24/09/2026
đź’ś World Pharmacists Day đź’Š
17 years as a pharmacist!
And when I look around at the pharmacists I know, I’m reminded that being a pharmacist today is so much more than the traditional image of standing behind a dispensary.
We’re pharmacists, but we’re also mums and dads.
- Business owners.
- Leaders.
- Partners.
- Carers.
- Researchers.
- Educators.
- Entrepreneurs.
- Advocates.
We’re running businesses, leading teams, raising families, studying, building new careers, working across different areas of healthcare — and often doing several of those things at the same time.
I know what that juggle looks like personally.
For me, it has meant building a career across community pharmacy, pharmacy ownership, hospital pharmacy, medication safety, clinical governance and diabetes education while raising three children and now building InControl Care.
It hasn’t always been perfectly balanced.
But perhaps that’s not the point.
Maybe the point is that pharmacists continue to evolve.
We take the knowledge and skills from pharmacy and apply them in places and ways that weren’t necessarily part of the traditional career path.
And at the heart of it all is still the same thing:
- Helping people.
- Understanding the medicines.
- Asking the extra question.
- Connecting the dots.
- Making healthcare easier to understand.
- Advocating for better outcomes.
So today, I’m celebrating not just pharmacists — but the incredibly diverse lives and careers pharmacists are building around the profession.
To every pharmacist juggling a career, a family, a business, study, leadership, or simply everything life throws at you
Happy World Pharmacists Day. đź’ś
Be proud of how far this profession has come and how much more there is still to do.
