Alison Pooler Author & Editor

Alison Pooler is a senior lecturer in the School of Medicine at Keele University. She developed the non-medical prescribing programmes within the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Keele before moving over to work within medicine. She also undertook the role of a Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) reviewer for non-medical prescribing programmes for a number of years and has completed consultancy work across the UK for other higher education institutes (HEIs) around non-medical prescribing curriculum and standards. A nurse practitioner by background, she graduated from Edinburgh University in 1992 with her nursing degree and worked in many acute areas, finally specializing in respiratory medicine where she worked as a V300 prescriber for a number of years before moving into academia in 2008.