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David Wright, Head

of Training and

Clinical Governance.

Meet the trainer

David Wright, Head of Training and Clinical managing their HRT that it just became
Governance, is a pharmacist with over 11 apparent to me that this is really good thing
years of experience. He began his career in for pharmacists to do.”
community pharmacy where he worked
across multiple roles, following his training A lot of this is just managing symptoms,
in non-medical prescribing at Chester managing medications, trying to find the
University. With aspirations set on setting right regime for the right patients and
up an aesthetics business, David cites who better to do that than pharmacists?
his nervousness around taking clinical We know the products. We know what's
responsibility; which led him to work in available. We know the little tips and
general practice to grow his confidence. tricks to make the product work better for
the patients.”
Talking to colleagues in the field, he found
that their experience was very mixed, and
he began to question where the place for David explained that over time working at
prescribing within that was, and that’s where Ashburton Prescribing his knowledge has
he found Ashburton Prescribing Consultants. grown in many different clinical areas, and
realising that the areas in which he doesn’t
Whilst working at Ashburton Prescribing find particularly enjoyable, is where the
Consultants, David’s experience and sphere of confidence grows; leading to how
knowledge grew, and made him think and why something like Ashburton Academy
back to his community pharmacy and should be created.
general practice days where his interest
and involvement in HRT and menopause
management stemmed from.

“When I used to work in community
pharmacy, we'd all experience stock
issues, you know, where it was
impossible to get HRT products. I'd
have GPs calling me, and they'd be
saying, ‘what could you recommend
as authentic?’ And I thought, ‘I can't
recommend authentic because I'm
not a prescriber’ and then I would
just become really removed from
that conversation. And even though
I had some idea about what I might
suggest, I just didn't feel confident
enough to do that. When I went into
general practice, you deal with loads
of patients who have problems with
obtaining stock, or unable to get a
GP appointment, I'd found that I was
just engaging in these conversations
with patients around menopause and

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