Ade is a multi-award-winning Pharmacist based at Bedminster Pharmacy in South Bristol with extensive experience covering Service Design, Governance, and Research. He is a Non-Executive Director of the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and was previously on the North Bristol NHS Trust board. Ade sits on the General Pharmaceutical Council - the pharmacy professional regulator. He is a Trustee and Board Member of the Self Care Forum Charity and a Public Health England Vaccine Hero, promoting broader access and increased vaccination uptake.

The Health Service Journal (HSJ) TOP 100 LIST cited Ade as: "an individual whose ideas should influence and shape the direction of the NHS." He is part of many national and professional multi-disciplinary working groups and campaigns, bringing enthusiastic input to finding pragmatic, scalable interventions for complex health and policy matters, alongside a passion for engaging and empowering patients.

Recognition for his work includes the NHS Parliamentary Award for Excellence in Primary Care and an MBE for services to the NHS, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's highest accolade—the Charter Award and is also the Pharmacy profession's Patient Champion. The University for the West of England conferred an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree for his contributions to the NHS and the Bristol region. The UK Faculty of Public Health awarded him honorary membership by distinction.

Ade's image was famously captured by the acclaimed photographer Rankin as one of 12 individuals who played a vital role in managing the response to the COVID-19 pandemic: www.england.nhs.uk/nhsbirthday/rankin.

How can Community Pharmacy Help Change Population Health Behaviour?

Meeting the unmitigated demand for  NHS services continues to be challenging. The unmet needs sometimes reflect resource and capacity gaps,  demographic changes and social justice deficits, exposing how failures to create a more equitable, healthier society alongside poor health illiteracy compound the daunting challenges. 

Acknowledging that change is required has become a recurring national conversation with policy initiatives and resources employed. Themes have varied from efficiency, productivity and AI alongside major and minor structural and governance redesign.

Community Pharmacy is the most accessible part of the NHS. It sits as a natural bridge enabling evidence-based self-care, accessible clinical care, and social prescribing alongside inclusive models of care tailored to the needs of the localities they look after.

With the ongoing access pressures to primary care in recent years, there has been a gradual roll-out via commissioned service delivery models of clinical services, building on public health and vaccination services.

While this policy appetite does not yet match the pharmacy professional ambition to deploy further clinical skills available in Community Pharmacy, a much-unexplored question policy and strategic question remains: How can Community Pharmacy Help Change Population Health Behaviour?

Ade’s talk will briefly explore this topic, focusing on why getting this right impacts the lives of people who so very desperately need change.