Roger McFadden, until his retirement, was a senior lecturer in pharmacology in the Faculty of Health at Birmingham City University (BCU). Roger spent many years teaching pharmacology to nurses and other health professionals. He helped develop BCU's acclaimed Non-medical Prescribers course, which has trained many hundreds of nurses to become independent prescribers.

Patricia Fell is a former Associate Professor at Birmingham City University (BCU), where she taught pharmacology and physiology to healthcare students for over 20 years. Now semi-retired, she continues to teach pharmacology on the Non-medical Prescribing course at BCU as a visiting lecturer.