Talking Meds - A PrescQIPP podcast 14. The importance of mentoring to encourage personal progress with Hadeel Mohamed
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Meds and the PrescQIPP podcast, engaging conversations about medicines-related dilemmas. Today, your host Jonathan Underhill, Medicines Clinical Adviser at PrescQIPP, talks to Hadeel Mohamed about a fantastic programme she co-leads to provide mentorship for female pharmacists from an ethnically diverse background – ENIGMA.
Hadeel is a senior pharmacist prescriber with a background in hospital and general practice. She is currently Deputy Head of Clinical Pharmacy and Education Lead for a GP Federation in Leeds and Polypharmacy Clinical Lead for Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber. Hadeel is also in her final year of a PhD at The University of Bradford, which is exploring medication self-management behaviours in older people using multiple medicines at the hospital-to-home transition.
Jonathan and Hadeel first met via the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Mentorship scheme - https://www.rpharms.com/development/mentoring. Mentoring is important to both of them and they talk about Hadeel's inspiration to set up and lead (with fellow pharmacist Emily Turner) the ENIGMA programme. ENIGMA stands for ‘ENhancing leadershIp amonGst ethnically diverse feMale phArmacists’.
In particular they discuss why such programmes are important to overcome some of the rather stark workforce figures (32% of the UK pharmacy workforce are women from an ethnically diverse background, yet only 6% of NHS Band 9 posts are made up of people) from this group). They discuss the initial success stories from this and how it is important that this work continues on a firm footing.
PrescQIPP resources mentioned in this episode:
Other resources mentioned in this episode:
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society Mentorship scheme
- ENIGMA programme
- Find out more and contact Hadeel or Emily on LinkedIn
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