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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Assembly has awarded an Honorary Fellowship to Professor Tony Avery OBE.

Professor Avery is a practicing GP, professor of primary health care at the University of Nottingham, national clinical director for prescribing at NHS England, a senior investigator at the National Institute for Health and Care Research, and a research co-lead at the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration.

He has worked recently with the RPS on the development of the RPS/RCGP Repeat prescribing toolkit. He has also developed effective methods to address hazardous prescribing, including the pharmacist-led, IT-based intervention known as PINCER.

Professor Avery said: “This is a great honour to me, as I have been a strong advocate for the pharmacy profession throughout my career. As a GP I witness the excellent work of pharmacy teams on a daily basis in both community pharmacy and general practice. As a researcher, my studies have demonstrated the positive impact pharmacists can make in medicines optimisation, particularly for improving medication safety.”

An Honorary Fellowship is awarded to those who have either attained distinction in a particular aspect of pharmacy, made a distinctive contribution to pharmacy, distinguished themselves in any branches of knowledge referred to in the objects of the Society, or achieved eminence in public life. The award is only made to those who are not eligible to be members of the Society.