Speakers

Vanessa Burgess is the Chief Pharmacist of Southeast London ICB. Having over 20 years’ experience in pharmacy leadership roles, Vanessa has developed and sustained effective and valued personal networks and relationships across the system and cross sector - locally, South East London wide, London and beyond. She is recognised as someone who is able to work with others and secure collaborative, solution focused and shared approaches to transformation and improvement. Her key achievements are expanding the role of the medicines team into long term conditions commissioning in Lambeth, establishing one of the first Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committees to take a fully integrated pathway approach, involving people with lived experience in key pathway developments and leading the South East London pharmacy call during covid-19 and the c-19 vaccine programme. Developing professional pharmacy careers has always been a passion and Vanessa established some of England’s first consultant pharmacist roles to work in primary and community care in the country.