Jill Loader is a pharmacist with 35 years’ experience in a wide variety of NHS roles and is a national expert in community pharmacy commissioning. She has worked in front-line hospital, community services and community pharmacy roles as well as in research and academia. She has provided internal consultancy to the NHS through internal management and support secondments and has held both local and national policy, strategy and commissioning roles in medicines optimisation and community pharmacy. Until recently Jill was responsible for commissioning £3 billion of pharmaceutical services for the NHS in England and was a member of the negotiating team for the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework.

Jill has held the most senior pharmacy roles for England in Community Pharmacy Commissioning and Community Pharmacy Policy and Strategy. Jill has significant expertise in NHS medicines and pharmacy policy and commissioning having worked for the NHS Executive, Health Authorities, Strategic Health Authorities and NHS Regions in the field of medicines optimisation and medicines safety and on large scale commercial contracts and Pharmaceutical Industry joint working projects.

Jill is passionate about the clinical role and expertise of community pharmacy teams in the heart of their local communities, she has championed community pharmacy commissioning of clinical services at national and local level from flu and Covid-19 vaccination to Pharmacy First and the pathfinders for independent prescribing in community pharmacy.

Jill is currently working with the National Pharmacy Association advising on contractual matters and with others on developing thinking on community pharmacy policy and strategy.