CPLSC Staff
CPLSC Chair - Ali Dalal
Ali Dalal has been an independent contractor for 11 years and he is the superintendent of Alamaz Limited, which is a small group of community pharmacies in the North West. Ali has achieved his independent prescriber qualification from the University of Manchester and he is a member of the GMLPC and HSHK LPC. Working in different divisions and interacting with multi-disciplinary teams has given Ali a great insight into the dynamics of community pharmacy, the challenges faced by the independent sector and the work required to make a strong place for the independent sector within the wider NHS. Ali would like to see better remuneration structures for the services we provide and contractors to be at the forefront of all clinical services, this is because Pharmacies are well placed to take some burden off the doctors and work together to ease the pressures faced by the system today. He would like pharmacies to be the pioneers of using technology to make them more efficient and integrate them within the digital NHS spine interface so they can have a better visibility and communication with primary and secondary care systems.
Chief Executive - Mubasher Ali
Mubasher Ali - Mubasher’s previous experience over the years include a vast array of roles and responsibilities at senior level leadership within the Community Pharmacy sector, spanning multiple NHS Regional footprints as well as holding both External and Internal facing roles, whilst always maintaining direct contact with ground level pharmacy provision. His portfolio also includes association with multiple LPCs across the North and collaborative working across healthcare and public sector providers as well as a strong track record of achieving major multi-site transformational projects, encompassing, IT integration, Portfolio planning, Commercial streamlining efficiencies and more.
Vice Chair - Michael Ball
I am a fiercely passionate advocate for community pharmacy and in showcasing its ever expanding potential to seize opportunities that can address the challenges that our NHS, and citizens accessing its services, currently face. My experience over the last 13 years within independent pharmacy practice, with the last four as a business owner, has equipped me with the skills and network that I believe has allowed my to effectively support and represent my peers as one of their elected members during the last 9 years of my time on the board. Undoubtedly community pharmacy is at a major crossroads, and the next four years are, in my opinion, incredibly critical. As a consequence, the newly formed board needs the right balance in terms of experience, skill mix and energy, and I believe I can contribute on all of these to ensure the right and effective strategic leadership. I am not afraid of making the difficult decisions, and campaigning for what our many brilliant contractors and their teams rightfully deserve in terms of the appropriate opportunities and importantly, the recognition for their contribution. I will ensure we work tirelessly at a local, regional and national level to lobby for the interests of community pharmacy to reach its potential. I will set high expectations to ensure we position ourselves as an equal partner amongst all stakeholders across the complex and ever evolving nature of NHS organisations. We will continue to be the ever present trusted partner, whilst we persist with our messaging that this MUST be valued considerably more than it currently is. Whilst we continue to pressurise for significant uplifts financially across both nationally and locally commissioned services, it is also somewhat necessary that we carefully demonstrate our potential to make significant contribution to clinical service delivery from our ideally located pharmacy practices. With this in mind, it is also a key priority of mine for my own pharmacy team, and to support all my community pharmacy colleagues, that we seek to engage in how best to transition into these new models of working. Reviewing all of our systems and processes to seek out where efficiencies and capacity can be yielded is also a ‘must do’ whilst we also remain at the negotiating table to improve how our value is perceived. I hope I am able to continue to contribute by representing and supporting my peers across Lancashire & South Cumbria, and I am grateful to my own pharmacy team that I can be afforded the time to prioritise working on behalf of the sector, to maximise professional fulfilment alongside improving access to great healthcare for citizens.
Treasurer - Ben Fell
Ben Fell is an independent contractor in Carnforth. He strives to be the best he can to achieve everything he can for patients and contractors. As with most pharmacists, the patients are his priority and getting the best for them in the NHS is his goal. As community pharmacists, they are also part of a commercial arrangement working with the NHS and Ben believes he should be fairly reimbursed for the value he adds to the NHS. Alongside his colleagues on the LPC they will make the voice of local pharmacy heard to make a difference for our community.
Abdul Rehman - Business Support Offier
Abdul Rehman has joined CPLSC as our BSO - Business Support Officer