Pharmacists in line for NHS national awards
Pharmacists from the Midlands and the south of England have won awards in regional finals of the Department of Health’s NHS
Health and Social Care awards. They will go forward to the national finals in
December when they will be considered for awards such as primary care
professional of the year and manager of the year.
Ruth Goldstein, community pharmacy clinical governance and new contract
facilitator at Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth Primary Care Trust,
and Karen Rosenbloom, academic lead, postgraduate studies at the University
of Hertfordshire School of Pharmacy, won the Midlands and East region
primary care professional of the year award for two pieces of work.
The first involved the design of “trigger” questions to identify
patients who have problems with their medicines when they are first assessed
by a health care professional so that they can be referred as appropriate.
The second was the development of a pharmaceutical assessment tool to
help community pharmacists identify patients covered by the Disability
Discrimination Act 1995 and to determine the support they require with
their medicines.
The pharmacists were awarded £1,000 to help them share their ideas
with others in the health and social care field.
Dr Goldstein commented: “All health and social care professionals
need to use these tools. We will be using the money to try to raise their
profile.”
In the southern region, Pam Grant, who works in a community-based intermediate
care team at Alderney Community Hospital, Poole, won the same award for
her work leading a project that provides tailored medicine management
for patients with complex needs.
Winners in other categories included the medicines management collaborative
team from Nottingham City Hospital, which won the Midlands and East region
patient safety award, and Ailsa Granne, divisional director at Oxford
Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, who was named the southern region’s
manager of the year. Mrs Granne is an executive director of her trust
responsible for emergency care.
The medicines management collaborative team won the safety award for
initiatives such as a “patient’s own medicines bag”.
The bag is designed to encourage patients to take all their prescribed
medicines with them when they go to hospital or visit another health
care professional.
The national finals offer prizes of £15,000 for the winner in each
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