Having been an acute trust Chief Pharmacist for 17 years Andrew has now taken on a 2 year secondment as the professional lead for Hospital Pharmacy for NHS Improvement. This role is developing the agenda for transformation of hospital pharmacy to deliver medicines optimisation around the patients pathway. Through his career Andrew has been interested in developing technological solutions to delivering pharmacy services including work with dm+d, Falsified Medicines Directive and the Scan4Safety programme. The evolving Digital Medicines agenda across the NHS is supporting the future moves to safer and more interoperable medicines systems.