Sally Porter
Lecturer-Practitioner in Prescribing and Medicines Optimisation

Profile

Biography

Sally qualified as a Pharmacist in 1995 and gained a diploma in Community Clinical Pharmacy in 2002.

She worked with a team of Pharmacy professionals to develop and deliver the medicines management agenda for primary care organisations in Doncaster. She has provided prescribing support to a broad range of general practice teams.

She was the Director of a multi-award winning community Pharmacy. 

Sally is a Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA).

Qualifications

• BPharm (Hons) in Pharmacy
• PgDip (Pharm) in Community Clinical Pharmacy
• Practice Certificate in Supplementary Prescribing
• Practice Certificate in Independent Prescribing
• Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education
• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Non-Medical Prescribers: Independent and Supplementary Prescribing (v300)

External activities

Memberships

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. 
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS). 
• Faculty Member (Advanced Stage II) of the RPS.
• Member of the Primary Care Pharmacy Association.

Publications

Selected publications

• Porter, S. (2023). Prescribing medicines in people with renal impairment. Nursing Standard, 38(11). [Online]. Available at: doi: 10.7748/ns.2023.e12218 [Accessed 14 November 2023].
• Porter, S. (2022). Using the British National Formulary app to support safe prescribing: a practical guide. Journal of Prescribing Practice, 4(10). [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.12968/jprp.2022.4.10.440 [Accessed 18 October 2022].