Natasha Arnott
Pharmacy Teacher Practitioner
- n.arnott@uos.ac.uk
- School/Directorate
- School of Health, Sciences and Society
Natasha is a Pharmacy Teacher Practitioner at the 小黄片app, combining her academic role with clinical practice as a Specialist Pharmacist Advanced Clinical Practitioner within frailty and orthogeriatric services at ESNEFT. As an Independent Prescriber with an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice, she combines expertise in pharmacy, prescribing and clinical assessment, bringing a distinctive perspective to both patient care and pharmacy education. Her specialist areas of practice include the care of older people living with frailty, with expertise in medicines optimisation, polypharmacy, deprescribing and secondary fracture prevention.
Alongside her teaching responsibilities, Natasha continues to practise clinically within orthogeriatric and frailty services, ensuring her teaching remains grounded in current healthcare practice. Passionate about developing the future pharmacy workforce, she helps students understand how scientific knowledge underpins clinical decision-making, prescribing and patient care. She is particularly enthusiastic about preparing students for the rapidly evolving role of pharmacists as prescribers, medicines experts and leaders within multidisciplinary healthcare teams, equipping them with the confidence, clinical reasoning and professional skills needed to thrive in modern clinical practice.
Natasha’s teaching expertise centres on prescribing, clinical assessment and clinical reasoning, drawing on her experience as an Independent Prescriber and Specialist Pharmacist Advanced Clinical Practitioner. She has a particular interest in helping students develop the skills needed to translate scientific knowledge into patient assessment, consultation, diagnostic reasoning and evidence-based decision-making.
Her specialist areas of practice include frailty, medicines optimisation, polypharmacy and deprescribing in older people with complex healthcare needs. Natasha is passionate about preparing students for the increasingly patient-facing roles pharmacists undertake within modern healthcare, and her ongoing clinical practice ensures that her teaching reflects contemporary pharmacy practice and the evolving role of pharmacists within multidisciplinary teams.
Teaching on MPharm course.
General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Royal College of Pharmacy (RCPharm)
British Geriatrics Society (BGS)