The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7323 p632
30 October 2004

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Practice research award

Research is to be carried out to see if copying discharge summaries to community pharmacists will help implement treatment plans.

The project, to be led by Mike Urwin, head of pharmacy at Wansbeck and Hexham Hospitals, won the 2004–05 National Pharmaceutical Association/Guild of Health-care Pharmacists award, sponsored by Merck Sharp & Dohme. The work involves community pharmacists in Berwick upon Tweed.

Last year’s award was won by a team of hospital pharmacists from Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, London, which developed a system for referring hospital patients who were trying to give up smoking to community pharmacists to ensure continued support (PJ, 27 September, 2003, p398).