As Head of Quality and Medication Safety, Claire leads the Quality and Medication Safety Unit (QMSU) – Slade Pharmacy’s internal governance and quality team.
Claire and her team oversee clinical governance, medication safety and quality pharmacy practice for more than 70 Slade (and Epic) Pharmacy sites, while also supporting hospital partners with NSQHS accreditation and medication safety improvements.
She brings more than 20 years of hospital pharmacy experience spanning operational management, clinical research, oncology, compounding, clinical trials, clinical pharmacy, emergency medicine, education and training, quality improvement and medication safety. She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy and postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualifications from the University of Queensland.
Claire is a FANZCAP recognised Consultant in both Leadership and Management and Medication Safety. Claire is also a Quality Improvement Lead, accredited through the ACHS Improvement Academy.
Claire is a fellow of Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) and is a member of the Medication Safety and Leadership & Management (L&M) Leadership Committees and is currently sitting as chair of the L&M committee.
She is passionate about medication and patient safety, and about the vital role pharmacists can play in hospitals and the wider community through quality use of medicines and extended scope of practice.