Vicky Ruszala is a specialist pharmacist at North Bristol NHS Trust. She leads the NBT team quality improvement program, with a current focus on reducing insulin errors and inpatient hypoglycemia. As well as contributing to strategic changes in the systemic management of diabetes, she also runs independent specialist clinics in GP practices to aid achievement of the three key NICE targets.

Vicky has been part of the UKCPA Diabetes Group committee, which has allowed her to contribute to raising the standard of diabetes care at a national level and has worked as pharmacist representative on the guideline development group for the new NICE Type 1 diabetes guideline. Currently she is the pharmacist lead of the endocrinology Clinical Reference Group for NHS England.

She has been published in a range of journals on different aspects of diabetes care and she works locally providing diabetes education for primary and secondary care professionals, including pharmacists, nurses and doctors.