034 Victoria Rutter

Today I have the pleasure of introducing Victoria Rutter to the podcast! Victoria is the current Executive Director at the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA). She is a pharmacist by background with over 20 years of diverse practice across the Commonwealth, including high-level advocacy, policy, strategic development and international project management. 

She started her career as a hospital pharmacist with Barts Health NHS Trust and specialised in Cardiac and Intensive Care services early into her career. Similar to myself, she was intrigued by the idea of working internationally and spent 10 years working as a pharmacist in Singapore. She talks about this experience in depth and we enjoyed sharing memories of our personal journeys abroad. The variety of experience she gained internationally is inspirational, especially as she was relatively newly qualified at the time.

Please go and check out the CPA website for membership details and their recently launched global continuing professional development platform. The Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Programme includes a wide breadth of courses developed for pharmacists in community and hospital pharmacy. The programme courses are aimed for pharmacists at all stages of their careers, offering knowledge for newly qualified pharmacists as well as deeper development for those who seek to focus on AMS roles.

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