AAH technicians of the year
Projects developed by two hospital pharmacy technicians were recognised this week as AAH Hospital Service announced the winners of the Hospital Pharmacy Technician awards 2005.
Paul Townsend, a technician at Birmingham Children’s Hospital,
won the supply chain award for his work on designing and developing an
unlicensed medicines database. Mr Townsend collated information on all
of the unlicensed medicines used in the hospital into an electronic database.
The stored information included brand name, generic name, manufacturer,
country of origin and a digital image. He says that the database is now
used by all pharmacy staff, especially those in the medicines information
department.
Tracy Sedgwick, a senior pharmacy technician at Darlington Memorial Hospital,
won the clinical award for her work on reducing medication errors in
an intermediate care setting. Ms Sedgwick found that introduction of
a clinical pharmacy technician post to the care facility increased self-medication
from zero to 30 per cent and also decreased medication errors.
Both technicians will be officially presented with their awards at a
ceremony in October, and will display their work at the American
Society of Health-System Pharmacists midyear clinical meeting in Las Vegas in
December. |
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