Sangeeta trained as a Pharmacist and completed MSc clinical Pharmacy in 2002. She worked in community pharmacy before taking up a role with PCT to deliver pharmaceutical advice to practices and community services. In this role she changed the delivery and focus of pharmaceutical advice and created a greater ownership at practice level of prescribing decisions and consideration of application of evidence base to make prescribing decisions at a patient and population level.
She then moved into a commissioning role as Lead for practice Based commissioning across East Berkshire. Sangeeta then moved into an Operations role, heading up Slough CCG since its inception. Slough CCG built a reputation of being innovative commissioners and was the first CCG to set up extended GP service at evening and weekends as the first wave Prime Ministers Challenge Fund.
Sangeeta now works as an associate director for planned care across Berkshire East and is operational lead for Slough CCG. In her current role she leads on CVD, Diabetes, Cancer and Neurology commissioning. Additionally, she leads on improving commissioning on pathways in planned care including referral management and adoption of e-referral in primary care.
Sangeeta Saran
