Meet the team
Please select a team member below to learn more about them.
Claire Sharrock
Claire is responsible for all of the MedicX Pharmacy Team's administration matters and acts as a focal point for all information that passes between the Pharmacy team and the MedicX Group head office.
Questions and answers
Q. What was your first ever job?
A. Weekend Counter Assistant for an Architectural Theming Company/Museum. Time spent amongst 1950s Jukeboxes, Marylin Monroe mannequins and retro ice cream counters was really fun!
Q. What was your most unusual job?
A. Acting as a car collision casualty for the Fire Service.
Q. What is the strangest question you have ever been asked at an interview?
A. Do I have an HGV licence?.........Funny way to hotdesk.
Q. What was your funniest experience at work?
A. Ringing a manual Fire Alarm Bell so enthusiastically that its handle came off in my hand.
Q. Where is your favourite holiday destination?
A. Mainland Spain - I could live in sunshiny street cafes and speak Spanish not badly.
Q. Who is your role model?
A. My parents - they've run a successful business for years together and remained married!
Q. What is in your CD player at the moment?
A. 80s Movie Hits.
Q. What is the best aspect of your job?
A. Knowing everything I do makes a difference to people's wellbeing.
Q. What one item would you take with you to a desert island?
A. A road cone. It's visible qualities will help me be seen and if I shout down it, its acoustics will help me be heard. It will also make an excellent hard hat from falling coconuts.
Gavin Birchall
Gavin is responsible for the strategic management of the MedicX Pharmacy operation including new pharmacy openings, clinical development and recruitment of key personnel.
Questions and answers
Q. What was your first ever job?
A. Producing technical drawings for my fathers surveying practice during long summer months while at school.
Q. What was your most unusual job?
A. Delivering medicines to the HM Prison Liverpool as a Pharmacy summer student and the intimidating security procedures involved.
Q. What is the strangest question you have ever been asked at an interview?
A. The strangest question is always 'What makes you different to the next candidate?' Everything of course! It's more about how your specific differences fit the job.
Q. What was your funniest experience at work?
A. Watching a good friend abseiling down a cliff during an away day, forgetting to move her feet and ending up sitting facing the sky unable to react for laughter.
Q. Where is your favourite holiday destination?
A. Anywhere with natural beauty and as few people as possible! The North West of Ibiza is nice and the Isle of Skye.
Q. Who is your role model?
A. I admire Ghandi. He was immoveable while remaining non-aggressive and through perseverance succeeded. Also Joe Simpson the mountaineer for his determination to overcome unimaginable odds and survive.
Q. What is in your CD player at the moment?
A. A couple of audio books and Seth Lakeman.
Q. What is the best aspect of your job?
A. The freedom to develop MedicX Pharmacy and explore new service opportunities for the profession.
Q. What one item would you take with you to a desert island?
A. A helicopter.
Alison Potter
Alison is responsible for applying for and obtaining NHS Pharmacy contracts. She is also responsible for monitoring all of the regulatory matters regarding the individual pharmacies and the collation of information and payments regarding professional services income.
Questions and answers
Q. What was your first ever job?
A. I was a shop assistant in a local newsagent for 4 hours every other Saturday and spent all my wages in the shop after my shift!
Q. What was your most unusual job?
A. I worked for 'Relationships without Fear' which carried out workshops in schools to try and prevent domestic abuse. I had to create the children's resource packs from scratch. I didn't have a clue but just about got through it with the help of the internet.
Q. What is the strangest question you have been asked in an interview?
A. After declaring my fear of cold things to an interviewer at Tesco she asked "If we provide you with a pair of gloves will you be able to touch frozen food?"
Q. What was your funniest experience at work?
A. I was in Scotland doing research for a hearing and had to become a 'local' riding a number of different bus routes. At one point I rode 20 minutes to a Health Centre, rang the bell to get off, only to get straight back on in the same direction much to everyone's puzzlement. The bus driver asked if I was lost to which I replied 'Don't worry I'm fine. I'm getting paid to ride buses today'. The look on everyone's faces was a picture.
Q. Where is your favourite holiday destination?
A. Turkey or Egypt as you get guaranteed good weather and are made to feel very welcome by the locals. I also love Rome for a city break.
Q. Who is your role model?
A. Radio 1 DJ Sara Cox. She doesn't take life too seriously and is always able to laugh at herself!
Q. What is in your CD player in your car at the moment?
A. My iPod so anything from Muse to Elton John to Usher to The Arctic Monkeys.
Q. What is the best aspect of your job?
A. Working within a small team to take on big challenges and producing outcomes we can all be proud of.
Q. What one item would you take with you to a desert island?
A. A piano to keep me entertained.
Steve Jeffers
Steve is responsible for overall strategic growth plans for MedicX Pharmacy and for identifying and securing new pharmacy opportunities both within MedicX Group developments and with external development companies.
Questions and answers
Q. What was your first ever job?
A. Working in a garage cleaning and polishing second hand cars to make them ready for sale.
Q. What was your most unusual job?
A. Not really a job as I lost, but i stood for parliament in the 1992 general election.
Q. What is the strangest question you have ever been asked at an interview?
A. Can you go to Norway for 12 weeks starting tomorrow, just after I had moved into an old house requiring renovation with my new partner. I said no and my new partner became my wife though I did not get the job!
Q. What was your funniest experience at work?
A. Making and then watching a video as part of a team of senior managers trying to demonstrate the value of teamwork, by pretending to be part of a flying V of migrating geese, whilst running up a hill waving pretend wings made from bed-sheets. (You had to see the video to understand this!).
Q. Where is your favourite holiday destination?
A. Cuba which has a fantastic climate and wonderful people.
Q. Who is your role model?
A. Tigger, for always being optimistic and bouncing back from every difficulty.
Q. What is in your CD player at the moment?
A. I change the CD's in my car every week as I like a wide variety of music but this week I am listening to Yes, Snow Patrol and Tori Amos.
Q. What is the best aspect of your job?
A. Using my experience to develop a new concept in Pharmacy is very rewarding as is watching team members grow into their roles.
Q. What one item would you take with you to a desert island?
A. A bit of a cheat as I would take a library as I adore reading and could not possibly choose only one book.
Kerry Caddick
Kerry's role is to support the achievement of the pharmacy business plan by providing and managing the administration services to MedicX Pharmacy via its systems and working with the Operations Manager ensuring that all pharmacy teams including those in new pharmacies are fully trained on all systems and procedures.
Questions and answers
Q. What was your first ever job?
A. Answering phones and doing invoices for an MOT Garage.
Q. What was your most unusual job?
A. Not unusual but certainly beneficial, was at a physically and mentally disabled youth club when I was 16.
Q. What is the strangest question you have been asked in an interview?
A. What are your weaknesses... like I'm going to tell them or they won't give me the job!
Q. What was your funniest experience at work?
A. Being at a summer ball and seeing the senior partner sliding down the roof of a marquee... lead by example I think was his saying!!!
Q. Where is your favourite holiday destination?
A. I'll let you know when I find it.
Q. Who is your role model?
A. Sir Alan Sugar. Despite what he has achieved today he is proud of where he started.
Q. What is in your CD player in your car at the moment?
A. Will Young, Natasha Bedingfield and the Killers.
Q. What is the best aspect of your job?
A. Working with a team who are dedicated to make a difference to people's health and lives.
Q. What one item would you take with you to a desert island?
A. Chocolate.
Chris Ball
Chris is responsible for researching and finding new opportunities for MedicX Pharmacy. He specialises in understanding the variable trends and the evolving landscape of the pharmacy sector.
Questions and answers
Q. What was your first ever job?
A. Delivery boy at a local independent pharmacy in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex. I even had a bike with a basket on the front - no gears though!
Q. What was your most unusual job?
A. Washing out chalky medicine bottles with hydrochloric acid - Health & Safety - what's that then?
Q. What is the strangest question you have been asked in an interview?
A. Would you mind walking to the bakery and buying the cream cakes every Saturday afternoon - as long as you're paying and I get one, no problem!
Q. What was your funniest experience at work?
A. I used to work for Sainsbury's opening new supermarkets. One day I was filling some shelves over a freezer when my foot touched something - I thought it was a pile of rubbish so I kicked it - it was in fact an engineer laying on the floor connecting the freezers, luckily he saw the funny side of it too as he was bigger than me!
Q. Where is your favourite holiday destination?
A. Two really - Sharm el Sheikh - guaranteed hot and dry with fantastic snorkeling and Florida - hot and the chance to act to like a big kid again and nobody cares!
Q. Who is your role model?
A. Alex Zinardi - a great racing driver who despite losing both legs in an accident overcame the disability with courage and tenacity to return to car racing and who also - is a really nice guy!
Q. What is in your CD player in your car at the moment?
A. Christina Aguilera, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Focus, Paul Potts, The Beatles
Q. What is the best aspect of your job?
A. The feeling of creating something that really does make a difference to peoples lives and the local community.
Q. What one item would you take with you to a desert island?
A. A PC with internet access so I can Google survival techniques.
Anthony Lynn
Anthony is responsible for the day to day operational management of MedicX Pharmacy in the North.
Questions and answers
Q. What was your first ever job?
A. I was a barman at a nightclub in Preston.
Q. What was your most unusual job?
A. Working in a pharmacy which was all behind bullet-proof glass. More scary than unusual!
Q. What is the strangest question you have been asked in an interview?
A. What salary would you like?
Q. What was your funniest experience at work?
A. Dressing up as Scary Spice from the Spice Girls at a Christmas party.
Q. Where is your favourite holiday destination?
A. New York. Loud, hectic, culturally diverse and non-stop. My type of holiday.
Q. Who is your role model?
A. Santa Claus: he brings happiness and joy to all, and manages to do all his work in a very time efficient manner. Plus, he gets to fly!
Q. What is in your CD player in your car at the moment?
A. I'm quite a big music fan and like a range of music. In the car at the moment are Hed Kandi and Ruben Gonzalez.
Q. What is the best aspect of your job?
A. Having the opportunity to develop MedicX Pharmacy into becoming the pinnacle of health care in the community.
Q. What one item would you take with you to a desert island?
A. Not quite an item, but I would take Ray Mears, sorry Yin (my partner).
Bharat Rajani
Bharat is responsible for the day to day operational management of MedicX Pharmacy in the South.
Questions and answers
Q. What was your first ever job?
A. A summer job working in Debenhams in the furniture department.
Q. What was your most unusual job?
A. Working as a courier for a travel agency in London. This was another summer job and I had to deliver visa and tickets on foot or by bus. This job was a few years after moving to England so it gave me an opportunity to earn money and explore London.
Q. What is the strangest question you have been asked in an interview?
A. At a pre reg interview - What is the share price of the company?
Q. What was your funniest experience at work?
A. At an away day, in Dublin, all the Regional Managers and the Retail Director dressed up for the evening, the Retail Director as Santa and all the Regional Managers as elves. We looked more like leprechauns than elves. The audience had a very good laugh.
Q. Where is your favourite holiday destination?
A. I have two favourite destinations. Portugal for its beautiful long sandy beaches and also Italy for its beautiful Tuscan hills.
Q. Who is your role model?
A. Mahatma Gandhi because of his belief that you can bring about change through non-violence and Nelson Mandela who suffered so much at the hands of his perpetrators but still forgave them when he was released from prison.
Q. What is in your CD player in your car at the moment?
A. Hindi Bhagans (Indian devotional songs).
Q. What is the best aspect of your job?
A. Developing people and teams to be the best they can be and making a difference to customers' lives.
Q. What one item would you take with you to a desert island?
A. My whole extended family as without them there is no existence.
Andrew Butterworth
Andrew is MedicX Pharmacy's new Finance Director
Questions and answers
Q. What was your first ever job?
A. I set up a car washing business with friends from outside my house when I was nine years old.
Q. What was your most unusual job?
A. I had a Saturday job in the menswear department at Littlewoods in Oldham whilst I was in the sixth form. When a colleague was off sick I was asked to cover for her - in the lingerie department!
Q. What is the strangest question you have been asked in an interview?
A. I was asked if I would mind working away in Boston. Obviously I jumped at the opportunity of an overseas trip, only to find myself in rural Lincolnshire just a few weeks later - not quite what I had been expecting!
Q. What was your funniest experience at work?
A. Watching a couple of colleagues on a team bonding day trying to navigate around a course in a vehicle made up of the front of two cars welded together back to back but with both engines and steering wheels still in place. Terror ensued as spectators fled for their lives.
Q. Where is your favourite holiday destination?
A. The Algarve for its sweeping golden beaches and memories of happy family holidays.
Q. Who is your role model?
A. Carlos Tevez for his unending tenacity and leadership by example.
Q. What is in your CD player at the moment?
A. I prefer rock classics to the latest chart music and so Queen's A Night At The Opera remains my all time favourite and an ever present on my CD player.
Q. What is the best aspect of your job?
A. Being part of a team of like minded individuals striving to improve the way in which pharmacy services are delivered to patients in this country.
Q. What one item would you take with you to a desert island?
A. It would have to be my smartphone (and solar charger) as I feel utterly lost without it. Failing that, a boat would be nice.
Debi Martin
Debi is MedicX Pharmacy's new Accounts Assistant
Questions and answers
Q. What was your first ever job?
A. Admin assistant in Birmingham Midshires
Q. What was your most unusual job?
A. Swapping property borchures in display
Q. What is the strangest question you have been asked in an interview?
A. Favourite holiday destination!
Q. What was your funniest experience at work?
A. In conference had to tell interesting point no-one else knew. I said I'd been bitten by a shark when in fact the scar was from an accident when I was a child!
Q. Where is your favourite holiday destination?
A. New York
Q. Who is your role model?
A. Steven Gerrard
Q. What is in your CD player at the moment?
A. Adele 21
Q. What is the best aspect of your job?
A. Making sense of the 'Bigger Picture'
Q. What one item would you take with you to a desert island?
A. Ipod!
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