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Meetings & Conferences

United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association

New ways of working in pharmacy

This year's spring symposium of the UKCPA was held in Manchester from 17 to 19 May 2002

Leadership role for pharmacists in community-based programmes Pharmacists can adopt a leadership role in community-based programmes for health improvement and disease management, according to Elizabeth Grant, health promotion pharmacist, Greater Glasgow Health Board...[more]

Medicines management in CHD Involving a pharmacist in a secondary prevention coronary heart disease clinic has an impact on clinical practice, said Val Reilly, primary care pharmacist, Burnbank medical centre, Blantyre and Hamilton Local Health Care Co-operative. A pharmacist's input is beneficial both clinically and economically...[more]

Forge partners with patients to improve safety Health care professionals owe it to patients to become partners in their care and to design and deliver that care as well as they can, in terms of patient safety, said Dr Henri Manasse, chief executive officer, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists...[more]

Assessment support for pharmacists Use of a structured, competency-based assessment programme improves the performance of junior pharmacists, according to Grainne Goldsmith, senior pharmacist, general and emergency medicine directorate, Barts and The London NHS Trust...[more]