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Professor Alison Strath has been appointed the Scottish government’s new Chief Pharmaceutical Officer and lead for pharmacy, a role that she has had on an interim basis since late last year.
Meanwhile two doctors, Professor Graham Ellis and Professor Nicola Steedman, have been appointed as deputy chief medical officers to lead a team seconded from the NHS to work within the civil service and support the chief medical officer.
Professor Strath, who joined the Scottish government in 2002 as Principal Pharmaceutical Officer, has a background in community pharmacy and was Professor of Community Pharmacy at Robert Gordon University, where she remains an emeritus professor in the School of Pharmacy, before moving to work in the government full-time.
Professor Ellis has been splitting his time between his role as a consultant in NHS Lanarkshire and being the government’s Senior Medical Officer for Ageing and Health, setting up a new older people’s directorate within the Scottish government’s health department. He is a leading proponent of the growing Hospital at Home movement in Scotland.
Professor Steedman (pictured) has been an interim deputy chief medical officer for more than a year and remains an honorary consultant physician in sexual health and HIV at Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital.
Health Secretary Humza Yousaf says the three clinicians will play a key role in helping ministers make decisions based on professional health and social care advice.
Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr Gregor Smith, said:
“Scotland’s response to the pandemic has been informed by a strong clinical team, working around the clock and adapting to change in unprecedented circumstances.
“We’re only as strong as the colleagues who support us and I am proud to work with an incredibly dedicated team of clinicians. These permanent appointments ensure we continue the high quality work which started even before the pandemic, but which will prove vital as we recover from coronavirus.”
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