NPA Board

Olivier has been a community pharmacist for almost 20 years. He trained as a pharmacist in France, but has spent most of his working life in the UK.

He was an area manager in Moss Pharmacy and established his own pharmacy business in 2006, now running four pharmacies in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.

He has been a member of the CPE committee and worked with PSNC on rural pharmacy matters. He has been active promoting pharmacy on national and local media.

Sukhi qualified in 1996 from De Montford University and has been an independent pharmacy contractor for over 15 years and served her community in Victoria in central London for 25 years.

Following a journey through the NHS Mary Seacole Leadership programme, she continued to develop herself with a Clinical Diploma in Pharmacy Practice and Independent Prescribing resulting in a role as respiratory lead in a GP practice and a role as lead pharmacist of a newly formed PCN.

She describes herself as a keen advocate for championing the community pharmacy sector, especially the small independent voices – looking to raise awareness of the untapped resource of the NHS’s “quietest and humblest profession” and highlight the clinical expertise available to communities at their doorstep. Sukhi wants to share ideas, diversity of thought and experience through female representation.

Baldev started his career with a multiple, working in pharmacies and then senior roles at head office leading transformational agendas.

These roles subsequently led him to a director position at a pharma organisation, driving healthcare tech and then supporting a start-up online doctor organisation creating innovation by connecting private entities to the NHS spine.

He is a business leader with a strong track record of revitalising businesses in the pharmacy and healthcare sector and is owner and superintendent pharmacist of a pharmacy group. Baldev joined the board of the NPA in November 2023.

Ashley has pharmacies in Leeds and York, and has significant commercial experience of private external contracts managed through his pharmacy teams.

Ashley manages a team of pharmacy professionals that work and support seven hospices across the Yorkshire region. Alongside the hospice work, Ashley also has secured contracts with local Hospital units, Community Intermediate Care Units (CICU), prison departments plus over 50 care homes across Yorkshire to supply pharmacy professional staff and pharmaceutical supply. Ashley team have been recognised locally and nationally at providing innovative services supporting local healthcare services.

Ashley is a committee member for Community Pharmacy North Yorkshire and Chair of Community Pharmacy West Yorkshire which supports 500 local contractors, and sits on the Community Pharmacy England sub-committee on People and Governance.

Ashley works with his wife (who is not a pharmacist) in the business, and has three children aged 18, 16, & 10 who keep him extremely busy when not working.

Sanjay been a practising pharmacist for 29 years.

He is a Director and Superintendent Pharmacist at Green Light Pharmacy Group. Green Light is an employee-owned company, mainly based in and around London. Sanjay is the Chair of Community Pharmacy Camden and Islington and sits on the London wide group of LPCs.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and an honorary lecturer at UCL. Sanjay was elected to the NPA Board in March 2023

Mike Hewitson has been a practising community pharmacist for more than 20 years. He qualified from the University of Bath in 2002 and completed his Pre-Registration training with Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Mike became a Pharmacy Manager for the Dudley Taylor group, managing a busy health centre pharmacy before buying his first pharmacy in 2008. Mike owns two community pharmacies in West Dorset where he has delivered a number of new services and programmes. Mike qualified as an independent prescriber in 2021 with an interest in dermatology, and was awarded the “Independent Prescriber of the Year” by Independent Community Pharmacist magazine in 2023. He is actively involved in the Independent Prescribing Pathfinder project for community pharmacy. Mike ran the local vaccination site through COVID and has overseen more than 65,000 successful vaccination events.

Mike served on the Board of the National Pharmacy Association from 2010 - 2018 and was re-elected in 2025. He has previously served as Vice Chair of the Association as well as Chair of the Policy & Practice and Membership Committees. Mike oversaw the NPA’s Hub & Spoke Policy Group which created industry leading policy research into this emerging area of practice. He served on the Pharmacy Voice Board from 2013-2016, Chairing the Professional Practice Group. Mike is the current Chair of Community Pharmacy Dorset. Mike served as an NPA representative to PSNC from 2015-2018 and to CPE from June 2025 onwards.

Mike is active in local politics and was elected to Somerset Council in 2022 where he serves as Chair of the Audit Committee. In this role Mike is tasked with the governance and financial oversight of the Authority which is the 2nd largest Unitary Authority in the Country.

Salim is proprietor of an independent community pharmacy and still works there offering a range of services such as Covid vaccination, travel and private PGDs .

He is one of the founder members of Avicenna and was its CEO until it was sold off in 2019. He still works part time for the new owners. Salim’s accolades include Pharmacy Business Editor Award, Fellow of RPS and Fellow of RPS Faculty.

He is an active LPC member.

Nick is the immediate past Chair of the NPA He is a third generation community pharmacist; he graduated from Bradford University in 1998, and trained as a pre-registration student in a family run community pharmacy and at St James University Hospital Leeds.

Since qualifying, he has worked for an independent pharmacy, as a locum and prescribing advisory for the Newquay doctors group.

Nick was the Superintendent Pharmacist in Newquay, Cornwall, a role he took on in 2011 and finished in 2017. Whilst in that role the pharmacy has won several awards including, C&D finalist 2013, Pharmacy Business award winner Entrepreneur 2012 and Alphega pharmacy of the year 2013.

Nick is a shareholder in Hendra’s Pharmacy in Penryn and a Partner at the Veor Group of general practices.

He was elected to the NPA Board in 2014 to represent the South West; he is a member of Cornwall and Isle of Scilly LPC and the Chair of the Peninsula LPF.

A current owner of nine pharmacies in the northwest England. I have been working in community pharmacy for over 25 years and in later years the pressure has been more considerable than any other time.

I find myself an accountant, HR manager, buyer and staff support system daily alongside being a trusted community pharmacist. 

I hope by working on the NPA board to be able to influence in the right areas and help to guide contractors through the fast-changing role pharmacists are having to adapt to every day.

Sanjeev qualified in 2009 and has worked in both independent and multiple community pharmacies, becoming a superintendent for a chain of six pharmacies in 2011. He has modernised and future-proofed the pharmacies to provide a greater range of clinical services and a high standard of care to patients in his communities.

In 2014 he was elected to sit on Community Pharmacy Birmingham and Solihull, a position he still holds today, to represent the views of independent pharmacies across the area and works alongside other committee members to help develop services and relationships with key stakeholders.

In 2020 he joined the NPA board to help fight the cause for the independent sector and affect positive change for the profession by demonstrating the value and skills that community pharmacies can offer in the wider NHS landscape.

Sehar is based in Glasgow and has a passion for multi-disciplinary, holistic health care and has a mission to raise the standards of online pharmacy provision in the UK.

Community pharmacy is in my blood. I am a fourth-generation pharmacist, serving over 20 years as a contractor so far.  I regularly work at the coalface of my two Newport pharmacies.  So I am deeply committed to the sector and aware of the challenges we all face.