Episode 6 - Megan Peters

Megan Peters is a pharmacist with over 20 years experience in community pharmacy and more recently has been working in hospital pharmacy and as a primary care pharmacist. Megan is passionate about the role pharmacists have in a patient healthcare journey and the value they can add to healthcare teams as medication experts. She has a special interest in polypharmacy and appropriate medication use in the elderly, including medications in relation to falls.

Over her career she has also been involved in clinical governance roles, been involved in 2 Whakakotahi Health Quality Safety Commission projects and other local projects aimed at improving patient care.

Following the first covid lockdown in 2020 she made the decision to leave secure community pharmacy work to start her own business to contract clinical pharmacist work and locum services. Megan presents medication education sessions to patients for the Healthy Hearts programme, local heart foundation and the asthma society Better Breathers patient groups.