Community heart failure clinic awarded £5k

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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7376 p625
19 November 2005

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Community heart failure clinic awarded £5k

Richard Lowrie (centre) with Mike Sobanja, Tony West, Raj Patel and Navin Joshi

Team leader Richard Lowrie (centre) pictured with (left to right) Mike Sobanja of NHS Alliance, Tony West, GHP, Raj Patel, NPA, and Navin Joshi of MSD

Organisers of a community heart failure service in Glasgow have been awarded £5,000 to evaluate its impact on patients. The service won the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists/National Pharmacy Association/Merck Sharpe & Dohme joint pharmacy award.

Almost 400 patients have so far been referred to a community pharmacist for advice on heart failure medication and for monitoring. Patients are referred by prescribing support pharmacists and hospital pharmacists or heart failure liaison nurses.