible care for their patients.
Before joining publishing, I worked in clinical practice for 20 years, mainly as a specialist hospital pharmacist and Medicines Optimisation pharmacist. Within my publishing role I enjoy leading and working with a wonderful team to create practical, high-quality clinical content to support health professionals in their clinical decision-making.
Since using the BNF in a pharmacy dispensary in my first job and understanding the value of the publication, I am now proud to support the production of print and digital content updates for all Pharmaceutical Press publications.
Working in Medical Publishing since 2013, I’m proud to bring expert content contributions to health professionals, providing editorial guidance to see their publication vision realized and health professionals access to key information. Following my passion for the field, I’m studying Clinical Pharmacology part-time completing my MSc summer 2023.
I have been involved in editing the Palliative Care Formulary since 2000 and have previous experience as a senior hospital pharmacist. I am passionate about ensuring the information we provide is useful in clinical practice so that patients can receive the best possible palliative care.
With a background as a community pharmacist, I have transferred my experience in primary care to the medical publishing space. I am committed to the delivery of high quality medicines information. I also have a special interest in digital health and strongly believe in the potential for digital solutions to improve clinical practice.
I am passionate about improving patient outcomes by enhancing the way medicines information is delivered. I am proud to lead a team committed to transforming our dose forms into structured, actionable data for clinical systems.
With a background as a hospital pharmacist, I now use my clinical knowledge to drive high quality content creation and development across Martindale: The Complete Drugs Reference, BNF and BNF for Children.
Drawing on experience in clinical pharmacy and health analytics, I work with multidisciplinary teams to solve complex informatics challenges. I enjoy shaping practical digital solutions that make healthcare safer, smarter and easier.
Having worked in community and hospital pharmacy practice prior to joining the publishing team, I am excited to be involved in the creation of our clinical content. It is a pleasure to work with so many talented professionals to produce high quality medicines information that supports healthcare professionals in optimising patient outcomes.
Libby Achilles, BSc(Hons), Editorial Assistant
Monia Ahmed, BSc (Hons), Scientific Writer
Hannah Arnold, BPharm (NZ), Head of Partnership and Content Development
Sharnee Breingan, BPharm (NZ), Clinical Writer
Adam Brelsford, MPharm, PhD, Senior Clinical Writer
Anneka Brown, MPharm, PGDipClinPharm, IP, Clinical Writer
Charlotte Clark, MPharm, IP, Clinical Writer
Molly Dennis, MPharm, PGDipClinPharm, IP, Clinical Writer
Clare Dunne, BSc(Hons), PhD, DIC, ARCS, MRSC, Scientific Writer
Faye Gardner, MPharm, PGCertClinPharm, Clinical Writer
Rebecca Harwood, BSc(Hons), MRSB, Production Manager
Sue Wend Ho, BPharm (AU), MRPharmS, Senior Clinical Writer
Rhiann Jhaj, MPharm, Editorial Assistant
Emma Jones, MPharm, Senior Clinical Writer
Elizabeth King, MAPharmT, Scientific Writer
Julia Lacey, BPharm, PGDipClinPharm, PharmD, Clinical Writer
Jonathan Law, BSc(Hons), MSc, Editorial Assistant
Louisa Marchant-Rutherford, MPharm, PGDipCommPharm, IP, Clinical Writer
Sorcha McCann, MPharm, PGDipClinPharm, IPresc, MRPharmS, Clinical Writer
Marie McIlwain, MPharm, PGDipPharmPrac, Clinical Writer
Lona Mehta, MPharm, MRPharmS, Senior Clinical Writer
Navpreet Mittal, MPharm, PGCert, Clinical Writer
Nalwenga Mutambo, MPharm, Clinical Writer
Hang Nguyen, BSc(Hons), Editorial Assistant
Jessica Nguyen, BPharm(Hons) (AU), GradCertPharmPrac (AU), Clinical Writer
Barbara Okpala, MPharm, PGDipGPP, Senior Clinical Writer
Yvette Palmer, BSc(Hons), Editorial Assistant
Bhavini Patel, MPharm(Hons), PGDipClinPharm, IP, Clinical Writer
Dipesh Patel, MPharm, PGDipClinPharm, IP, MRPharmS, Clinical Writer
Stephanie Sacheun, BPharm (NZ), PGCertClinPharm (NZ), Clinical Writer
Punam Solanki, MPharm, PGCertClinPharm, Clinical Writer
Shaunagh Swain, BPharm(Hons) (AU), Clinical Writer
Jodie-Anne Swatton, BSc(Hons), Scientific Writer
Harpreet Takhar, MPharm, MRPharmS, Senior Clinical Writer
Li Wan, BSc(Hons), MSc, Senior Scientific Writer (Science Team)
Iris Yapp, MPharm, PGClinDip, GDL, Clinical Writer
Jennifer Yick, MPharm, Clinical Writer
Najwa Zaman, BSc(Hons), MSc, Editorial Assistant
We work closely with experts in professional practice and academia to support the creation of Pharmaceutical Press content. The relationship with our external authors and contributors is invaluable and ensures we reflect current practice.
We welcome enquiries from health professionals passionate about their areas of expertise who would like to work with us and help shape the future of Pharmaceutical Press content.
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