Maria Mehmood

Prescribes weight-loss and men's health medications via remote consultations, making complex clinical prescribing decisions and delivering timely patient care with strong customer feedback.

Led pharmacy operations at Boots Lower Precinct, driving service delivery including vaccinations and prescribing, meeting/exceeding NMS and PQS targets and training dispensary staff to improve productivity and patient outcomes.

Provided relief pharmacy services across multiple locations, ensuring GPhC compliance, improving patient throughput, delivering core NHS services and achieving targets for flu jabs, MURs and NMS.

Completed pre-registration placement with responsibilities including methadone dispensing, patient safety reviews and audits to reduce owing prescriptions while building interprofessional relationships with local GP practices.

Supported dispensary operations including repeat and walk-in prescriptions, promoted clinical services (NMS, MURs, vaccinations) and managed stock and care-home blister pack preparation to ensure medication compliance.

Activities and societies: Undertook 90 hours of supervised training at City Hospital Birmingham and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham; carried out clinical examinations.

Post-graduate Certificate in Independent Prescribing completed March–September 2021 with supervised clinical training in hypertension clinics.

Grade: Second Class, First Division

Activities and societies: Clinical practice including aseptic formulation, teamwork and presentations; final year dissertation on students' perceptions of their course; member of NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals.

MPharm (with Honours, Second Class, First Division) completed 2012–2017 with clinical practice and pharmaceutical sciences coursework.

Completed A-Levels in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics from 2010 to 2012.