Profile of Ian Jackson

Registered Pharmacist  for over 33  Years.

BsC Hons Pharmacy, DipClinPharm, BsC Hons Herbal Medicine

Ian Jackson is one of very few pharmacists with extensive knowledge of both conventional and natural medicine. He has worked in many pharmacy environments e.g., retail, primary-care, NHS , industry, and academia both in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand. He was secretary and chairman of the Mansfield and District Branch of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society for six years. 

Ian was new store pharmacy consultant for Tesco Stores plc. The work with Tesco involved opening twenty pharmacies across the UK. He then became the prescribing advisor for 40 NHS practices at Lincoln South and South Holland Primary Care Groups and then consultant to hundreds of dispensing practices across the UK. Ian then undertook a full time training course for pharmacists in natural medicine at Weleda (UK) and became a clinical pharmacist for the company. Whilst working as a practice pharmacist in several practices in the East Midlands he completed a degree in herbal medicine at Lincoln University.

He worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Lincoln School of Pharmacy where he taught clinical pharmacy to undergraduate pharmacy students and therapeutics to healthcare professionals who wish to become independent prescribers. He helped train over 500 healthcare professionals to become independent prescribers.

He was a full time senior lecturer in clinical pharmacology for the Lincoln and Nottingham University Medical Schools. As well as delivering the core academic teaching, he developed an Advanced Medical Module on Natural Medicines for medical students which was validated by Nottingham Medical School. He received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for his teaching.

Ian will be sharing Evidence Based Medicine articles on the platform with you all as part of shared learning and can be contacted at Ian.Jackson@greenpilltraining.com