Childhood ailments electronic package wins £7,000 award
Researchers who are developing an electronic package to help community pharmacists treat childhood ailments have won a £7,000 award.
The team, led by Steve Tomlin, principal paediatric pharmacist at Guy’s
and St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Trust, London, won the 2005 Mandeville
Research Award for a project entitled “Responding to symptoms of
childhood ailments”. Its main output will be a distance learning
and assessment CD-ROM for community pharmacists.
The researchers will ask pharmacists which children’s ailments
they are most often questioned about by carers. They will then examine
the evidence base for over-the-counter treatments for these conditions
and put the information into a learning and assessment package for pharmacists.
Mr Tomlin hopes that the CD-ROM will also include advice and pictures
to aid diagnosis of conditions that community pharmacists cannot themselves
treat, but which require appropriate referral.
The Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group/Mandeville Medicines Prize
was not awarded this year. The money will be
added to that for next year’s research prize. |
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