Pharmacist facilitators wanted to spread the word on concordance
The Medicines Partnership programme is looking to appoint 30 to 40 pharmacists
(and similar numbers of doctors and nurses) as concordance facilitators
to spread the message about partnership in medicine taking in England.
Applicants should be tutors or organisers of continuing education and
need to be in a position to pilot the teaching of concordance in 2003.
The two-year Medicines Partnership programme is run by a task force appointed
by the Department of Health in January this year. Its aim is to put into
practice the principles of medicines concordance — an approach to
prescribing that aims to involve patients as full partners in their treatment
and to support them in medicine-taking.
The task force says: “If you are involved in professional development,
this is a great chance to extend your skills in readiness for an extended
role. Medicines Partnership will offer training resources and support
in kind to bring concordance into your existing professional development
work.”
Those appointed will be expected to take part in two linked one-day workshops
in London in February 2003 and later in the summer. The programme will
be based largely on small group learning, building on the experiences
of participants as practitioners and professional development facilitators.
The task force will fund all relevant expenses for successful applicants.
Interested pharmacists are asked to apply by 28 October. Application forms
can be obtained from Medicines Partnership, 1 Lambeth High Street, London
SE1 7JN (tel 020 7572 2474) or downloaded from www.medicines-partnership.org.
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