About Us

Board Members

Martin Green - Chairman
Greater Glasgow PCC

Community pharmacy contractor in Glasgow and Clyde area since 1996. Previously worked for Savory & Moore and T.S.McNee. Member of the Glasgow and Clyde Pharmacy Contractors Committee.
Chairman of Community Pharmacy Scotland. Member of Community Pharmacy Scotland Board and Negotiating team. Graduate of Strathclyde University Glasgow.

James Semple - Vice Chair
Highland PCC

Managing Director of TLC Pharmacy Group. Past Chairman of the Scottish Pharmaceutical Federation. Vice-Chairman of Community Pharmacy Scotland. Member of Community Pharmacy Scotland Board and Negotiating team. Member of the National Pharmaceutical Forum. Member of Lanarkshire and Forth Valley Pharmacy Contractors Committees. Previous member of NPA Board of Management. Graduate of Strathclyde University.

Stuart Johnstone
Company Chemists Association

Regional Pharmacy Manager for Boots the Chemist. Graduated from Heriot Watt University in 1979 and has held a succession of pharmacist and management roles within Boots until undertaking current responsibilities from 2002. Additional positions held are Chair of the Company Chemist Association in Scotland, member of Highland Pharmacy Contractors Committee and Community Pharmacy Scotland Council, Board and Contract Negotiating Team member.

Campbell Shimmins
Forth Valley PCC

Independent proprietor pharmacist since 1993. Elected member of the Board of Community Pharmacy Scotland since 2004. Director of Albapharm since 2003. Member of Forth Valley APC since 1995. Member of Forth Valley Pharmacy Contractors Committee since 1995.
Chairman of Forth Valley PCC since 1999. Member of Community Pharmacy Scotland since 1999. Supplementary prescriber since 2004. Member of National Pharmacy Forum since 2004. A graduate of Strathclyde University.

Alisdair MacIntyre
Greater Glasgow PCC

Community pharmacy contractor, Burnside pharmacy in Glasgow since 2003 Previously manager Bannermans Pharmacy and Boots the Chemist. Member of Community Pharmacy Scotland Council and Board since 2004. Community Pharmacy Scotland representative on the National Stoma Steering Group and the Scottish Primary Care Cancer Group. Secretary, Glasgow and Clyde Pharmacy Contractors Committee since 2004. Member of Glasgow Pharmacy Practice Committee since 2005.Community Pharmacy Lead and Pharmacy Champion for South Lanarkshire CHP. A supplementary prescriber since October 2006.

Robbie McGregor 
Lanarkshire and Lothian PCC

Former pharmacy proprietor. Managing Director and Superintendent Pharmacist of Lindsay & Gilmour pharmacy. MBA Napier University 2005. Elected member of the Board of Community Pharmacy Scotland since 2002. Director of SPGC Property Ltd. Attends party political conferences with the 'Pharmacy in Scotland' stand on behalf of Community Pharmacy Scotland. Member of Lanarkshire, Forth Valley and Lothian Pharmacy Contractors Committees, Member of the National Appeal Panel.

Colin Fergusson
Greater Glasgow Clyde

Between 1990-2000 Colin Fergusson was the owner of TS McNee's Pharmacy in Glasgow.  From 2000 to the Present day Colin is the proprietor of two pharmacies aptly named the Colin Fergusson pharmacy.
Colin is also the Lead Pharmacist in Glasgow North CHCP and is involved with the Clinical Governance Prescribing Group, Pandemic Flu Planning and PEG Meetings.  Colin also sit's on the APC and PPC Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board. Colin is committed to community pharmacy and helping to negotiate a financial deal that helps progress the new pharmacy contract.

Carol Watt
Company Chemists Association

As a member of the Company Chemists Association and Vice Chair of the CCA Scottish Management Group, Carol has had extensive experience within community pharmacy, particularly multiples.  She is a current member of Greater Glasgow & Clyde PCC and also has previous experience of both Ayrshire & Arran and Dumfries & Galloway.Carol is now the regional pharmacy manager of Boots, having previously been Alliance Pharmacy's regional professional development manager for Scotland.  Carol has also worked in the independent sector, holding a variety of operational and professional roles.

Eleanor Fairbairn
Company Chemists Association

Graduated from RGIT in 1989 and completed Pre-Reg with Savory and Moore in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh. Became Manager of their pharmacy in Crighton Place , Edinburgh until 1992. Left Savory and Moore to join Graeme Millar who had a group of independent pharmacies and managed his pharmacy in Stockbridge until the Company was sold to Lloyds Chemist in 1995. Completed part-time MBA in 1997. First Area Manager role was in 1998 in Manchester and then moved back to look after Edinburgh and the Borders until 2005 when became a Professional Development Manager. Have been a member of Lothian PCC and currently a member of Borders PCC.Is Lloydspharmacy's representative on the CCA Scottish Management Group and has been on the Board of Community Pharmacy Scotland since 2005.

Ian Cowan
Company Chemists Association

After a long career in community pharmacy field management in Scotland was appointed Superintendent of L. Rowland & Co(Retail) Ltd on 9/11 2001. Rowlands Pharmacy own 40 community pharmacies in Scotland and have interests in several pharmacy consortia. Is appointed to Community Pharmacy Scotland as a Company Chemist Representative and is a member of Lanarkshire Pharmacy Contractors Committee. This is second "stint" on the board, previous position was as CCA representative for Lloyds Chemists.Is also a member of Community Pharmacy Wales Board and CCA Board member on PSNC. A firm believer in the value of community pharmacy hopes that his overview of community pharmacy in the United Kingdom adds value to the negotiating process in Scotland.

Fiona McCready
Lothian PCC

Community pharmacist proprietor for over 20 years. Member of Lothian Pharmacy Contractors Committee and Lothian Area Pharmaceutical Committee. Pharmacy Practitioner Champion.

Bruce Pimlott
Company Chemists Association

Qualified in 1974 from Sunderland School of Pharmacy. Pre registration training with Boots and then undertook various management positions with Boots including Head of Operations Improvement 1993 - 1995, Area Manager (Small Stores) for North East England and Scotland 1995 - 1998, Regional Manager North East 1998 - 2000 and Regional Manager North West 2000 - 2004. Then undertook a period of self employment before appointment as Pharmacy General Manager and Superintendent Pharmacist for Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc in July 2005. Board member for Company Chemists Association (2005). Greater Glasgow and Clyde PCC (2007).

Ian Duncan
Company Chemists Association

Has been a community pharmacist for over 20 years, having worked with both Multiples and Independents, before joining ASDA Pharmacy in 2005. Was Tayside's Model Scheme Facilitator 2002-04, have been an active committee member of the Dundee and Eastern Scotland branch of RPSGB and am a community pharmacy representative on the Perth & Kinross CHP pharmacy group. Having joined the Company Chemists Association Scottish Management Group in 2006, representing ASDA Pharmacy, became a CCA member of Tayside's PCC in April 2007 and subsequently Community Pharmacy Scotland's Council and then Board in May 2007. Currently training as a Pharmacist Supplementary Prescriber with RGU Aberdeen.

John Currie
Dumfries and Galloway

John Qualified as a pharmacist in 1983. He has been an independent contractor owner since 2000 and now owns four pharmacies (three in Scotland and one in England). John is a former member of Lanarkshire Area Pharmaceutical Committee and is currently Secretary of Dumfries and Galloway Are Pharmaceutical Committee.

John is currently Chairman of Dumfries and Galloway Pharmacy Contractors Committee. He is currently serving a third term as a member of the NPA Board.

Alan Glauch
Lothian

Alan graduated from Robert Gorden’s in 1979 and completed his pre-registration training with R Gordon Drummond. He managed various branches culminating in Westerhailes, before purchasing his own pharmacy, John A Smith Pharmacy, in 1984. Alan was elected to Lothian Pharmacy Contractors Committee in 2001 and became Chairman of Lothian Pharmacy Contractors Committee in 2004. Alan has been a Supplementary Prescriber since 2007, specialising in Diabetes. He has held the position of director of SDF and is currently Managing Director of Edinpharm.