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Niraj is currently the lead clinical pharmacist for the largest primary care provider in Leicester, Willows Health. As the pharmacist transformational lead and developmental lead, he oversees a team of 12 pharmacy professionals and is responsible for their professional development and ensuring clinical excellence through governance standards and holistic chronic disease management. As a pharmacist primary care development adviser for the Royal College of General Practitioners, Niraj is also involved in the development and quality improvement of general practice and delivery of care. Niraj has a keen interest in cardio-renal-metabolic (CaReMe) medicine and is currently the long-term conditions clinical pharmacist lead for the locality as well as the primary care lead for the innovative Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland CKD Integrated Care Delivery project and has worked closely with the UK Kidney Association (UKKA) to develop a peer-led consensus report on all future UKKA guidelines. Niraj is also the chronic disease lead for his practice where he is directly involved in overseeing complex conditions such as diabetes, CKD, cholesterol management and heart failure for over 65,000 patients. Niraj has experience in running at scale quality improvement projects and clinics to improve care and has recently founded the pioneering Willows Health ‘Centre for CaReMe Excellence’ which aims to take population health management approach to lower local health inequalities and improve outcomes for high-risk patients in Leicester in a holistic manner. Niraj’s team’s work in the proactive management for cardio-renal-metabolic diseases has received merit and contributed to his team being named highly commended PCN of the Year and was used as examples of best practice, along with their role in research and new treatment discovery as a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) accredited centre.