Mr Daniel Jones

Daniel Jones brings two decades of pharmacy experience, encompassing ten years of pre‑registration work in community settings and nine years of post‑registration practice across secondary care, academia and project management. In community pharmacy, his career progressed from dispenser to store supervisor and manager, giving him a thorough understanding of both pharmacist and non‑pharmacist responsibilities. His secondary‑care career began as a rotational pharmacist at East Cheshire NHS Trust, where he delivered pharmaceutical care across a broad spectrum of specialties including medicine, surgery, cardiology, gastro‑enterology, respiratory, frailty and oncology in both inpatient and outpatient environments. Advancing to senior roles, Mr Jones led the trust’s multidisciplinary frailty team, focusing on deprescribing and falls prevention while navigating the interface between health and social care, and later directed the respiratory directorate, overseeing budget, staffing, policy development and rapid COVID‑19 guideline creation.

As a Clinical Tutor at Manchester Foundation Trust’s Oxford Road Campus, he held an honorary University of Manchester contract, redesigning MPharm modules to reflect current evidence, incorporating inclusive curriculum elements and supervising student prescribing. He then chaired a trust‑wide project to implement the new GPhC standards, forging partnerships with community pharmacies, general practice, intermediate‑care providers and the pharmaceutical industry, and establishing cross‑site timetables, guidance and supervision frameworks. Currently, Mr Jones works as a locum pharmacist in various community pharmacies, staying current with services such as Pharmacy‑First, hypertension case‑finding, DMS, NMS, minor‑ailment referrals, emergency hormonal contraception and contraception provision, while routinely dispensing and performing accuracy checks across multiple PMR systems.

Mr Jones’s clinical interests include respiratory medicine, frailty, general medicine and cardiology, together with education and training, pharmacy services, health inequalities, medicines information and NHS governance. He applies his non‑medical prescribing expertise to optimise respiratory and frailty pathways.

Mr Jones’s research interests focus on reducing health inequalities through innovative pharmacy services and evaluating education and training interventions. He is particularly keen on developing and assessing novel service models that improve access to medicines, exploring the impact of translation services on patient outcomes, and generating evidence to inform policy and practice across different healthcare settings.

Mr Jones has occupied several senior leadership positions, including Education Program Director, Lead Pharmacist for Education & Training, Lead Pharmacist for the implementation of the new education and training standards (IETP), and Trust Lead for Pharmacy Health Inequalities. In each role he supervised and managed multidisciplinary teams, ranging from junior staff to senior clinicians. As Trust Lead for Pharmacy Health Inequalities, he designed and delivered cross‑boundary projects aimed at reducing disparities across the trust and throughout Greater Manchester, coordinating a large workforce and engaging a broad spectrum of internal and external stakeholders to effect change at both trust and regional levels. In his capacity as Lead Pharmacist for the IETP, he negotiated partnerships with a variety of organisations, from small enterprises to an international pharmaceutical company, and contributed to a major initiative that was rolled out across all acute trusts in the North West and published on the NHS England website.

Mr Jones has led research on communication and accessibility in pharmacy, authoring a study that evaluated a bespoke British Sign Language course for pharmacy staff and another that explored barriers preventing pharmacy personnel from using trust translation services, both published in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. His recent collaborative work includes an assessment of fourth‑year MPharm students’ experiences on week‑long hospital placements and their perceived readiness for practice; a comprehensive overview of the secondary‑care pharmacist scope of practice across the North West, produced for NHS England; and an evaluation of online clinical pharmacy placements for Master of Pharmacy undergraduates. Together, these publications reflect his commitment to improving pharmacy education, service innovation, and equitable patient care.

Mr Jones possesses significant teaching and training experience both in practice and within the university environment. As a practice‑based educator he has taught a wide spectrum of MDT members, delivering sessions to pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, doctors of all specialties and experience levels, and nurses across every specialty. He is experienced in conducting supervised learning events at ward level for diverse staff groups. In addition, he has designed and delivered teaching on numerous subjects, including health inequalities, the safer use of medicines, safer administration of medicines and specialist pharmacology.