Geraldine McCaffrey
Geraldine joined the organisation as director for Wales in December 2025. She registered as a pharmacist in 1998 having graduated from Nottingham School of Pharmacy and completed her pre-registration training at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. She then worked as a pharmacist in hospitals in North-West England whilst completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical and Health Services Pharmacy, and PhD at the University of Manchester. She qualified as an independent prescriber in 2015
Geraldine was a member of the Welsh Pharmacy Board of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society from 2021 to 2025. She was appointed as chair of the Welsh Pharmacy Board, Assembly member and non-executive member of the Pharmaceutical Press Board from 2023-2025.
Geraldine has extensive experience of specialist and senior pharmacist roles in NHS organisations including divisional lead pharmacist in Medical and Acute Specialities at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals, principal pharmacist for Research and Development at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, and national clinical informatics lead at Digital Health and Care Wales.
She has a keen interest in research, improvement and innovation to ensure patients fully benefit from pharmacy services and the skills of pharmacists. These interests developed through experiences including her research focussing on pharmacy user perspectives of digitisation, and her involvement in the Health Foundation’s Safer Patient Initiative programme. More recently she has been involved with delivery of the Digital Medicines Programme in Wales and has been a member a member of the Board for Pharmacy: Delivering a Healthier Wales, the 10-year strategy for whole system transformation of pharmacy services and the pharmacy professions in Wales.