Sehar Shahid is an award-winning pharmacist prescriber and entrepreneur working in digital pharmacy and obesity care. She is the founder of 24 HR Pharmacy, a governance-led online pharmacy supporting thousands of patients through safe, responsible prescribing.

Shahid also serves as a board director for Scotland at the National Pharmacy Association, where she advocates for high standards and patient safety across the profession. Alongside running her businesses, she trains healthcare professionals nationally on obesity care and weight-management treatments, and is a regular media commentator on medicines safety, online pharmacies and the evolving role of pharmacists in modern healthcare.

In this podcast, Shahid runs through her career journey from the University of Strathclyde to moving up the corporate ladder at Boots, before working in the care home sector and starting her own consultancy business.

She explains why she loves the challenge of fixing pharmacies and adapting to change, and the importance of taking time to spend with her family.

Shahid shares why she started her own online pharmacy, how she felt joining the NPA board, and why she's so pleased to have helped her most memorable patient.