In January 2025 Ann commenced work as a Community Researcher working with the Institute of Development Studies and the London Borough of Ealing undertaking participatory action research into the social determinants of health.
Ann provides consultancy services on an ad hoc basis. Clients in 2024 included Facere Mellitus (Mental Health Investigation commissioned by NHS England) and PA Consultants (Drug Tariff review commissioned by Department of Health and Social Care).
From 2018 to 2024 Ann was the Digital, Data and Information lead for the National Wound Care Strategy Programme.
In 2015, she was appointed by Lord Carter to lead his national operational productivity reviews of pharmacy and medicines in acute trusts (2016) and mental health and community trusts (2018), based initially in the Department of Health and then in NHS Improvement. These reviews formally established the link between pharmacy and medicines optimisation and set the strategic direction for hospital pharmacy services.
Ann has extensive experience in hospital pharmacy and was Chief Pharmacist at Imperial College Healthcare (and predecessor trusts) for over 20 years.
In 2000 she created the Centre for Medicines Safety and Service Quality, a joint academic pharmacy unit between University College London and Imperial College Healthcare Trust and is a visiting professor at Imperial College London.
