Guernsey has been without a Chief Pharmacist – a post which carries the dual role of Chief Inspector – since the long-serving Ed Freestone retired at the end of 2019.
Mrs Hall comes to Guernsey following three years as Pharmacist Specialist for the Care Quality Commission.
Pictured: Ed Freestone retired at the end of 2019, leaving Guernsey without a Chief Pharmacist.
In this role, Mrs Hall was responsible for the oversight and inspection of pharmacy services in 7 UK NHS trusts, promoting the safe management of medicines, regulatory understanding and the assessment of registrations for medicinal cannabis clinics.
Mrs Hall is a Commissioned Army Reservist Officer with the Royal Army Medical Corps. She has been deployed to Iraq as a logistical Pharmacist in 2003 and UK Med Group Pharmacist in 2006; and to Afghanistan as Second Pharmacist in 2010 and Lead Pharmacist in 2012.
The appointment was signed off by the Health & Social Care Committee yesterday.
While the recruitment for the post is led operationally by the Medical Director and the Director of Operations, there is a legal requirement for the Committee to formally sanction the appointment, which authorises the post holder to “exercise all relevant legislative functions.”