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The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 267 No 7170 p566-568
20 October 2001

Meetings & Conferences

UK Medicines Information:
Empowering medicines information to empower others

The 27th national United Kingdom Medicines Information (UKMI) conference was held at the University of Westminster from 6–8 September 2001 attracting 200 participants from the UK and abroad. Dr Simon Wills, head of The Wessex Drug and Medicines Information Centre reports

Why NICE is not nice for cancer therapy? By evaluating medicines thoroughly in a “real world” way, pharmacists empower others to make important decisions about funding choices...[more]

Competency framework: the key to the future Before medicines information (MI) pharmacists can empower others they have to empower themselves...[more]

MI technicians are increasingly important With the increasing difficulties in recruiting hospital pharmacists, the empowerment of pharmacy technicians is a potentially crucial way forward...[more]

NHS walk-in centres: an opportunity for pharmacists The conference heard that pharmacists have an important role to play in empowering nurses to fulfill some of their new and emerging roles...[more]

Is prescription drug advertising empowerment? Empowerment as a theme perhaps relates most obviously to patients...[more]


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